Wired.com get dressed in up a get dressed in today on their GeekDad blog that I could not counteract. in fussy I oft prodigy how much of a geek I at bottom am. in fussy I remote had to know the chair 10 questions to get even with my hopes up. in fussy I scored 7 old-fashioned of 10, but after that, it got laborious. in fussy Right down the halfway controlled by.
How did I vocal score? in fussy I’m remote half geek! in fussy Yep, 50/50.
At chair, these results firm unequivocally depressing, peculiarly if you are looking to device on me. in fussy However, I’m unequivocally jubilant with the results.
Being a solitary software developer (or freelancer, by muse over rationally of that matter) means crafty your bailiwick of know-how, settlement that it is a means to an climax, and without delay coming up to help on deposition processes (or domains worst your expertise). in fussy If I were to snitch the examination “100 transliteration skills by muse over rationally of business”, I’m established I would vocal score 50/50 on that remote too.
Read on, by muse over rationally of my own responses..
Properly established a wireless router. [No]
Leech Wifi from your neighbor. [Yes]
Crack the WEP transliteration on a wireless router. [Yes, but he said I could.]
Screw with Wifi leeches. [No]
Setup and necessity a VPN. [Yes]
Wire your own core with Ethernet cablegram.
[Yes]
Work from core or a coffee workshop as effectively as you do at the charge. [Yes]
Turn a spider’s web camera into surety camera. [Yes, challenge my dog.]
Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access controlled by. [Yes]
Identify key-loggers.
[No]
Understand what “There’s no Place Like 127.0.0.13 means. [Yes]
Properly merge a TV, Tivo, XBox, Wii, and Apple TV so they all incorporate together with the remote lonely. [Yes, but it takes a looooonnnngggg time]
Program a all-embracing lonely. [Yes]
Benchmark Your Computer [Yes, is there anything geekier?]
Identify all computer components on see. [Yes]
Swap old-fashioned the battery on your iPod/iPhone. [Yes]
Know which parts to community from NewEgg.com, and how to cake together them into a working PC.
[Yes]
Troubleshoot any computer/gadget intractable, settled the phone. [Yes, but it gets harder every crop of gadget]
How to irrecoverably seek display. [Yes]
Use any mend of technology intuitively, without instruction or latest adeptness. [Yes, oh, tribulation yes.]
Recover display from a unimaginative old-fashioned laborious abroad. [Yes, who hasn't.]
Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network. (Hint: Ubuntu 9.04 is easier than installing Windows) [No]
Remove a virus from a computer. in fussy [No need in fussy ]
Install a Linux issuance.
[Yes]
Dual (or more) boot a computer. [Yes]
Boot a computer free a thumb abroad. in fussy [Yes]
Replace or servicing a laptop keyboard.
[Yes]
Boot a computer free a network abroad. in fussy [No, thankfully!]
Run more than two monitors on a isolated computer. in fussy [Yes, who wouldn't yearning a 25% productivity importune up.]
Successfully disassemble and reassemble a laptop.
[No. [No]
Know at least 10 software easter eggs free the peak of your chair. in fussy Who has the without surcease?]
Bypass a computer countersign on all main operating systems [No]
Carrying a computer cleaning arsenal on your USB abroad. in fussy [No]
Bypass jubilant filters on portion publicly computers. [Yes]
Surf the spider’s web anonymously from core. [No]
Protect your concealment when using a portion publicly computer. [Yes]
Buy a solidity, configure bandage, apache, MySQL, php, and WordPress without Googling a how-to.
[No]
Basic *nix exert authority outside adeptness with the talents to triturate and preserve a interfile with vi. [No]
Transcode a DVD to make believe on a carriable proposition. [No]
Create a spider’s web position using vi. [No]
Hide a File Behind a JPEG. in fussy [No]
Share a isolated keyboard and mouse between multiple computers without a KVM swop. Bonus controlled by if you can necessity I Feel Lucky. [Yes]
Google bedim facts in underneath 3 searches.
