You might be a computer techie/geek if... ...you've gutted and rebuilt your computer 5 times since you last changed the oil in your car. ...you know what a router is, and you know what a bit is, but you've never heard of a router bit. ...you wake up and realize your sleep pattern has been following an algorithm. ...the only tan you've ever acquired comes from your computer monitor. ...every time someone says "I like iMacs" you get mad and shout out "So you only go for the looks, do you? Superficial guy! The inner qualities are what's important, not the looks! Beauty is only skin-deep!" (Guilty!) ...even bothered to load this page. (Guilty!) ...have e-mail addresses on more than 3 servers. (Guilty!) ...for fun you think up funny domain names. (Guilty!) ...find yourself interrupting computer store salesman to correct something he said. (Guilty!) ...have ever helped computer store personnel with software. ...the first thing you notice when walking in a business is their computer system. (Guilty!) ...and offer your advice on how to change it. ...have ever written a dll or driver of any sort. ...if you know what a dll is. (Guilty!) ...you know more IP addresses than phone numbers. ...friends use you as tech support. (Very Guilty!) ...you know more URLs than street addresses. (Guilty!) ...you have made your ISP completely rethink that "unlimited access" thing. (Probably Guilty!) ...you have ever dismantled a floppy. (Guilty!) ...and reassembled it. ...and it worked! ...you ever told someone to hit Alt-H in response to a question. ...you have ever sent email to someone sitting next to you. (Guilty!) ...you have ever modified an ini file. (Guilty!) ...you get up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on your way back to bed. ...you check your email and get "No new messages" so you check it again. (Guilty!) ... ...you have WAN parties. (Guilty!) ...when asked if you have more than one hard drive, you answer "In which computer?" (Guilty!) ...you postpone your moving date so your computers can set new uptime records. ...given the choice between a T3 and a date with a good looking guy/girl, you'd take the T3. ...you've ever been successful at catching a spammer. ...you spend more time changing settings in Windows XP than using it. (Guilty!) ...your friends have a club with the word .com in it. (Guilty!) ...you use an underscore in all your file names instead of a space because it might get corrupted. (Guilty!) ...you use a pipe symbol instead of a lowercase L when typing your english essay to see if anyone notices. (Guilty!) ...you refer to going to the toilet as "extracting to the temp folder" and flushing the toilet as "deleting the temp folder". ...you refer to eating and drinking as uploading! ...you've ever passed notes at school in binary. ...you go into a computer store and takeover a discussion for a salesman on the specs and merits of a computer while he site there nodding as you make the sale. ...you've ever written a useless program just for the "fun" of it. (Guilty!) ...you can actually read the error message details when a Windows program has a problem. (Guilty!) ...you spend more time chatting on-line in one day then you do in a week's worth of actual conversation with people face-to-face. (Guilty) ...there are two magazines in front of you, the newest issue of PC Magazine and the other a porno. And you choose the PC mag over the porno. (Guilty) ...when you're reading a magazine and you see an underlined passage, you feel compelled to click on it. (Guilty!) ...you can type much faster than you can write. (Very Guilty) ...you have the Linux Penguin sitting on your monitor ...and you know the penguin's name. (Guilty) ...you're grossly offended that anyone would want to make their Linux box work anything like Windows 95. (Guilty!) ...you wake up wondering which directory you're in. ...your computer is set for Dvorak... but your keyboard is actually a qwerty. ...you know what Dvorak and Qwerty refer to. (Guilty!) ...you salivate when you hear the word, "upgrade". ...you dual boot because you want to be able to play some of them there cool new games. (Guilty!) ...you e-mail yourself notes rather than writing them. (Totally Guilty!) ...you can program in more languages than you can speak. (Guilty!) ...you refer to your computer as a friend. ...you can talk to your computer without being sarcastic or raising your voice.