tech tv, mags, and forums? Options

[Maccabee]

Just wondering if you guys knew of any other sources to read up on geeky stuff. any good tech magazines worth subscribing to? and are there any geek/tech related tv shows out there?

Advanced or not id like to see em. and what are some other good tech forums? It seems like the only geeks on cb I could count with one hand.

in fact. I will.

CJ,
Mipadi,
illriginal(that douche),
and thats about it. So there is barely a point making threads it tech, when it would practically be more beneficial to pm one of those people.

[mipadi]

IT stuff, fixing hardware, etc., never really interested me (it's kinda...boring, in my opinion), so I don't really hang out at a lot of forums that talk about hardware, building computers, and that stuff. I'm also not really into gadgets, so I don't care to talk much about cell phones, etc. This is all probably because I'm actually an English major masquerading as a systems programmer.

I do like writing software, so my hangout spot used to be Proggit (the programming subreddit at Reddit.com). Back about 2+ years ago, Proggit was really more about programming language theory, rather than just programming. Proggit exposed me to a number of languages I use today, such as Scala and Erlang, and also introduced me to a lot of theoretical concepts (I happened to be taking my required prog. lang. theory course back then, and a compiler optimization course, so Proggit was way cool). But now it's infested with C++ and .NET programmers, and most of the posts there are about boring day-to-day programming, programmer war stories, and that sort of thing.

The xkcd forums occasionally have some interesting posts about programming and "real" (read: theoretical) comp sci, but, again, most of the posts there are about C++ and PHP, which along with Perl form the trifecta of Worst Languages Ever "Designed" (if you can call PHP "designed").

Lambda the Ultimate is a pretty good place for "real" (read: theoretical) programming talk.

I hang out at GitHub, which isn't really a discussion forum but it's a good way to check out what other people are doing in the world of open-source software development. (Plus, Git rocks.)

I used to really be into OS design, so I read Kernel Trap a lot, which condenses mailing list posts for the major kernels (Linux, BSDs, etc.), but I don't check it out much anymore -- don't really have time. I spend most of my day working with computers & software, so to be honest, I don't really feel like reading about them in my off-time.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

IT stuff, fixing hardware, etc., never really interested me (it's kinda...boring, in my opinion),

Honestly, it's the software side I find boring. I love dicking around with hardware. The only programming language I really enjoy writing is Python.

[mipadi]

Honestly, it's the software side I find boring. I love dicking around with hardware. The only programming language I really enjoy writing is Python.

To each his own. The way I see it, hardware itself doesn't really do anything interesting or useful. It does virtually nothing without software to control it. Plus, I personally find the mathematics and science behind programming languages and their design is more interesting than mucking around with hardware. I could just never get excited about plugging cables together. <shrug>

Not to say there's nothing interesting about putting components together, or setting up networks or whatever.