How many computer geeks are here? Or just what do you do with your time?
 

I am tech for a small biz software company and a designer. How many other people live in front of your computer or ...car:blue:

i do IT work for the government

LOL I just think I know alot but I dont. Thats two, any more?

pic's :D ????

I'm a hardcore geek... (a geek is a nerd WITH social skills)

I've been programming for a living for 6 years.. programming for fun since I was 5 (basic at 5.. assembler at 6.. yes.. I was a strange child :) )... and I dabble in server/network admin and hardware both for fun and in my career.. been hanging around the net for 10 years..

Back in the day.. being a geek/nerd wasn't cool.. and now all you people who teased us have electronic bank accounts... bwahahaha :)..

I'm a software developer for the Gov. as well!! I just had the one year anniversary for developing... yeah, I'm just a newbie at it and to Mazdas!!

I suppose you could consider me a computer geek, everyone else seems to make the generalization. My gf/fiance/wife or whatever she is always denies it.. it's called, well, denial.

here's my setup, I think it speaks for itself as to my geekness...

http://www.outuvit.com/ibm/comp/image005.jpg

http://www.outuvit.com/ibm/compsystem.jpg

P4 2.6ghz clocked to 3.1ghz, case temp currently is 86F... don't ask :)

My apartment is a hive of multimedia and computer systems, 3 desktops, 2 laptops (both from work, which is what I'm using right now), and everything is tied into my theater setup.

Booya.. I'll get back to programming now.

Just to point out something to non-geeks.. the cpu speed/cooling system/etc actually has nothing to do with iibbmm's geekness level.. but immediately the veteran geeks know he is one of us.. how you may ask? the case is not completely on the computer (first pic)..

:)
Dawn

SO, basically what we are saying is with our combined resources, we can take over the world, start a kick a$$ e biz company so we can design and manufacture our own custom mods, BUT still have social live and be really really cool.:bt:

More coffee, yea , yeaaaaaaaaa, coooofffeee

HAH! That's a damned good point. my case is NEEEVER on the computer... well... except when i took the second pic, which is older (you can tell by the lack of paint on the drives).

Thats also why my computer is on the desk, as opposed to below it, easy access.

here's a fun (for a geek) game... name every computer you have owned, if you've upgraded processors, include any you have had as seperate systems :

Desktops :
Apple IIe
IBM 286
Dell 386sx
Compaq 486dx
Frys P133
IBM P200
Home Built Celeron466
Dell PII 450
Home Built PIII 700
Home Built PIII 800
Home Built P4 1.6
Home Built P4 2.6

Laptops :
Toshiba Sat P120
Dell latitude PII450
Dell latitude P4 1.4

PDAs :
Sharp Zaraus 2mb (folded like a laptop, had a huge backlit screen, full keyboard and a PCMCIA slot)
Palm 500 or something, really long time ago
Handspring Visor Delux
Handspring Visor Prizm
Handspring Treo
Sony Clie NR70v

I just get to fix everyones computer and show them how to use their mouse. and no, i'm not in the IT department.

My workspace is fairly clean, I used to have some 1:18 cars in my office, but I like them better at home over my fireplace.

Old office shot :

http://www.outuvit.com/ibm/office.jpg

I'm a geek, but I guess not quite so much as my competition. I'm definately a bevy of computer knowledge though. I'm an IT Technician for my local government (county level civil service). Right now I do lot's of hardware, network, and user support, and they're trying to get me into database design/administration. Fun stuff. :D

Desktops :
Atari 800xt
Atari 1200? (it's been a while :) )
IBM 8088
Clone 386dx 33
Clone 486dx4 100
Clone Pentium 100
Compaq Pentium 120
Dell PII 400
Clone PIII 733
Gateway AMD 1.2

Laptops :
Unisys/Mapper Portable (portable my ass.. it weighed about 30 pounds..)
Toshiba Sat P100 or 120
Compaq P4 1.4

PDAs :
Palm (had 2, don't remember which kinds)
HP Jornada 568

All of it is gone.. except the Dell PII 400 is a web server at my house, I use the AMD 1.2 for games (22inch monitor) and the 1.4 laptop for reading pclub on the couch (I love wireless! :) ).. and the Jornada is laying around somewhere too..

I am the manager of the helpdesk area and also am the Network Planning Analyst for the company that makes the space suits for NASA. We do other things too but that is the big one.

Ok.. time to throw my hat in the ring here too..

I'm a victim of cubicus dilbertus psychosis

Work in the IT dept for the city of St. Albert as their resident report designer and webmaster. Currently learning for my own personal enjoyment (yes, i am that lame), mysql and cold fusion, and intend on re-aquainting myself with vb and the suite of programs in the .net studio.

