WOW, very impressive! You're a broad ranged geek!

I'm an Apple Certified Macintosh technician and have been for 8 years (I also sell them). My background before that was advertising. My specialties are design related apps and fonts. Blech, hate fonts but have a knack for solving even the most stubborn of font issues. Luckily most of my clients are not advertising peeps so I have a really broad range of troubleshooting experience. I get a little rush when someone has a problem I haven't seen before. I LOVE a challenge.

I love video games. We have 2 Xbox 360's for system link gaming in the house, Super Nintendo, Game Cube, Wii and Nintendo DS. My current phone is an iPhone but I have had a Treo 650 and before that several Sony Ericsson's before that (the T610 was a sexy phone). I rarely hack my stuff as I spend my days fixing stuff that people break I'm a bit of a purist in that sense

- if you heart Apple, you should join my Mac Geek Group

I am a Geek Idiot Savant. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last 3 years computers suddenly started making sense to me. I work in the film industry and most of my time is spent trying to fix fairly simple issues on co-workers computers. I've picked up a bit from my beau who's a computer science major, from Anand at anandtech.com (we've been friends since middle school) and from looking over the IT guys shoulders (which makes them happy to no longer get the dumb calls but upset I'm saving my productions money by fixing things myself).

I love Mac and tolerate PC, I have to as the beau and most of my fam are Dell dudes, I miss that guy.

I'm addicted to excel, a good thing since my business uses it frequently. I'm sorry to say I rely on Microsoft Office, when you're cross platforming you've gotta go w/ ease. I'll try and convince you to use Entourage. I sync it to my Palm Treo 680. Again, Steve if you're out there, truly sync Entourage to the iPhone and allow me to edit Word & Excel and I'll fork over the $$.

I'm currently trying to design a database web site for film productions to use, and pay me of course. The beau is helping and I can't wait to get a chance to test it out.

I have an Xbox, PS2, Game Cube, Game Boy Advance and my 1st Game Boy cira 1989. I get to play the Wii at Anand's house, Mario Galaxy rules, even if it does get me a bit tense.

- "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." - Ferris Bueller

I love Macs and am pretty good at fixing them myself or at least taking direction from a certified expert.

I'm a graphic/web designer so I'm really good with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and QuarkXPress. I'm getting more proficient at Flash too. I'm not into IT but seem to be the one that does all of the tech stuff at my agency.

I am a gamer too. I have all the Nintendo consoles as well as the original GameBoy. I also have an XBox.

I love photography and take a lot of pics. I only have an Olympus SP-350 but would love to get a digital SLR someday.

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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

—Coco Chanel

wow everyone has such impressive 'geek credentials'

I'm a computer geek, fascinated with Web 2.0, joining beta sites, twittering and sometimes blogging. Spend most my time in Google Reader checking out lots of blogs. (And of course reading GeekSugar!)
I do almost everything on my MacBook that currently needs more RAM. A few months ago I gave up on Windows on my PC and switched to Ubuntu. I like finding good, free, and/or open source apps that I can use.
I currently am majoring in Computer Science. I know BASIC, Java, some C/C++, some assembly, and currently working on some hw using Scheme. I've done some work with databases, SQL, HTML, and ASP.

I love zelda, and I am determined to beat every GH hero song on Expert.
Oh and I love my iPhone and finding new apps for it!!

Twitter - twitter.com/jdots24
My blog - mostly about feminism and technology among other things - jpiepenburg.blogspot.com

Yes, everyone's got great geeky credentials!

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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

—Coco Chanel

I'm a network admin, routers and switching, CISCO especially. I do some wireless and pretty good at home network (linksys) setups. I know Flash (some actionscripting), HTML, and some Java.

