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50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have
Maximum PC ^
| Monday, December 8, 2008
| The Maximum PC Staff
Posted on 03/23/2009 3:51:21 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Name These Connectors!
Run All Your Essential Apps on a USB Stick
Straighten the Pins on an Older CPU
Know the 13 Basic HTML Tags
Get Through to Executive Customer Service
Beat Quake in Under an Hour
Build a Hackintosh
Watch TV Shows on the Internet (Legally!)
Get Around the Content Filter on Public Computers
Recite pi to 23 Decimal Places
Replace the Controller Board on a Hard Drive
Benchmark Your Computer
Decorate Your Room Using Only Printer Paper
Securely Erase Your Data So it Can't be Recovered
Get into a Windows Computer if you Forgot Your Password
Hide Porn from Your Significant Other
Explain What E=MC^2 Means to a Liberal Arts Major
Abstain from Buying Extended Warranties
Use Photoshop or GIMP to Imperceptibly Doctor a Photo
Use a DSLR in Full Manual Mode
Mooch Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi
Protect your Wi-Fi
Create an Animated Spray in Valve Games
Set up a RAID
Calculate a Pitchers Earned Run Average
Run Two Operating Systems
Install a Hard Drive in a Laptop
Pull Off an Elaborate Prank
Rocket Jump Without Using a Macro
Wire Your Home with Ethernet Cable
Know the 6 Most Important Linux Commands
Rip Your CDs to FLAC
Stream Your Movies, Music, and Photos to Any TV in Your House
Install and Configure a Virtual Machine
Run Multiple Monitors Like a Pro
Hack Firmware on a Router
Pick a Lock
Differentiate Between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb
Avoid DRM on everything
Download Flash Video and Bend it to Your Will
Get Around In DOS
Rip a DVD to h.264
Overclock Your PC and Tune Your BIOS
Use Remote Desktop
Debate the Relative Merits of an Imperial Star Destroyer vs. the USS Enterprise
Build Your Own Computer
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: computer; geek; pc; skills
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To: Momaw Nadon
Wow, I can do most of those, some I could do, but wouldn’t, like decorating a room with printouts, not really up on my Pi to 23 places though, I’ll have to work on that.
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posted on
03/23/2009 3:57:01 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
03/23/2009 3:58:22 PM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:00:58 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: Momaw Nadon
By
Mark Wilson,
11:00 AM on Mon Mar 23 2009, 12,839 views
Terminator 2 is a great film. But the Terminator 2 Complete Collector's Set must be the most obnoxious DVD bundle I've ever seenthe epitome of movie studio greed wrapped in one environmentally devastating package.
You know how T2 has been released on DVD a bunch of times, and then it came to Blu-ray, and then a new Blu-ray edition was announced? Well all these kicks in the balls to early adopting fans will now be bundled into one big set. For about $120, you get:
Terminator 2 Skynet Edition Blu-ray
Terminator 2 Extreme Edition DVD
Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD
Terminator 2 Digital Copy
The collection, which will be released May 19th, features 6 discs and promises to include every T2 special feature everalong with a 14-inch terminator endoskull that lights up and makes noises. And if you listen closely, really closely, you can hear that shiny metal head advertising the next Terminator 2 Ultimate Complete Collector's Set Extreme Edition. [Amazon via /film]
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:01:30 PM PDT
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Good news folks, I must not be a real geek.
...Silver lining and all..
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:01:55 PM PDT
by
ChetNavVet
(Build It, and they won't come!)
To: Momaw Nadon
Doh! Skills. I read that as ‘skulls’ LOL!
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:02:06 PM PDT
by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:02:10 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Momaw Nadon
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:04:08 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
( Seeking the truth here folks.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Should I be more ashamed of how much stuff I can't do, or how much stuff I can? :)
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:04:19 PM PDT
by
Omedalus
To: AFreeBird
I had pi beyond 23 digits before there were hand held calculators.
He missed one: Install Windows on your Macintosh.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:05:44 PM PDT
by
Sundog
(The founding fathers understood what would happen when all three branches of government failed.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Most of them, sure. Some, no thanks.
How about streaming South Park reruns directly from http://www.southparkstudios.com/ to your big screen HDTV?
Or Netflix on Roku with fiber optic audio?
Do those count?
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:09:15 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: Momaw Nadon
Wannabe’s dream in BASIC. Geeks dream in binary.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:09:43 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(I am inconsolate over the death of our country.)
To: angkor
Do those count?Absolutely!
Feel free to add as many as you want!
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:11:11 PM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
("...with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.")
To: Momaw Nadon
From and command prompt, dial a Hayes modem, and send/receive email.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:13:50 PM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Momaw Nadon
My geek fu is pretty weak — I can do about three of these things.
To: AFreeBird
You can get Pi to 30 decimal places in 10 seconds using Win Calculator.
Using scarce memory resources is a wasteful Neanderthal trait (or a TX Aggie trait, same same). That's what happens when the CPU is deficient.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:14:42 PM PDT
by
meadsjn
(Socialists promote neighbors selling out their neighbors; Free Traitors promote just the opposite.)
To: Momaw Nadon
It’s official - I am NOT a geek.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:15:23 PM PDT
by
Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue. http://www.thekingsmen.us/)
To: Momaw Nadon
Don’t feel bad. I own a computer consulting company and I haven’t done at least 25% of these things.
I do like Maximum PC - subscriber for like ten years, or so.
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posted on
03/23/2009 4:28:03 PM PDT
by
Boucheau
("...if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher." Abe)
To: Momaw Nadon
Hey - I can do most of the things on that list and I was a liberal arts major! Whoo-hoo!
I ran Cat-5e throughout my house when the walls were open during a remodel a few years ago and I think that was one of the best improvements we made.
And now I really want to build the Hackintosh now!
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