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March 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008

Musical

—devadutta @ 09:42

Easy one again :)

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Cracked By: piezocake , teju , nofreebrains , madhur , Napoleon Dammit , Dibyo , jayanth , shyam , shenoyvarun86 , varuns88 , Srikanth , prasanth , udupendra , rajeshvj , RajT , anurag , duriel , bobo , sayantan bose.

piezocake, teju, nofreebrains, madhur, Napoleon Dammit, Dibyo, jayanth, shyam, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, Srikanth, prasanth, udupendra, rajeshvj, RajT, anurag, duriel, bobo and sayantan bose


Can it.

—srikanth @ 10:30

Identify this 18th century mathematician

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His work and its derivatives helps us get our work done today. Clue:

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Cracked by: udupendra , pratap , madhur , varuns88 , duriel , Dibyo , Atul Mathew , shenoyvarun86 , jayanth , nofreebrains , teju , Vinod P.V , Malcaluffin , Nikhil , nishansolo , Srikanth and yaksha.

udupendra, pratap, madhur, varuns88, duriel, Dibyo, Atul Mathew, shenoyvarun86, jayanth, nofreebrains, teju, Vinod P.V, Malcaluffin, Nikhil, nishansolo, Srikanth and yaksha

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Thomas Bayes.


Deja vu?

—srikanth @ 09:25

Yes, it’s a glitch in the matrix. Or rather, in BB.

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Something’s broken in the image uploader code, so you’re going to see that some images have overwritten some older images. We’re working to restore them as soon as we can..

Till then, If you have time, it’d be really, really helpful for us if you could help us find questions where the images have been overwritten. So, if you feel like doing a little good deed, please send in the paths to the screwed up questions to [email protected]

Oh, your regular question will be posted as usual.


Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Scroll Down

—devadutta @ 09:52

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Dibyo is right, I have missed this dude below.. one of my all-time favorites.

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Yes, they are all famous jazz artists. But thats not the answer.

Hint: The images are in chronologically correct order :)

Cracked by: fdob , teju , Dibyo , Tathagata Chatterjee and udupendra.

fdob, teju, Dibyo, Tathagata Chatterjee and udupendra


Tuesday, March 11, 2008

2 in 10 is a good thing!

—srikanth @ 10:00

Just three of many more variants, what’s the story behind these?

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Cracked by: Shreyas , Dibyo , varuns88 , sidsen , udupendra , jayanth and shashank.

Shreyas, Dibyo, varuns88, sidsen, udupendra, jayanth and shashank

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Each release of OpenBSD (since 3.x) has come out along with a release song, and some artwork accompanying the song. This typical includes some variant of Puffy, the OpenBSD mascot, in some pop culture setting. These are three such variants of Puffy.


Monday, March 10, 2008

... is the future!

—devadutta @ 09:33

IBM got into decent trouble for painting these signs on the pavements of a big US city as a part of a marketing campaign.
What is blurred out in the image?

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Here is another look at the same ad, but on a less harmful billboard.

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Cracked by: madhur , yaksha , nofreebrains , teju , Shreyas , nishansolo , Rohan , jayanth , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Shyam , Vinod P.V , Ganesh Prasad , Nikhil , Tathagata Chatterjee , shivathilak , shivathilak , Sandhip , bobo , uma , varuns88 , sidsen , prasanth , Srikanth , BiGFooT , udupendra , Poornima , Ginkgo100 , Manish and duriel.

madhur, yaksha, nofreebrains, teju, Shreyas, nishansolo, Rohan, jayanth, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Shyam, Vinod P.V, Ganesh Prasad, Nikhil, Tathagata Chatterjee, shivathilak, shivathilak, Sandhip, bobo, uma, varuns88, sidsen, prasanth, Srikanth, BiGFooT, udupendra, Poornima, Ginkgo100, Manish and duriel

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Tux, the Linux mascot is blurred out.


Sunday, March 9, 2008

It's-a me-a!

—srikanth @ 12:13

This landlord intruded on a meeting in a company’s office, and ended up giving his name to something:

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What?

Cracked by: varuns88 , jayanth , rajeshvj , Dibyo , bobo , teju , udupendra, prasanth and shashank.

varuns88, jayanth, rajeshvj, Dibyo, bobo, teju, udupendra, prasanth and shashank


Saturday, March 8, 2008

Repair stuff, I do

—devadutta @ 13:10

Easy one for the weekend..

Identify the logo in 1. 2 is a hint.

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Cracked by: teju , duriel , bobo , varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , Vinay , piezocake , Archana , prasanth , Poornima , BiGFooT , Prasad , rajeshvj , akhi , yaksha and shashank. and dibyo

teju, duriel, bobo, varuns88, Dibyo, jayanth, udupendra, Vinay, piezocake, Archana, prasanth, Poornima, BiGFooT, Prasad, rajeshvj, akhi, yaksha and shashank


Friday, March 7, 2008

This isn't the clue you're looking for...

—srikanth @ 10:46

This question courtesy Prasad, the Pocket-Tanks commander. Send in your guest questions to [email protected] to earn the +5 aura-of-awesomeness power up.

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  3. int array[10000]; for(int i=0; i <= 10000; i++) { println(array[i]); }

duriel got the perfect answer. Semi-cracked by: jayanth , bobo , nishansolo and shashank.

jayanth, bobo, nishansolo, duriel and shashank

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Sir Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars series. The third is a bit of code that shows an off-by-one error, affectionately called an obi-wan error (The array has 10000 elements, but the loop accesses 10001 elements)


Thursday, March 6, 2008

e0 a5 90

—srikanth @ 10:07

Rampant speculation, this. Consider it more along the “arbit” vector, as opposed to the “knowledge dissemination” vector.

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(1) , although better known for something else, used to teach (2)’s techniques to people. (1) allegedly used (3) in something famous he created. Who is (1), what did he create, and what’s the connect to (2) and (3)?

Cracked by: sidsen , udupendra , Shreyas , Dibyo , Mitesh , jayanth , yaksha and shashank.

sidsen, udupendra, Shreyas, Dibyo, Mitesh, jayanth, yaksha and shashank

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  1. Mitch Kapor