LebGeeks

mir

Member

Answer those

Ok, that would be fun
i will post a series of detailed fun geeky questions
it will be fun comparing different members answers
and you can learn a lot about a geek from his computing habits

so if you feel like answering.. plz do , but honestly, anno bala tofshikh
if you don't like the idea and find it stupid, ignore the post.. don't go posting about how stupid it is
ok here i start the first set

1 - How many computers do you have ?
2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies  )
3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer
4-  How many browsers do you have
5-  What are the last 7 applications you used
6-  How many application and window do you have running now?
7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ?
8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop?
9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ?
10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP
11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?
12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...)

euh.. i don't wanna make it a long long list.. but that is a start
yalla ppl.. u can answer if you want and reveal your computing habits  mwahahahaha

mahdoum

Member

Re: Answer those

1. 1 laptop and 1 computers
2. All of AUB's computers? lol
3. 1, XP
4. 3
5. Notepad, Editplus, Photoshop, Illustrator, iTunes, Opera, Smart FTP
6. Including Antivirus etc, 6
7. 10 mins, just came on
8. 0, not even recycle bin
9. 2/14 - 32/42 - 82/150 - 20/50 - 75/80 All my partitions and its free space  (I have an external 300GB)
10. Classic view all the way
11. 5 or 6
12. tiles

Padre

Member

Re: Answer those

1 - How many computers do you have ?: 4
2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies tongue ): too much to count
3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer: 2 , XP and FC5
4-  How many browsers do you have: IE,FierFox,Opera on win Mozilla, Konqueror on FC5
5-  What are the last 7 applications you used: FierFox,MSN,IDA,WoW,ECad,VC++,WinHex
6-  How many application and window do you have running now? 15
7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ? 1 hours, max was 73 hours non stop (except for WC break 
8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop? it's filled, can't count them
9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ? used: 350G  Free: 20GB
10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP: Classic
11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?: 4
12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...): Icon

Last edited by Padre (August 24 2006)

mir

Member

Re: Answer those

lol mahdoum.. you really dont' have desktop items ?
ano that is pretty weird lool ... y is that ? i guess you hate to ruin that desktop wallpaper

Padre.. shu feti7 network bil bet
w ba3dena u should learn some management skills to manage ur zombies

euh.. killkon 350G guys .. that's a lot of data

ok.. i will submit a funny set of questions tommorrow
i am leaving some time to allow other ppl to answer if they want

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

1 - How many computers do you have ?
desktop: 1 - laptops: 3

2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies)
only localhost (i'm clean )

3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer
dual booting XP and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS + VMware and Qemu to test other operating systems

4-  How many browsers do you have
Firefox 1.5.0.6, Firefox-3.0a1, Lynx, Opera, Internet Explorer

6-  How many application and window do you have running now?
11

7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ?
now? only a few minutes. Record: 5 or 6 hours..

8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop?
none, one or two. {productivity :)}

9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ?
a lot.

10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP
classic

11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?
4 (not counting different linux distros, of course)

12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...)
detail

mezin

Member

Re: Answer those

1 - How many computers do you have ?
desktop: 1 - laptops: 4

2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies)
mmm many no zombies though

3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer
2

4-  How many browsers do you have
Firefox 2 beta , IE 7 , Opera medre ayya version

6-  How many application and window do you have running now?
1 firefox with several tabs

7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ?
shi 1 hour... record beyond 10 hours back in the 90's gaming era

8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop?
8 including basic windows

9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ?
which one

10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP
classic akeed

11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?
4 - windows - dos - suse linux - Mac OS

12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...)
detail

mir

Member

Re: Answer those

ok .. that was nice ..
SECOND ROUND

1 - What is your favorite Brand for CDs/DVDs and removable medias
2- Give an estimate about the nbre of CDs/DVDs you own
3- What are the last 3 applications you installed
4- when was the last time you were seriously infected with malware
5- in XP, do you use the Classic start menu or the XP one
6 - what are the items that you have in ur quick lunch
7- how many chatting applications do you have
8- What is the Name of your Machine
9 - How many users do you have on ur pc, name them if u like to(i expect funny 
     names )
10- when was the last time you performed maintenance for your PC ?

mahdoum

Member

Re: Answer those

1. Imation offcourse
2. about 100? lol! I don't use them anymore though
3. Google earth, smart ftp, tortoise svn
4. 1.5 years
5. XP start menu
6. Show desktop, thats it
7. msn messenger.
8. mnotebook
9. eh mahdoum (how original huh!)
10. Right before the war

Btw mir why don't you answer your own questions?

