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-- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 06:50:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Sumit Dhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux/IT Related Quiz 2 (fwd) I just submitted this Linux related quiz. Dont know when it will show up on the Quiz Group.. You can have an advance preview.. :) Cheers, Dhar ---------- Q1. Ian Hutton, a Microsoft spokesman, admitted a certain wrongdoing on Microsoft's part. He also complained that Microsoft and its PR firm had been receiving malicious and obscene email from Linux fans. In response to this Eric S Raymond said "One wonders if Hutton believes it would be unprofessional to address strong language to a burglar caught nipping the family silver" What event is being talked about here? Q2. In 1981, the first concept of WIMP appeared in Xerox 8018 system. The idea was then used by Apple in 1984 when they developed their MacOS. Surprisingly, most novices credit Microsoft for WIMP. What does WIMP stand for? Q3. About what applications did the Kurt Seifried (of Securityportal.com) write an article titled "The End of SSL and SSH"? And Mark Joseph Edwards said "It is Swiss army knife of privacy invasion." What package/application?? [If you haven't used it yet, try it out!] Q4. He was a wild Greek Centaur, who tried to abduct Deianira, Hercules new bride while ferrying her across the River Evenus. Hercules heard her cries and shot an arrow into the heart of this Centaur. The teenage author of an open source security software was looking for a name for his project when he chanced upon this name while flipping through the pages of a mythology book. Immediately taken by how cool this name sounded, he named his software after this centaur. Name this centaur/software. Q5. We have all heard of various flavours of Unix: AIX, Digital Unix, HP UX, Sun-Solaris, Irix, SCO-Unix. Which organization was responsible for development of Xenix, a version of Unix which ran on PCs and was compatible with AT&T's System V Definition. Q6. This person is often known as the Wizard of Woz. When he was just 18 years old, he used to sell an illegal device called Blue Box at the Homebrew Computers, that enabled people to make free long distance calls. He went under the name Oak Toebark and his first call using this device was to the Pope in the Vatican, to make a confession. Who? Q7. IN 1980, James P. Anderson, published a paper which talked of ways of improving computer security auditing and survelliance at customer sites. This study paved way for a certain class of programs. Dorothy Denning and Peter Neumann researched and developed the first model of such a program. What? Q8. The author of this program, had worked for a year as a volunteer with a project in the south of Uganda. After he returned from Uganda, he found his heart was still there. So he made his program which we all probably use "Charityware". According to the author, "You can use and copy it as much as you like, but you are encouraged to make a donation to orphans in Uganda." Who is the author and which program are we talking about? Q9. I am a member of the Merrill Lynch's Technology Advisory Board and appeared as a supporting artist in two record albums "A Song of Gods Gone Mad" and "Full Circle". I am close to completing a Sci Fiction book titled "Shadows and Stars" and am a Tae-Kwon-Do Federation 1st Dan Black Belt. Netscape Communications described my paper as a major factor in their decision to release their client software as open source. And I have never taken any courses in computer science or software engineering.Who am I? --Dhar _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
