50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have

maximumpc.com — The highest echelon of geeks will be able to do everything in this list, and this is by no means a full categorization of the complete geek skillset – only what we consider to be the most indispensable abilities Dec 8, 2008 View in Crawl 4

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willski Dec 9, 2008

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What hard drive?

aarandorf Dec 9, 2008

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"Wire Your Home with Ethernet Cable"And to think I was just about to wire my entire house with Coaxial... >.<

atma1008 Dec 10, 2008

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Why stop at Quake? Any real geek should be able to beet Doom 2, Half-life, and Wolfenstein (especially Wolfenstein) in under an hour.

ironpwnage Dec 10, 2008

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But if you're doing something with a hard drive, surely that means the hard drive isn't in the computer...so how are you going to google it?

dborgir Dec 10, 2008

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too bad if your girlfriend visits some website which tells her to delete those pesky system32s.. not only is your OS going to be messed up but...

mhelshou Dec 13, 2008

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I just managed to memorize it to 31 decimal places in 5 minutes. And by no means I have any good memory.here we go ....3.141592653589794626433832795

Closed Account Dec 14, 2008

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So.. You live somewhere that 18 (as in eighTEEN) and 19 (as in nineTEEN) year old women are considered minors? Or in a pathetic attempt to talk s**t on someone you didn't bother making sense...I'll go with the latter.And small world? I've seen more of it before 25 then you ever will.

pcexpress11 Mar 23, 2011