How much of a geek are you?

RangerX · Post by **RangerX** » October 24th, 2007, 4:59 am

OK, I've seen geek references bantered around lately, so time to show your geek-chops.

Years in IT:

Specialties:

Platforms:

Certs:

Something geeky this way comes:

I'll go first-

Years in IT: 10 professionally, but I've been an advanced tinker for 25 years.

Specialties: Security, infrastructure architecture, consolidation, virtualization, migration

Platforms: All MS OSes since DOS 2.0, RedHat/Fedora since RedHat 4, Ubuntu since 6.06, Solaris (some), AIX (some), Pretty much everything VMware has had out since 2003.

Certs: CISSP, MCSE, VCP, ITIL, & a bunch of IBM hardware certs.

Something geeky this way comes: Recently had 2 VMware ESX 3 servers and an iSCSI appliance running inside of VMware workstation, with a running VM inside of that.

ANGRYCivilian · Post by **ANGRYCivilian** » October 24th, 2007, 5:46 am

Years in IT: 7

Specialties: I wouldn't say I'm an expert at anything; the place I work at requires me to do a lot of different things, including creating VB applications (which I suck at), so I pretty much become just proficient at a lot of different things. I'm better at: Hardware, Networking, GIS, ES&S Election-specific tabulation equipment, VRSystems Election-specific voter identification equipment. I also dabble in graphics and web design.

Platforms: Current MS OS's (W2K>)

Certs: MCSA, Net+, A+.

Something geeky this way comes: Friday, a server rack fell on my leg...it fucking hurt.

old13bm5 · Post by **old13bm5** » October 24th, 2007, 5:46 am

Years in IT: 17

Specialties: MS Active Directory, Exchange, VPN's, Visual Basic apps

Platforms:Anything put out by Microsoft since 1990 or so. Some Knoppix

Certs: MCSE, CNE Novell 4.1 MCSD Visual Basic

Something geeky this way comes: Nothing exciting lately, I try to keep it that way.

EvilCouch · Post by **EvilCouch** » October 24th, 2007, 6:35 am

Years in IT: 4 professionally

Specialties: Networking, ITA, data-center operations, yelling at telco vendors to fix their DS3s.

Platforms: Officially supported all flavors of Windows from 95, minus Vista. Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1-4, Debian Sarge (stable). Cisco IOS and CatOS.

Certs: Information System Security Officer (thank you Fort Gordon and your internet courses), working on my CCNA

Something geeky this way comes: Maybe my CCNA and a sweet network operations position.

Horned Toad · Post by **Horned Toad** » October 24th, 2007, 6:57 am

I can download porn

ANGRYCivilian · Post by **ANGRYCivilian** » October 24th, 2007, 7:18 am

Horned Toad wrote:I can download porn

Free internet porn is man's greatest achievement. Every technological advancement has been for this one ultimate goal; to take high-resolution pictures of naked chicks and allow the entire world to see them free of charge.

Black 6 · Post by **Black 6** » October 24th, 2007, 7:19 am

Horned Toad wrote:I can download porn

I can do that AND make my computer make funny sounds and smoke.

One question.... is this the geek version of "my cock is bigger than yours".

RangerX · Post by **RangerX** » October 24th, 2007, 7:30 am

Black 6 wrote: One question.... is this the geek version of "my cock is bigger than yours".

More like "My cock is lonelier than yours."

BruteForce · Post by **BruteForce** » October 24th, 2007, 7:41 am

Years in IT: Since 1994 = 13

Specialties: InfoSec, PenTesting, AD, eDirectory, NAS, Forensics

Platforms: Linux, Solaris, HPUX, Windows Server, NetWare, VMWare

Certs: GSEC, GSNA, G17799, MCSE, MCNE

Affiliations: ISSA, InfraGard

Something geeky this way comes: Pursuing CISSP and currently implementing Exchange Server 2007, Active Directory on W2K3 R2 (64bit), DigitalPersona biometric auth. & PGPServer Whole Disk Encryption.

I have a full server rack at home loaded with IBM xSeries servers running everything from W2K3 to RedHat ES4 to Solaris 10.

My first real computer was an Atari 8bit and I still have it actively hooked up with telnet Internet access via a serial to Ethernet adapter.

:D

ANGRYCivilian · Post by **ANGRYCivilian** » October 24th, 2007, 7:58 am

RangerX wrote:
Black 6 wrote: One question.... is this the geek version of "my cock is bigger than yours".
More like "My cock is lonelier than yours."

haha...wait, that's not funny!

RangerX · Post by **RangerX** » October 24th, 2007, 8:11 am

BruteForce wrote: My first real computer was an Atari 8bit (800) and I still have it actively hooked up with telnet Internet access via a serial to Ethernet adapter.

:D

Yep, that's pretty fucking geeky.

For the CISSP, I recommend the Shon Harris book, as well as http://www.cccure.org

I spent about 120 hours prepping, and the test is a mindfuck because you don't get your results for about 10 days (unless they changed that).

EvilCouch · Post by **EvilCouch** » October 24th, 2007, 6:12 pm

BruteForce wrote: My first real computer was an Atari 8bit and I still have it actively hooked up with telnet Internet access via a serial to Ethernet adapter.

Doing what? wget-ing RSS feeds and grabbing your email and then causing you to make frowny faces when you get a shit-ton of markup and can't read it?

I'm just messing with you. If I still had an Apple II, I'd be doing something goofy with it, too.

BruteForce · Post by **BruteForce** » October 24th, 2007, 6:17 pm

EvilCouch wrote:
BruteForce wrote: My first real computer was an Atari 8bit and I still have it actively hooked up with telnet Internet access via a serial to Ethernet adapter.
Doing what? wget-ing RSS feeds and grabbing your email and then causing you to make frowny faces when you get a shit-ton of markup and can't read it?

I'm just messing with you. If I still had an Apple II, I'd be doing something goofy with it, too.

Actually, it's watching my wife's webserver and tailing the access.log!

ANGRYCivilian · Post by **ANGRYCivilian** » October 25th, 2007, 5:19 am

BruteForce wrote:
EvilCouch wrote:
BruteForce wrote: My first real computer was an Atari 8bit and I still have it actively hooked up with telnet Internet access via a serial to Ethernet adapter.
Doing what? wget-ing RSS feeds and grabbing your email and then causing you to make frowny faces when you get a shit-ton of markup and can't read it?

I'm just messing with you. If I still had an Apple II, I'd be doing something goofy with it, too.
Actually, it's watching my wife's webserver and tailing the access.log!

OK, I think we have a winner in the geek/cock-size/loneliness contest! I'm not much of a geek, I just do this shit at work. I don't even have a computer at home; although, I have been building one for like 8 months now. :D I guess socket 939 wasn't all it was cracked up to be...

BruteForce · Post by **BruteForce** » October 25th, 2007, 6:45 am

ANGRYCivilian wrote: OK, I think we have a winner in the geek/cock-size/loneliness contest! I'm not much of a geek, I just do this shit at work. I don't even have a computer at home; although, I have been building one for like 8 months now. :D I guess socket 939 wasn't all it was cracked up to be...

Well, although a severe techno-geek, my username says it all.

The work at home just serves to keep me polished and up on the latest technology, resulting in a higher income than most of my peers!