Padre

Member

Re: Answer those

1 - i dont really care
2- about 500 or 600
3- OllyDBG, DameWare, STAAD
4- dont remember
5- XP
6 -FierFox, WoW, IDA, WinHEx
7- 3
8- not gonna answer
9 - depends on which one, range from 1 to 4
10- a month ago i think

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

1 - What is your favorite Brand for CDs/DVDs and removable medias
bleh =P

2- Give an estimate about the nbre of CDs/DVDs you own
CDs = 2 or 3 ; DVDs = 30 movies.

3- What are the last 3 applications you installed
gwget, gaim (upgraded to new beta), & some themes from Gnome.

4- when was the last time you were seriously infected with malware
wouw, long ago..

5- in XP, do you use the Classic start menu or the XP one
I use the mac transformation pac {forgot the name}

6 - what are the items that you have in your quick lunch
I use a launcher..

7- how many chatting applications do you have
on XP: msn msg, yahoo and mIRC.
on Linux: gaim and aMSN.

8- What is the Name of your Machine
same as Padre.

10- when was the last time you performed maintenance for your PC ?
Power supply fried 1.75 months ago, damn electricity!

mahdoum

Member

Re: Answer those

6 - what are the items that you have in your quick lunch
A sandwich, orane juice and a banana

battikh

Member

Re: Answer those

ROUND 1:
1 - How many computers do you have ?
     2 (1 laptop, 1 desktop)

2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies tongue )
     around 10

3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer
     4 (XP, Ubuntu, Mac OSx86, Vista)

4-  How many browsers do you have
     Firefox is the only one I use

5-  What are the last 7 applications you used
     amsn, firefox, notepad, utorrent, vlc

6-  How many application and window do you have running now?
     6

7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ?
     3 hours

8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop?
     on win xp all the screen is filled i should clean it, on ubuntu none

9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ?
     around 5GB free out of 80GB

10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP
      classic view

11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?
       the ones that i can remember are dos, windows (all of them since 3.1 including vista), linux (many distros), QNX, Mac OS, BSD (free and open), and there is this one, forgot it;s name, the project to make a free windows like OS...

12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...)
       tiles

ROUND 2:
1 - What is your favorite Brand for CDs/DVDs and removable medias
     i just buy the cheaper

2- Give an estimate about the nbre of CDs/DVDs you own
   around 200

3- What are the last 3 applications you installed
   some basic stuff for my everyday use of ubuntu as i removed freebsd and reinstalled linux yesterday, so google earth, amsn, and openttd

4- when was the last time you were seriously infected with malware
    my bad memory can't remember

5- in XP, do you use the Classic start menu or the XP one
    i use modified themes

6 - what are the items that you have in ur quick lunch
    firefox, outlook, iTunes

7- how many chatting applications do you have
    on XP msn, yahoo messneger
    on linux amsn, gaim

8- What is the Name of your Machine

9 - How many users do you have on ur pc, name them if u like to(i expect funny
     names )
     XP: 3 users (the one i use, administrator,  and a fake admin acount called admin which is a guest acount)
     Linux: 2 (the one i use and root )

10- when was the last time you performed maintenance for your PC ?
     4 monthes ago my laptop's motherboard died

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

and there is this one, forgot it;s name, the project to make a free windows like OS...

ReactOS?

battikh

Member

Re: Answer those

and there is this one, forgot it;s name, the project to make a free windows like OS...

ReactOS?

yes that's it
but it's closer to win95 than winxp, i think i was expecting too much out of it. but it's free and open source, so that still a good thing.

mir

Member

Re: Answer those

Btw mir why don't you answer your own questions?

hehe heik  .. ano i am the one asking
if you post something, i might answer

ok..should i post more ? or you guys got bored ?

