August 14, 2007
Identify
— devadutta @ 11:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187089963 ) 
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His initials can be found as the magic number for one of the first file formats Microsoft churned out.
Identify him
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Srikanth, prabhu_dc and Anuj. Bravo!!
( Bikiran gets it too, just a bit late )
Answer:
He is Mark Zibkowski. One of the first computer hackers. His initials(MZ) can be found as the magic number for the DOS Executable file format. He is also the first to complete 25 years of service at MS apart from Gates and Ballmer.
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August 14th, 2007 at 11:20 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187090446 )
Mark Zbikowski. Blatantly Googled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
August 14th, 2007 at 12:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187094113 )
Well I guess someone would have already caught the rabit.
Anyways,
Mark Zbikowski
Wikipedia Excerpt as following.
“Old MS-DOS .exe files and the newer Microsoft Windows PE (Portable Executable) .exe files start with the ASCII string ‘MZ’ (0×4D5A), the initials of the designer of the file format, Mark Zbikowski. The definition allows ‘ZM’ as well but it is quite uncommon.”
August 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187167995 )
Mark Zbikowski and the file format is the DOS Executable File Format.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:35 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187217352 )
Mark Zbikowski …phew … very CS centric question … an EE guy like me needs a lot of hard work to get such things :) … had no clue what “the magic number” was ….
August 15th, 2007 at 10:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1187217474 )
dude ..u guys put up the results by the time i posted my comment …but i still submitted it … did want my hard work to go wasted :)
August 16th, 2007 at 5:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187242195 )
Bikiran: we are strong believers in the No Comment Left Behind policy, and hence will gladly approve even late comments :-).
BTW, the next question is not CS centric at all; have a go at it :-)
August 19th, 2007 at 12:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187482230 )
Old MS-DOS (.exe files) and the newer Microsoft Windows PE (Portable Executable) .exe files supposedly start with the ASCII string ‘MZ’ (0×4D5A), the initials of the designer of the file format, Mark Zbikowski. “Magic number” on Wiki should do the magic!
August 20th, 2007 at 1:45 am, GMT +0000 ( 1187574336 )
Am i not getting a single pt for t-h-r-e-e w-h-o-l-e lines of ans?? ;)