Typing “conf t” is the way to enter configuration mode on a Cisco router/switch. This says you want to enter configuration commands on the terminal (“t”).

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IRC is the Internet Relay Chat.. the original and old school chatroom technology. The default IRC server port is TCP/6667.

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IT GUI.. as in Information Technology Graphical User Interface? Not sure why someone would put this on a plate.

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Microsoft. Pretty straightforward.

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Reboot.. as in the way to fix any problem with a Windows computer :)

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Systems.. The proper version of SYSTMS that I saw a number of years ago..

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503 is the HTTP (‘web’) error code for The service is unavailable. Not sure why you’d want to put that on your car.. unless you want to be clear you don’t do ride sharing?

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“0 Day” has several meanings online - mostly in the hacker/warez community. Refers to a new exploit or a new file.

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Wow. A plate in binary! Uber-geeky. Lets see.. its 7 characters (size limit for plates), so we’ll assume there is a leading 0 to make it 8. Now, its 8 bits.. which would be 1 byte.. so.. as a decimal number it would be “83” and as a hex …

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IOS Master? As in someone who is good with the Cisco router operating system? Wonder if he/she has a CCIE :-)

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186,000 miles per second is the speed of light. Don’t think his car had warp drive though.

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Information Manager… You know, like that guy in the movie Office Space who said he was a “people person.”

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One’s and Zero’s. Get it? Ahhhh….. binary humor….

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“To boldly go where no one has gone before!” (car had Star Trek stickers too).

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Well, 3COM makes network equipment. If the owner of this plate doesn’t work for 3Com, I guess they really love their equipment.

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Triple-DES. This is an encryption algorithm.

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I agree, the cell phone companies are full of demons.

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Debian is (IMHO) the best Linux distribution. Guess this guy has seen the light as well.

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“Four to beam up”. Heh.

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When you “chmod 777” you give everyone access to your files!

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Another router dude tooting his horn (figeratively).

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Yay, we have achieved hypertext linking on license plates!

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“Away from keyboard”, “be right back”. Dude, you are driving!!!!

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ALT-ESC, one of the magic key sequences under Windows.

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Observed on a Corvette. AOL Stock? Guess this guy cashed out before AOL announced the biggest loss in corporate history this year.

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Clever use of the “&” to produce “bandwidth.” The thing that all geeks crave the most.

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Crackberr… er, I mean Blackberry.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. And yes, he was definitely born to hack! You’ll find him on IRC as Pimpshiz. :-)

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Ok, *BSD is pretty leet…

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Observed on a new VW Beetle. Ok, that’s pretty clever.

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Byte builder? That’s my guess. Dunno what else it would be.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. How else would you fight a war except for one byte at a time…

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Cipher (‘sI-f&r), n., a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning. Well, the plate had a “1” instead of a “i”, but close enough.

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Man, if this guys is still using DOS, I really feel sorry for him. Dude, snap out of it and use a modern OS!

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Seen on a Mini Cooper. And the owner painted a “dot” between the CAR and JPG. Cute.

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Cable dog? I suppose this guy fetches patch cables as one of his duties at work.

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CD is the “change directory” command in most Unix-like operating systems. So, change to Linux!

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Code hacker. Hack on, dude.

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Code hacker. And no, its not a dupe. The other one is “CODE HKR” with a space!

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COM1 refers to the first communication port on a DOS/Windows computer. You usually hook modems or mice up to these serial ports.

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Cordless. Always preferable…

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Computer wiz. Clever. Licence-plate-creater-wiz as well it seems.

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Ahhh… bandwidth… It satisfies all cravings. (for those curious, a T3 connection is approx. 8237 times faster than a dialup modem)

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Cisco/Novell? I guess this guy is certified for CISCO and NOVELL. However, if he truly has a Novell certification these days, he might be certifiable.

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Well, if you have soccer-moms, you must have cyber-dads, right?

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Cyber-man? Sounds like a super hero… and why not…

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Cyberpunk. A genre of science fiction that usually involves computers, hackers, and futuristic stuff.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. My co-workers could mount quite a private war… And if the cyber thing doesn’t work out, they are well armed too.

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In addition to referring to a cyber-savvy cop, there is also a product made by Network Associates called Cybercop that works as a remote network scanning tool.

