Like all good Geeks you should be able to utilize resources to accomplish any of these things. Knowing where to look for the knowledge is as good as having it so give yourself points if you are certain that you could Google the knowledge necessary for a skill.
1. Properly secure a wireless router.
2. Crack the WEP key on a wireless router.
3. Leech Wifi from your neighbor.
4. Screw with Wifi leeches.
5. Setup and use a VPN.
6. Work from home or a coffee shop as effectively as you do at the office.
7. Wire your own home with Ethernet cable. V8. Turn a web camera into security camera.
8. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point.
9. Understand what Theres no Place Like 127.0.0.1 means.
10. Identify key-loggers.
11. Properly connect a TV, Tivo, XBox, Wii, and Apple TV so they all work together with the one remote.
12. Program a universal remote.
13. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone.
14. Benchmark Your Computer
15. Identify all computer components on sight.
16. Know which parts to order from NewEgg.com, and how to assemble them into a working PC.
17. Troubleshoot any computer/gadget problem, over the phone.
18. Use any piece of technology intuitively, without instruction or prior knowledge.
19. How to irrecoverably protect data.
20. Recover data from a dead hard drive.
21. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network.
22. Install a Linux distribution. (Hint: Ubuntu 9.04 is easier than installing Windows)
Ah, my figers getting tired the list goes on..so continue
If you have anything to add to the list, please comment bellow or send a tweet to @AntonOlsen.
[update: Due to popular demand #84 has been moved up to #42.]
[update 2: I will be coming back in a couple hours to start adding links to the list. ]
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