Geek Thread

[Greg]

Let's use this thread to share all those little geeky programs, utilities, Web sites, Firefox extensions, system add-ons, etc. that you find useful. One neat little utility I use is ePrompter:

http://www.eprompter.com/

I've got a number of Email addresses and this nifty little tool checks them all for me automatically in the background. If any account has new mail, a little color coded icon with the number of new Emails is displayed in the system tray. I don't use it to send mail, but it's a nice little tool for monitoring Email.

 

[Marc]

gaim.sourceforge.net


Not as obscure as it once was, but still a fine program.

 

[bvibert]

http://www.eprompter.com/

I've got a number of Email addresses and this nifty little tool checks them all for me automatically in the background. If any account has new mail, a little color coded icon with the number of new Emails is displayed in the system tray. I don't use it to send mail, but it's a nice little tool for monitoring Email.

Nifty, I'll have to remember to try it out later..

I use Rainlendar to keep track of events here at work. The thing I like about is that it automagically reads events in the Outlook calendar (which our company uses to schedule meetings).

As I mentioned in another thread I use the Forcastfox extension for Firefox to keep track of the weather.

 

[Brettski]

A thread of non sequituers from a bunch of cool geeks from arounf the world

http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?p=4458533#post4458533

SQL Team A SQL Server site

http://www.sqlteam.com/default.asp

dbforums

http://www.dbforums.com/index.php?

My Blog

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/

 

[ctenidae]

Just to get it out of the way:

NEEEEEEEERRRRRRRDDSSSS!!!!

:beer:

 

[kickstand]

A thread of non sequituers from a bunch of cool geeks from arounf the world

http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?p=4458533#post4458533

SQL Team A SQL Server site

http://www.sqlteam.com/default.asp

dbforums

http://www.dbforums.com/index.php?

My Blog

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/

geez, and I thought I was a db geek..... :wink:

 

[Brettski]

I prefer db god

Or scrub

Which ever you prefer

 

[Brettski]

Just to get it out of the way:

NEEEEEEEERRRRRRRDDSSSS!!!!

:beer:

This is one "nerd" that carries around a hockey stick

someone gotta pay the bills

 

[riverc0il]

most posters in this thread seem to have their own web page. sure sign of geekdom there.

speaking of firefox and web pages, i really dig FireFTP. utilizing a browser for FTP kicks butt and interfaces better than WS_FTP. nothing wrong with WS, but it's dated (i have the free academic version from years ago).

 

[Brettski]

What's the difference between a geek and a nerd?

 

[riverc0il]

geeks are into the techno and pull it off looking cool (at least to other geeks). nerds are generally really book smart and were always studying in school. geeks don't have to study cause it's all hands on now dorks on the other hand, we are just the best four letter word in town cuz we take nothing seriously! :beer:

 

[awf170]

geeks are into the techno and pull it off looking cool (at least to other geeks). nerds are generally really book smart and were always studying in school. geeks don't have to study cause it's all hands on

Oh i get it now, thats why when i called my friend a nerd today, he said he preferred the word geek. And he defiantly meets that description perfectly. People like him are helpful though, he gave me this thing that gets around the firewall in school so i can go to all the game websites now, I knew those geeks were good for something :wink:

I also think using firefox is kinda uncool, when my teacher asked in my Comp class who used it the only ones that raised there hands was me and a bunch of dorky(or is geeky the right term :wink: ) asian kids :roll:

 

[Jaytrek57]

What's the difference between a geek and a nerd?

If you have to ask...your either or both. :wink:

PS. I'll be smoking cigarettes with the other "cool" kids behind the High School. :wink: :wink:

Peace

 

[riverc0il]

what web broser would you define as cool? lol. perhaps you would prefer "cutting edge" instead, heh.

 

[Stephen]

Here goes.

I use Trillian to put all my messengers into one neat package. Link

Firefox, with ADblock, Bugmenot, ForecastFox, and this neat little extension that I can right-click on an URL or a webpage and choose "Open in IE".

Wildpackets IP Subnet Calculator

Putty, for all my telnet and SSH with logging needs

Crosstalk for all those serial sessions

Foundstone Superscan, which allows me to scan a IP range for either active clients or open ports. www.foundstone.com

Net Stumbler (stumbler.net) allows me to scan for any APs in an area and look at the SNR to determine signal strength.

THat's most of the really cool ones.

-Stephen

 

[Marc]

What's the difference between a geek and a nerd?

A pocket protector... duh.



PutTy is also a good program, I'll concur there.


I only use Adaware for spyware/adware removal programs... I usually don't frequent websites that require them, but if for some reason my computer starts attracting them... I have all my files on one partition and windows and programs on another.

If I get too much ore something Adaware can't handle I reformat the windows partition and start clean.

And on my other HD, well, Linux is good with that kind of stuff. Sooner or later I'll get off my ass and finally setup RAID 1 or RAID 5. And then switch to using Linux full time. As soon as I get around to it... going to be awfully challenging to do that once ski season starts up though (with any luck).

 

[ctenidae]

Not really a geek thing, but a funny customer complaint to a telecomm provider, nonetheless:

http://www.pureesoiree.be/forum/topic.do?id=70605

 

[dmc]

What's the difference between a geek and a nerd?

Geeks get chicks... :lol:

 

[kickstand]

I prefer db god

well, let's not go overboard here...

I used to work with some insanely bright database people, the kind of people who do things Microsoft no longer allows customers to do (as far as I know). I love reading new procs to see the creative ways people come up with to do things, but I am amazed when I see people correctly manipulate page pointers within the page structures to fix corruption issues.

does MS SQL have dbcc corrupt() ?

 

[dmc]

I prefer db god

Q-Whats the difference between a DBA and God?
A-God doesn't think he's a DBA....

Fellow DBA(Teradata) here... Well more application DBA/SQL developer lately