How geeky are you?

[Chubbs]

Tidying up a few cables as part of your job isn't geeky.

I just cabled up the offices of a charity in my spare time (and without being paid). Had to rip out the old cabling first and install everything from scratch including 48 network wall points, new switches and patch panels and all the cabling and trunking (throughout a 3 storey building). It works and they've now got a nice new gigabit network throughout their building.

Next up is upgrading them from SBS2003 to SBS2011.

And it's not part of my job, I offered to do it.

[Batch]

And it's not part of my job, I offered to do it.

Cable guy, you protest too much.

[Coca Fola]

Why make a superlative out of a superlative.

Pericarp strikes back.

[Samdy Gray]

interested in building my own NAS. what parts have you used and (because i know naff all about them) can i link them through my router (WNDR3800) to accept both mac & pc connections?

I've got a thread up here.

I used a cheap second hand CPU/mobo. It's only 1.4Ghz, but that's plenty for my needs. The bonus is that it runs so cool it doesn't need a fan and the power consumption is tiny. I started with 512mb of RAM, but upgraded to 2gb when one of my RAM sticks decided it no longer wanted to work.

I use a 40gb HDD for the OS (FreeNAS) and 2 x 1tb HDDs for storage.

All housed in an Antec case with a cheapo PSU (again, because the power drain is so small you don't need a powerful PSU).

There's plenty of freeware OS you can use. I stuck with FreeNAS because it's fairly simple to use. From what I've read, unRaid is pretty good if you're wanting to use a massive RAID array but it's not free.

Another thing that my little NAS project added to my geekiness was that I'm now semi-proficient in Linux command line commands.

[sonicyouth]

soapy tit wank at people trying to outgeek each other

[Samdy Gray]

It's the geek way.

[Bogus Dave]

[magicroundabout]

cheers sam. i'll take a read

[Costanza]

soapy tit wank at people trying to outgeek each other

I've felt no competitive streak during this thread. I've learned that I might need to seek some kind of medical evaluation but no element of competitiveness from me.

[Benzel]

I get called a geek but I feel undeserving having read this thread.

[Chubbs]

on the subject of geeks, im not claiming it makes me more geeky that any of you but i enjoy reading this aptly named web site. www.geek.com

[Chubbs]

i think this guys is very high on the geek list though
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/1-2-million-ultimate-games-collection-appears-on-ebay-2012077/