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Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.

This is a total level of geekery I'm not used to. I think if anything though, they're just incredibly amazed that they have encountered a member of the opposite sex that they have something in common with, and happily pounce.


Now where did I leave my DMG?

When you say Latex...:fluffle:

Peh, Linux.

For the record, you're like...a girl. Shouldn't that explain all the male attention you get?

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

Not that I know of. You've out-nerded me, I don't even have a machine running a form of Unix.

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.I don't care about the linux distribution, but there's definite bonus points for using LaTeX rather than Word or other wysiwyg word processing applications.
It's really the same as with writing html in a simple editor vs something like dreamweaver. It shows skill and knowledge, or at least an appreciation for the possibility thereof.

I don't know, I get a fair amount of male attention for just using Linux anyway, they don't seem to care that it's Edubuntu that I am actually using.

I don't care about the linux distribution, but there's definite bonus points for using LaTeX rather than Word or other wysiwyg word processing applications.
It's really the same as with writing html in a simple editor vs something like dreamweaver. It shows skill and knowledge, or at least an appreciation for the possibility thereof.

:eek: so when my husband walked by last night and I was editing my CSS in notepad and he said "that's hot" he......was probably talking about my working in notepad?:confused:

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.

No.

Gentoo.

Edit: Having realized the potential contradiction in my answers, I'll clarify. No, it doesn't make you more attractive, but using Gentoo over Kubuntu means I probably wont be fixing your computer every five minutes, as you know (more or less) what you're doing.

I think that the fact you run any Linux distribution hikes your attractiveness level beyond mortal ken.
After that, any geek would simply try to sway you to their side of the linux wars.

Sorry if this seems like a hijack, but does anyone know if there's a way I can use LaTeX on Windows? I sometimes find WYSIWYG annoying. I would like to try it out to see if I find it better or worse than OpenOffice.org

Wow, this outgeeks me and I've had a conversation about how fast a car would have to be going for the velocity to mess with it's mass and allow it to pass underneath a train.

:eek: so when my husband walked by last night and I was editing my CSS in notepad and he said "that's hot" he......was probably talking about my working in notepad?:confused:Well if there was nothing else that might cause that reaction, it's certainly a possibility ;)
It might also have been what you were, or weren't, wearing; but I try not to let my mind wonder down that path of speculation..

Wow, this outgeeks me and I've had a conversation about how fast a car would have to be going for the velocity to mess with it's mass and allow it to pass underneath a train.

:confused: It looks like you are confusing mass and height...

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.
wow this is all kinds of geek-hot... twins and linux!

*head explodes*

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.
The latex thing may not be associated with a Linux distribution.

Sorry if this seems like a hijack, but does anyone know if there's a way I can use LaTeX on Windows? I sometimes find WYSIWYG annoying. I would like to try it out to see if I find it better or worse than OpenOffice.orgThere used to be MikTex, I think.
It's not optimal though. You could also try and see if you can run the regular Latex in Cygwin. Or install VMWare (or something like it) and install linux on the virtual machine (which however has a cost in speed).
There some other options to integrate linux and windows I think, but as I understand that's not always stable.

What I sometimes do at home is connect to our university server (that runs linux), and use emacs to edit the document, pdflatex to compile it, and then view the resulting document via a webbrowser.

wow this is all kinds of geek-hot... twins and linux!

*head explodes*

I agree, man. I don't have any Linux. But I hand-coded a whole site (at least, the HTML).

Well if there was nothing else that might cause that reaction, it's certainly a possibility ;)
It might also have been what you were, or weren't, wearing; but I try not to let my mind wonder down that path of speculation..

he's pretty geeky, he may not have noticed what I was wearing.....although I was wearing something pretty geeky.

:confused: It looks like you are confusing mass and height...Perhaps he's thinking it'll collapse into a black hole once it gains enough mass due to speed.
I'm fairly sure length contracts only in the direction of travel due to relativistic effects, height would remain the same. So that wouldn't help much.

he's pretty geeky, he may not have noticed what I was wearing.....although I was wearing something pretty geeky.Geeky clothes AND editing CSS in notepad, well yeah, that's just hot :p
Glasses too?

Geeky clothes AND editing CSS in notepad, well yeah, that's just hot :p
Glasses too?

yep.

and the T-shirt (should you wonder) was from Gen-con when I was teaching people how to play a card game based on Imajica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imajica). (how dorky is that?!)

I don't know anybody who would go to those heights of ultimate nerdiness and geekdom, and I know a lot of nerds (I am one myself). Perhaps you misunderstood their attention for you? Perhaps instead of being interested in your Gentoo, etc. they are interested in you and provide that as an explanation? (i.e. they are shy)

yep.

and the T-shirt (should you wonder) was from Gen-con when I was teaching people how to play a card game based on Imajica (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imajica). (how dorky is that?!)
if my head hadn't already exploded, it would explode again.

geeky girls are hot, cause they're not afraid to be fun. they know what they like. i'm all for the science girls, myself.

http://forums.anoniche.com/index.php?topic=367.msg1748#new

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geeky girls are hot, cause they're not afraid to be fun. they know what they like.

For example, dumping ether on the barbecue.

:eek:

For example, dumping ether on the barbecue.

:eek:

Indeed! :p

In high school, two other girls and I (who were collectively known as the "Chemistry Goddesses") spent a great deal of time and effort convincing our chemistry teacher to let us do experiments in which things exploded or otherwise created exciting effects. We managed to talk him into letting us do the thermite reaction and run electrical currents through a pickle, but we never quite managed to convince him of the educational value of mixing nitric acid and glycerine. Le sigh.

Perhaps he's thinking it'll collapse into a black hole once it gains enough mass due to speed.
I'm fairly sure length contracts only in the direction of travel due to relativistic effects, height would remain the same. So that wouldn't help much.

Mebbe when it gets fast enough to send the train airborne?

Meh, only time an OS can be a turn-off is when it's Macintosh =P Macs are awful little buggers. They came up with the concept and still can't pull it off as good as Windows, and they only claim to be more virus resistant because people don't make viruses that target Macs. It's like saying Ohio can withstand a hurricane better that Florida. After all, hurricanes have done far more damage to Florida than they have to Ohio, so clearly Ohio knows what it's doing when it comes to hurricanes and Florida doesn't have a clue.

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.

You're female?

For the record, the choice of distribution, desktop environment, and text processing system do all make a change in the attractiveness of the geek female.

However, the fact that the female is a geek is enough to push almost all other considerations into the shade, unless she uses Windows or something.

You're female?
Yes, I am!

For the record, the choice of distribution, desktop environment, and text processing system do all make a change in the attractiveness of the geek female.

However, the fact that the female is a geek is enough to push almost all other considerations into the shade, unless she uses Windows or something.

ty for that insight! :)

I think that the fact you run any Linux distribution hikes your attractiveness level beyond mortal ken.
After that, any geek would simply try to sway you to their side of the linux wars.

Exactly.

Okay, after a series of weird encounters both online and offline, I want to ask all geeks and nerds here: Can the Linux-distribution a female being uses make her more attractive?

ie: would you rather date the girl with Kubuntu or her Gentoo-using twin? :)

I just ask because I am surprised of the male attention I get when they hear that I use Gentoo and LaTeX.

I dunno. Guys still don't date me.:(