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Cyber Nude? Maybe this belongs to some famous Internet porn star?? Submitted by a friend, don’t think he got a look at the driver though.. :-)

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Cyber vixen, eh? I wonder if the driver is like “Lora Croft”.

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Data communication. True, dat.

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Database doctor. “Now, Mr. Oracle. Turn your head and cough.”

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Digital. Get it? Kewl speling.

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Yes! The Deliverator! This is a reference to the pizza delivery car that the main character (Hiro Protagonist) drove in the book Snow Crash.

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Ok. This is a little bit of a stretch, but I’m everyone knows about the Dilbert comic strip… Its based on the idiosyncrasy of high-tech management… Dogbert is one of the characters.

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Dot Bomb. As in a failed Dot Com. Why would someone put this on their plate? I guess they were able to afford personalized plates with their severance package…

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I think Windows should include a new dynamically linked library called loser-with-a-custom-plate.dll

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Observed on a red Mustang. I guess there are a few computer geeks out there that drive bitchin’ stangs…

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This plate was on the car of a Macintosh lover. Man, the car was plastered with Apple stickers.

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Nice… a SYN packet is the start of a TCP handshake.

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Doctor Unix. He probably gets mad when you call him “Mister Unix.”

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Desktop, duh.

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Dot Com.. Observed on a Porsche. I guess this guy was able to cash out before his Dot Com blew up. Bastard.

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Continuing with the Star Wars theme, I present to you: Darth Vader.

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Well, if I can’t find a WEBCHIC, maybe I’ll find an E-CHIK instead.

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An e-geek? Is there any other kind?

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. I suppose he’s not a golf player or a cab driver.

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Ugh. Yes. Some dork actually has this license plate. Hopefully someone will spam his Inbox.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. Hopefully he won’t get E-CAUGHT or E-IMPRISONED.

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Electric chick = elecchick? Sure, why not.

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Computer science logic geekness… If…then…else…else if… While most programming languages use ‘else if’, Perl uses the ‘elsif’ keyword.

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e-Print? Um, ok.

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Uhhh. I dunno… what makes an E-TREE… a techie-treehugger?

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I can only guess this is referring to “extranets” which are wide area networks that interconnect offices and stuff.

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Fat admin. This plate was very fitting. It was on a Jeep parked at a BBQ restaurant, and the dude that got out was quite large.

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Firewall, and I hope not a reference to that horrible Harrison Ford movie.

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For TiVo?

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Fsck me? Fsck you!! Ahhh, UNIX humor. (‘fsck’ is a ‘file system check’ command)

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LOL. This is geek slang for f@#$ing something up — you FUXOR it up. Made it past the DMV screening :-)

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Classic.

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Doesn’t get any more straightforward than this. This is the poster-child of VA-Geek license plates.

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Huh? Go to what web? Yeah, I ‘go to web’ often. I like to browse. So what? If you want me to ‘go to’ a certain web site, we need more info, bud.

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Its everywhere!!! Even on the roads!!!

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Got milk too???

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Like “Got Milk?” I suppose.

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A play on the milk campaign (got milk?). If you have root, you are cool. If you hacked into a system and then got root, you are cooler.

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Grep is a Unix command to search for a keyword within a file. Seen on a Ford Expedition. I guess that’s the ‘big’ part.

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Hate Windows? Hmmm.. Well, I kinda like windows (you know, the kind that open and air flows through), but I do hate windows (you know, the buggy OS).

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Gotta hack something :-)

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This is a pretty classy geek plate. As long as the owner isn’t making the statement that he/she actually liked the movie “Hackers.”

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Ok. Pretty straight forward. There was only one person in the car though. So I guess it was more like “hacker.”

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HAXOR is computer slang for hacker. This is pretty high up on scale of uber geek plates.

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…as in slang for “hacker”

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Hacker Cop? Protect and Serve… files and computers that is..

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Hacker Hunter? Quick, run for the hills!

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I’m guessing this is a play on “Hi Ho Silver!” from the Lone Ranger.

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Not sure if its “I” or “1”. One byte would make more sense though, eh? Observed on a Porsche Turbo.

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Input/Output server? Is there any other kind?

