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100 Must-Have Skills for Geeks

Do you have the know-how to be a true techie?

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(Newser) – Think you're a geek? Living up to the label requires a certain set of skills—or knowing how to Google them. Wired compiles the 100 essential skills for true geekdom:

  1. Secure a wireless router.
  2. Steal wi-fi from your neighbor.
  3. Mess with people stealing wi-fi.
  4. Name all the Dwarves in The Hobbit.
  5. Act out key scenes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

  1. Build a fighting robot.
  2. Solve a Rubik's Cube.
  3. Turn a web camera into security camera.
  4. Know why Luke and Leia shouldn't kiss.
  5. Understand what “There’s no Place Like 127.0.0.1″ means.
Click the link below for the complete list.

Soldered components on a circuit board are seen in this file photo.
Soldered components on a circuit board are seen in this file photo.   (Shutterstock)
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texasaurus
Jul 10, 09 2:52 PM CDT
11. Be supportive of argument that relations with the robot girlfriend you built in your mom's basement makes you NOT a virgin, technically. Reply
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AClotfelter
Jul 10, 09 7:25 PM CDT
These aren't all "Must-have", but many are... Reply
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SPH
Jul 10, 09 8:13 PM CDT
There are 10 types of people in the world...Those that know binary and those that don't..... Reply
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Cegorach
Jul 11, 09 12:31 AM CDT
I wonder if counting to 31 on a single hand is on there
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Mad
Jul 11, 09 5:24 PM CDT
If you include zero as a state, then it's actually 32 on one hand, and 1024 on two
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