Well, as the PhD is getting closer to the end, I decided to test what I learned so far in 0x1C years of existence. So I found this test:
(yes, I know, I could do better..)
As for geekery:
(that was easier.. I guessed two of the questions though)
So I am more geek than nerd. Good to know 
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I still remember one of the old ones, with 500+ questions or something like that.. It took almost an hour to finish for the first time. Good old times, when computers were big and softwares small…..
I think I’ll never forget about this next time I see OMG or 0_0..
Ohh, and >:| definitely is suitable for closing bugs as RESOLVED->INVALID
I wondered why my .git directory of drakx-net was using about 70MB of disk space (I am accessing the SVN repository using git svn). Of course, I have read that periodic git repository clean could drastically save space and speed, but – what the heck – it is just a bunch of text files. So I never bothered with it.
However, after running git gc on top of drakx-net directory, the .git directory size went from 70MB down to 4MB. A 17.5x improvement! Unbelievable!
So I did the same to msec repository, with quite similar results — from 21MB down to 3MB!
So a mental note to myself – run git gc always. It rocks.
I was once again battling against the lack of free space on my hard disk (mp3 collection grows up, and I don’t have the courage to delete most of the things), so I ended up removing my Arch Linux partition. It was my default OS for about 3 years, it is one of the best distros around in my opinion, and I recommend it for anyone interesting in having a fully-customizable, dynamic, extremely fast and tunable system. But right now I am using Mandriva on all my machines, for several reasons:
. .In some kind I feel I am back to the origins – my first Linux distributions were Slackware 2, Conectiva 3 and Mandrake 6 (…and their ‘sarcastic penguin’ console ascii art which I miss a lot ).
