Hi all, got this from a good friend of mine, he knows I am a geek lol

Rule #1:
When in doubt - buy him a 1000' spool box of cable.  It does not
matter if he already has one.  I have a friend who owns 17 miles of
cable, and owns a cargo container to stash it all, but still complains
about not having enough.  As a geek, you can never have too much bulk
cable.  Kat knows why.

Rule #2:
If you can not afford a spool of cable, buy him anything with the
word "Linux" or "Open Source" in it.  Geeks love saying those words.
"Hey Mike, can I borrow your Linux CD?" "OK. By-the-way, are you done
with my Open Source program archive discs yet?"

Rule #3:
If you are really, really broke, buy him anything for his handheld. It
doesn't matter if he doesn't know what it is. A 99-cent screen duster,
a small bottle of compressed air, or something to stick on the case.
Men love gifts for their overgrown Gameboys.

Rule #4:
Do not buy geeks any kind of internal hardware. And never buy geeks
backup storage media. Once I was told that if God had wanted geeks to
use backups, he wouldn't have made RAID 5.

Rule #5:
You can buy men new HIDs to replace the ones they have worn out.  If
you have a lot of money buy your man a big flatscreen with the digital
inputs. Watch him go wild as he games, and games, and games....

Rule #6:
Do not buy a geek any of that fancy ergonomic crap. If you do, it will
sit in a closet for 23 years. Real geeks know how to type on a standard
keyboard without getting CTS.

Rule #7:
Do not buy any geek any personal care items.  I'm told geeks do not
stink, they work hard to avoid exposing their computers to volatile
chemicals.

Rule #8:
Buy geeks component MP3 players. Almost as good as cable spools. Within
a couple of weeks there will be MP3s of everything. Albums. TV shows.
Porn. You get the idea. No one knows why.

Rule #9:
Never buy a geek anything that says "work in Windows only." It will
ruin his Special Day and he will always feel inadequate for not being
able to port/reverse-engineer it to work on a real OS.

Rule #10:
Good places to shop for geeks include Radio Shack, Incredible Universe,
bulk electronics parts stores, and just about any major department
store's electronics department.  "From Greybar, eh? Must be something
I need. Hey! Isn't this a power supply from a PDP-11? Wow! Thanks."

Rule #11:
Geeks enjoy danger. That's why they never use ESD wrist-straps- but
they will operate on a live computer. Get him a monster server machine
and tell him the power supply is on.

Rule #12:
Tickets to a Linuxworld Expo are a smart gift. However, he will not
appreciate tickets to any conference about Microsoft products.

Rule #13:
Geeks love soldering guns. Never, ever, buy a geek you love a soldering
gun. If you don't know why - please refer to Rule #8 and what happens
when he gets a component MP3 player.

Rule #14:
It's hard to beat a really good Perl cookbook or an indexed command
reference. Never buy a real geek a, "teach your self x in 21 days,"
book.  It must be a command refernce.  No one knows why.

Rule #15:
Cables.  Geeks love cables.  It takes us back to last Thursday, doing
the network install at someone's new apartment.  Nothing says love like
a thousand feet of fibre. Kat knows why.


Regards,

Kat.

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