The Xyplex is not very impressive, they're outdated and on ebay for under $100.00.

Ok Trovalds, at lame ass central Fry's ... that's cool.
How much did you pay him to get him in there?


Now as to the M40, it's a fucked over NetStar from
the Cairn project that those theiving Juniper guys
STOLE, just like Cisco stole from Stanford. (website
is still online!)

... Uhm can we some REAL innovation in routers instead
of "HOT" intellectual property?

If you don't know your history, it'll bite ya in the ass.
(or so the quote goes)

NO GEEK POINTS for poser tech. ... again though,
Linus was a cool shot!

wow...dont understand a word you guys are saying

I love it... geek fights. Maybe we should start a site.

geekfights & do a link trade with bumfights :1orglaugh

You're an interesting gal...

shut you mouth! yours is much bigger and even tatooed!!! Did i read **DarkJedi** on there??? ;)

you europeans give me a headache :1orglaugh

No we're not fighting. I'm being educated.

And now that I've been educated about real networking I'm going to pull out all the Ciscos and Junipers and replace them with BSD boxes with lots of T1/Ethernet interfaces and Xyplex routers. I don't know yet how I'll migrate over all the CEF, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, ISL, HSRP and MPLS but I'm sure there's a BSD hack out there somewhere. If not we'll hire a team to design some new protocols, hardware and software from scratch. The last thing we would want to do would be to look like we imitated someone else and didn't innovate every step of the way.

:Graucho ... It don't change the fact that the Juniper from
the Lucent from the Asend from the Netstar are still
directly related to 27 year old tech STOLEN by Cisco
from Stanford....

Atleast Xyplex was 100% ground up... and I do have
the only one ever in existance to run commerically
BGP4 :thumbsup

No guys, this is NOT geek fighting. This is just seeing
how big the sandbox is. Geeks can't fight without a
24 of beer, a bottle of hard liquor and atleast 2 strippers.

Cheers!

damn. I'm swooning.

What's swooning hunny

in other words, I feel faint from excitement (the sexual kind).

okay fuckers here the studio Doepfer a100 SYnthesizer, you guys can talk your data transfer shit, I make noise.

This is the same a100 modules used to build a wall of synth, the top left 25 racks are just drum modules for analog drum sounds and 64 track analog sequencers for synchronizing full orchestras of midi data from a mac laptop or my synths or theremin controller ;)

<img src=http://69khz.com/images/dop.jpg>

I'm not trying to win the geek contest, I love talking about synths.

okay this is as far as I will go into my real life, later.

close up

<img src=http://doepfer.com/A100_BS1.jpg>

I like knobs.

http://www.procata.com/geek.jpg

My Roots. Geek or Nerd. You decide.

In high school, I worked at a local college programming financial aid applications on a PDP 11/44. I was also a TA for intro computer classes at the same college. I had a second job working at a library. I worked over 30 hours a week for my second two years of high school. I also took math classes at a local community college during the school day.
I used my income not to buy a car or a spring break vacation (or a good haircut), but instead to buy a $5000 computer.
I met my girlfriend at the time in one of my math classes. She was going to a different high school and taking classes at the same community college.
Oh, I drove a 1980 chevette.

I know you said that's as far as you will go, but I'd love to hear some of the noise you make.

Nerd! Deffinately Nerd... The Geek was in cold room with
the mainframe that he wouldn't let you touch.

Welcome, you're the 1st nerd to the contest.

:eyecrazy

Sure Nina, I have been shaping sound electronically for years. I started making music on an old Atari St 520 that had hardwired midi back in the days, we're talking 93? Back when the ole Mac 8600 dominated the world.

I worked in recording Studios in New Orleans under Marc Bingham the man who "orchestrated" REM's out of time... taught me alot about Orchestra and strings particularly with shaping their sounds from white noise, pink noise etc,... into a pretty noise, a soft pad or sweet symphonic string.

I love sound, and love shaping it.

Noise actually, its all noise ratios.

Sometimes its the silence between notes that make a sound.

damn Nina got me all talking n shit.... I'm stoned too hehehe taking a design break.

*bowl*

:winkwink:

Tell ya what Nina, I just turned on a synth, Ill scroll through and tweak a few sounds to give you a feel for the noise,... I mostly like doing sounds for movie or atmosphere and sound design...

atmosphere, or effect noises for horror.

I'd love to hear it... and you know, I am building that sex with monsters site... maybe you can do some sounds for it.... just a thought.

http://www.wpipe.net/home/DCP_0266.JPG

Fletch, all that studio gear is kinda cool.

He's the basement rig again, but this time on top
of the Cisco is my 7 channel , TL072 opamp based
mix board ... total homebrew. She's got just a warm
enough sound for doing the Dishnet/VCR/DVD/TV into
a set of sweet Koss with sub woofer.

:Graucho Used to do concert rigging as a summer job.

Actually, they fired the IT guy (there was only 1) at the college while I was there, and I did all the "mainframe" work for about a year. The keys to the cold room were mine. The paint on the walls in the computer center was his.

I should also mention that I liked star trek (still do), played dungeons and dragons (I'm playing neverwinter nights right now), and built electronics projects from radio shack. I also got the highest PSAT and SAT scores at my school.

Geek or Nerd. I will answer to both.

you are pushing all the right buttons. :Graucho

Bastard dont re hot link my pics :321GFY j/k

But yeah Lensman definately deserves the password.

He gets my vote!

Okay Nina, dont judge skill on this chaos.

After you save this let me know so I can kill these links, as I dont want this here forever hahaha....

