List 60 things that every geek should do

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1 Dec 2009

1. Install two operating systems on the same machine
2. Operate a calculator with RPN system
3. Changing the hardware of a computer
4. Updating a website with a text editor
5. Knowing Konami code
6. The strips Rir xkcd.com
7. Have played in at least one game in each generation
8. Using RSS
9. Knowing the data used in D & D, GURPS and Storyteller
10. Knowing where to find music, movies and serials on the Internet
11. Differentiate ewoks, wookies, Mon Calamari and other major races, naming it correctly
12. Remotely access a computer via SSH
13. Knowing the technique of making old video game cartridges back to work
14. Fixing computers or install programs by phone or instant messenger, without having to look at the machine in question
15. Up a home network
16. To know what speed should accelerate a DeLorean to travel in time
17. Having the collector’s box of “Back to the Future” or Star Wars
18. Have at his fingertips the answer to Ni
19. Quote three movies with Molly Ringwald
20. Knowing the location of Vladivostok on the map
21. Knowing the answer to the fundamental question about life, the universe and everything else
22. Knowing people of the universe welcomes his countrymen with his right hand open and upright, but keeping together the pinkie and ring, middle and index fingers.
23. Knowing equation has as solution the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42
RTFM
24. Know at least two languages (useful; Klingon does not count)
25. Navigate seamlessly between directories on a machine using the terminal
26. Unlock gadgets
27. Install wordpress from scratch on a server
28. Learn to play, color, movie lines
29. Make small edits photos in Photoshop
30. Knowing when to use gif, jpg or png
31. Know who fired first in Mos Eisley
32. Read enough
33. Knowing longsword and bastard sword weapons are quite different
34. Have a super-hero favorite non-mainstream
35. Creating torrents
36. Participate in more than 10 social networks
37. Being an expert in some non-trivial matter
38. Using FTP
39. Have participated in campaigns in the RPG menso three different game systems
40. Playing War
41. Brucutu have an actor of the 80 favorite
42. Use Twitter hashtags with popular
43. Knowing ship completed the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs
44. Knowing that a parsec is a unit of distance, not time
45. Knowing what are, in order, the three most intelligent animals on the planet
46. Crack software
47. Rip DVDs
48. Edit text in WYSIWYG editors do not like in a WYSIWYG editor
49. Know the rules of rock-paper-scissors-Spock-Lizard
50. Prefer to contact people by email, IM or Twitter, instead of phone
51. Make lists about useless subjects idem
52. Install infinite extensions in Firefox and then complain that the browser is slow or consume too much memory (it’s sad ..)
53. Beta install operating systems in virtual machines just to have a taste test (see Google Chrome OS)
54. Spend the day, if not the weekend, playing WoW
55. Have at least 2 different islands and have reset several games in each
56. We are passionate about computers enough to save every penny to buy a launch
57. Say it is not nerdy, but Geek
58. Use Google to figure out how to fry an egg
59. Participating in events such as the Campus Party just to have the pleasure of taking your PC you can use your Internet for free
60. And worst of all is to take the notebook to a bar and get playing Counter Strike while drinking some cold

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