Computer geek revolt

Oct 16, 2002, 12:30 AM

have you had people say that you are a computer nerd... and then you have to tell them "computer geek", and have you had jokes be made about you because you like computers and like to learn more and more and more and more and more about them? well my friends and i have decided... IT'S ENOUGH!!! the time of the jocks is over, computer geeks must come to rule!!! when someone makes fun of you, or just cracks a joke... CRACK ONE BACK! someone today called me a computer nerd, so i said "you're just mad because your system is still a 50 MHz processor with 2 KB of cache, you only have 4 megs of ram, and you only have a video card with 1 meg of ram!!!" he shut up. i tell you, FIGHT BACK! we are the ones who can be rich, not them. We are the ones who will be powerful... NOT THEM! It's time WE are on the offence, and not them... join with me and my friend, if you are a true computer geek, you will fight. (meaningful song that really makes you want to fight back starts)

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 01:25 AM

/me plays Downfall By trust company!!!! Ok lets go whoop some ass

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 01:27 AM

ok i know how u feel but i get by with a computer geek cause i also play f-ball so that kinda puts between jock/computer geek. But trust me if i had a choice i would be on my comp 24/7. I have to play f-ball to keep the parents off my back about being on the computer all the time lol.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 01:29 AM

the sad thing is that when i tell people that i have built computers and sold them to other peopleand i bulid my own and that i repair them and all this other that i know they are to stupid to do they look at me like i just beat the hell out of them. "wow i didnt know you know any thing about computers!" that really pissis me off too "how do u know so much" i tell them i really dont know it comes natural and hell half of it is common sense!

Kelsenellenelvian · Oct 16, 2002, 01:53 AM

I know exactly how you feel I am what most people call "A biker" tattos wear leather smoke all that and I have friends that have degrees in computers who come to me for help... Even the people at the pc stores get confused when I go down there for parts because they think I'm a moron and that they can double-talk me. I f**king hate that.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 02:10 AM

what pissis me off is ther is this stupid ass people that think they know what there talking about (like some stupid shits at bust buy) hell im only 15 bout to be 16 and i know more about networking and computers then the admin at my High School hell next year i get my CNA degree. And what pissis me off also is that i cant find anyone in my area that i live to take me on and let me observe what they do and learn more. I mean hell im not asking for a job just a chance to learn more. But no! Well i feel better now. /me play downfall again!

Oct 16, 2002, 03:10 AM

i know how you feel sourcer, me and my friend know the most out of ANYONE in the school, and we know pretty much the same, we just teach each other everything we know, since we want to go into business together, anyway i am also 15 and will be 16 in march, and the only guy in school that knows more than me LEFT last year... so now me and my friend have to go through school and make fun of people for not knowing anything. sigh, it really is a hard life isnt it... and i am lucky, my parents encourage me to be on the comp, as long as i pass, they think i will be rich. lol

Oct 16, 2002, 03:11 AM

i plan to get MCSA and MCSE and just about everything within the next few years. more like 2, but hey... i wanted to get one by the end of this year, but i was too lazy, i know i could have.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 03:18 AM

so there is not set age limit to get a MCSA and MCSE?

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 03:19 AM

yeah as ling as i get good grades and play at elast on sport then my parents support it

Smoothdrive · Oct 16, 2002, 08:07 AM

Euhm..people don't call me a computer geek cause i aint one..

I like computers, i can build um, i can install them..but that doesn't make you a geek, anyone can do that (at least here they can..we're not some retarded country were installing a pc will make you a smart person)

I can see how somebody looking like a biker can get into funny situation when entering a computer store lol lol.."would you please put your hands down, this is NOT a robbery" lol

Being called a geek is more linked to your frequency of talking about computers and your incompetence to talk about anything else.

If someone was bugging me all day with strictly computer stuff i'ld call him a geek.

merry · Oct 16, 2002, 08:24 AM

Blessed are the Geek, for they shalt... hmm... they shalt...