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

@mir: eh, why not
@battikh: new version release just a few days ago, check it out.

mir

Member

Re: Answer those

@mir: eh, why not

ok then  here comes another 10 silly questions :)

1- What are ur favorite 5 websites (most visited)
2- what is the screen resolution you use
3- What is the website that went down and you wish it didn't  (something from
    the old days  )
4 -What is your favorite search engine
5- What is your favorite Media Player
6- How many column do you have under "Programs" in start menu
7- Have you previously done any Hardware modding
8- What do you plan to purchase for your PC
9- How important or Critical is ur PC to you (rate A,B,C,D or do some typing )
10- Do You encrypt ur data ?

:) i can do this forever :)

mahdoum

Member

Re: Answer those

1. lebgeeks.com/forum, engadget.com, lifehack.org, gmail.com
2.  1280 x 800
3.
4. google
5. iTunes
6. 1
7. nope
8. video input card?
9. A
10. nope

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

1- What are ur favorite 5 websites (most visited)
...

2- what is the screen resolution you use
1024x768

3- What is the website that went down and you wish it didn't (something from the old days)
the discontinuation of phrack.

4 -What is your favorite search engine
G

5- What is your favorite Media Player
WinAMP

6- How many column do you have under "Programs" in start menu
3 (full screen) - in XP, that is.

7- Have you previously done any Hardware modding
no, i'm not much of a hardware guy actually.

8- What do you plan to purchase for your PC
new cooling system.

9- How important or Critical is ur PC to you (rate A,B,C,D or do some typing )
A

10- Do You encrypt ur data ?
sensitive data, of course.

Padre

Member

Re: Answer those

1- What are ur favorite 5 websites (most visited)
oh lol ... forums most of them,  nforce.nl is the 5th one i guess
2- what is the screen resolution you use
1280x800 or 1024x depends on which one
3- What is the website that went down and you wish it didn't  (something from
    the old days  )
   none of them went down ... or maybe CP
4 -What is your favorite search engine
   google
5- What is your favorite Media Player
   no favorite one really, the important is that it plays what i want to listen to ;)
6- How many column do you have under "Programs" in start menu
  9 i guess, it dosent fit on one screen.
7- Have you previously done any Hardware modding
yeah
8- What do you plan to purchase for your PC
water cooling maybe or a new case. The sound of my fan is killing me
9- How important or Critical is ur PC to you (rate A,B,C,D or do some typing )
  humm .... i sit at my pc around 7 to 12 hours per day
10- Do You encrypt ur data ?
No

rolf

Member

Re: Answer those

1 - How many computers do you have ?
One .. doh

2-  How many computers do you have access to (local computers,zombies  )
about 15 PCs and 2 macs at the office plus a room full of old PC junk

3-  How many operating systems do you have on ur personal computer
one... too lazy for more, i just ssh to the linux server but next time i'll install linux

4-  How many browsers do you have
firefox + many cool extentions and ie. experimented some other weird browsers but removed them

5-  What are the last 7 applications you used
ie, ie, ie and ie

6-  How many application and window do you have running now?
ie 4 windows and msn. I am not at home, on my pc i'd have more stuff

7 - for How long have you been sitting on ur PC ?
1/2 hour

8 - How many Icons do you have on your desktop?
not my desktop. on my real desktop... as many as fit on the screen. when theyre no more place I create a folder named "stuff" or "shit" or "caca" and throw everything in it. my desktop is a multi-gigabyte mess.

9 - How much used/Free space do you have on ur HDD ?
of 200 i think about 50

10 - do you use category view or classic view in control panel when u are using XP
classic of course

11-  How many operating systems did you try in your entire life ?
DOS, windows 3.11, 95, 98, 98se, ME, NT, 2000, XP and servers....
Fedora linux, and some other live linux or other distros
Mas OSX and OS 9
maybe some unixes over ssh
i think thats it

12-  What is your favorite view for the icons (tiles,icon,list,detail...)
Depends
Usually list, or detail if i want to sort, otherwise i just leave them as icons

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ok .. that was nice ..
SECOND ROUND

1 - What is your favorite Brand for CDs/DVDs and removable medias
Pfff, the cheapest  as long as it works... i dont remember the name of the one i usually use

2- Give an estimate about the nbre of CDs/DVDs you own
you mean with data on them? 200... 300... 400