But here goes, this is one of my synths just tyurned it on, started twirling knobs and tweaking sounds, ummm... again this is just one of my synths,... Clavia Nord 2

http://www.clavia.se/nordlead2/index.htm

umm a silly bell like noises pulses, then a fat bass pad comes in, I tweak all the noises to shit, it sounds horrible especially at the end, but i love noise, i really do... no to mention these toys carry nice price tags, the Nord was over 2k...



reply after you download so I can kill the link, Nina.



:winkwink:

oops. nm. I thought I uploaded that pic. LOL

I know this is a pain in the ass, but can you make it a clickable link, my pc is a little fucked up when it comes to audio clips.

Then as soon as I download it I'll let you know. :)

If its a pc, right click, "save target as" yeah mac girls rule...

:winkwink:

At first I thought there were no recent photos of me (usually, I'm the one with the camera). However, I then remembered that my assistant snapped shots of me during shoots now and then, and I found the following shots (gee, I may have to change my handle after this!):

http://www.unseenworld.com/Temp/Tom01.jpg

http://www.unseenworld.com/Temp/Tom02.jpg

http://www.unseenworld.com/Temp/Tom05.jpg

When I have to meet someone and they ask me to describe myself, I tell them to look for a big guy with no hair and a goatee and a head approximately the size and shape of a bowling ball.

fletch...please let me know your deal man...

my deal? whats shakin bro?

hehehehe neverminds, I hit ya on icq hehehe

Fletch you don't happen to have an ARP Omni lying around over there, do ya? Mine was stolen years ago (along with a bunch of other cool synths) and I'm always hoping to find another. Nothing could touch the strings I got outa that thing...

Jak

hey, thanks. I got it... one of these days I'll know my pc as well as my mac. Then I will be unstoppable. lol.

And I love the 'noise'... I'm sure you can take that pretty far out. I kind of felt like I was at the planetarium. :thumbsup

No ARP Omnis here.

I have played an ARP 2600 though. Helped replace some keys in a 2600 once but thats about it for ARP. Nice old stuff.

Well I just turned a synth on and hit record and did the mp3 encoding in real time just so you could hear one of my synths,... I usually make pretty noises, but wouldnt want you guys to think of me any different hehehe,...

:winkwink:

http://w1.461.telia.com/~u46120659/nikgeek.jpg

My shirt is pretty geeky in this pic :thumbsup

you inspired me Fletch, I thought I'd post another nerd pic for you guys... I hope you all notice his tie. We also shot a video of this scene, maybe I'll post the link after I edit it.


<img src="http://www.ninaknowsbest.com/uploads/nerds2.jpg">

So... Here are my Geek and Nerd Credentials... This may be a little long...

Our first computer was an original Amiga when I was about 5. It was in the room next to my bedroom. Got a lot of use out of it.. games, graphics, etc.

I learned BASIC before 3rd grade in summer nerd camp. Also picked up a few other basic computer skills there.

Skipped 6th grade math. Teacher thought I was slow at math until we took a the "IOWA" test... Got bumped up as soon as he had the results. Oops.

Passed out of all middle-school and high school computer classes in 6th grade, mostly based on that 3rd grade class. (Passed 40 wmp typing requirement with hunt and peck.)

Took (real) SATs in 7th grade. Scored 1390 combined... 590 math, 800 verbal. (95th percentile for HS seniors in both cases.)

Got an Apple PowerBook 140 in 7th grade. My first computer of my own. Brought it to school with me, took notes on it.

1600 on SSATs in 8th grade. Also taking Algebra II at that point.

Membership to cyberspace.org BBS in 9th grade, calling into net with ZTerm. Dialed into a line used by the local Ivy League school at 2400 baud on a used modem. (More than my fair share of cyber-romances at the time.)

After taking summer classes at CTY "nerd camp" (now called IAAY), I was in Calculus in the 9th grade. (Of course, I got a D...)

As a freshman, I taught myself Photoshop and digital art on Mac LC 500-series in HS art room, as did a few friends. (More on this later.)

Was the computer kid at library job from 9th-11th grade. Ran a computer art show and contest there, which I founded. First year it was won by an 80 year old man. I already had 50+ distinct pieces of my own to display in a portfolio at the show.

Began well-respected minor goth webzine in 11th grade. Taught myself HTML by using "View source"... Wrote original site in SimpleText, later used PageMill for tables.

Visited major UK University (where I later got my MA). I was planning on doing a CS degree at the time. I explained my experience so far to the Prof I was interviewing with... Quote: "Oh. Um, I guess you will be skipping our introductory courses, then?"

Taught myself PageMaker to do layout of school literary magazine.

Audited Ivy Leage school C++ programming class in 11th grade.

Was scheduled to run a class in digital graphics and art in the art department at my HS, but too many students were too busy so it was cancelled.

Hired as Windows 95 / network / Mac "student" tech at local company in 12th grade. Learned most Windows and networking stuff on the job, was up in running in a couple of weeks.

Graduated HS a few months early once I realized I had the credit.

Hired as hardware tech at top-tier University in their Apple Authorized shop. Learned major hardware repairs on the job.

Began my first adult web site January 2001. (Age 22) Took Amateur pics on New Year's Eve, had the site up within a week. Now have a few personal sites, which we live off of.

Currently four computers in the house between the two of us. ADSL routed through my G4 to an AirPort station using gNAT, sharing the network on all our computers. I am on my... seventh computer personally.

How's that? ;) And yes, I know I qualify as both geek and nerd.