UberLord · Oct 16, 2002, 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by merry
Blessed are the Geek, for they shalt... hmm... they shalt...

wear NHS glasses?

Smoothdrive · Oct 16, 2002, 11:48 AM

Doomed be the geek for the images seen in his VR glasses, filling up his ram and occupying his cpu, are making him see the virtual and neglect the reality.

merry · Oct 16, 2002, 01:52 PM

No, the glasses are a Geek prerequisite. No idea for the ending of the 'Blessed' logo.

How's this one?

Fear the Geeks, even when they bring gifts!

Oct 16, 2002, 03:14 PM

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Originally posted by Smoothdrive
Being called a geek is more linked to your frequency of talking about computers and your incompetence to talk about anything else.

yea then i am a computer geek, by definition, and its not like i can just build computers and thats all. i can setup networks, fix em, troubleshoot i know a lot of definitions and i am constantly upgrading my PC. because i am a computer geek and i know what to look for in my hardware and i know WHERE to look for my hardware. so... you can't really say i am not a computer geek.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 03:24 PM

Im gonna half to agree to with everything that GS just said. I can do so much more then just bulid computers hell monkeys can do that.

UberLord · Oct 16, 2002, 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by generalstupid
yea then i am a computer geek, by definition, and its not like i can just build computers and thats all. i can setup networks, fix em, troubleshoot i know a lot of definitions and i am constantly upgrading my PC. because i am a computer geek and i know what to look for in my hardware and i know WHERE to look for my hardware. so... you can't really say i am not a computer geek.

There are several levels of geek until one finally transcends to guru.
You appear to have mastered many levels young one, being able to build,maintain and network.

At this stage, the path of Geek splits into three paths
1) those who sell. They sacrifice their geekiness, morals and ethics for suits, big bucks and targets. The also "do lunch". IT treachers also come under this category - they just do it for less and have cheap cars.

2) those who maintain. These are geeks who have reached the limit of their training. This is not a bad thing as if anything goes wrong you can equip them with a screwdriver, a bag of spares and fully expect it to be working again. Just happens that it works a little faster and a little better now

They also "do pizza"

3) those who create. These are the real geeks. They wrote the book on geekiness. They knew pretty much something about everything and then some. They can do the same as the maintainers, but they also create. Who are we? We are the engineers, the people who design the hardware and write the software. We also "do the pub"

UberGeeks if you will.

After you have reached the level of UberGeek, you then have to do nothing whilst mainting the illusion of doing something whilst being paid well for doing it to finally transcend into a Guru.

For my book entitled "From Nerd to Geek to Guru in 24 hours and 6 eZ steps", please send me £100 attached to a large bottle of scotch to the usual address

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 05:34 PM

the checks int he mail. I just wish that there were people that would give us "young one's" a chacn to improve learn more then the dull shit they teach at school open up new doors for expansion. Im one of thise people that need to constantly be learing (perferring somthin in the siecnce and computer genre)

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 05:39 PM

The checks in the mail Uber what do you prefer UPS or FedEx?. I just wish that there were people that would give us "young one's" a chance to improve learn more then the dull shit they teach at school open up new doors for expansion. I’m one of those people that need to constantly be learning (preferring somthin in the science and computer genre) and im running out of options that have been giving to me. I need more hands on experience hell im called every place around my area to see if let me “observe” no were sorry we cant allow you do that. The sad thing is I know just about as much or even more then some of the stupid shits they have hired. IDK

UberLord · Oct 16, 2002, 05:51 PM

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Originally posted by Sourcer_2002
the checks int he mail. I just wish that there were people that would give us "young one's" a chacn to improve learn more then the dull shit they teach at school open up new doors for expansion. Im one of thise people that need to constantly be learing (perferring somthin in the siecnce and computer genre)

Problem is here is money talks, bullshit walks.
To teach computers you really have to know computers.
If you know computers, you can get paid much much more for working for a business than for a school.

