Arnaud Launay

47 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 60% Dork

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Dork, earning you the title of:
Pure Dork
Like our friends Napoleon Dynamite & co.

It's not as though you were some whiz-kid in school. Oh, sure, you probably did okay in some classes, but were probably awful in others. Certainly most people thought you were smarter than you thought yourself to be. And it's not that you have some overriding passion, like computers or Star Trek that sets you apart for the crowd, though you likely share some interest in some of those sorts of things. You just like to be yourself, and want to express yourself for who you are.

And, really, there's nothing wrong with that. Being who you are often invites scorn, and so it's a difficult thing in a world that rewards conformity. Be proud of your dorkiness, for often it's just another word for individuality. (I'd vote for you!)

The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test (found via Alex Bogak)

Je ne peux résister à l'envie et au plaisir de vous faire part de cette courte conversation qui vient d'avoir lieu sur ICQ...

Conversation with 286573513 at 2006-09-19 00:11:55 on 54594000 (icq)
(00:09:22) 286573513: slt ca va?
(00:36:20) 286573513: tu es la?
(00:38:42) Arnaud Launay: qui êtes vous ?
(00:38:47) 286573513: eugenia
(00:38:51) 286573513: je te derange? ;)
(00:39:07) Arnaud Launay: tu veux quoi ?
(00:39:14) 286573513: t es sec
(00:39:20) Arnaud Launay: non, direct :)
(00:40:20) Arnaud Launay: surtout avec les gens que je ne connais pas
(00:40:47) 286573513: t as quel age
(00:40:50) 286573513: d ou? nom?
(00:40:59) Arnaud Launay: 27, paris, arnaud. toi ?
(00:41:09) 286573513: moi secret
(00:41:24) Arnaud Launay: ...
(00:41:30) 286573513: c comme ca
(00:41:54) 286573513: 26 eugenia anglo italienne, je vis en france pour le moment, je vais bientot demenager a paris
(00:41:57) 286573513: tiens
(00:42:01) 286573513: apprends a parler bien mec.
(00:42:28) Arnaud Launay: déjà, jeune fille, si tu commences à m'appeller "mec", ça va pas être possible
(00:42:42) 286573513: je m'en fous
(00:42:45) 286573513: t es pas un mec?
(00:42:48) 286573513: t es une fillette?
(00:42:49) 286573513: LOL
(00:42:55) Arnaud Launay: ensuite, tu débarques de je ne sais où et tu commences à taper la causerie, pardon, mais j'ai des doutes raisonnables
(00:43:10) 286573513: haha
(00:43:18) 286573513: si t es pas pret a chatter, deconnecte toi de icq
(00:43:24) Arnaud Launay: MOUAHAAHHAHA
(00:43:26) Arnaud Launay: allez salut
(00:43:29) 286573513: je meprise bien des gens comme toi qui ralent mais qui se connectent a icq
(00:43:29) 286573513: :)
(00:43:35) 286573513: quel gros con
(00:43:45) 286573513: caracteristique de la facon dont tu as parle des le debut
(00:43:46) 286573513: ;)
(00:44:36) 286573513: apprends a parler bien avec une fille la prochaine fois ;)
(00:44:44) 286573513: aller adieu et bon debarras sale connard de merde ;)

Je précise quand même, je n'avais jamais lu auparavant cette... entité. Visiblement, la possibilité d'utiliser les réseaux de messagerie instantanée pour par exemple travailler ne vient pas à l'idée des gens. En même temps, l'idée même de travailler les rend malades, il ne faut donc s'étonner de rien ! Je n'ai plus qu'à essayer de faire comprendre à mon Gaim que je ne veux pas que qui que ce soit d'autres qui ne soit déjà sur ma liste de contacts ne puisse me contacter. Ce foutu logiciel doit être buggé, il revient toujours dans sa configuration initiale...

So, I decided to buy a new machine, I'll divide the selection process into parts, and I'd like to have your input, so please, comment ! If you need some help with the french blog interface, send me a mail.

The goal is to have a new "desktop" machine, but very powerful. I want to run Gentoo on it, with a stable and unstable one (probably using the vserver technology), while having a secure home (with a raid1). It will have to run vmware (I need Windows for some accounting software for my company), and I want it to be extremely quiet (probably some watercooling). Ah, and dual-screen, because it's better :)

So, first part: processor and motherboard. Well, the choice, to have a performance machine, is between Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon 64 X2. My choice will be the Athlon, in order to try the 64 bits. According to the AMD Model comparisons, I reduced the choice to a socket 939 processor (I have no need for sub-performance DDR2 memory), either a 4400+ (1MB of L2 cache, 2.2 GHz, 89W) or a 4800+ (1MB of L2 cache, 2.4 GHz, but 110W). I'll check what is available and at what price when everything will be done.

For the motherboard, I'm far more undecided. Reducing it to the socket 939 is good, but the choices are still overwhelming. I don't need SLI or crossfire, as I only want to do dualhead mostly for 2D (probably a Matrox Parhelia). But I want a firewire port (ieee1394), SATA 3Gb/s (sata2), at least one PCI Express x16, and classical input devices: PS2, at least.

That leaves quite a number of boards:

• Asus A8N-SLI SE
• GigaByte GA-K8NF9 Ultra(Rev 2.x)
• Abit AN8 32X
• ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2

And probably quite a number of other cards... I'd like your opinions.