mod_rewrite + half an hour of php hacking = dead simple profile links
Yes. Got some time this weekend to fix the ugly profile links. From now on, you can reach your Boiledbeans profile by just typing

http://boiledbeans.net/your_bb_user_name

e.g http://boiledbeans.net/Rogi

Do let know if you see bugs.

Update: Temporarily disabled to fix bugs

This company was originally supposed to sell what you see in 1. They made small “demo clips” to show 1’s might but it had no buyers. The company later evolved into something totally different. Which company?

The first few “demo clips” has a reference to 1 in the beginning, but, later one of the demo clips became so famous that the company started using that instead of 1 in other things it did.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi and Mihir Rege

Identify device (1) and connect to (2) and (3).

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Debasish, Adhi, prateekbhatt, udupendra, Rogi, shrik, p vs np, byslexia, yaksha, sidsen, Rahulk, daspar, shenoyvarun86, Ajay Parasuram and Sri Harsha

Name of 1’s wife + name of 1 = Name of Linux distribution

Identify the distribution

Apologies for the delay folks, this question will be up much longer

Our friends in IIT Madras are conducting a quiz as a part of Shaastra. Do take a look at it here http://www.shaastra.org/2009/site/events/quizzes/SMQ

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Raghuvansh, Debasish, shrik, madhur, yaksha, Anirudh, Dibyo, Rogi, Logik, akhi, foobar, Atul Mathew, Adhi, prateekbhatt, udupendra, byslexia, p vs np, Rahulk, Prasad and sidsen

Connect to a “symbol” in the geek gestalt. Also, identify (1) and (2).

Cracked, more or less, by everyone.

Dibyo, shrik, Raghuvansh, Rogi and udupendra

Sitter.

What is this?

Cracked by: shrik, Debasish, AmK, Goyal, Chinmaya U.Holla, Dibyo, krudebox, Anirudh, Ananth, achyuth, Rogi, sidsen, Goyal and Rithwik K

Anirudh Patil has sent in this question. This is the first time he has sent one! Thanks a lot and keep it up :)

The story of a character played by 1 is very similar to the real life story of 2. Identify and connect.

Hint:

cat question.txt > /dev/[email protected]

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, joe, sidsen, Chinmaya U.Holla, Raghuvansh, abhijeet, Debasish, Rogi, achyuth, p vs np, wanderlust, Anubhav, Ajay Parasuram, AmK, byslexia and anish

(1) said it would set the atmosphere on fire and possibly destroy the world. Ironically, (2) said it wouldn’t work at all. (3) came closest and won it in the end. What? also, who are (1), (2) and (3)?

Cracked by Dibyo, AmK, udupendra, Rogi, Advaith, nishansolo, krudebox, shenoyvarun86 and Chinmaya U.Holla

Connect:

This is a tech question. No, seriously. Enjoy teh weekends folks :-)

Cracked by everyone!

Raghuvansh, krudebox, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Gurupad, Debasish, byslexia, insufferablejake, varuns88, Anirudh, achyuth, sidsen, AmK and Rithwik K

Game trivia coming up:

(1) + (2) = ??

Cracked by Raghuvansh, xtremevarun, Debasish, Rogi, AmK, Dibyo, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, byslexia, achyuth, Gaurav and sidsen