I don't have any professional training in computers, but I've been using a Mac since my dad brought one home in the Fall of 1984, when I was 3, and I was teaching my Mom how to use it a few months later. I worked as a tech support agent for an internet service provider (left just before the company switched to being mostly DSL), so I know the dying art of how to get a computer to connect to the internet using a dial-up modem. I know enough networking to truobleshoot my home's mixed-breed network (I have a Mac, my husband has a Windows machine). My specialty in my current job working for an online retailer's tech team is the iPod. I know a bit of HTML, I'm teaching myself Dreamweaver (slowly... I learned how to use a CSS a few months ago ),

As for other Geek specialties, I'm a big Star Wars fan, and have amassed a great collection of random trivia in my head. I'm a movie buff (the kind that loves knowing all about how a movie is made, behind-the-scenes stuff, not the kind that can name off who was in a certain movie and what year it came out and all that). I play a couple console games on PS2 (Karaoke Revolution is my favorite, Kingdom Hearts is my second), I have a couple lvl 70 characters on World of Warcraft, and I play pen and paper RPGs (Dungeons & Dragons, etc.).

I have never in life been without an apple in my house. I was the little girl who turned my mom's work off without saving so I could do what I wanted on the super high tech apple IIe. I had a b&w mac as a kid, had my mac on the internet in jr high and still have the same email account I set up back then, and have already in my college/adult life run through a couple laptops and now have extreme love for my intel mac.

I was the only girl in the web design class in high school, and while I never went the programming route, I make webpages for everything from my mom's school to my wedding to friends babies. I have no fear of computers and like understanding how much I can get out of them. I love photoshop and playing with new tricks and projects. I am a girl excited by getting Creative Suite. A girl who got electronics for her birthday - my hubby got me (ever-romantic) a converter to transfer video to my computer and my mom bought me a scanner. I am a girl with an iphone and all control over the dvr and a love of geeky goods.

Systems admin here, with over 8 years experience in working with all flavors of Windows PCs and servers. I also work a lot with RPG and assembly languages. My duties at work vary from hour to hour, one moment I can be working on a server upgrade, the next you can find me tearing open a PC and replacing a motherboard. I also have been learning about computer forensics lately, which is an interesting and exciting field.

After hours, seems like I'm tech support for family and friends, helping them recover data from failed harddrives, cleaning up spyware, helping out with a wireless home network, or showing my parents how to update their iPods. In addtion, I do web design for non-profit groups, and have worked with PHP, CSS and HTML.

Although I primarily work with Windows-based computers, I'm huge fan of Macs, and am eagerly awaiting the release of the next iPhone.

In my spare time I'm addicted to Flickr, blog on Tumblr, and work as a freelance writer for various online and print publications.

you ladies make my heart happy

In Primary School (Aged 12) I managed our four PC's and 6 school laptops - did maintenance, reinstall Windows etc - the only knowledge coming from owning a pc and knowing my way around Windows 3.1 and DOS for a year or two previous. Once I hit high school (Aged 13) we got the internet and I started up my own websites in various places, Yahoo Kids for once, geocities, angelfire, I used to just keep on making different things just to learn. In Year 12 (17) I studied IT at College along with being drafted for a position in a Web Design company, also with my school work. Mostly my IT experience comes from the need to learn the internet, the need to run a home network (Dad works from home) and what i've picked up in various workplaces. About four years ago I started my own car enthusiast website, at our peak we had over 1 million visits a month, with over 40gb of bandwidth, theres over 2,000 members and we are in the process of selling it now for profit. I am in the process of building two new websites, one for my particularily favourite car and another for an ecommerce solution to make me some money.

For the last four years I have also been working in Project Management for a Telco - installing phone systems to businesses. YES its IT as most of it was networking, building systems (like pcs) etc, learning and setting up VoIP systems across country, and programming in the native language.

Highly skilled in X/HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Java, Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Networking, cabling and all Telco specs for UK and AU. At home we run Parallel Mac/Windows, Xubuntu, Windows XP and Vista and straight Macs for the graphic designer (hubby). We have Wii, Xbox360, Supernintendo, Xbox, PSP, Gameboy Advance, 6 Ipods, about 10 external hard drives, Five cameras including my fav Fuji Finepix and more cable run in a house than youve ever seen before

A geek isnt someone who likes Star Wars or LOTR. A geek is someone who lives and breathes technology, who soaks it up like a sponge and enjoys every aspect of it.

