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The term 'geek', once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn't satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject.

A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. If you're that type of person and are looking for a few extra skills to pick up, or if you're a newbie aiming to get a handhold on the honor that is geekhood, read on to find out what skills you need to know.

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1. The Meaning of Technical Acronyms

  • USB - Universal Serial Bus
  • GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
  • CPU - Central Processing Unit
  • SATA - Serial ATA
  • HTML - Hyper-text Markup Language
  • HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • FTP - File Transfer Protocol
  • P2P - Person to Person data sharing

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    Person to Person data sharing

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    Identity theft groups warn about keyloggers and advocate checking out the keyboard yourself before continuing.

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    Tor is an onion-routing system which makes it 'impossible' for someone to find out who you actually are.

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    See this tutorial for info on how to bypass the password on the three major operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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    Every geek should know how to recover the master book record.

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    There are computer service centers that would be happy to extract the data for a (hefty) fee; a true geek would be the one working at center, not taking his or her drive there.

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    Running an Operating System from a USB Thumb Drive

    Most people don't even understand what the magical operating system is. As a geek, you should transcend that basic knowledge and have a small operating system on your thumb drive handy for those times you need computer access but don't know the password to a nearby computer.

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    that you have to get into a killers mind to understand their weaknesses, right? Same goes for the unfortunate boobs who always kill their laptops. Here's a list of all the different ways you can accidentally kill a computer--arm your family and friends, and save yourself grief

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