3- What are the last 3 applications you installed
forgot

4- when was the last time you were seriously infected with malware
very very long time ago

5- in XP, do you use the Classic start menu or the XP one
XP

6 - what are the items that you have in ur quick lunch
ie, mozilla, putty ssh client, some scp/sftp (secure file transfer) client, notepad, sound recorder (records all sounds that go through the sound card) uh... forgot the rest

7- how many chatting applications do you have
MSN, skype (barely use it), google (never use it) and some other i never use

8- What is the Name of your Machine
gosh i even forgot that, i think its rolf but my username is gatekicker... i think

9 - How many users do you have on ur pc, name them if u like to(i expect funny 
     names )
bout 3

10- when was the last time you performed maintenance for your PC ?
before the bombs start falling.

______________________________
ok then  here comes another 10 silly questions

       god give us a break! i think i must add 2 points on your geekiness score in the other thread!
      And i'm typing on a azerty keyboard!

1- What are ur favorite 5 websites (most visited)
google !
lebanese-forces.org forums (i'm no LF member)
lebgeeks.com
my webmail
some other sites i used to regularly check before the war, but not anymore, just stupid stuff

2- what is the screen resolution you use
At home 1280 on a 19 inch LCD

3- What is the website that went down and you wish it didn't  (something from
    the old days  )
huh?

4 -What is your favorite search engine
google

5- What is your favorite Media Player
uh, winamp, VLC is great for mac, i try to avoid windoze media player but you know... quicktime is good, divx player looks good too!

6- How many column do you have under "Programs" in start menu
2 or 3 if i remember well

7- Have you previously done any Hardware modding
overclocking, i do it when possible

8- What do you plan to purchase for your PC
dont know, a laptop would be cool, or something portable. otherwise i'll go nuts with dual core intel CPUs and DDR2, unless AMD come out with something better.

9- How important or Critical is ur PC to you (rate A,B,C,D or do some typing )
B

10- Do You encrypt ur data ?
what? no.

Last edited by rolf (September 1 2006)

battikh

Member

Re: Answer those

1- What are ur favorite 5 websites (most visited)
depends mainly on my mood, but should be some forums, digg.com, during the war tayyar.org, astalavista, torrent-finder.com, howstuffworks.com (very good when ur bored), wikipedia

2- what is the screen resolution you use
1280x800

3- What is the website that went down and you wish it didn't  (something from
    the old days  )

4 -What is your favorite search engine
google

5- What is your favorite Media Player
iTunes for audio, vlc for video

6- How many column do you have under "Programs" in start menu
3

7- Have you previously done any Hardware modding
i messed up with my mouse, adding some leds and a fan that throws air in the palm of ur hand, but it was completely messy, i'm not a good artist
and i added to my case once an LCD display that shows the CPU%, clock, mp3 song played,...

8- What do you plan to purchase for your PC
as i dont have a pc anymnore, just a laptop, a usb numpad would be usefull, or maybe something to clean my screen (these tru brite screen are really hard to clean, any one has a tip for me?), or maybe a usb cooling cup holder, u put ur can of soda and it stays cool  or maybe a PIC writter, or an external hard disk, pfff, i have many things to buy, i just need money

9- How important or Critical is ur PC to you (rate A,B,C,D or do some typing )
A and if there is something before A, then it would be it

10- Do You encrypt ur data ?
depends on the data, for some, yes

mahdoum

Member

Re: Answer those

or maybe something to clean my screen (these tru brite screen are really hard to clean, any one has a tip for me?)

I just use the cloth used to clean my glasses, put a black screen and keep rubbing until the smudges are gone. Don't be afraid to apply pressure.

rolf

Member

Re: Answer those

or maybe something to clean my screen (these tru brite screen are really hard to clean, any one has a tip for me?)

Eau de Javel

No, seriously, you can go to an optitian and get this liquid or spray to clean glasses, and maybe also the piece of cloth that goes with it. That's what I would do.

10- Do You encrypt ur data ?
depends on the data, for some, yes

mmmm... depends on the data?
Are we thinking the same thing
;)

samer

Admin

Re: Answer those

@rolf: " sensitive " files. =P