Biggest Geek Moment

ibrowseibrowse
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
I'd have to say that mine is either:

Spending an entire night with a friend at my side on another computer writing code, that will only serve the purpose to write more code (writing a php editor) while having a VPC Linux installation going in the background.



OR



Staying up all night waiting for a Keynote, then spending the entire next day trying to figure out how to steal a streaming movie off of a server just to get 35 seconds of it (the Will Ferrell ad).



I would probably say the first. I'd like to see some other people's top geek moments.

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  • Reply 1 of 18
    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    Thats not fair you took mine, Side by side making a php editor by the way i still have that and i want to finish it if only i can get syntax coloring. Yeah and when are we going to make an internet version of iTunes?
  • Reply 2 of 18
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Oh man, I thought the iTunes internet thing was a passing phase... Maybe we'll do some more work on it so someday we can show the rest of AI what the hell you're talking about...



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  • Reply 3 of 18
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Well maybe a simple moment of riflexion ... deciding which is better... anything html, php, programming of whatever or ... ANYTHING you were doing with your computer... * OR * sex ...



    ... when the computer wins <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 4 of 18
    brianmacosbrianmacos Posts: 548member
    Biggest Geek moment well that is a good one, Mine would have to be sitting around with a couple friends back in 9th, 10th and 11th grade writting programs in Pascal and bring the xBox to college to play games on the big 50" screens. We also got a 8 player death match going on two of these TVs at school it rocked. But other people thought we where nuts. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 5 of 18
    pixelpusherpixelpusher Posts: 73member
    That would probably be last week when 2 colleagues and I took our airport-equipped Powerbooks out in the sun, found a bench on the busiest square in central Copenhagen and hacked our way on to one of the 3 airport networks there. People were taking pictures of us with their digital cameras and we offered to transfer the picts right away
  • Reply 6 of 18
    grad studentgrad student Posts: 184member
    ok - my moment of geek self realization:



    age: 15 or 16 (can't remember)

    when: random friday night

    I turned down a date with an extremely sexually open [slutty] girl I knew (who was extremely hot as well, and she had a strange thing for me that to this day - 10 years later, I still don't understand...) to screw with my then new PM8100/80. I was trying to hack an OS 7 extension that would put a custom picture on your desktop (back when you needed shareware to do that sort of thing). I had found a warezed resourceror on AOL - back then AOL was a haven for wares... and I used the disassembler to look at the mixed-mode 68K code in the extension. The extension would make a check during startup to see if it was registered... if not, it wouldn't load. I wanted to circumvent the check, so I was looking for a branch instruction - I wanted to change a bne to a beq. I f*cked with that stupid code - changing branches by hex value one by one, restarting, crashing, trying again - for over a week... that night I changed the right branch, and the extension loaded... I flipped my sh*t!!! I was like: wholly f*ckin sh*t - I am ill as f*cking hell!!! I was literally jumping up and down, and throwing knock out punches in the air.



    I thought to myself - I just hacked my desktop picture extension. I'm f*cking cool.



    I just hacked my desktop picture extension.



    I just turned down sex - to hack my desktop picture extension.



    At this moment - I knew my true self with perfect clarity, for I had discovered that I was the most pathetic 15/16 year old male that creation had ever seen, and the most perfect temptation G-D had ever created couldn't get me out of my basement.



    I should have NEVER read that ANSI C book my mom (who knew NOTHING about computers) bought me... Computers are the beign of my existance, and when I try to avoid them - they haunt me...



    oh yea, that girl - I've never even kissed her...



    EDIT: corrected a word...



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  • Reply 7 of 18
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    [quote]Originally posted by Pixelpusher:

    <strong>That would probably be last week when 2 colleagues and I took our airport-equipped Powerbooks out in the sun, found a bench on the busiest square in central Copenhagen and hacked our way on to one of the 3 airport networks there. People were taking pictures of us with their digital cameras and we offered to transfer the picts right away </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Ohh I remember that . The city council of Copenhagen got pretty pissed AFAIR. What newspaper did you work for (and what was the two other networks there?)



    My biggest Geek moment was when I build a full fledged graphic calculator in a program I think was called turtletalk.
  • Reply 8 of 18
    jesperasjesperas Posts: 524member
    [quote]Originally posted by grad student:

    [QB]I just turned down sex - to hack my desktop picture extension.

    QB]<hr></blockquote>



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    ...I think you win...



