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Title: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Novus on Mon, 26 May 2014, 05:27:52
Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Mon, 26 May 2014, 14:39:40
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Puddsy on Mon, 26 May 2014, 14:40:22
My school work lives in a folder called "not porn"
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: paicrai on Mon, 26 May 2014, 14:42:09
I name every single personal folder (AKA Not from things I've installed and stuff) really silly things.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: daerid on Mon, 26 May 2014, 16:31:39
Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before.


Isn't it customary in these threads for the OP to start us off?

Oh and: I went to a bona-fide Star Trek convention when I was 12 :-X
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Findecanor on Mon, 26 May 2014, 17:21:16
Years ago, I used to have my own patch for Window Maker, that I never released. It used to have somewhat different images and rendered the active window's resizebar different from those of inactive windows. I applied my patch on every new release.
These days, I am too lazy to be a pixel-perfectionist and install from source -- I use the stock Ubuntu package.

I also had my own GTK theme (for Gnome apps), back in the 1.x days. This I did release, though, and it was somewhat popular. It did not only draw things to fit with Window Maker, it also patched the code of some existing widget classes to work in what I thought was more usable. It was quite a big hack, indeed, all for perfectionism. I even had my own graphics routines to draw antialiased arrows and tabs in user-selected colours. When GTK had a large internal redesign, I didn't rewrite my code, so then the project died.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 26 May 2014, 19:06:44
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Mon, 26 May 2014, 20:20:29
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)

Vanilla,
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)
mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: esko997 on Mon, 26 May 2014, 22:36:45
Not exactly a secret but pretty geeky; I have a Linux tattoo.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 26 May 2014, 22:41:02
Not exactly a secret but pretty geeky; I have a Linux tattoo.

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=37253.0

If you haven't already ... ;)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 26 May 2014, 23:04:51
My PC is named Menzoberanzen from the legend of Drizzt series with all my hard drives named after cities from the stories.

Also all my characters from Star Wars the Old Republic MMO are names from those characters as well.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 26 May 2014, 23:50:47
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me

Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: lightsout714 on Tue, 27 May 2014, 00:13:34
I stare at pictures of keyboards all day on the internet.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: HipsterPunks on Tue, 27 May 2014, 00:18:01
I kept all my magic the gathering decks from high school, and i sometimes set up a game with myself. I usually draw a couple hands and then put them away.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Tue, 27 May 2014, 02:36:42
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me



The best noise to performance ratio I ever had from a pump was the Laing DDC 3.25.  With an aftermarket head it would outperform mostly anything out there except and iwaki rd-30.  Part of what you're talking about is why I don't watercool myself except for those AIO coolers.  They are much less noisy and are engineered to cool just a bit better than air.  That's all I really need these days :)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: paicrai on Tue, 27 May 2014, 03:09:50
i once made a massive folder with lots of subfolders
led to nothing at all
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Eszett on Tue, 27 May 2014, 08:06:39
My secret, hmm ... I have to think. You mean a really nasty secret everyone will be shocked to hear? Hm ... yes I have one of that kind! A few years ago I realized, that it's alot more comfortable to urinate into the washbasin (for a male) than into the toilet. Moreover, it saves water, cleaning with a few splashs of tap water is enough. Try it out by yourself, but don't tell your girlfriend! Thank you for your attention, folks :-)

I don't know if that is geeky enough, but it has to do with creativity. We are conditioned to do certain things in the provided habit. It's creative to break those habits for a practical benefit.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:18:24
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me



The best noise to performance ratio I ever had from a pump was the Laing DDC 3.25.  With an aftermarket head it would outperform mostly anything out there except and iwaki rd-30.  Part of what you're talking about is why I don't watercool myself except for those AIO coolers.  They are much less noisy and are engineered to cool just a bit better than air.  That's all I really need these days :)

I've considered for a time also to just put my PC outside my room and just pipe in dvi with a high gauge cable.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: SpAmRaY on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:20:19
Many times I just say I don't know how to do something to avoid being pestered about helping someone with a computer problem.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: eth0s on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:25:08
I can speak Elvish and Klingon.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: dante on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:28:00
I can somewhat make vocal clicking noises like the Predator
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:29:49
Many times I just say I don't know how to do something to avoid being pestered about helping someone with a computer problem.

I gave someone a really bad hair cut one time, to make him stop coming over for haircuts.. cuz I wanted to increase my laziness..

