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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Day 15 – Earliest geek experience
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. My earliest geek experience would have to be as a kid – my dad worked as a mainframe operator for a couple decades, so I vaguely remember being taken … Continue reading
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Day 14 – Favourite computer conference?
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. There are plenty of great conferences around in the NZ & AU scene, however my favourite is clearly going to be linux.conf.au. It’s a week long IT conference which … Continue reading
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Day 13 – How did you become such a geek? Career? Personal interest?
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I’ve been heavily into computers for almost a decade, it was never a case of waking up one day and deciding that I want to be an ubergeek, but … Continue reading
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Day 12 – What area do you want to expand your skills into?
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. My skillset in PHP development and system administration is pretty strong, so whilst I’ll continue to improve and learn new things in this area, it’s not really an area … Continue reading
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Day 11 – Favourite hacking environment – music, light, seating, etc
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. This question does lead on from the previous one somewhat, I see that some other fellow bloggers who will remain nameless ended up merging days 10 and 11 together. … Continue reading
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Day 10 – Picture, screenshot and specifications of your primary computer.
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. This is tricky to answer since I have 40 or so computers, however I’m going to ignore my servers and give the primary computer title to my laptop. Since … Continue reading
Day 09 – What OS/distribution do you run?
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I’ve been a Linux geek for almost a decade, first started heavily using Linux in 2001 as part of my youthful play (Mandrake 6, kernel 2.2 FTW! :-D ) … Continue reading
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Day 08 – Preferred method of communication with humans
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. I’d be tempted to say “none” here, however whilst all human interaction is painful, some forms are less painful that others. :-P In reality I’ve gotten better with interacting … Continue reading
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Day 07 – Preferred smartphone platform. And which do you use?
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. Being an open source geek, it probably won’t surprise you that I’m a fan of Android, Google’s open source operating system for mobile phones. I currently own an HTC … Continue reading
Day 06 – Primary geek fuel (snacks/drinks)
This post is part of my 30 days of geek challenge. Finally an excuse for posting a picture – blog posts are always far more interesting when there’s a picture. ;-) My primary geek fuel would have to be cola … Continue reading
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