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I am Ironman… I am the Walrus… I am root? Why not.

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“Ice” or “eye-see”? In anycase, web related.

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ICMP 3 is the code for “destination unreachable”. Clever, eh?

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Conditional statement in most programming languages: IF… THEN… ELSE…

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I hate Windows! Wow, this person is really making a political statement. Lets all rise up against the Washington State dictator! I urge you all to CTRL-ALT-DEL!

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. Given the right incentives, I guess he’ll hack for you. Just don’t ask him to “crack” for you.

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A “CCIE” is a “Cisco Cerfitied Internetwork Expert.” This is a really tough certification to pass, so I guess the guy has the right to toot his own horn about it. Well, maybe not.

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More HTML geekness - image tag.

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Ahhh. Another Unix lover.

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Boy, if we all didn’t pray to the Internet God every day, just imagine the chaos? Fire and brimstone flowing through the CAT-5 cables! Oh my!

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You can shut down a UNIX computer by switching it to run level 0. This is the command you type.

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Pretty straight forward. An engineer who designs IP networks I suppose.

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Rather than Voice over IP?

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Not sure if this refers to a network switch, as in a box that you plug computers into, or refers to switching your network to TCP/IP (from something else?)

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IT, or information technology in general, does suck. Often.

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I web for you? WTF? I guess this person is a web developer. I bet they are envious of IHACK4U :-)

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Nothing like a steaming cup of joe… or a few lines of code in the morning.

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Java wizard. Or as my friend John calls them: “Java mountain hippies.”

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Yoda backwards you speak. Powerful the force is.

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LAN stands for Local Area Network. But I think the owner was trying for a bad pun on “land lord”. Nice…

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“LAN manager” as in someone who manages a Local Area Network.

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You got too many U’s in there buddy!!

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What the hell is a Linuxer? I’ve heard of a Linux user, but this?

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Linux chick? Or maybe Linux check?

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Two common abbreviations seen online: “laughing out loud” (LOL) and “shut the f*@# up” (STFU).

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This one has been a source of argument. Was this intended to be a geek plate or not? I’m including it anyway :-)

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Hmmm. Geek or not geek.. Well, with “bytz” it seems like the owner is trying for “bytes”, so I’ll throw this in the geek column…

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I’m guessing this person is a Macintosh fan, but I didn’t see any Apple stickers on the car. It was a Volkswagon though.

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Mac zealots have to drive cars too I guess…

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I’m not sure why this hacker is mad. I wonder if he is mad as in crazy or mad as in angry. We’ll never know I suppose.

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Ugh… Talk about puns. This is definitely high up there on the list of super-geek plates. HTML (the hypertext markup language, you know, the language web pages are constructed with) can have METATAGS that instruct your browser to do certain things. Ok. In case you missed the pun, license plate …

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Millennium Falcon. Wow. Not quite computer-related, but still pretty geeky. If you don’t know the movie this is from, then you are just dense. :-)

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Modem. Old skool.

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Err, wonder if a geek rock band has ever done Mozilla as a cover of Blue Oyster Cult’s cult classic? Go Go Mozilla!

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Hmm. Well, I doubt this person’s last name is really “Linux.”

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My linux, your linux, his linux, her linux. Plenty of linux to go around.

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Even more Star Wars: X-Wing Fighter!

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I saw this on a Mazda Millenia. So, I suppose it doesn’t have to necessarily be geek related, but hey, I don’t think the driver would mind if I call him or her a geek :-)

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Encrypt. I wonder if someone else has DCRYPT? Would be the perfect pair for someone who has two cars :-)

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Encrypted.

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Network Administrator. Someone’s gotta police the packets…

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Here rover… That’s a good boy… Fetch the packets for me…

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I wonder if he/she is super-freaky?

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Hmm, well I’d say all geeks are net geeks by nature…

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Heheh. At least the guy knows he’s a geek. And is damn proud of it! I say “Amen, brother!”

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I wonder if this person thinks they are a “player” or they just like to fool around with networks.

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Net power!!!!

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Net Split. If you have ever used IRC (the Internet Relay Chat system), you know exactly what this is. A ‘net split’ occurs when the main IRC servers lose connectivity with each other.

