[KLUG Members] GEEK JEOPARDY: 15 DAYS!

[Bruce Smith]

> > > 	http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/longhorn.asp
> > Could you please explain how Longhorn rates a category in a LUG jeopardy
> > game?  
> 
> (a) Categories were announces a long time ago, you should have objected
> then.

I thought about it, but I figured you'd throw it back at me and make me
do some work coming up with a new category and/or questions & answers.
It's safer for me to gripe about it now.  :-)

It's not the only category I have a problem with either, just the worst.

I was going to boycott the entire event, but then I remember that we
normally have free pizza. (I can be bribed ;)   So, I figured I'd wait
and see if anyone answers your question about who's getting the pizza on
the officer's mailing list before I make any rash decisions.  :-)

> (b) It is "geek" jeopardy.  Some geeks use Windows.  I know, it is a
> liberal interpretation of "geek".  But you have to give them a fighting
> chance; I mean, have some sympathy - They use Windows!

Ah, screw 'em!  Let them go to a NT users group for that kind of trivia!

Besides, that's a total stretch.  A lot of geeks use a toilet too ...
So what!  :-)

> (c) Longhorn is important, even to Open Source users, because the
> technologies it implements will have a sweeping effect on the IT
> industry as a whole.  Personally, I think Longhorn has the potential to
> be a Linux killer*; crap just works, the way it should have just worked
> on UNIX/Linux 5 years ago if people could have stopped bickering over
> meaningless crap and crying "Bloatware!" every time someone tried to
> make the system more usable.**

If Longhorn kills Linux, we can dissolve or rename our group.  Until
then, it's just Windows, and currently vaporware at that.

> *I only say "potential" because I don't think it will happen: E-D-S,
> Beagle, D-BUS, & Mono are going to get 'to market' first.
> 
> **I love people who do things like run Evolution in fvwm because they
> don't want the bloat of the GNOME desktop.  

Quit picking on Bob.  That's my job!!!  ;-)

> "Uhm, you do realize you've
> just invoked GNOME into the background and your now pointlessly running
> fvwm *AND* GNOME?"....... blank stare.  Or even better the ones who
> complain that evolution shouldn't be a big monolithic app, but should
> use the UNIX model of lots-of-discreet-components.  Then do a -
> > ls -l /opt/gnome/lib/evolution/1.4/components/
> total 2418
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 569258 libevolution-addressbook.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 842510 libevolution-calendar.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 162127 libevolution-executive-summary.so
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 895330 libevolution-mail.so
> - and be greeted with.... blank stare.
> 
> > Running out of *nix type questions?  (didn't think that was possible!)
> 
> Ones that muggles can answer?  yes.  

Who cares if tech questions can be answered.  At least unanswered
_technical_ questions can be educational.

> I try to minimize repeat material.

There's enough unique *nix material for centuries of geek jeopardy!

 - BS