PC and linux geek here! And I HTML in my sleep!

I am passionate about CSS, HTML, Web Standards, and Usability/Accessibility. Work as a php/ms sql developer where i also get to handle all the user interface of our web application and most javascript/ajax features.

My home pc is a beautiful home-built from new egg, plays my video games well (cod, wow) and i looove my objectdock menus!

Also love my game cube and all things mario kart!

I have an unlocked Slvr with the latest firmware. A beautiful sounding home stereo system!

Oh and i'm an Open Source advocator all the way! Open Office, Audacity, Pidgin... I love all of them.

I can code from scratch which I enjoy, but also get a thrill out of creating images in photoshop.

Shoh, I feel kinda stupid after all that.
Well, I work for a local cellphone network here in South africa, so I know quite a bit about cellphones. In my spare time Im studying towards an A+ and also a degree in language and literature. Im also very much into video games, I have a PS2, PS3, Nintendo DS lite, Nintendo Wii and an Xbox 360.
I also know quite a bit about new gagdets etc.
I could most probably answer any anime/manga related questions

N3rD3773, and all geeky ladies, please never make self-deprecating comments regarding your intelligence. Many extremely bright women do this, I'm not sure why. It sort of implies that geekiness is a contest or something. I think geek women worry enough about intimidating the guys, we certainly don't want to have to worry about intimidating each other. I suspect most of us are seriously excited to find out how many other geek girls there really are, and we're also excited to find a geek girl community that doesn't center around complaining about how few geek girls there are.

So speak up any shy geeks that haven't chimed in yet! Let us know how we can help you and how you can help us.

"A geek isnt someone who likes Star Wars or LOTR. A geek is someone who lives and breathes technology, who soaks it up like a sponge and enjoys every aspect of it."

Elegantly said gemsera!

I just love the amount of skill and knowledge in here! Thanks so much for the invite to participate macgirl! I hope this isn't too long an introduction. I've been at this geek thing a while too.

I started in the early 80s with a Vic20, and then began using my friend's C64. In 1986 my parents sent me to computer camp where I learned how to write for Apple II/e computers. I had so much fun! I didn't always use my power for good and wrote some vulgarity into the Eliza program in elementary school. Being a french catholic school, it didn't go over well. I was grounded forever! My dad sat me down to gruel me, "ok, what's the password?" he asked. "Password? There's no password" I replied. "I mean, how do we get into the program?" he asked. "Uh...type L-I-S-T?" I giggled. Good times. I still have the floppy disks where he wrote in ink on the sleeve, "NO PASSWORD."

My parents got an 8086 with MSDOS 3 in the mid 1980s and that led me to FORMAT C:, erm, I mean QBasic and QBX for making QBasic executables sans interpreter (no really, groundings for FORMAT C:). I felt like a whole new ocean had opened up then. So I became better and better at QBX and wrote rolodexes, inventory software, and match making software for my high school's valentine's day festivities. The match making software was a great achievement because on a 1MB 286, it lacked the chip RAM to hold the arrays of questionnaire answers. I had to write my own virtual memory solution. It worked great! Later in college I wrote a floppy disk emulator that read and wrote to a single file - a "disk image" thing. It was a horrible emulation of FAT using a table of pointers to linked lists, and could only read/write ascii data, but I was proud of it.

Back in 1991 I co-sysoped a BBS called Alice in Wonderland on my friend's Amiga 2000, but later it ended up on my Amiga 1200 ( http://flickr.com/photos/darcybaston/438315252/in/set-72157603935326149/ ). To give people out-of-town email, we delivered messages to a Fidonet node in Texas. It cost a fortune, but it was just sooooo coooool.

In 1993, I was in university and discovered the internet on unix terminals (amber on black). I had a 2400baud modem to dial into the university from my apartment and gopher/archie/ftp(ed) all the greatest documents and images I could find. It still boggles the mind that a web page loads 300k of images on DSL in a couple blinks. I used to have to sz (send zmodem) a queue of documents for hours and hours. When 14.4k modems came out, I couldn't imagine needing anything faster. That is, until 33.6k came out and then I felt like I was using the computer for the first time all over again. I held steady on that until I got cable broadband, and god split the heavens open to shine upon my computer. Or was it flash games? Same thing.

