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Peter Vaughan Truslow
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When you wan't a mechanical keyboard but your parents don't get it. "But mom, It's CLICKY!"

I wanted a mechanical keyboard so I bought it. The only piece of tech my parents have bought me this decade was a second monitor for chrismas so I could program faster.
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When you drill holes in obsolete hardware and make necklaces out of them and become a new age Mr. T because you are wearing so much Tech around your neck. I frequently call my ram necklaces "memory charms" it makes me laugh every time

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when you wont settle for ltt's second best Gpu(770 in my case) so you dedicate a day for overclocking, and you check the weather forecast to make sure its a cold day.

 

 

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When you go to buy a new tech related item and you're confronted with a salesman you nearly giggle at how silly his ill-informed sales pitch sounds.

*cough* HSN! *cough* QVC *cough* THIS VIDEO!! Not quite tech, but still makes them look like idiots....*cough* 

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When people discuss network engineering stuff like half/full-duplex, 10/100/1000 ports and cable categories, and you understand what they're talking about.

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When you've actually BUILD (not kidding, with four other guys but still) the IT infrastructure in your school making it one of the most advanced schools IT-wise in your country

 

When you laid some fancy fibre cable threw the crawl space of your school to connect the big cisco switches on the other side of the building with the terminal server

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I want to do that, but I feel I'd get yelled at for bringing my keyboard with MX Blues, and would bring my other one with MX Clears and people would begin asking me why the hell they take so much force to press down and why I can do it easily... I actually bottom out Clears with no real trouble. :/

i hate the kbs at school we have these dell ones that have mountains or dirt in them and make an horrible noise and takes a lot of force to push the keys down

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Taking apart pc's, cleaning them, and putting them back together again is what you do in your spare time.

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No one has any idea what your saying.

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When you have nearly 3k posts on a PC based forum

When I had gotten 2k post in 3 months

Because he had a hard drive.

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When they call you a nerd, but you're actually a GEEK!

Reminded me of this

 

Well I though I was a techie... then I saw this thread and all the "requirements", now I feel like a noob.

 

Same. I like to think I know stuff.....

 

Yea I know these are a few months old! I don't care! I made it through all 28 pages of this thread just to replay to them!!

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Yea I know these are a few months old! I don't care! I made it through all 28 pages of this thread just to replay to them!!

 

You should start a new thread - "You know you have no life when.... "  :D

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When you open the command prompt and all the people around you think you can hack.

When you use apt-get instead of Ubuntu software center because it's faster. (Ubuntu thing)

When you use Linux as you main Of.

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You know your a techie when you...

- have a flash drive on you belt with all the versions of Windows and Linux with all of your favorite programs

- You have a separate dedicated desk for fixing your friends computer

- You have a box (Moving box) of ram, HDD, etc.

- You have Hal 9000 as your profile picture.

- You have a dvd case full of installation disks....

I could go on and on but i don't have time.

 

"There are 10 kind of people who understand binary, those who do and those who don't"

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When they call you a nerd, but you're actually a GEEK!

I don't even know what those two therm mean

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- You have Hal 9000 as your profile picture.

quite disagree there is also 2001 space odyssey fan that have this pics

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"There are 10 kind of people who understand binary, those who do and those who don't"

And those who weren't expecting this joke to be in base 3.

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When you get into trouble for using inspect element, and people think you are hacking

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