Been bbsing/interneting since the days of 2400 baud (remember when a game on 3 floppies used to take hours to download? ;) )

Past machines - haven't owned that many and I can't remember the initial model#s, but here they are

couple tandy systems
286 (can't remember the speed)
386 25 mhz o/c to 33 (woooooo!)
486 (home built)
amd k62 350 (home built)
amd athlon 1400 (home built) (current machine)
- 512 mb ddr
- ati radeon 7500
- 80g combined hd space (over 3 drives)
- plexwriter
- hp-cdr
- creative dvd encore 3
- sb live
- scanner
- logitech quickcam
- logitech optical mouse
- handspring visor deluxe
- 17" viewsonic flatscreen

I guess I can call myself a computer Enthusiast. I just love reading about all the new technology. I have a p3 1GHz, nvidia GF3, and 384Megs of ram. I love computers, don't get me wrong. But, I don't see any reason upgrading every 2 seconds or something. Nothing special is happening in the industry as we speak anyway.

Computers analyst for a financial corp in Montreal, Canada

=)

if not in front of my 'puter, i'm in my new car! :D

happy new owner of a p5

LOL . Thats too funny. Well, I guess birds of a feather...:D

thank you thank you:blue:

where the heck is bryce on this subject...he's the utimate comp geek *winks* but he's a cute one!!! and as for me..i like to pretend i know lots and then bryce gets to fix everything after me!

danielle

oh yeah, i forgot something....

for those computers freaks out there.....

I have a Logo of Redhat distribution on my p5

:p

I am a computer geek. I built about 4 computers, and everyone comes to me when they have a computer question.

I am in front of the computer most of the day. I design seafood processing equipment (automatic shrimp peelers, cookers, etc).

I didnt see anyone list a Commadore 64/128 in there computer history! The C64 was my first computer :D

I've gone through:

PCs:
(3) Commodore 64s
IBM 286
486 DX/4 100Mhz, 8M, 570M
p133, 32M, 1.2G
p2 350, 64M, 8.4G
dell p2 450, 128M, 12G
p3 650, 192M, 38G
dell p4 1.6, 128M, 40G

Laptops:
Old ass compaq 486/33 12M, 320M
Toshiba p2 400, 64M, 4G
Dell Lattitude CPI p2 266, 128M, 10G (For sale)

PDA:
Handspring Visor Deluxe


I built a new PC a few months ago:
AMD XP 1800
AsusA7V 333 Raid
512M PC2700
80G Western Digital (No 8M buffer) : (
MSI GF4 4200 128M
plextor 40x burner
DVD drive
19" flatscreen CRT

I'm really pleased with my new system, but I probably should have just kept my old PC, I hardly do anythign with this new one, hahaha... In all fairness these were the PCs in my family, I didn't own all of them myself, they are either mine, my parents, or my sister's.

Id be more than happy to compete for the rank of computer and car geek of this forum! :D

I think my firt was a Radio Shack Coco 64. Mmm I miss the atari days LOL

Well, I'm not a Protege owner, but...

I just turned 19 yrs. old. I am an IT Technician for Science Applications International Corporation. I do web design on my own and have done some programming. Took 2 years of Cisco training in high school and have done loads of networking. I was teaching myself how to program when I was 7 or 8 (BASIC). I am working on designing a video game ( http://home.earthlink.net/~fyrelance/infiltration ), I do graphic design and am fairly familiar with Photoshop, and I create electronic techno/trance music (http://www.mp3.com/david_michael ).

My list:

The Past:
-Commodore 64 (First computer ever, taught myself BASIC on it), had literally THOUSANDS of programs for it, now have emulators with over 4000 ROMs for it. Was very upset when father got rid of the original machine though.)
-286 IBM PC/Compatible @ 10MHz, 8MB RAM, w00t!
-386 IBM PC/Compatible @ 33MHz, 16MB RAM, w00t w00t!
-486 IBM PC/Compatible @ 50MHz, 16 upped to 32MB RAM
-Pentium 233MHZ / 32MB RAM
-TRS-80 picked up at a garage sale for the heck of it. Never really understood the point of those things...
-Cyrix 3??MHz that the fan died on, the chip overheated and fried my machine, lol.
-AMD K6-2 350MHz self built
-Apple Macintosh LC475 @ 25MHz
-Apple Macintosh Clone @ 120MHz
-AMD Athlon 600MHz 256MB RAM self built

Currently Owned:
Apple Macintosh IIcx (out of commission but kept around just because :) )
Apple Macintosh 8600 (needs power supply or something...)
Apple Macintosh 7200/75MHz
Apple Macintosh clone @ 120MHz
Apple Macintosh Performa 6100 with 275MHz G3 upgrade card
Celeron 433MHz overclocked to 488MHz, 128MB RAM Hewlett Packard / self-modified/molested
Compaq Armada laptop @ 166MHz / 1 gig HD
Compaq Armada laptop @ 166MHz / 3.4 gig HD

Current main machine: Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.53GHz with 256MB PC2700 RAM, RAID support, Gainward 128MB GeForce 4 3D accelerator, 6 ch. surround support (need speakers though...) . 118 gigs of hard drive space. Self built.