This is also why local government loves to employ hundreds of MCSE qualified staff instead of a few people with decent experience - and stuff beyond the microsoft facade. They can't employ people who know because the wages the demand would break the government pay structure. MCSE's are cheap in comparison.

The solution is to "out-source" the IT people. My local government did this when I was working there and the quality of staff skills increased loads. But i really doubt this will ever happen in schools.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 06:24 PM

I do feel that changes need to be made to the classes that are going to be taught in the future they need to open up more courses for young adults in the future because in the future the world will be gearing more and more toward computer and electronics. And now the age for knowing about electronics and computer and hell knowledge itself is getting younger and younger

UberLord · Oct 16, 2002, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sourcer_2002
I do feel that changes need to be made to the classes that are going to be taught in the future they need to open up more courses for young adults in the future because in the future the world will be gearing more and more toward computer and electronics. And now the age for knowing about electronics and computer and hell knowledge itself is getting younger and younger

Which is why people that are self taught always seem to do much better in computer jobs than those who are trained.

Take a Linux kernel hacker coding in his room at age 13. Dude - thats age 13 and he's already writing code for a kernel! Just think what he's going to know when he gets to university! More than the teachers deffo. I just wish that I had 'net access at that age - I'd know an awful lot more than I do now. I'm computer terms I'm almost past it :/

IMO, computer courses are for people who have no interest in learning about computers. Instead they are for people who view them as a tool to do a specific job like wordprocessing and accounting speadsheets. Most computer courses are for users.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 16, 2002, 06:58 PM

im just saying i wish there was more i could do u know. i guess im just pissed cause im bored with what im doing and need to buy some stuff to tweak huh.

Oct 16, 2002, 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by UberLord
There are several levels of geek until one finally transcends to guru.
You appear to have mastered many levels young one, being able to build,maintain and network.

At this stage, the path of Geek splits into three paths
1) those who sell. They sacrifice their geekiness, morals and ethics for suits, big bucks and targets. The also "do lunch". IT treachers also come under this category - they just do it for less and have cheap cars.

2) those who maintain. These are geeks who have reached the limit of their training. This is not a bad thing as if anything goes wrong you can equip them with a screwdriver, a bag of spares and fully expect it to be working again. Just happens that it works a little faster and a little better now They also "do pizza"

3) those who create. These are the real geeks. They wrote the book on geekiness. They knew pretty much something about everything and then some. They can do the same as the maintainers, but they also create. Who are we? We are the engineers, the people who design the hardware and write the software. We also "do the pub"

UberGeeks if you will.

After you have reached the level of UberGeek, you then have to do nothing whilst mainting the illusion of doing something whilst being paid well for doing it to finally transcend into a Guru.

For my book entitled "From Nerd to Geek to Guru in 24 hours and 6 eZ steps", please send me £100 attached to a large bottle of scotch to the usual address

i am up to number 2... and i would only need oh... 15 minutes to get a computer back to working (unless there was a virus) and i am trying to get to number 3 by learning to program. although i haven't found anything to help me along the way. god i hope i am a natural... that would be pretty cool

Oct 17, 2002, 12:00 AM

if you have any programs that you know of that would help me learn to program? free or cracked.

Oct 17, 2002, 12:04 AM

YEA!!! I HAVE 100 POSTS!!!!!! WHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now i just have to wait 30 more seconds to post...

Ryoko · Oct 17, 2002, 12:22 AM

great... from spamming the off-topic to spamming the flame warzone. wait, that's a good thing. now i can flame you for it.

don't ever believe for an instant that pointless spamming is a good thing. if you spam, it has to have a point. whether it be conversational or somewhat informative, you have to have content! if you are too inept to understand, read javafox's post in the off topic forum about spamming. if you really want the posts, start a good flamewar. but don't waste my time posting worthless drivel.

UberLord · Oct 17, 2002, 01:10 AM

Spam erased - tut tut

UberLord · Oct 17, 2002, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by generalstupid
if you have any programs that you know of that would help me learn to program? free or cracked.

