Q: 109 pizzas? In 3.5 years? Even allowing for 9 month school
"years" that's not even a pizza a week. You sure about that?
A: No, but we're working on an on-line pizza and pop counting system
so that we can provide the public with better records of our dietary habits.
Q: How come it doesn't matter how many times you submit
a request for 20 secs of air to the fan, it always
claims the queue of requests is 'about 15 seconds long'?
A: Our fan-deamon checks for new requests every 30 seconds, so the
average wait would be about 15 seconds. If you mean why don't we blow the fan
directly, the answer is because the httpd deamon doesn't run as root.
Q: Hey! If Anthony's computer provides the temperature how could it ever be off?
A: Oh ya, we were waiting for someone to notice that.
We're looking into other ways of getting the
current temp, but these darn classes keep chewing up all of our free time.
In the mean time you can assume that the temp is a couple hours old if
Anthony's computer is off.
Q: What is the coolest Metallica song of all time?
A: The coolest Metallica song of all time is Master of
Puppets.
Q: With all this hacking how do you guys find time to pick up chicks?
A: Fortunately Mike and Anthony already had girlfriends before they
wired their room: Anthony+Linda and Mike+Shelley.
Q: What other award-winning sites have you guys worked on?
A: Mike and Anthony have worked on the ever-popular
Cool Word of the Day,
(Cool Site of the Day - October 17th,
1994) and the ever-helpful State of South
Dakota web site (Cool Site of the
Day - September 2nd, 1994).
Q: Where's the beer?
A: We keep our beer in the fridge.
Actually we drink downtown since we're both 21. And the school tends to
frown upon students keeping alcohol in their rooms, no matter how cool they
are. :-(
Q: What's next?
A: We're working on a
'current picture' camera that will be hooked to Mike's mac. It will
probably be pointed at our aquarium since we're shy. (most geeks are)
Q: How come you need us to blow your fan, it doesn't look that warm
in your room?
A: We setup the fan (and others) when we arrived in September and
it really was hot in our room.
Q: Is it true that you actually have an XT in the corner of your
room displaying the current time in binary!?
A: Yes, like most geeks our main mission in life is to convert the
whole world from the yucky decimal system to a more elegant and practical
system of measurement: binary.
Q: Are the socks washed?
A: Yes. All of our 'dirty' socks go in our clothes baskets, and are
thus not counted.
Q: What do you guys look like?
A: Anthony has a
picture off his home page (Anthony is in the foreground).
Q: Why do you guys need your own web site?
A: Because the school wouldn't let us solder wires into the back of
any of their UNIX boxes.
Q: Are you high?
A: Currently? No.
Q: Why does Mike have more more pairs of socks than Anthony?
A: Mike has more socks because one of Anthony's old pairs of shoes had a
little poky deal that tore holes in his socks.
Q: How do I get a response from Mike and Anthony?
A: You send us a really cool question that we put in this FAQ.
Q: How many "blow jobs" do you get in a day?????
A: In early November we averaged about 140 per day. (but who's
counting?)
Q: Where the hell do you sleep?!
A: Our beds are lofted, Mike's bed is above our extra desk (and
Saturn), Anthony's bed is above the couch.
Q: What are you all trying to accomplish by all of this?
A: Good question dude.
Q: How old are you guys?
A: Mike and Anthony are both 21.
Q: Will you please tell me how the lead singer of AC/DC died?
A: AC/DC's frontman Bon Scott, was found dead in the
backseat of a friends car. Officially he
died from natural causes, but he had been drinking quite heavily the night
before and it is common knowledge now that Bon had died by passing out
and choking on his own vomit.
Q: Can I see Mike pick his nose?
A: Not yet, but we're working on hooking up a Connectix quick-cam.
Q: Why BSD and not Linux?
A: Several reasons; first we've have had a large amount
of experience with FreeBSD, having ran it on Saturn for several years.
Second, DSU's resident UNIX guru (Guy Helmer) is big into FreeBSD,
so we knew that we would have no trouble getting advice if we had problems.
Q: Isn't there some fire code you two are violating with all of your
wires for the three computers, fish tank, fans, etc.?
A: Probably, but they haven't caught us yet.
Q: What colors are the socks?
A: All of Mike and Anthony's socks are plain white.
Q: Which do you use more - the calculus books or the Metallica box set?
A: Mike and Anthony are done with both of their Calculus classes,
but you can guess which got more use last year. :-)
Q: Do you have any kind of movie deal in order?
A: Currently no, but if it does come to that Anthony wants Steven
Segal to play his part.
Q: What do most people say when they see Saturn?
A: Most people say: 'That's it? I expected so much more...'.
Q: Who are you guys?
A: We're Mike and Anthony.
Q: I made the fan blow in your room for 40 seconds and the temperature got hotter! Why is that?