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Observed on a new VW Beetle. We had the ‘love bug’ virus. Don’t think the driver of this vehicle was contagious though…

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Network management? Bah, its much more fun when you let the packets just go where they want to.

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Network security. Yes, network security is a good thing(TM).

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Yes. Its sad.

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Wow, another uber classic geek plate. Amazing that I saw hundreds of other geek plates before this one.

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NEUSTAR is the company that operates the .biz and .us domains. This guy must work there. Guess he’s an executive, since the plate was on a nice BMW.

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Engineer — get it? Clear phonetic spelling.

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Hmm. Why?

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Unless it comes from a can.

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Okokokok. This is referring to the Microsoft certification called the “Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer” or as I life to refer to it: the “mindsweep certified solitaire expert.”

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A Windows NT system administrator? Well, I won’t hold it against him.

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Null pointer. In programming languages (usually C), a null pointer is often the result of an error condition.

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An OC-48 is a pretty biefy Internet backbone connection.. Well, with OC-192, I guess its not that great. :-) I wonder what kind of bandwidth this guys gets in his car?

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That’s for sure.

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No, you STFU.

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OpenBSD is probably the most secure (out of the box) Unix-like OS out there. I wonder if this guy has biometrics in his car.

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Open systems are cool. Heh Heh.

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Open Source.

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Database. Duh.

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Oracle guy. There is a pretty big Oracle office in Reston, VA. I’d guess this guy works there.

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For a description, see “OSPF 0.”

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Ok, this one will need a little explaining. OSPF stands for “open shortest path first” and refers to a TCP/IP routing protocol that is used mostly within corporate networks where RIP (another routing protocol) just can’t cut it.

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Peer-to-peer tech? I’ll bet this guy frequents SuprNova…

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Larry Wall would be ashamed at this blasphemous self-proclamation. Observed on a purple PT Cruiser.

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The guy driving this car was wearing a Red Fedora hat. Gee, you think he likes the Red Hat Linux distribution???

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Perl hacker. Should get to know PERL GUY.

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Perl Hacker. Perl is an interpreted programming language that is used widely throughout the Internet. Its very cool. In case you are wondering, this nifty geek-plates site is generated by running a Perl script. :-)

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Pixelater? Don’t quite get it, but I guess this person deals with graphic design and pushes a lot of pixels around.

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Packet loss. The result of an overburdoned network.

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Perl hacker. Perl seems to be the ultimate hacker language: you can do a lot of damage… on purpose, and also by accident.

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One of the cooler plates I’ve seen. My friend Eugene has this plate. Now, if you’ve ever played the computer game Quake, you’d get this reference right away. If not, “quad damage” is a special privilege you can pick up during the game to deal out 4 …

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RAID, or redundent array of inexpensive disks, it a technology for using several hard drives together as a single unit for speed and redundency purposes. RAID level 5 is one of the more advanced configurations.

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Red Hat is a Linux distribution. See www.redhat.com for more info!

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Gee…since “Red Hat” was already taken, this guy had to result to spelling it differently. If you ask me, that’s LAME. However, he could be some German guy that makes hats. Who knows?

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Sure, whatever.

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Secure software? Hmm… Hope this guy doesn’t work for Microsoft :-O

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Under UNIX, if you log on as a normal user, you can’t do some of the cooler things that the administrator can do. So, if the administrator wants to let normal users run certain programs that only an administrator could run, the programs can be marked as “setuid 0 …

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Ok.. ‘WEB’ in the name. What the hell is a ‘silverweb’ though???

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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, delivering yer mail.

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SMTP is the simple mail transport protocol. And yes, some guy at my apartment complex has this license plate.

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Yes, yes it does.

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Kewl elite hackers often try to “spoof” network packets so that their attacks appear to be coming from different places. Spoofing is often used in denial of service attacks to mask the true source of the attack.

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“Bow down and pay homage to the king of queries!!!”. I’ll bet he’s a tyrant.

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Search engine. Wonder if this person works for Google or something. Why else would they put this on their plate?!

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Star Trek. Or Street Rek, but I’m guessing its the first :-O

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When you need administrator access under the UNIX operating system, you have to log in to the “root” account. Or, you can switch to it using SU (su = switch user).

