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Return of the Quickies
Andreas Pour sent linkage to
a page where you can get the KDE mascot in
T-shirt form (half the profits go to KDE).
Hubert Figuiere sent us pictures from
the Paris LinuxExpo
if you weren't in France.
Brian sent us How Stuff
Works. Its actually not bad.
cpfeifer wrote in to send us some spoofed book covers including
Taking Down the Internet in 30mins for Dummies
and IP Spoofing for Dummies. More here.
An anonymous reader sent us Prozac Pez if you've been having a rough day.
Dwonis
sent us a point-form description
of Geeks, Twits and Nerds, and the differences between them.
aspodf wrote in to show us what happens when
Red Meat and Star Wars come together at last.
CowboyNeal sent us a link to
Career Path which has a
Personality Quiz
that tells if you are a Jedi Master, or a Sith Lord. I think
Neal ended up an Ewok *grin*.
Simply put, this guy is wrong. The Hacker dictionary, aka the Jargon File (available on esr's homepage) already has definitions for all of these. And, if I may be so bold, are much better written. But as everybody is entitled to their opinion.. here's mine. :)
a lly-stupid.
Twits are the people that screw up their system and then call up the nerds at the helpdesk to fix it. The nerds play quake2 all day and sit in a lab unjamming printers and changing passwords, while the geeks are busy hammering out the next e-commerce software package in the "intro to C" class down the hall. Nerds are completely bent on *one* part of computing (be it programming, hardware, whatever). They're usually good. While geeks are more of a jack-of-all-trades. They know enough about computers in general, and can usually go in-depth on a variety of topics. Nerds have no social skills. Geeks have limited social skills. Twits.. well, we'll call them the normals-that-didn't-quite-make-the-cut-and-are-re
Ciao.
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What does the personality quiz say about you if you read the javascript in the page so that you know which questions to answer in order to become your favoutrite character?
Umm maby its just me but from all my personal experience the definition for Geek and Nerd, as well as use uses of the words, should be switched. Based upon all the correspondents I've had most people agree that the Geek is the higher form of Nerd. Though I think their definition of Twit is right on. See my Sig it explains all