[GLLUG] Fw: KLUG GEEK JEOPARDY EXTRAVAGANZA

Mark Szidik/mlc SzidikM at mlcnet.org
Wed Oct 22 09:26:49 EDT 2003





FYI...

Mark Szidik

----- Forwarded by Mark Szidik/mlc on 10/22/03 08:23 AM -----

members-admin at kalamazoolinux.org wrote on 10/22/2003 12:13:41 AM:

> KLUG Meeting Notes:  Tuesday - October 21, 2003  7:00PM

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> II.  NEXT KLUG MEETING - TUESDAY  10/28/2003
> ******************************************************************
> GEEK JEOPARDY EXTRAVAGANZA        ( READ  P A R T Y ! ! ! )
> by Adam Williams and Brian Ritz
>
> EVERYONE - other LUGs, other technical groups, etc... - are
> invited to send a team to this years 2003 Geek Jeopardy event.
> Just let me know your coming - programdirector at kalamazoolinux.org
>
> Come celebrate the true joy of being geek - knowing all that
> minutia, arcana, and esoteric information that is so handy when
> drafting new pick-up lines! This years categories are sure to
> result in a cornucopia of sardonic quips, mythopoetical
> exclamations, and maybe even a few broken spectacles.  What more
> thrilling scene is there than the victor's squeals of pure
> geeker-joy while the defeated shout curses at them in a
> combination of Klingon and Sindarin?
>
> Players: Up to four team members per round, you can switch out
> as many players as you want between rounds.  Each team is
> permitted two substitutions per round at any point. An
> accidental third substitution will cost the team 2048 points
> in the single jeopardy round, and 4096 points in the double
> jeopardy round.  Any additional substitution will cost the team
> 10,248 points, regardless of the round.  No substitutions are
> permitted during final jeopardy.  Closed book, no laptops
> (Bruce!).
>
> Team with the final highest (positive scores only [$score > 0],
> not absolute value [!abs($score)]) score wins.
>
> The 2003 Geek Jeopardy Categories:
>
> Single Jeopardy: "Geek Cinema", "Fonts", "Kerberos V", Emulators",
> "Firewalls", "Groupware", "DNS", "Geek Slang", "SQL", "WiFi",
> "NASA", and "2.6"
>
> Each single jeopardy category contains question worth 1, 2, 4, 8,
> 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 points.
>
> Double Jeopardy: "Geeks & Myths", "8 Bit", "LDAP", "True UNIX(s)",
> "CLI", "Not IP", "ARPA", "VOIP" "Mono & .Net", "GNOME", "In The
> Court", and "C++"
>
> Each double jeopardy category contains a question worth 2, 4, 8,
> 16, 32, 64, 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 points.
>
> And of course the final Jeopardy question - Well, you'll have to
> be there to discover that category.
>
> Adam Williams is a network administrator based in Grand Rapids,
> but the network he deals with is all over Michigan, with a couple
> of hundred workstations, running Linux and other Operating Systems.
> Not only does he deal with domain issues at work, but he is also
> the owner of the domain "whitemice.org". Adam has been a regular
> contributor to technical discussions on our main mailing list,
> both presenting and solving some of the most challenging networking
> and configuration problems.  Adam is known as an LDAP wizard in
> the global Linux community and has written a classic piece that
> explains how it works and what is necessary to get LDAP functional.
> He is also part of the early core of organizers and nurturers of
> KLUG and has served as Program Director for many years, providing
> the content of KLUG's world class educational meetings each week.
> The Eloquent Master of Ceremonies and originator of the legendary
> KLUG GEEK JEOPARDY EXTRAVAGANZA provides stellar answers in search
> of those categorized Linux culture focused questions.
> BE THERE OR ELSE!!!
>
> Brian Ritz is currently working in commercial logistics
> and has been working with Linux almost exclusively as
> a user of the Whitemice.Org network. He holds a degree in
> Finance from Grand Valley State University and is KLUG's
> resident expert on GNUCash.  Brian is a KLUG Officer, in
> the position of Treasurer of the Michigan Corporation and
> IRS 501c3 Non-profit organization.
>
>
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