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Cyberpunk. A genre of science fiction writing that deals with futuristic computer and human interaction. One of the pioneers of the genre was William Gibson. My favorite author is Neal Stephenson.

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In the TCP/IP protocol, when you initiate a TCP connection (like a web request), your computer sends a “SYN” packet, the remote system sends an “ACK” packet, and then your computer sends a “SYN ACK” packet. You follow that? Good. There will be a quiz later.

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Sysops are “System Operators” — usually associated with the old days of modem bulletin boards.

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Systems.. Kinda bland.

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More Star Wars: Tie Fighter!

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Tar is an archiving program for Unix systems ([T]ape[AR]chive). xvf = Extract, verbose, filename. This plate probably confuses lots of non-geeks.

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TCP 23 = telnet port. But why?

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Tcpdump is a network sniffer for Unix.

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Again, stright forward.

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Observed on a mulletized Jeep.

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The ultimate anti-soccer mom? Perhaps.

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Dunno, but “tel” as in “telecommunications” and “soft” as in “software”? Maybe?

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Well, some people might hate America Online. But this license place was observed on a Ferrari, so I’m sure this guy did just fine when he cashed out his AOL stock.

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Ok. This one holds the record for most-geekiest. Car was a Toyota and the dude had two toy Yoda dolls in his back window. Also has “Jedi Academy” sticker in window.

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“Um, yeah.. Peter.. if you could finish your TPS Reports, that would be great.” If you don’t know the movie that TPS Reports are from, you are missing out!

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Traceroute. Handy little program to trace the route that network packets take.

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In the UNIX world, the administrator account (“root”) is user number 0. UID refers to “user ID number.”

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Ahhhh.. the epitomy of geek license plates. Simple. Sweet. Geek.

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Unix Doctor. He’s probably good at re-attaching inodes and killing zombies.

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Well, we all have to pray to someone. Might as well be the UNIX God. He hath bringith the command line… and it is good.

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Classic geek plate.

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The UNIX part is obvious. But RWX? Well, that would be READ-WRITE-EXECUTE. Standard filesystem permissions.

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UNIX Guru? Probably works for SCO…

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Unix Forever. Amen to that.

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I suppose that anyone who works with UNIX is doing some wizardry.

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I agree.

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When a software program is easy to use, it is said to be “user friendly.” On a side note, there is a geek comic strip called User Friendly. See www.userfriendly.org for a chuckle.

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VBS is Visual Basic Script, a Microsoft scripting language responsible for just about every email virus out there. Yes, its very lame.

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Well, its got “net” in it, doesn’t it? So it must qualify as being geek-related.

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VPN = virtual private network. I guess this guy rounds up the packets instead of the cattle.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. If you’ve seen the movie Wargames, I’m sure you are familiar with the art of war dialing: sweeping telephone number ranges in search for computers with modems.

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Warp core… from Star Trek? As Scotty would say: “The warp drive is a hopeless pile of junk.”

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We laugh out loud? I sure hope so!

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Web Doctor?

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Uh, like, surf’s up!

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Web Diva. Wonder if she tours…

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Pretty straight forward.

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This plate belongs to one of my co-workers. Not much more to say, he hacks the web. Which is made easy as long as people use Microsoft web servers.

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My only question is, where can I find my own web chic?

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Web coder.

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Pretty stright forward: web master.

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Aren’t we all…

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Windows Pro? Err, don’t think that takes much. Kinda like being a pro at breathing.

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In the early days of Windows systems (and I suppose its still true today) all programs that communited via TCP/IP used the “winsock” programming APIs. Don’t ask me why anyone would ever want to put this on their license plate though.

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Wooh there. Hold on. Don’t tell me what I can and cannot XML! (XML refers to the eXtensible Markup Language. It is a meta-language that can be used to describe the syntax and format of other languages like HTML. Does that make sense? Didn’t think so.)

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Exploit. pwnd.

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Huh? Is this guy mad that the chips in his computer aren’t year 2000 compliant?

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This plate belongs to one of my old co-workers. UNIX but spelled funny. I wonder if anyone in West Virginia has “YALNIX”?

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Another plate with the year 2000 theme. Hope these guys realize that Y2K came and went.

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“Zero Defects”. A goal, but never obtainable.

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