GCC by GNU is a nice free compiler

Oct 16, 2002, 12:30 AM	#1
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	Computer geek revolt have you had people say that you are a computer nerd... and then you have to tell them "computer geek", and have you had jokes be made about you because you like computers and like to learn more and more and more and more and more about them? well my friends and i have decided... IT'S ENOUGH!!! the time of the jocks is over, computer geeks must come to rule!!! when someone makes fun of you, or just cracks a joke... CRACK ONE BACK! someone today called me a computer nerd, so i said "you're just mad because your system is still a 50 MHz processor with 2 KB of cache, you only have 4 megs of ram, and you only have a video card with 1 meg of ram!!!" he shut up. i tell you, FIGHT BACK! we are the ones who can be rich, not them. We are the ones who will be powerful... NOT THEM! It's time WE are on the offence, and not them... join with me and my friend, if you are a true computer geek, you will fight. (meaningful song that really makes you want to fight back starts)

Oct 16, 2002, 01:53 AM	#5
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	I know exactly how you feel I am what most people call "A biker" tattos wear leather smoke all that and I have friends that have degrees in computers who come to me for help... Even the people at the pc stores get confused when I go down there for parts because they think I'm a moron and that they can double-talk me. I fking hate that. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here** [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Oct 16, 2002, 03:10 AM	#7
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	yea... i know how you feel sourcer, me and my friend know the most out of ANYONE in the school, and we know pretty much the same, we just teach each other everything we know, since we want to go into business together, anyway i am also 15 and will be 16 in march, and the only guy in school that knows more than me LEFT last year... so now me and my friend have to go through school and make fun of people for not knowing anything. sigh, it really is a hard life isnt it... and i am lucky, my parents encourage me to be on the comp, as long as i pass, they think i will be rich. lol

Oct 16, 2002, 03:11 AM	#8
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	btw i plan to get MCSA and MCSE and just about everything within the next few years. more like 2, but hey... i wanted to get one by the end of this year, but i was too lazy, i know i could have.

Oct 16, 2002, 08:07 AM	#11
Smoothdrive Foolish Genius Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Amsterdam Posts: 455 Rep Power: 0	Euhm..people don't call me a computer geek cause i aint one.. I like computers, i can build um, i can install them..but that doesn't make you a geek, anyone can do that (at least here they can..we're not some retarded country were installing a pc will make you a smart person) I can see how somebody looking like a biker can get into funny situation when entering a computer store lol lol.."would you please put your hands down, this is NOT a robbery" lol Being called a geek is more linked to your frequency of talking about computers and your incompetence to talk about anything else. If someone was bugging me all day with strictly computer stuff i'ld call him a geek. __________________ GA-7VRXP, AMD2000+, 256MB PC-2700 DDR, Radeon 8500LE, 2x Maxtor 740 (40GB) stripe set, AGNeovo X-150.

Oct 16, 2002, 01:25 AM	#2
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	/me plays Downfall By trust company!!!! Ok lets go whoop some ass

Oct 16, 2002, 01:27 AM	#3
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	ok i know how u feel but i get by with a computer geek cause i also play f-ball so that kinda puts between jock/computer geek. But trust me if i had a choice i would be on my comp 24/7. I have to play f-ball to keep the parents off my back about being on the computer all the time lol.

Oct 16, 2002, 01:29 AM	#4
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	the sad thing is that when i tell people that i have built computers and sold them to other peopleand i bulid my own and that i repair them and all this other that i know they are to stupid to do they look at me like i just beat the hell out of them. "wow i didnt know you know any thing about computers!" that really pissis me off too "how do u know so much" i tell them i really dont know it comes natural and hell half of it is common sense!

Oct 16, 2002, 02:10 AM	#6
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	what pissis me off is ther is this stupid ass people that think they know what there talking about (like some stupid shits at bust buy) hell im only 15 bout to be 16 and i know more about networking and computers then the admin at my High School hell next year i get my CNA degree. And what pissis me off also is that i cant find anyone in my area that i live to take me on and let me observe what they do and learn more. I mean hell im not asking for a job just a chance to learn more. But no! Well i feel better now. /me play downfall again!