(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/pretty-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862516)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:30:21
I can somewhat make vocal clicking noises like the Predator

what.... Video now... can you do any other robot noises?

(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/payup-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: dante on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:31:22
I can somewhat make vocal clicking noises like the Predator

what.... Video now... can you do any other robot noises?

Show Image
(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/payup-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862514)


No.. I'm still in research mode on what video camera to buy as I wanted to start a Youtube channel this year.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 27 May 2014, 11:51:53
when i have to crimp and network our home computers (i use wired as much as possible, all pcs, game systems etc), my wife has to help me out b/c i'm color blind. i have a network cable tester as well, if i do it w/o the wife pointing out which colors are what, i have a 50/50 success rate.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Lain1911 on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:00:56
I kept all my magic the gathering decks from high school, and i sometimes set up a game with myself. I usually draw a couple hands and then put them away.

I still have all my cards too....and even Yugioh up until they started banning cards.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:02:33
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me



The best noise to performance ratio I ever had from a pump was the Laing DDC 3.25.  With an aftermarket head it would outperform mostly anything out there except and iwaki rd-30.  Part of what you're talking about is why I don't watercool myself except for those AIO coolers.  They are much less noisy and are engineered to cool just a bit better than air.  That's all I really need these days :)

I've considered for a time also to just put my PC outside my room and just pipe in dvi with a high gauge cable.

There was a guy who ran a 100% copper pipe loop with a high performance pool pump connected to a massive geothermal water loop.  He had water valves in different rooms he could connect his PC(s) to and ran about 5-6 PCs off of the same loop and kept temperatures well below ambient :)  My favorite observation of his was that it was almost too quiet.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: paicrai on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:13:39
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me



The best noise to performance ratio I ever had from a pump was the Laing DDC 3.25.  With an aftermarket head it would outperform mostly anything out there except and iwaki rd-30.  Part of what you're talking about is why I don't watercool myself except for those AIO coolers.  They are much less noisy and are engineered to cool just a bit better than air.  That's all I really need these days :)

I've considered for a time also to just put my PC outside my room and just pipe in dvi with a high gauge cable.

There was a guy who ran a 100% copper pipe loop with a high performance pool pump connected to a massive geothermal water loop.  He had water valves in different rooms he could connect his PC(s) to and ran about 5-6 PCs off of the same loop and kept temperatures well below ambient :)  My favorite observation of his was that it was almost too quiet.
:eek:
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:24:58
I kept all my magic the gathering decks from high school, and i sometimes set up a game with myself. I usually draw a couple hands and then put them away.

I still have all my cards too....and even Yugioh up until they started banning cards.

i learned more reading and math from magic and yugioh than I ever did from middle school.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:25:53
If I ever owned a mac I'd hide my really risky pr0n in a folder labeled "Windows"  :p

??   what is   ( really- risky- pr0n)   as opposed to your ( vanilla- pr0n)  ??

Risky,
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/AwqkUbk.gif)


Vanilla,
Show Image
(http://rog.asus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/fxxevolution2.jpg)

mmmmMmmm heatspreaders... looking at this just makes me wet.

I was thinking of putting my water setup back up.. now that summer's come.. but then I remembered why I stopped watercooling.. that damn ggggurrrzheeeeeeee sound..

Has there been any new pumps with improve noise lately?

stopped using it a while back because I wasn't getting a higher OC even with temps down. and I didn't game enough to significantly impact hardware lifespan.. so Water with its pump-whine didn't make sense to me



The best noise to performance ratio I ever had from a pump was the Laing DDC 3.25.  With an aftermarket head it would outperform mostly anything out there except and iwaki rd-30.  Part of what you're talking about is why I don't watercool myself except for those AIO coolers.  They are much less noisy and are engineered to cool just a bit better than air.  That's all I really need these days :)

I've considered for a time also to just put my PC outside my room and just pipe in dvi with a high gauge cable.

There was a guy who ran a 100% copper pipe loop with a high performance pool pump connected to a massive geothermal water loop.  He had water valves in different rooms he could connect his PC(s) to and ran about 5-6 PCs off of the same loop and kept temperatures well below ambient :)  My favorite observation of his was that it was almost too quiet.

wish i had a tractor, then I'd totally do geotherm.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Tue, 27 May 2014, 12:56:51
here's a guy's mini-geotherm :)  Awesome project if you have the balls!

