Hey, don't mistake your disinterest in such masturbatory faux culture for your lack of "geek card." It's an easy thing to do, but DON'T DO IT. most of these guys only talk up the specifics of a web-server /os/whatever to make up for the fact that noone else believes they truly should carry a "geek card." I think that the very fact that they feel the need to prove it shows a thing or two, don't you? These are the guys (for better or worse) that put up the away messages saying things like "geeking out" or "geek time" while they compile source code that some other peeps labored over for days. pretty lazy if you ask me, and not in that "reinventing the wheel" way either, i'm talking in that "riding the coat-tails of their elders" sorta way. so yeah, i've had some conversations with you (about chat clients, most memorably) and you seemed to have all the trappings of genuine geekdom but without the frivolous cock measuring that *I* personally hate. So, if you know how various machines that you will NEVER use handle mathematics that you could NEVER write in situations that you will NEVER ENCOUNTER then you have a problem... If, however, you are slowly but surely mastering your craft then congratulations, you win, and beat out most of the "geeks" around you that had caused you to doubt it in the first place. ;-)


as for the belching flatulent machines... am i not enough for you anymore? :-P