Oct 16, 2002, 03:18 AM	#9
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	so there is not set age limit to get a MCSA and MCSE?

Oct 16, 2002, 03:19 AM	#10
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	yeah as ling as i get good grades and play at elast on sport then my parents support it

Oct 16, 2002, 08:24 AM	#12
merry gargouille Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 962 Rep Power: 0	Blessed are the Geek, for they shalt... hmm... they shalt... __________________ There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. ~~Leonard Cohen

Oct 16, 2002, 11:48 AM	#14
Smoothdrive Foolish Genius Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Amsterdam Posts: 455 Rep Power: 0	Doomed be the geek for the images seen in his VR glasses, filling up his ram and occupying his cpu, are making him see the virtual and neglect the reality. __________________ GA-7VRXP, AMD2000+, 256MB PC-2700 DDR, Radeon 8500LE, 2x Maxtor 740 (40GB) stripe set, AGNeovo X-150.

Oct 16, 2002, 01:52 PM	#15
merry gargouille Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 962 Rep Power: 0	No, the glasses are a Geek prerequisite. No idea for the ending of the 'Blessed' logo. How's this one? Fear the Geeks, even when they bring gifts! __________________ There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. ~~Leonard Cohen

Oct 16, 2002, 03:24 PM	#17
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Im gonna half to agree to with everything that GS just said. I can do so much more then just bulid computers hell monkeys can do that.

Oct 16, 2002, 05:34 PM	#19
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	the checks int he mail. I just wish that there were people that would give us "young one's" a chacn to improve learn more then the dull shit they teach at school open up new doors for expansion. Im one of thise people that need to constantly be learing (perferring somthin in the siecnce and computer genre)

Oct 16, 2002, 05:39 PM	#20
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	The checks in the mail Uber what do you prefer UPS or FedEx?. I just wish that there were people that would give us "young one's" a chance to improve learn more then the dull shit they teach at school open up new doors for expansion. I’m one of those people that need to constantly be learning (preferring somthin in the science and computer genre) and im running out of options that have been giving to me. I need more hands on experience hell im called every place around my area to see if let me “observe” no were sorry we cant allow you do that. The sad thing is I know just about as much or even more then some of the stupid shits they have hired. IDK

Oct 16, 2002, 06:24 PM	#22
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	I do feel that changes need to be made to the classes that are going to be taught in the future they need to open up more courses for young adults in the future because in the future the world will be gearing more and more toward computer and electronics. And now the age for knowing about electronics and computer and hell knowledge itself is getting younger and younger

Oct 16, 2002, 06:58 PM	#24
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	im just saying i wish there was more i could do u know. i guess im just pissed cause im bored with what im doing and need to buy some stuff to tweak huh.

Oct 17, 2002, 12:00 AM	#26
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	btw if you have any programs that you know of that would help me learn to program? free or cracked.

Oct 17, 2002, 12:04 AM	#27
generalstupid Guest Posts: n/a	100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEA!!! I HAVE 100 POSTS!!!!!! WHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now i just have to wait 30 more seconds to post...

Oct 17, 2002, 12:22 AM	#28
Ryoko American Soldier Join Date: May 2002 Location: Williamsburg, VA Posts: 1,725 Rep Power: 0	great... from spamming the off-topic to spamming the flame warzone. wait, that's a good thing. now i can flame you for it. don't ever believe for an instant that pointless spamming is a good thing. if you spam, it has to have a point. whether it be conversational or somewhat informative, you have to have content! if you are too inept to understand, read javafox's post in the off topic forum about spamming. if you really want the posts, start a good flamewar. but don't waste my time posting worthless drivel.

Oct 17, 2002, 01:10 AM	#29
UberLord A Legend in Underwear Join Date: May 2002 Location: Unknown Posts: 5,255 Rep Power: 0	Spam erased - tut tut __________________ Gentoo Linux - Developer (baselayout) Read my blog "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts