Copied from this site: http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/humor/hack.htm (but it's difficult to read there due to the dreadful background, so I'll post it here):
You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When...
...you want an elevator to the basement and begin looking for the "0" key, because 0 is less than 1.
...you are afraid to hit the snooze bar on your alarm clock too many times because you think that the clock's subroutine is mallocing memory each time it goes to print the free memory on the front, and soon it would run out.
...you look for your toothbrush by trying to do a '/toothbrush' command.
...you are trying to recall something and hear in your head: "Parity error at address..."
...you're writing a homework assignment, and get to the end of the line in the middle of a sentence, tack on a '\', and continue writing on the next line.
...you pick up a rootbeer and read the label as "High Res", not Hires.
...you try to sleep, and think, "telnet sleep.cs.mun.ca".
...you have two books, one on top of another, and think: "No problem. I'll just click on its title bar to raise the other book to the front."
...you hear a professor lecturing, and think that any question will crash his/her lecture interpreter.
...you hit the wrong key on the elevator keypad and you feel frustrated when you see that it has no "Undo" key.
...you think of the lyrics to "Jump! Jump!" by Kris Kross and wonder if they can be assembled...
...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stops;
...you see something written on the blackboard and think: "Why don't I just log on and download it?"
...you think you can't wake up in the morning because you forgot to push a return address on the stack the night before.
...you plan a hectic day as follows: "My load average seems to be a bit too high, my scheduler might die any moment, and I'm running out of swap space... I'd better kill off some low-priority user processes."
...you are reading a book and look for the space bar to get to the next page.
...you are watching TV and look for the "Info" key in the remote control to find out the name of the program.
...you want to grep a book.
...you want to grep a videocassette.
...you want to 'grep toothbrush /dev/gym_bag'.
...you want to 'grep keys /dev/pockets'.
...you want to 'grep homework /dev/backpack'.
...your children do something they shouldn't, you tell them to stop, and they do it just once more, and you react by thinking: "Well, they prefetched the instruction and are executing it in the delay slot..."
...after fooling around all day with routers and other junk, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.
...the bell rings ending class while the professor is in the middle of a sentence, and you think, "How in the world is he going to carry that continuation back to his office?"
...you watch the temperature display on The Weather Network say that it is -0 degrees outside, and you catch yourself wondering if it is sign-magnitude or 1's-complement.
...you get in an elevator and double-press the button for the floor you want.
...you go to the movies and it takes 5 minutes to get used to the flicker (low refresh rate...)
...you go to the movies and catch yourself wondering what the color depth of the screen image is.
...you see a flock of birds, and you sit there and try to figure out the algorithms that determine their movement.
...not only do you check your e-mail more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
...you go to balance your checkbook and discover that you're doing the math in octal.
...your computers have a higher street value than your car.
...in your universe, "round numbers" are powers of 2, not 10.
...more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in FORTRAN.
...your alarm clock goes off, and you think it is spawning new alarm clock processes and you have to kill them quickly so it doesn't fill up the process table and prevent you from doing anything about it. The only problem is, there is a monitor process that you can't kill, and every time you kill off one of the ring_alarm(x) processes, it waits 9 minutes and spawns another one.
...you wish you could 'sleep 24000 &'.
...you try to bring a window to the front of something, then you realize that the "something" is a post-it (tm) on your screen.
...in art class, you make a mistake in a drawing and look frantically for the "Undo" button on the paper.
...you've been low-level debugging ethernets for a week and when you see two people at a table trying to pick up the same jar of butter you wonder if they are using the correct CSMA/CD algorithm to avoid a re-collision.
Author: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl
Edited by: django@ccs.neu.edu and t a y l o r@l i n u x a v e.n e t
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Quote from: iago on April 13, 2006, 12:53:02 PM
...you watch the temperature display on The Weather Network say that it is -0 degrees outside, and you catch yourself wondering if it is sign-magnitude or 1's-complement.
That actually happened to me last week. There was a big billboard that said, "CURRENT TEMPERATURE: -0" and we talked about how they were encoding it :)
Quote from: iago on April 13, 2006, 12:53:02 PM
Copied from this site: http://people.msoe.edu/~taylor/humor/hack.htm (but it's difficult to read there due to the dreadful background, so I'll post it here):
You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When...
...you're writing a homework assignment, and get to the end of the line in the middle of a sentence, tack on a '\', and continue writing on the next line.
...you pick up a rootbeer and read the label as "High Res", not Hires.
...you hit the wrong key on the elevator keypad and you feel frustrated when you see that it has no "Undo" key.
