[KLUG Members] Re: Team COordination (WAS: Geek Jeorpardy)

[Phillip Hofmeister]

All, I am looking for anyone who would be interested in coordinating a
team.  I have made notations below on topics I am familiar with and to
what extent I know them.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 05:40:04PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3?#M2004-10-26
> Single Jeopardy:
> -----------------
> 
> Super Hackers - Answers to questions about legendary hackers, their
> projects and their lives.

Slight background

> Samba - Everyone's favorite server package.

Moderate background (history wise), deep background (technical wise)

> Protocol / Port - See your /etc/services file.  We'll name a service and
> the question must contain the most common IP protocol name and port
> number.

Deep background.  I think we should pick on the /etc/protocols files too
and pick up some obscure questions like: this protocol in the IP suite
has the layer 4 ID of 47.

> Mozilla - Anything to do with the Mozilla project.

I know the browser well, not the project

> Image Types -  Image formats from JPEG to TGIF.

Slight background

> Truly Wacky - Wild, bizarre and shocking claims, who (or what) said
> them.

Your guess as mine as to what this is.

> Speed II - Every year Geek Jeopardy must contain at least one Sandra
> Bullock reference.  Remember that movie with a certain actress where a
> transit bus had to maintain a certain speed?  In this category we will
> name a bus (USB, PCI, ISA, etc...) and the answer will be it's
> theoretical throughput (emphasis on the theoretical - we all know that
> "in the lab" means "you'll never see anything close to this").

I never watched the movie, but I can rent it on NetFlix before the
contest!

> Beer - Answers to questions about the beverage lauded by Open Source
> advocates everywhere, but according to a recent survey almost no KLUGers
> drink.

I am a wine drinker...

> Geek Cinema -  Movies geeks love, or love to hate, or that star Sandra
> Bullock.  Unfortunately Slashdot rarely does movie reviews anymore, 
> that is how we used to determine what constituted a geek movie (besides
> the Sandra Bullock Factor).  If it got reviewed on Slashdot it was a
> 'geek' movie.  Now we are just guessing.

I like movies.

> Collaberation - Answers and definitions concerning collaberative
> technology: groupware, instant messaging, etc...

Moderate background

> Double Jeopardy:
> ----------------
> 
> XML - The technology that is still revolutionizing IT.

Slight background (read some white papers)

> Longhorn -  Answers to questions about that someday-to-be-released OS
> that will bring world peace, be so cool even Sandra Bullock will use it,
> and prove that Bill Gates really is just a nice guy who happens to burns
> rolls of 100 dollar bills as incense during his daily prayers to Azazel.

Only what i read on /.

> Legacy - Remember MVS?  How about CP/M?  Maybe even TurboDOS!  If so,
> this category is yours to run away with while everyone who actually had
> a life waits for you to finish.

I spec out things for an old Mainframe at work.  YAY!

> LDAP - An annual staple of Geek Jeopardy.  Everything to do with the
> ultimate network service,  the one that takes the entire network down
> when you screw it up.

Replication <G>.

> Geek Slang - Another annual staple.  All answers this year come from
> version 4.4.7 of the official Jargon file.

I'll have to get a copy of it.

> Open Office - The best office suite ever, and that doesn't cost $499.99.

Use it regularly.

> Acronyms - Expand that acronym!  We all know that computers were
> actually invented as an excuse to make more acronyms.
> 
> VOIP - The greatest technology to ever have the most numerous lousy
> implementations.  Anything to do with chopping up your voice and
> stuffing it into tiny little packages is fair game here.

IPSec is a great technology with a lot of lousy implementations!

> OSPF - Everything to do with the care, feeding, and operation of the
> most pervasive intranet routing protocol.

Very little background here.

> CUPS - Everything to do with the care, feeding, and operation of the
> ultimate print service.

I actually prefer lpd :(  Web configuration interfaces is for wimps (I
am VERY masochistic)...

-- 
Phillip Hofmeister