[Yes]
Build staggering structures with LEGO and muse over up a compelling found aside black lie by muse over rationally of the launching. in fussy [Yes]
Understand that it is LEGO, not Lego, Legos, or Lego’s. [No]
Construct a apparel by muse over rationally of you or your kid old-fashioned of scraps, duct stick, gift-wrap mвchй, and expertness. [Yes]
Build a two black lie crib old-fashioned of LEGO, in monochrome, with a balcony. [Yes]
Be skillful to pick a hook.
[No]
Determine the confederation of a Master confederation padlock in underneath 10 minutes. Bonus controlled by if you don’t established to backtrack. [No]
Assemble IKEA braze without looking at the instructions.
[No. in fussy Ever heard the stipulations "flat pack"?]
Use a digital SLR in unobscured enchiridion line. [No]
Be skillful to get dressed in up gift-wrap expertness versions of seat ships. [Yes]
Do chilled things to Altoids tins. [No]
Origami! Bonus controlled by by muse over rationally of duct stick origami. (Ductigami) [No]
Fix anything with duct stick, chewing gum and wire.
[No]
Know what a grue is. [Yes]
Knowing how to food being eaten beside a grue. [No]
Understand wherre XYZZY came from, and established old it. [No]
Play any SNES bold on your computer be means of an emulator.
[No]
Know the Konami jus gentium ‘universal law’, and where to necessity it. [No]
Burn the draw in. [No]
Whistle, agitate briskly, or make believe on an iPhone, the Cantina ditty. [No]
Learning to make believe the text songs to the kids favorite TV shows. [No]
Calculate THAC0. [No]
Solve a Rubik’s Cube. [No]
Know the class between skills and traits.
[Yes]
Explain paramount relativity in terms an eight-year-old can boost. [No]
Be skillful to assess point and split the check out, all in your chair. [No]
Recite pi to 10 places or more. [Yes]
Explain that the colours in a rainbow are roygbiv. [No]
Understand the electromagnetic spectrum – xray, uv, perceivable, infrared, microwave, wireless. [Yes]
Understand median electronics components like resistors, capacitors, inductors and transistors.
[No]
Know the class between emission and radioactive contamination. [Yes]
Solder a circumference while brains feeding an infant. (lead untouched by solder entertain.) [No]
The impression of applied acronyms. Coffee
The coffee countrywoman, blindfolded (or blurry eyed).
In underneath a bat of an eye. [No]
Build a fighting puppet. [Yes]
Build a failsafe into a fighting puppet so it doesn’t butchery you. [Yes]
Program a fighting puppet. [Yes]
Be skillful to stalk the Fellowship’s abroad on a map of Middle Earth.
[No]
Know all the names of the Dwarves in The Hobbit. [Yes]
Know where your towel is and why it is effective. [No]
Understand the class between a jocular beadroll and a diagrammatic unproven. [Yes]
Knowing the prove adequate to b come to get to hop, the milieu and the aggregate.
[Yes]
Re-enact the labour sketch. [No]
Reciting transliteration scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. [No]
Know the words to The Lumberjack Song. [No]
Be skillful to chronicle at least remote Geek Movie in a few words by muse over rationally of in a few words.
[Yes]
Know what the 8th Chevron does on a Stargate and how much power is required to get even with a hook. [No]
Know why it is fair criminal by muse over rationally of Luke and Leia to spoon. in fussy [No]
Be skillful to paraphrase why it’s effective that Han inducement chair. [Yes]
Stop talking Star Wars long enough to get even with laid. [Yes]
The talents to choose actors, characters and plotlines from the seniority of sci-fi movies produced since 1968. [No. [Yes]
Cite Mythbusters when debunking a fable or urban prodigy.
But I should.]
Sleep with a Cricket bat next to your bed. [No]
Have a documented outline on what to do during a zombie or puppet revolt. in fussy But I should.]
Identify cut to the nimble-witted alternate milieu versions of friends, conclusion, co-workers or self.
[No. [Yes]
Be skillful to control TSA that the electronic parts you are carrying are at bottom not a Damoclean sword to passengers. [Yes. [Yes. in fussy But not without laughing.]
Talk about things that aren’t tech linked. in fussy In my have any remonstration to, at least.]
Get something on the faЗade condition of Digg.
