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2010

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Carl Sagan would love this

—devadutta @ 21:09

First, a big round of applause to Rogi. He has hit a run-length of 200, which is just brilliant stuff! Congrats Rogi and keep it going! You get your third star of honor for this achievement!

Now for the question:

Simple one to start the week. Where was this picture taken from and what does that arrow point to?

Cracked By: Thejas V R, Dibyo, Rahulk, krudebox, googboog, Vishnu, Bharath, raklodramA, Smitha R Maiya, udupendra, Goyal, Rogi, Arun Krishnamoorthy, reddevil_ani, akhi, Raghuvansh, Aparna, Logik, Manish Achuth, dineshk, shenoyvarun86, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, sandesh, puneet, varuns88 and Ganesh Prasad


Disastrous, of late...

—srikanth @ 20:55

A very straightfoward question: identify the man in the stamp. Pseudobonus points for telling us why he’s famous.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, reddevil_ani, googboog, Dibyo, umang, Inglourious, Treyambak Madyalkar, Rogi, shenoyvarun86, Aparna, Smitha R Maiya, varuns88, Logik, Rahulk, Thejas V R, krudebox, Qbrain, udupendra, Bharath, lanu, dineshk, shrik and Shwetha Maiya


Friday, May 14, 2010

Spin it!

—srikanth @ 19:09

Guest question from shrik!

Identify the monstrous looking contraption - and tell us why it’s been in the news recently.

Got any questions you’d like us to ask? Send them in to [email protected]!

Cracked by Logik, Vishnu, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, googboog, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, krudebox, Rahulk, Dibyo, Bharath, reddevil_ani, Smitha R Maiya, Aparna, varuns88, shreiisc, umang, Inglourious, Treyambak Madyalkar, sandesh, Manish Achuth, udupendra, Arun Krishnamoorthy, mankuTimma, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk and shrik


Thursday, May 13, 2010

Don't try this at home

—srikanth @ 21:10

What’s the effect?

Cracked by Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, varuns88, RahulN, Rahulk, Dibyo, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Aparna, googboog, shrik, Bharath, dineshk, Logik, sandesh, shenoyvarun86, Smitha R Maiya, shreiisc and Inglourious


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Two's company, three's a crowd.

—srikanth @ 21:05

What connects?

Cracked only by Rogi, dineshk and Arun Krishnamoorthy


Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Twist, twist...

—srikanth @ 17:58

(1) was at (2) when he publicized some techniques that helped him in his job. Although the techniques are named after (1) they were actually developed by X at (3). Much later, his techniques are now widely used. (1) and (x)?

Cracked by everyone!

Thejas V R, Rahulk, Rogi, krudebox, googboog, Dibyo, dineshk, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Rohan D, Raghuvansh, shrik, Treyambak Madyalkar, Logik, Aparna, udupendra, reddevil_ani, mankuTimma, sidsen and varuns88


Monday, May 10, 2010

wq

—devadutta @ 23:59

1 created one of the most awesome tools ever for programmers and 2 “improved” it. Identify the tool.

Don’t let the bottles fool you! 1 is a programming god and he supposedly finished this tool “over the weekend”.

Cracked By: Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Dibyo, Thejas V R, googboog, v.chandrashekar, krudebox, varuns88, Rahulk, Roan Naidu, Rogi, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Logik, piezocake, Aparna, AmK, Hari, Bharath, Vishnu, udupendra, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla and sidsen


Sunday, May 9, 2010

Round and round...

—srikanth @ 22:51

Something happened to ancient historian (1) at location (2 - marked with A) (long long ago). How do we know this today?

Cracked by everyone!

Thejas V R, googboog, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, udupendra, wanderlust, Dibyo, Rogi, varuns88, reddevil_ani, shrik, Aparna, Logik, dineshk, shenoyvarun86, Nihar, Rahulk, Raghuvansh, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Manish Achuth, Bharath, mankuTimma and sidsen


Saturday, May 8, 2010

Vote for Pedro

—devadutta @ 23:29

Whats special (funny) about these animals?

Cracked By: Raghuvansh, varuns88, Rogi, shrik, Abhishek, Manish Achuth, Logik, udupendra, akhi, krudebox, dineshk, Chandramohan, Aparna, wanderlust, Dibyo, shreiisc, Rahulk, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, Qbrain, reddevil_ani, sidsen, sandesh, shenoyvarun86, Arun Krishnamoorthy, googboog, AmK and Bharath


Friday, May 7, 2010

Cannot use to make roads

—devadutta @ 22:43

This unix tool X was originally created to backup files on devices like 1. Even though devices like 1 are now extinct, this tool is still used by almost everyone who deploy software on *nix based systems. Identify X.

Cracked by: udupendra, Thejas V R, googboog, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, shrik, varuns88, Logik, calvin, SV, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Rogi, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, shenoyvarun86, Abhishek and wanderlust

Show Answer

tar - Tape Archiver. Tar basically joins multiple files into one.