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What Brings Out Your Inner Geek?
Mar 6th, 2009 at 2:53pm
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I've been shopping for a telephone.  Not a cell phone, just a regular ol' telephone to replace my mostly dead cordless phone from the late 90's.  Most people would just stop by the store of their choice, take a look at the available selection, and choose the phone that has the right options at the right price.

Not me.  I wanted the best darn phone system money could buy.  I seriously considered installing a business-grade PBX with handsets, but the price was out of my range.  I started studying up on small business phone systems and catching up on the latest technology.  900MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8GHz systems have gone the way of the dinosaur, and I wanted the latest and greatest 1.9GHz DECT 6.0 system on the market.  I researched the technology, the vendors, and their product lines.  I spent hours poring over various models, comparing features and reading reviews.  I finally settled on a Panasonic business base station with four handsets and every feature under the sun.  After I bought the system last night, I spent two hours reading every line of the install guide to ensure that every option was set to its optimal configuration.

What makes this so geeky?  I might spend a grand total of 15 minutes on our home phone in any given month.  All of this was for a love of the technology.

So what drives your geekery?  Which gadgets and gizmos have captured your attention lately?


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Re: What Brings Out Your Inner Geek?
Reply #1 - Mar 12th, 2009 at 10:40pm
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More Powah!

I just watched a vid where they raided together 24 hard drives to give a 2 gigabyte transfer rate. That was pretty cool. Took a half a second to copy a ripped DVD!

What brings out my inner geek is film effects. I love puzzling them out or if I don't know I have to find out how they did a shot, or what tech they were using to make it happen. 

Gadget-wise I do admire the increasingly higher-resolution small screens. I appreciate that stuff when I go camping and can whip out my unedited laserdisk edition of the Holy Trilogy *fist shake @ George Lucas* and watch that on PSP in decent rez.

Just don't have the disposable income these younger generation kids are spending on the ridiculously fancy phones that can order a pizza and do their taxes while connecting to the International Space Station.

You darn kids!  Get off my lawn!
  

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Re: What Brings Out Your Inner Geek?
Reply #2 - Mar 13th, 2009 at 5:31pm
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What brings out my inner geek has to park outside...for now.


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Reply #3 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 12:40am
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Now here's something that really gets my inner geek all hot and bothered.  I'm thinking about picking this up for the Bobulator VIII later this year, since the existing Bobulator case is - believe it or not - too small (that's what she said!).






It has space for four power supplies and it ships with eleven 120mm fans and four 90mm fans.  The motherboard can be mounted vertically or horizontally, and up to ten 5¼" drives can be mounted in the front bays.  The system also has a plethora of 3½" internal bays, and additional modules can be added to support up to 33 hard drives internally.

Best of all, the case is on wheels, so that should make transporting it a little easier!


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Reply #4 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 2:08pm
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Fork lift needed to move it sold separately.


...oh, and some joke about compensating goes here.
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 3rd, 2009 at 3:51pm
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spanky wrote on Apr 3rd, 2009 at 2:08pm:
...oh, and some joke about compensating goes here.


That's brilliant!  I award 100 Internets to you, good sir!


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