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=706697
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 27 May 2014, 18:03:33
here's a guy's mini-geotherm :)  Awesome project if you have the balls!

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=706697

my yard is very hard dirt + gravel filled...  To dig a large trench would take me 2 days by hand at the very least.

hmmmmm...........
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Lain1911 on Thu, 29 May 2014, 19:37:50
here's a guy's mini-geotherm :)  Awesome project if you have the balls!

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=706697

Some ask why and others call it passion.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: noisyturtle on Thu, 29 May 2014, 22:46:27
I once tricked a little kid into trading me his brother's Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) for my copy of Gears of War 2 (360,) and I never felt guilty about it.

Not really a secret anymore though.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: bueller on Thu, 29 May 2014, 22:55:41
I once tricked a little kid into trading me his brother's Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) for my copy of Gears of War 2 (360,) and I never felt guilty about it.

Not really a secret anymore though.

You monster hahaha
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Altis on Thu, 29 May 2014, 23:58:11
I used to put all my personal files/folders in a folder on C: called "007".  Mostly because it would appear at the top, but you know.. :)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: katushkin on Sat, 31 May 2014, 03:56:56
I have been to two internation meet-ups for EVE Online in Iceland.

They were both ****ing awesome.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 31 May 2014, 10:28:36
I once tricked a little kid into trading me his brother's Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (SNES) for my copy of Gears of War 2 (360,) and I never felt guilty about it.

Not really a secret anymore though.

You monster hahaha

best trade i ever made was foil gyarados for foil charizard..  or perhaps blaine's arcanine for charizard..    idk both good trades.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Sat, 31 May 2014, 10:34:05
I've never flown on an airplane.

Not really a secret, just a weird fact about me...
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 31 May 2014, 10:38:29
I've never flown on an airplane.

Not really a secret, just a weird fact about me...


that's easy.. go sign up for a southwest credit card..  fly to florida fly back..  maybe cost $200?  (http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/happy-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862507)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Puddsy on Sat, 31 May 2014, 12:10:32
It's hard to fly to Florida from Vulcan.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: tp4tissue on Sat, 31 May 2014, 15:49:06
It's hard to fly to Florida from Vulcan.

(http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/pretty-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862516)


Hard!, but doable !
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: user 18 on Sat, 31 May 2014, 23:36:36
Like CLiB, I have never been on an airplane -- despite the fact that I applied last week for a job at an international airport :P

All the computers my family owns (too many to count) are named after dog or cat breeds.
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: paicrai on Wed, 04 June 2014, 11:38:55
i love funky music more than anyone would expect
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Binge on Wed, 04 June 2014, 11:51:08
i love funky music more than anyone would expect

Check out The Budos Band.

Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: paicrai on Wed, 04 June 2014, 12:52:34
i love funky music more than anyone would expect

Check out The Budos Band.

sweet!
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: TheSoulhunter on Sat, 07 June 2014, 05:35:25
I can somewhat make vocal clicking noises like the Predator

And I thought I was special :3
Here is my version...

soulhunters-crappy-website.com/misc/Predator.wav (http://soulhunters-crappy-website.com/misc/Predator.wav)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: bear95 on Sat, 07 June 2014, 05:51:21
I spend hundreds of dollars on keyboards
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 07 June 2014, 06:21:02
I spend hundreds of dollars on keyboards

You've been a member of GH for ... whoa! more than 2 years - I think it's a given that you spend too much on keyboards and keyboard accessories ;)
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: nar on Mon, 09 June 2014, 09:27:28
Every computer, game system, camera and other similar electronic device is named and numbered (With additional descriptive letters to know what each thing is). Every peripheral and data storage device is also numbered.

I can pretty much refer to any electronic thing I own by a series of numbers (it also helps that every wifi-enabled thing also has their local IP set to match their unique numbers).
Title: Re: Tell us a geeky secret you've never told anybody before
Post by: Lanx on Fri, 13 June 2014, 03:33:09
Every computer, game system, camera and other similar electronic device is named and numbered (With additional descriptive letters to know what each thing is). Every peripheral and data storage device is also numbered.

I can pretty much refer to any electronic thing I own by a series of numbers (it also helps that every wifi-enabled thing also has their local IP set to match their unique numbers).

i do something similar, devices that connect to the network are continents in everquest and the network id is name of the world.

i think this started at least 10 years ago