  • Reply 9 of 18
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    Had to be when I spent a few days changing every pixel of almost every CICN in Hotline using ResEdit, because I wanted 32 bit icons. ResEdit allows you to input 32 bit colors, but not paste them. So I used Graphic Converter, used the eyedropper on every pixel of every icon I wanted to change, found out the color codes, went into ResEdit, selected the color picker, put in the codes, and put in one pixel with the pencil tool. The end result was pretty sweet, Hotline (in OS 9, anyway) never looked so good.



    P.S., if anybody wants those icons e-mail me and I will send you the resource fork.



    [EDIT: Forgot to mention that I changed a lot of the CICN's in AIM for OS 9 (mostly the buttons and the spam meter). E-mail me if you want those as well. Oh, and I redid the interface for MSN Messenger 3 to be more Aqua-like. Yea, the whole e-mail deal there as well.]



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  • Reply 10 of 18
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    [quote]Originally posted by grad student:

    <strong>ok - my moment of geek self realization:



    age: 15 or 16 (can't remember)

    when: random friday night

    I turned down a date with an extremely sexually open [slutty] girl</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Best Post ever! When I started this thread I didn't expect a resonse this awesome, thank you for sharing it. I dedicate this, my 100th post, to geek-ness of this degree.
  • Reply 11 of 18
    grad studentgrad student Posts: 184member
    "Best Post ever! When I started this thread I didn't expect a resonse this awesome, thank you for sharing it. I dedicate this, my 100th post, to geek-ness of this degree."



    glad you enjoyed it... lets hear some more geek/dork moments...
  • Reply 12 of 18
    mount_my_floppymount_my_floppy Posts: 913member
    How about staying up for days on end just to code mine sweeper in php how about itunes in php. Getting three new computers old ones that is and taking them apart and playing with the insides to see how they work... For a week with hardly any sleep. Buying my girlfriend a shirt from thinkgeek.com that says chicks dig unix and another one that says i love my geek. And one more for myself... bow before me for i am root



    Edit: forgot to mention being more exited about macworld then christmas



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  • Reply 13 of 18
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    Well right now I am sitting at a G4 iMac, with a G4 tower to my right, and a beige G3 to my left. At my right, the G4, is Mount_my_floppy, about to post in this same thread. And it's 2 am, aren't kids my age supposed to be out partying or something? I'm the only 18 yr old I know that devotes their free time to computers and message boards.
  • Reply 14 of 18
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Nothing too serious. I'm not that much of a flaming geek-on-wheels.



    Probably just your standard Macworld Expo keynote stuff:



    Drove down to the San Diego Apple store last Wednesday at 5:15am to catch the simulcast of the MWNY keynote.



    A couple of years ago, I set my alarm to wake up at 3am or so to try and catch the webcast of the Paris Mac Expo thing (the year the Key Lime iBooks were unveiled).



    That's it, I guess.



    I don't know enough hardcore computer stuff (coding, programming, nuts and bolts, etc.) to be a full-tilt geek.



    If I can't "point and click it", then I don't wanna have anything to do with it.



  • Reply 15 of 18
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Picture this.



    Editing a school project with:



    A Beige G3 with 2 monitors, one 19", running Final Cut Pro and Canon GL1 wired to a 14" TV.



    Also a PowerBook G3 with a second 17" monitor as a second DV/3D animation station connected over ethernet.



    318 Gb of disk space, (2 60-27GB internal, 3 30-35-6 GB networked, 2 80-80GB external firewire)



    Mackie soundboard.



    Polk RT3000 speakers and subwoofer.



    EDIT- Oh, and all of this is surrounding you a full 180°.



    *DROOL* My little piece of heaven.



    (Now some of you know why I can't part from Beige with OS 9)



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  • Reply 16 of 18
    haraldharald Posts: 2,152member
    Rolling down the seafront in Cannes, editing a clip of Richard Branson speaking (recorded moments before direct to the PowerBook), before uploading the clip to a Telephony Streaming Server in London via a mobile phone connected to the PB via IR. And then checking said clip via a WAP interface to the TSS.
  • Reply 17 of 18
    soulcrushersoulcrusher Posts: 587member
    I am not much of a computer geek but my best geek moment would be:



    When me and two friends were in a hotel drunk and we decided to make some chemical tests to peptobismol and we wrote everything we found (in chemical equations, of course) in the mirrors of the room.



    Pretty cool, huh?
  • Reply 18 of 18
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    I'd say my biggest geek moment was going to Frys and selling macs since there were no mac guys there. Or maybe that's just community service.



    As that will show you, I'm not a *real* geek. I'm kinda weird though cause I like computers and do a lotta shit to them, but only like a couple of my friends know that. Most think I just am a completely *normal* person that loves movies, and basketball. I guess I'm a closet geek or something.



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