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Hardware essentials for the software geek
Updated On: 14 September, 2009 07:10 AM IST | | Balaji Narasimhan
Do you want to show your non-geek friends how special you are? Read on!
Do you want to show your non-geek friends how special you are? Read on!
Once upon a time, you needed to understand octal system to call yourself a geek. For instance, if your marketing person came to you and said that he wanted you to grant write permission for a owner of a file, read permission for the group and none for others, you would do a 'chmod 640' for this file (if you don't understand what this means, you are not a geek and you can't join the Mystic Knights of the Lambda Calculus).
Unfortunately for people like us, people today just right click something, select some option, and say that they are geeks. So, how do you, the real geek, differentiate yourself and stand head and shoulders above the pretenders? By buying some of these products, that's how!
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Just slide it: This is the ultimate geek tool, something that can only be used with proper training. This is in some ways obsolete, but that is the main reason why you should own one. In fact, ThinkGeek says that these are handcrafted because no slide rule manufacturing facility exists currently. [$29.99; Rs 1449] Read Next Story Trending Stories |



