Things that make me geekier than you

(or equally geeky, depending on the person. Jason and Jeremy, I’m looking at you two).

- I run a custom firmware (Tomato) on my household’s router, and specifically purchased the model of router I did (Linksys WRT54GL) so that said firmware would work on it.

- I am in the process of setting up a home server with RAID’d disks, Terminal Services, and a custom DNS A record from the domain this blog is hosted on. We’re not quite there yet, but some of the components are ready to roll.

- My wife runs Ubuntu as the primary OS on her laptop. I think of all my nerd friends, I am the only one with this particular claim. She’s used it for about two years, and gets upset at me if I consider changing her away from it. She’s on 8.04 – Hardy Heron – right now. (seed of doubt – maybe it’s Heather that is the one true leet haxxor in our relationship, and I’m just the figurehead? hard to say. I tried to run Ubuntu on my work laptop for about a week, but some required compatibilities with IE that didn’t work in Wine, forced me back to Winders.)

- About half the time, I see a viral video somewhere between a short (8 hrs) and long time (2 weeks) before it “blows up.”

That’s off the top of my head. Feel free to add any or dispute any of the above claims as you see fit.