I'm a huge nerd and/or geek.... ask me anything!

[sysoprock]

Ask away.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Why does Star Wars suck?

[sysoprock]

9. Only the new ones suck...

The reason being is that hes pulling things direct from his ass as he writes them, and he lets his kids name the characters, resulting in people like "Jar Jar Binks" and "Count Dooku."

The old ones are still awesome.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

I was never a fan of the old ones either, but the new ones make me hurl

I just never found the story all that intriguing. Then again, Sci Fi has never tickled me quite the way fantasy has.

[deadmessengers]

2. Ok....

FreeBSD, Open BSD, or Linux? If Linux, what distro, and why?

[sysoprock]

11. FreeBSD for server apps, Linux to have fun with.

FreeBSD is awesome for building a box to do something and just letting it run.

For playing around and using as a desktop also, I like Linux.

I used to use Fedora Core 2, but I'm really liking this new distro called "Ubuntu."

[no name no slogan]

23. Good answer!!!

*BSDs for firewalls and/or security (or for running forever), Linux for desktops and/or web servers if you feel like it.

Couldn't agree with you more, and I'm a webmaster in a pure MS shop! :)

[deadmessengers]

24. FC 3

I've been messing around with the beta of FC 3 as a desktop. It's pretty slick.

[Bunny]

3. Do you carry a pocket protector? n/t

[sysoprock]

12. Haha. No.

[eyesroll]

4. When you dress up like Picard, are you wearing a uniform or a costume?

That's my litmus test.

[sysoprock]

14. Not a Star Trek fan, but I have an Admiral Ackbar costume.

Hes the orange guy in Jedi that says "It's a Trap"

[eyesroll]

40. I'm sorry, you failed the test.

True nerds call it a uniform.

[clonebot]

5. why do mainsteam linux distros insist on going with the 2.6 kernel despite

the fact that its obviously not ready.

[clonebot]

10. ---> sub question

what sort of mods did you do to your pc case and/or playstation? cold cathode tubes? LED's?

[sysoprock]

18. None at all.

I'm a purist when it comes to modding.

I'll take a plain beige or black case any day.

I always make fun of the fast and furious cases that my co-workers build, its hilarious.

[sysoprock]

No Idea.

I don't follow the Kernel Development too much, I just wait for solid distros to come out and use them.

BTW, I HATE HATE HATE Gentoo.

[lefador]

34. Then you are not a true geek

... sorry if you can not compile it from scratch you are nothing but a luser.

Also to the person who claimed that 2.6 was not ready: what exactly are you smoking, and where could I score some of that.

Thanks.

[Tafiti]

6. OK, I can see the fixation on Star Wars...

...but why all the love for Star Trek??? That show just sucks ass IMO.

[sysoprock]

19. AGREED! Star Trek is ass.

[no name no slogan]

7. Do you live in Mom's basement, or Mom's garage?

:P :hi:

[sysoprock]

20. Haha! Neither. I live in an apartment with a roommate and my chiuhauha.

n/t

[skygazer]

8. Are you a nerd and a geek?

Or a nerd or a geek? Also, are you really huge?

[sysoprock]

22. I would say I'm both.

I'm not really that huge.

This is me

[skygazer]

30. Awwwww......

What a cute little nerd/geek you are!

[LDS Jock]

13. why do i find nerds so attractive?

I love the nerdy type guys who wear glasses.

[sysoprock]

25. perhaps in a former life...

you had a torrid affair with a professor or librarian.

[TrogL]

15. what colours, smells or sounds are you sensitive to?

[sysoprock]

27. hot pink, sneeze residue, and babies screaming.

[aquart]

16. How can I get Firefox to allow a Salon daypass?

I don't seem to be able to get through.

[sysoprock]

26. I never have any problems with Salon...

and I also use Firefox, are you using the latest version?

[jdots]

17. will Melissa Rivers marry Ben Stien ?

is there a new ashcroft c.d. yet ?

[sysoprock]

29. i have no idea what you're talking about.

perhaps i should be asking YOU the nerd questions.

p.s. ben stien rocks.

[amber dog democrat]

21. Why does a Sci Fi movie still have " sound " in space?

and riddle me this.

When in Star Wars, Han Solo says the ' Falcon made the something run in under 2 . something parsecs ... did he mean that?

I always thought a parsec was a parallax second of an arc ( 3.26 light years ) and not a measure of velocity. Am I wrong?

[aden_nak]

28. Two answers to two questions.

There is sound in space because otherwise, fight sequences would be boring. Just pretend that every ship, missile, star, asteroid and laser has its own mic.

There are two answers on The Kessel Run. The first is that Han was just talking shit, saying something he knew was bogus to see if Kenobi knew anything about space travel or was just a rube. The second is that The Kessel Run is measured in the distance you have to travel to complete it. A large cluster of black holes is along the way, and it causes ships to have to fly around them, for obvious reasons. The faster your ship is, the more you can "cut the corner". So a shorter travel distance is indicative of a faster vessel.

[amber dog democrat]

33. I am cool with the Kessel Run being a matter of speed to

manoeuver around black holes... but its kind of obscure.

its a factoid that flight officers know about.

But as for sound.... 2001 was the only movie that really treated it correctly.

excellent.

[aden_nak]

35. It is quite obscure.

But it gets explored a lot in the EU (extended universe of comics, books, games and so on).

And yes, 2001 did treat it properly. It also fit with the themes and stlyes that Kubric used so well. The desolate, quiet isolation of the entire ship was made all the creepier by the vacuumous silence outside its hull.

[redqueen]

31. Did you know Ben Stein is a repuke?

[aden_nak]

36. He wrote speeches for Nixon and Reagan.

So, uh, yep.

[redqueen]

37. Not you, the geek.

The geek that said 'ben stein rocks'.

[aden_nak]

38. I don't dislike him terribly.

He's a Republican, but at least he takes the time to be intelligent about it. And have a sense of humor about it. I mean, he's a very far cry from someone like, say, Hannity. ;)

[redqueen]

39. I used to think so, too.

Then he shot the finger at Arianna Huffington.

[DerekG]

32. Which was better: The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits?

And I speak, of course, of the original series.

[dorktv]

41. Are you married?