[KLUG Members] GEEK JEOPARDY: 15 DAYS!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > > 	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.  :-)

Strategic apathy!

> > (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!  :-)

Hmmm, a category for next year!

> > (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.  

But we won't need to change to acronym!

> Until then, it's just Windows, and currently vaporware at that.

I've sat in front of a computer running Longhorn.  It seemed tangible.  Sort of
had a Linux-0.99a-kernel-wearing-a-dress-by-Vera-Wang feel.

> > *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!!!  ;-)

I figured you'd appreciate the backup.

> > "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.

Hey!  Everyone complained the questions were TOO HARD!  Including the technical
ones.

> > I try to minimize repeat material.
> There's enough unique *nix material for centuries of geek jeopardy!

Beyond the "-l" option of "ls", most you ya'll seemed dazed-n-confused!  Sweep
the board this year, and I'll make the questions harder for next year!