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1. Install a hard drive in a laptop (check)
2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes (check)
3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone no but never owned an I gadget before
4. Jailbreak an iPhone (check) I screwed up a couple of times though
5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable (check) I did coax a couple of machines
6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers (check)
7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)  (check)
8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual (check)
9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode (check) I own one
10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbor’s Wi-Fi (check) only for recreational purposes
11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board (check) I built an AM radio once
12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point (check)
13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console I think vintage look is not a good enough reason
14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat (check)
15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo (check)
16. Abstain from buying extended warranties (check) usually I break the warrenty earlier
17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories (check)
18. Fix your parents’ computer over the phone without looking at a computer (check)
19. Enter the Konami code (check)
20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone (check)
21. Type quickly using T9 texting (check)
22. Program a universal remote (check)
23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel no never done that this is something I might actually do sometime
24. Hide porn from your significant other …. Does it have to be porn Does it have to be porn, well I actually hid games form my family when I was in college.
25. Avoid DRM on everything (check) including satellite channels
26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it (check) I own an NAS
27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free (check)
28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube (check)
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator (check)
30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry (check)
31. Hackintosh your PC no it sux.
32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet (check) aaah the mirc download days
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games (check)
34. Get around web content filters on public computers (check) I don’t do that @ work though
35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password (check)…. Only a couple of weeks a friend tought me about it
36. Securely erase your data so it can’t be recovered  (check)
37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network (check) I admined a hybrid network for a year
38. Build a fighting robot ….. I built other kinds of robot including humanoids and autonomous driving bots does that count?
39. Write your own Firefox plugins (check) poor ones though
40. Navigate and reorganize the files on your computer in DOS (check) yeah done that for years
41. Get something on the front page of Digg nop but I had a friend who did
42. Get through to executive customer service (check)
43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s (check)
44. Rip a DVD to DivX (check)
45. Build your own computer from parts (check) always
46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one I never owned a DVR may b when I do
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it (check) and 2600s
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system (check)
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS I don’t own a DS … yet
50. Talk about things that aren’t tech related (check) sometimes

Source : http://gizmodo.com/5078829/the-50-skills-every-geek-should-have

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today i visited wikipedia and i saw that they finally made their budget for the year. thank god i still can’t imagine a world without wikipedia, i think governments should contribute to this amount of knowledge gathered by every Internet user in the whole world.