Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

April 2008

Friday, April 11, 2008

Ugh.

—srikanth @ 10:57

Identify the book

Cracked by: Ajay Parasuram , madhur , Jesse Wilkinson , yaksha , teju , BiGFooT , Ginkgo100 , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Dibyo , akhi , jayanth , Vish , varuns88 , gammafunction , srikar , alakh_niranjan , Rohan , shyam , shashank , svgreatest , RajT and meghana.

Ajay Parasuram, madhur, Jesse Wilkinson, yaksha, teju, BiGFooT, Ginkgo100, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Dibyo, akhi, jayanth, Vish, varuns88, gammafunction, srikar, alakh_niranjan, Rohan, shyam, shashank, svgreatest, RajT and meghana


Beta Testing

—devadutta @ 09:24

1 lead to the discovery of what?

Hint:

Cracked by: udupendra , varuns88 , madhur , teju , jake , Dibyo , Prasad , RajT and akhi.

udupendra, varuns88, madhur, teju, jake, Dibyo, Prasad, RajT and akhi


Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Wrong tense

—srikanth @ 09:41

(1) used a converted version of (2) to build (3). Identify all of them :)

Cracked by: Sai , jayanth and jake. Neat!

Sai, jayanth and jake


Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Boiledbeans on PSP!

—devadutta @ 18:09

Srikanth discovered yesterday that BB works perfectly on a PSP! He is busy having fun on his vacation, so I am posting on his behalf :)

Check out how the page gracefully degrades to fit the PSP screen..

BTW, if you have a mobile device, send in screen shots or device shots of bb to [email protected] and we will post it on front page :)


Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Its so 90s

—devadutta @ 09:32

Connect and fill up the blank

_______________

No one got the blank right.

Connect Cracked by: udupendra , manubhardwaj , Dibyo , Anand Shankar , svgreatest , Rahul , gammafunction , Tathagata Chatterjee , Dibyo , jayanth , duriel and Arun Warrier.

udupendra, manubhardwaj, Dibyo, Anand Shankar, svgreatest, Rahul, gammafunction, Tathagata Chatterjee, Dibyo, jayanth, duriel and Arun Warrier


Monday, April 7, 2008

Can't eat this

—devadutta @ 09:27

What it is

Hint: It evolved from devices similar to the one below

Ye gods! Lots of people here have been to an electronics lab.
Cracked by: teju , udupendra , Keerthi Kiran M , Biki , yaksha , Arun Warrier , Ajay Parasuram , duriel , pratap , madhur , A , Shakeel , shivathilak , psrinivas , Amar , jake , Madan , Shiva , bobo , Anand Shankar , gammafunction , jayanth , svgreatest , shenoyvarun86 , varuns88 , shashank , Rohan and Dibyo.

teju, udupendra, Keerthi Kiran M, Biki, yaksha, Arun Warrier, Ajay Parasuram, duriel, pratap, madhur, A, Shakeel, shivathilak, psrinivas, Amar, jake, Madan, Shiva, bobo, Anand Shankar, gammafunction, jayanth, svgreatest, shenoyvarun86, varuns88, shashank, Rohan and Dibyo


Sunday, April 6, 2008

Stay put.

—srikanth @ 10:13

What’s so special about this article?

af952808730ccff5b9c34ad8827dbeaf.jpg

Also, identify the blocked out parts.

Cracked by: Rahul , Ajay Parasuram , yaksha , udupendra , Arun Warrier , duriel , pratap , madhur , Ginkgo100 , Dibyo , svgreatest , shenoyvarun86 , teju , shyam , jayanth , akhi , psrinivas , Prasad , varuns88 , gammafunction , RajT , Rohan , amar , Jesse Wilkinson , Keerthi Kiran M.

Rahul, Ajay Parasuram, yaksha, udupendra, Arun Warrier, duriel, pratap, madhur, Ginkgo100, Dibyo, svgreatest, shenoyvarun86, teju, shyam, jayanth, akhi, psrinivas, Prasad, varuns88, gammafunction, RajT, Rohan, amar, Jesse Wilkinson and Keerthi Kiran M


Saturday, April 5, 2008

Origins

—srikanth @ 11:36

This picture was one of the first recorded moments during the founding years of a very famous american organization. The organization itself got a 3 letter acronym for a name eventually, and a popular gag has it that the first two letters stand for the initials of the guy whose face is circled.

What organization and who’s the guy?

Cracked by **yaksha **only! Good work!

yaksha


Friday, April 4, 2008

Reverse turing test

—srikanth @ 11:25

No, this isn’t another question…

Our experiment with the “math puzzle” as a captcha didn’t work out. Turns out that whatever script kiddie was spamming us has some basic math skills integrated into the scripts he runs. I normally contend that these nutjobs are mentally impaired (to the point of having trouble breathing without external guidance), but now I must grudgingly admit that this dexterity with numbers was not something I anticipated. Every dog has its day, I guess.

Anyway, the end result of this is that we now have a normal captcha up for unregistered users. Registered users can post without any issues.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. It’s just that the spam was getting a bit much to handle for either of us, and it was only increasing.

Please do let us know immediately if you face any problems. You can post here, or if not possible, mail us at [email protected]


Friday, April 4, 2008

Just does not look correct

—devadutta @ 09:40

Strictly speaking, the logo of this software should sport the animal shown in 1, because the software’s name is 1’s common name. But instead, it sports a stylized version of another animal whose name appears as a part of the software’s name.

Which software?

Hint: Map shows 1’s range

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , manubhardwaj , madhur , Dibyo , akhi , duriel , varuns88 , Vinod P.V , psrinivas , Arun Krishnamoorthy , bobo , RajT and Rohan.

udupendra, teju, manubhardwaj, madhur, Dibyo, akhi, duriel, varuns88, Vinod P.V, psrinivas, Arun Krishnamoorthy, bobo, RajT and Rohan