...you start typing semi-colons at the end of sentences instead of full stops;
...you see something written on the blackboard and think: "Why don't I just log on and download it?"
...you are watching TV and look for the "Info" key in the remote control to find out the name of the program.
...you want to grep a book.
...you want to grep a videocassette.
...you want to 'grep homework /dev/backpack'.
...after fooling around all day with routers and other junk, you pick up the phone and start dialing an IP number.
...you go to the movies and catch yourself wondering what the color depth of the screen image is.
...not only do you check your e-mail more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
...you try to bring a window to the front of something, then you realize that the "something" is a post-it (tm) on your screen.
Har.
I only found a couple any good, but I can definately vouch for this one:
...your computers have a higher street value than your car.
:o
...you think of the lyrics to "Jump! Jump!" by Kris Kross and wonder if they can be assembled...
ROFL.
...not only do you check your e-mail more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one.
I check my email sevral times a day (well, switch workspaces to Evolution's workspace). I can't remember 192.168.0.193 very easily, but deadmeat is a piece of cake compared to my postal address.
I can tell you my external IP address, my internal IP address, my mother/brother's IP address, the rest of the machines on my internal net, my dad's external IP address, my dad's network layout for both internal networks, each box (hooray for nmap -sP 192.168.xx.0-254)'s IP address and what the box does.
I still can't tell you my mom's mailing address or my dad's home/mailing address. I don't know/remember them.
Quote from: Newby on April 13, 2006, 02:43:32 PM
I can tell you my external IP address, my internal IP address, my mother/brother's IP address, the rest of the machines on my internal net, my dad's external IP address, my dad's network layout for both internal networks, each box (hooray for nmap -sP 192.168.xx.0-254)'s IP address and what the box does.
I still can't tell you my mom's mailing address or my dad's home/mailing address. I don't know/remember them.
Wait...you're wondering
why Brooke doesn't like you? :P
...you go to the movies and catch yourself wondering what the color depth of the screen image is.
Only one I found even remotely entertaining. The rest are too forced.
Quote from: OG Trust on April 13, 2006, 03:39:54 PM
Wait...you're wondering why Brooke doesn't like you? :P
Hey, fuck you. >:(
I wish I could grep a book... it'd help me when I'm searching for those quotes for my essay :\.
Quote from: Newby on April 13, 2006, 02:43:32 PM
I can tell you my external IP address, my internal IP address, my mother/brother's IP address, the rest of the machines on my internal net, my dad's external IP address, my dad's network layout for both internal networks, each box (hooray for nmap -sP 192.168.xx.0-254)'s IP address and what the box does.
I still can't tell you my mom's mailing address or my dad's home/mailing address. I don't know/remember them.
I know all my internal IPs by heart, but they're pretty easy. And I always have my list, just in case.
I used to know my external IP before it became dynamic. I also used to know the external IPs of my best friends. Hooray for TCP/IP online gaming :)
Quote from: Ergot on April 13, 2006, 05:43:53 PM
I wish I could grep a book... it'd help me when I'm searching for those quotes for my essay :\.
I've wished for that so many times. If I had the cash to pay for all the textbooks, I'd break their bindings, scan them, and use them as ebooks.
Man...I really want a book grep...It's SOOOOOOO needed.
LMAOLIMO
Quote from: iago on April 13, 2006, 06:02:27 PM
I used to know my external IP before it became dynamic. I also used to know the external IPs of my best friends. Hooray for TCP/IP online gaming :)
I faintly remember Hitmen's old IP (when he ran an FTP server), his current IP, my DNS servers (68.6.16.25 / 68.6.16.30 / 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2), I faintly remember Trust's IP, and those are the only people's IP I can remember. :(
Quote from: Newby on April 13, 2006, 09:33:08 PM
Quote from: iago on April 13, 2006, 06:02:27 PM
I used to know my external IP before it became dynamic. I also used to know the external IPs of my best friends. Hooray for TCP/IP online gaming :)
I faintly remember Hitmen's old IP (when he ran an FTP server), his current IP, my DNS servers (68.6.16.25 / 68.6.16.30 / 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2), I faintly remember Trust's IP, and those are the only people's IP I can remember. :(
I thought you had mine from IRC?
Read my post again.
Quote from: Newby on April 13, 2006, 09:33:08 PM
I faintly remember Hitmen's old IP (when he ran an FTP server), his current IP, my DNS servers (68.6.16.25 / 68.6.16.30 / 4.2.2.1 / 4.2.2.2), I faintly remember Trust's IP, and those are the only people's IP I can remember. :(
Some of these were good, others not so much. Sad part is, almost everything applied to me. :(