Also while at university, there was an OS/2 box running this thing called Mosaic for some weird clickable essay thing called "HTML." I thought it was very practical that one could have a word first introduced linked to a glossary. But I laughed at it, because Amiga computers had clickable interactive documentation called "Amiga Guide" for years before. I had built mouse driven email archives that way before there was a GUI for email beyond highlighted text selected with arrow keys. Little did I know that this HTML would underwrite this "web" thing to exponentiate itself into the multi-media powerhouse that it is today. Before our university got access to a DNS, we had to memorize IP addresses. So we had contests to see who could remember what IP for quantity and association. I won one of those contests hehe.

Then the university hosted a MUD, and I became seriously addicted to that early version of MMO living. My grades fell LOL! But, I met one of my spouses through that game, so it was all good. "Lorus" was my first MUD character name, obtained through very shallow and nerdy means. My watch was made by lorus. Time to play? Get it? Hahaha-hahah-haha-h-a. *cough*

I stayed on that Amiga 1200 until the year 2000. Because my self-enforced longevity with it was making me miss out on web and MP3 fun, I had begun running MacOS 7.5 on it to have use of a good web browser. The emulator ran faster than the native browsers on the Amiga. I was so shocked. So after a couple years of that, I found an iMac DV SE 400MHz to be a suitable replacement to build upon my emulation experience. Like a cat to catnip, I was hooked on Mac. Then it was iBook, Powermac G5 ( http://flickr.com/photos/darcybaston/425966630/in/set-72157603935326149/ ), Macbook and now a Mac mini G4. I sold the previous ones as I went along. And yeah, I did go from Core2Duo intel back to G4. Turns out I LOVE older hardware more than the new, and have put a stop to my better-and-better path. I'm saving money now and still having fun. We must never forget that iTunes was once called SoundJam, by Cassidy & Greene, and was almost the successor to Panic's Audion instead.

Speaking of old hardware, I have a lovely Mac SE Superdrive edition from the late 80s that I love and cherish. ( http://flickr.com/photos/darcybaston/2273735090/in/set-72157603935326149... ) The hard drive is acting up so I'm going to hook it up to an external SCSI ZIP drive and use that as the boot volume, for fun. The Zip arrives in the mail this week. Can't wait!

The chronological order of the languages I've written in are:
Commodore Basic
Apple Basic
QBasic
QBX
Pascal
C++
x86 ASM
Modula-2
Visual Basic
M68k ASM
Perl
PHP
a dash of Objective-C and a dash of Java

I'm a professional PHP/MySQL developer these days, but have a good splash of design and publishing in my more immediate past. I would like to spend more time doing that instead. I also write music, since I was 8, and hope to figure out a way to make that my main means of sustenance someday ( http://www.dbplays.com ).

Gaming: Grew up with Atari, missed the Nintendo boat in favor of DOS games (F19, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry), and then played games on the Amiga for 7 years. In the Amiga years, I saved up for a Playstation and have been a Sony console fan since. I'm a BIG BIG BIG Silent Hill fan. I don't miss a single title, and listen to the soundtracks regularly. Final Fantasy is another one of my favorite franchises. From PS1, I went to PS2, and then a Wii surprisingly. But after a marital separation, I found myself feeling too melancholy on the Wii (missed my play partner *sniff*), and sold it for a PS3. The PS3 is now my social gaming/multimedia hub. I have two external 500GB drives hooked up to it for media and backups. I enjoy it so much. The remote play to the PSP is fantastic, and sometimes I fall asleep to its internet streaming radio on my night table, or playing music from the PS3. I also have a Nintendo DS which is incredibly fun as well. My guilty pleasure is Animal Crossing.

I love the geeky experiences my life has brought me. I hope the length of this post can be forgiven as a reflection of enthusiasm and gratuity.

Oh, then there was that one time I caught a hacker and...