A: Remember that its a fan, not an air conditioner (which would be
hard to run off of a 12v parallel port!). So in reality our fan simply
moves the hot air from one place to another, but thanks anyway!
Q: You guys are great entertainment, do you also perform for parties?
A: Yes, for only $99.95 Mike and Anthony will come to your party.
Your friends will watch in amazement as Mike and Anthony attach all kinds
of worthless junk to the Internet.
Q: What is the greatest Simon and Garfunkel song of all time?
A: We don't know, but the second greatest Metallica song of all time
is 'Whiplash'.
Q: What is the capital of Iceland?
A: The capital of Iceland is Reykjavik.
Q: Is it true that Saturn's floppy drive is sitting outside of the case?
A: Yes, Saturn's two full height hard drives take up all of the free
drive bays, so the floppy drive sits on top. (Photo of Saturn)
Q: Where's the coke machine and why isn't it wired?
A: Mike and Anthony don't have a Coke machine, and the school
doesn't want us to touch any of theirs...
If it makes you feel better, Anthony has a whole list of wired
Coke machines.
Q: So what does your geek code say?
A:
Anthony:
GCS d-- s: a-- C+++ UBOS++++$ P++++ L E---- W+++ N++ o-- K w+++ O M- V-- PS
PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5? X- R- tv- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++(*) h-(*) r++ y+(*)
Mike:
GCS d- s: a-- C++++ UBHO++++ P++++ L+ E--- W+++ N++ o-- K- w-- O M++ V- PS PE+ Y PGP t--- 5-- X- R- tv-- b+ DI++ D+ G e++ h- r++ y+
Q: Has Anthony ever visited London, England?
A: No. (And neither has Mike)
Q: Where's the television? Every self respecting dorm room needs a TV.
A: Mike and Anthony don't have a TV (not that they would have time
to watch one if they did.) When they want to watch videos (Metallica box set),
they use Mike's mac and its build-in AV connections.
Q: How long did this take you to setup anyway?
A: Mike and Anthony usually work on their room the night before
math tests, and by their count it has taken two Linear Algebra tests and
a Discrete Math test to get this far...
Q: If you guys are at Comdex, then why is your door open???
A: It seems that Anthony bumped Saturn while packing, causing
several of the wires to fall out of their ports. If you were at
Comdex, you probably saw Mike and Anthony frantically running around
the Sony web terminals, trying to figure out why their door was open.
Q: How fast is your connection?
A: Mike and Anthony have two 10mbs ethernet connections to their
room. (same as every dorm room on campus!) Note that Saturn must share
its connection with Mike's mac. Beyond that
Dakota State University has a T1 connection
to the Internet.
Q: How about a computer dedicated to figuring out the value of Pi?
A; Originally the XT-binary clock machine was calculating Pi,
but it was boring, not very useful, and slow. (Not that the binary-clock
provides a great deal of entertainment...)
Q: Does that little troll have a name? (
picture)
A: We usually refer to it as: 'that damn troll who's hair is
caught in the fan again.'
Q: Wouldn't it be easier to turn the fan on your self?
A: Probably, but we doubt our page would be nominated for
many awards if we turned on the fan.
Q: What are you guys doing in a dorm room over Christmas break?
A: Anthony works for DSU Computing Services part time, and
came back from break to help with several network upgrades.
Q: I don't suppose you would share your secrets with a humble
computer nerd in development?
A: Sure we will: Stay up really late working on things other
than class assignments, drink lots of Mt. Dew, listen to Metallica,
and watch Beavis and Butthead daily.
Q: How many visitors do you all get?
A: HTTPD reports sending Wired-Room pages about 40,000 times
in the first two months of 1996.
Q: How do you keep a good GPA with all the stuff you do in your
free time?
A: Ummm, next question please.
Q; Mike and Anthony what size shoe do you wear?
A: Mike wears size 11.5 and Anthony wears size 10.5
Q: What happens to your site after you two graduate?
A: 404 - Not Found
Q: How come its so cold in your room?
A: Our temp sensor is located on the floor about 2 inches from an
exterior wall, so its readings might be a few degrees low.
Q: When will the next Metallica album be released?
A: According to the club magazine 'So What!' the sixth Metallica
album will be released on June 4th in North America (June 3rd elsewhere).
Q: Does your couch have legs?
A: No (it barely has cushions.)
Q: Did you learn to do the programming for this in college
or did you learn through other means?
A: Heavens no, they only teach useful languages in college. Like
COBOL and Assembler. :-)
Actually DSU has a number of great programming classes, but none of them
deal with attaching doors and fans to the Internet.
Q: Which one of you are older?
A: Mike is about 1 month older than Anthony.
Q: Why did you name the computer Saturn?
A: Anthony named the computer after his favorite planet.
Q: Can I buy that "dorm couch" for $20?
A: Sure, but you'll have to come get it. (We don't deliver.)