I think I got 'em all... let's not even get into game consoles. ;)

And my favorite of the bunch? The good ol' Commodore 64, baby!!!

( the older machines make great Starcraft, Warcraft II, Diablo machines for LAN gaming. :D )

I am by my co-workers standards...but not by mine....THEY ARE COMPLETE COMPUTER MORONS! LOL The sometimes refer to me as "cyber bitch" lol I am a mechanic by trade in a Nuclear Power Plant. I am in supervision now....but I built my current system.....and have to HELP my co-workers all the time.

My Current Creation
Chemning Case with Open Window Panel with two thermaltake intake fans
Antec 420W PS
2 Additional Thermaltake 80mm Fans
2 blacklight Cold Cathode
Punisher and Spiderman Marvel Fan Covers
A7N266-C Socket A DDR motherboard
All Round IDE Cables
SoundBlaster Live
1800+ AMD XP
Thermaltake 7+ Processor Fan
256 DDR 2100
Plextor 40X Burner
DVD Drive
Superdisk Drive
Golden Hardcano 5
80 Gig Segate Baurracuda
30 Gig Maxtor
PCI Controller
ATI All In Wonder 7500
Painted with Red Blacklight Paint

The Creation that I created with my Brothers Computer
Black Lian Li
Antec 530W PS
2 additional Thermaltake 80mm Fans
2 blacklight Cold Cathode
SOYO SY-KT333 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition) ATX Motherboard
2X 512 DDR 2700
Sound Blaster Live
2000+ AMD XP
Thermaltake Volcano 9
Plextor 40X
DVD Drive
120 Gig IBM
Chaintech Geforce4 4600
Painted with Blue Blacklight Paint

And I wired our 5 computers together over a wireless network.

Now can I join the club?

You aren't a geek until you've used a Peltier cooler to squeeze an extra 200mhz out of a P3 :)

I've owned:

TRS Model 4 (Two floppy drives)
Sperry PC XT (8088) (8mhz)
A different POS XT (12mhz)
286-16
486sx-25
486dx-33
486dx2-100
P75 (Oc'd 90mhz)
P133
P166 (Still own)
P200 (Oc'd to 250)
Celeron 300A (Oc'd 450)
PIII-450 (still own)
PIII-800 (Oc'd 1Ghz) (still own)
AMD T-Bird 1.5Ghz (still own)

Currently own:
P166 (Linux firewall NAT box)
PIII-450 (Linux Web server)
PIII-800 (Wife's computer, no longer Oc'd...was too loud)

AMD 1.4ghz
Gigabyte 7-DXR
256 Crucial DDR
2 X IBM 30g in Raid 0
1 X Seagate 9gig U160 SCSI
Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
Intel Nic
CDRW
DVD
Nvidia Gforce3 Ti 200 (OC'd to TI500)
ATI All-Wonder-Pro PCI (second monitor)

All in a Powder Coated Black 27" Addtronics 7896 server case
350W Enermax powersupply
3X 120mm fans
3X 80mm fans

Jay

You mean overclocking...

Did it on my old AMD 350 K6 chip...was able to squeez out an additional 30mhz...(tried to squeez out 50mhz, but the computer crashed to much)...but this was on an old AT computer that I had...

Oh...on video game systems

Atari 64
8 bit nintendo
Super Nintendo
Sega Gensis (burned it out)
Neo Geo (traded to a pawn shop)
Playstation
Playstation 2
Xbox

Has anyone tried the watercooled set up...(I think Koolance is the vendor)

No intelivision? and you call yourself a gamer! psshaaaaw :)

Is that the old one station with the paddles and dials...and the games are only in Black and White...PONG?

Yes OverClocking.

I was going to building my own water cooling rig, but decided the expense just wasn't worth it...nor the hassle. I've pretty much given up on the quest for a bad ass computer. Hell I've had my current machine in pretty much the same configuration for over a year (with the exception of the video card), and I barely use it as it is.

Jay

OMG no.. colour.. the games (there were hundreds of them) were awesome.. do a search.. they also ran colleco games I believe..

I work as a Computer Technician at a local computer repair shop. I also used to do VB programming and have since moved on to C++, PHP and Python.

Current System:
Athlon T-bird 1.1@1.4 Ghz
512 MB Corsair PC150
GeForce 4 Ti4600 325 Mhz Core / 720 Mhz RAM
SB Live!
2x80 gb IBMs in a RAID 0 array
PlexWriter 12/10/32
Gentoo Linux 1.2

Okay so I am an engineer and on my machine a lot during the day so does that count for any geekness?

Hey Jay you know reading that list was getting me excited :D. You know like the Tim the Tool Man Taylor, Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. I actually know what most of that list means so that must count for something. :D

Oh Engineers are UberGeeks. :) In fact I bow down to you...

Jay

I have a t-shirt that says Ubergeek.. I get extra points for that right? :)

Only if you made it yourself.

:)

Jay