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2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

These results just don't make sense!

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify and connect:

  • 004876b93d640327c6a2fba11913f5a1
  • 61eefd3ae5808191ea087cdca343c713

Cracked by udupendra , Kaiser Soze , Kal , Raghuvansh , duriel , username , Sharada , p vs np , Nakul , Aparna , priyananda , shrik and nisha’s thambi.

udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Kal, Raghuvansh, duriel, username, Sharada, p vs np, Nakul, Aparna, priyananda, shrik, Ananth and nisha’s thambi


Ding!

—devadutta @ 22:26

Although buildings like the one shown in 1 were technically possible, it was considered to be impractical and not built until people like 2 invented and perfected X. Identify 2 and tell us what is X.

  1. 10ddedc78d84b457766c96b9c7e8897c 2. c0bdb449d0c23c22ae0255c422091f84

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , Prasad , Kal , AmK , Dibyo , p vs np , Martin , username , udupendra , Rohan , Debasish , nisha’s thambi , karthik , sumo_ftb , Ananth , Aparna , duriel , Jo , darksideofchand , Pawankumar Hegde , Ps and sidsen.

Raghuvansh, Prasad, Kal, AmK, Dibyo, p vs np, Martin, username, udupendra, Rohan, Debasish, nisha’s thambi, karthik, sumo_ftb, Ananth, Aparna, duriel, Jo, darksideofchand, Pawankumar Hegde, Ps and sidsen

Show Answer

2 is Elisha Otis and X is the “Elevator”


Monday, February 2, 2009

Winge-ing it

—srikanth @ 21:00

What connects this exhaustive chronological list?

  1. Larry Wall
  2. Miguel de Icaza
  3. Brian Paul
  4. Guido van Rossum
  5. Lawrence Lessig
  6. Alan Cox
  7. Theo de Raadt
  8. Andrew Tridgell
  9. Ted Ts’o
  10. Harald Welte

Cracked left, right and center.

Ananth, Goyal, karthik, nisha’s thambi, mach101, Prasad, AmK, Martin, p vs np, Kal, duriel, Rohan, Ps, Raghuvansh, yaksha, Atul Mathew, Jean Valjean, akhi, Debasish, priyananda, BASAB, udupendra, madhur, Dibyo, Aparna, username, varun, Neeraj, shenoyvarun86 and blindo


Sunday, February 1, 2009

asdfgh

—devadutta @ 22:29

Who is this guy?

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Hint: His followers invariably hate the guy below and get into bitter flame wars on the internet saying the guy above is better(recent research has evidance to prove otherwise)

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Update: Fixed image. Thanks to duriel.

Cracked by almost everyone.

Dibyo, Rohan, Martin, p vs np, Gurupad, Ps, calvin, Debasish, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Kal, duriel, username, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, Mo, Prasad, AmK, shrik, priyananda, Miraj C. Vora, malcaluffin, Aparna, nisha’s thambi, Siddharth Jain, Ananth, Atul Mathew, karthik, nishansolo and kiran


Saturday, January 31, 2009

I, who?

—srikanth @ 20:38

Identify famous couple of the world of sci-fi:

bb7ac887259d97d83cfa181ee1a51969

Cracked by shenoyvarun86 , malcaluffin , Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra.

shenoyvarun86, malcaluffin, Bipin Banavalikar and udupendra


Friday, January 30, 2009

fun return fun();

—devadutta @ 23:59

Every budding computer scientist would have heard about this, but never would have seen this.

Identify

71ad677e42d9b2b98421f7ed0f4f9cc6

Cracked by: Goyal , Raghuvansh , Dibyo , p vs np , Kal , duriel , dheeraj , twistedtail , username , bulldozer , Jean Valjean , K.S.Manish , udupendra , sumo_ftb , Johny Walker , Neeraj , shrik , darksideofchand , Ananth , Pawankumar Hegde , Vaishnavi , priyananda , Soda.

Goyal, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, p vs np, Kal, duriel, dheeraj, twistedtail, username, bulldozer, Jean Valjean, K.S.Manish, udupendra, sumo_ftb, Johny Walker, Neeraj, shrik, darksideofchand, Ananth, Pawankumar Hegde, Vaishnavi, priyananda and Soda

Show Answer

Tower of Hanoi.


Thursday, January 29, 2009

Beware the brass rats

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify the person in the middle and what’s being done with him:

8347c6c6ed13bd46c0db923706d20318

Clue:

4cea80d22726c3961af2ba14249ef4aa

Neeraj , Dibyo , Rohan , Ludwig , Debasish , Raghuvansh , Kal and Mo.

Neeraj, Dibyo, Rohan, Ludwig, Debasish, Raghuvansh, Kal and Mo


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

log(8)/log(2)

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

78c8a225a1d5ff9674bc6a8dfd740e8c 4b76d5067b10b6a9ec29ad511ea942e5 eeb8a2f305ea0e35bd0bde560bb6f6dc

Cracked by: Goyal , twistdtail , duriel , quaziluffy , Rahul and Debasish.

Goyal, twistdtail, duriel, quaziluffy, Rahul and Debasish


Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Ask renicely

—srikanth @ 21:00

Identify

9847b3fd8d20b59c169ebbfb9a683481 a2f66e7425f2c983bb07acf28bdda4da

Cracked by username , Goyal , Kal , udupendra and shrik.

username, Goyal, Kal, udupendra and shrik


Monday, January 26, 2009

Half Life

—devadutta @ 23:40

Programming language 1 is named after 2. Identify them both.

1. 837711b46767fc0d467ff295a5c2bc90 2. 489b53abdd34b570bea389bb6dbfa29b

Hint:

To identify 1, use the symbols in the image. To identify 2, use the image below

a879c7cf33ce42b76af8878faa760023

Cracked by: Goyal , username , udupendra , Raghuvansh , akhi , Johny Walker , vs , Kal , shenoyvarun86 , kaushik , shrik , malcaluffin , Atul Mathew and Dibyo.

Goyal, username, udupendra, Raghuvansh, akhi, Johny Walker, vs, Kal, shenoyvarun86, kaushik, shrik, malcaluffin, Atul Mathew and Dibyo