I am a fairly recently out of college(undergrad at WPI) geek. Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. (decided i wanted to graduate in four years instead of getting a double major). I've ended up working as mostly a computer application developer, with some tech support mixed in (much as i wish it wasn't).
can code in several languages, know the insides of a computer fairly well (though i'm not up on current tech enough to be confident in building one from parts), love hardware design although i haven't touched it since getting out of college (really need to fix that)

addicted to the internet, also enjoy sims 2 (I've been avoiding so i actaully get sleep recently). Play a variety of other computer games, not seriously. avoiding WOW like the plauge so I don't completely loose my life to it.
casual video gamer - will usually only play if the system is around or there is a game that really interests me. apartment has a wii and I'mlooking into getting a DS. have a gameboy color somewhere and know which friends have what systems if i'm looking for some other console.

enjoy a variety of card and board games. carry a flux deck in my purse and am looking for cosmic wimpout dice. apples to apples is awesome (what is this win condition you speak of? ceep playing until you get bored or something else comes up)

Occasional tabletop gamer. bi-weekly D&D game currently, usually playing in some tabletop RPG campaign.

Active boffer weapon LARPer in a medieval fantasy system (www.realmsnet.net). considering becoming actively involved in the SCA

book addict. most fantasy and some sci-fi. working on getting more bookshelves.

I think thats the basics. aka - I do a bit of everything.

I'm a software engineer - been one since 1987. Been a girl gamer. Now I'm a Middle aged mama gamer!

Just joined the group, thought I’d add my specialties to the list here. I’ve been in the computer game industry for about 8 years now, working mostly on MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and EverQuest. I’ve done some scripting and light programming, but designing and creating gameplay is my specialty. I also play a lot of games, mostly WoW these days.

Outside of work, I’ve built my last three computers from scratch by hand, installed XP on my Vista SATA laptop (not as easy as it sounds!), hacked my wireless router to use dd-wrt firmware, and wired my home theater and surround sound to be completely digital, including a custom setup to stream videos over the internet onto the big-screen TV (you're really not getting full use of Netflix until you do this!). I’m married to a computer game professional as well, but all tech inside the home is my domain!

Wow Ryot, you have a job in the industry I want! How cool.

I'll keep this as brief as possible. Professionally, I'm a SQA Engineer for a videoconferencing company. I get to play with a/v gear, which I happen to like a lot. I've been in SQA for a few years now, despite the fact that I was an art & education double-major in college. Go figure. I also do some graphic design; I enjoy print more than web. I've got some decent Adobe CS skills, particularly in Illustrator and InDesign. I can code HTML by hand, and I'm pretty solid on CSS. I know some VB and some Linux commands, but I'm much better at dissecting and breaking software than I am at creating it.

I've always been a lover of technology. I grew up in a PC home with completely computer-illiterate parents, but I've come to love Macs later in life. I'm married to a Unix systems engineer so we've got a pretty crazy network set up at home with a mix of Macs and Linux machines. My geek recreation includes Wii/XBox 360 gaming (particularly Rock Band), anything Star Wars/Simpsons, playing around on my Motorola Q, surfing thinkgeek and travel websites (I love to see the world), lolcats, and reading geeksugar every day. I'm also a cooking & book & music geek. Oh, and I'm REALLY into American cartoons.

Hey, I'm new here but I thought I would give my input. I'm just about to graduate from college with my BS in Computer Science. I'll be working in IT as an application developer. I'm experience in C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Php, VB.NET, and Coldfusion, and I've dabbled in Objective-C. I use Linux on my desktop, and I have a Macbook Pro which I absolutely love. I love anything to do with Macs actually. I also do a little web design for fun and I play with Photoshop pretty often.

I play video games when I have time - between my bf and I we have two DS's, a Gamecube, a N64, a PS2, a Xbox, a Wii, and a XBox 360. I play mostly RPG's and FPS but I will try anything once. I spend most of my day surfing the web. I read mostly sci-fi and fantasy books.

I'm so happy to see so many female geeks with such a great variety of background!