Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

September 2012

Monday, September 10, 2012

Tick Tock Tick Tock

—devadutta @ 19:34

Identify and connect.

Great man. R.I.P.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Mayukh Bose, Aparna, KK, Harsha, bhargava, Ananth, Dibyo and Supritha Maiya

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Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer


No window?

—devadutta @ 11:14

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, mankuTimma, Aparna, Jayaprakash B R, Sujoy, Ananth and Dibyo

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Space Shuttle Endeavor’s Flight Deck


Saturday, September 8, 2012

ROFL?

—srikanth @ 23:59

This is not a boiledbeans bug. But what is it?

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&lol9;

Cracked by: vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, Prabhu, Ananth and mayank sharma

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The Billion Laughs XML - expands to a billion LOLs when parsed, effectively nuking any badly-written parser.


Friday, September 7, 2012

4x1e9

—devadutta @ 23:13

Explain

4,000,000,000 = 1x

Cracked by: mankuTimma, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, krudebox, Dibyo and Prabhu

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1 Carl Sagan has been defined as a unit of measurement equal to at least four billion, since the smallest number that may be described as billions and billions must be two billion plus two billion. Humor, Astrophysicist style


Thursday, September 6, 2012

Nigerian King?

—devadutta @ 16:20

Most of us can identify 1, that is not the question. Identify the man in 2. (2 is from the same time frame as 1)

Cracked by: Rogi, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, mankuTimma, KK, ala123, Dibyo and Supritha Maiya

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Hippolyte Bayard, who invented a competing process to Daguerreotype, supposedly before Louis Daguerre but could not take it in front of the French Academy of Sciences in time because Daguerre’s friend persuaded him not to.


Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Are you feeling lucky?

—devadutta @ 00:23

Fill in the blank. If

: :: : ______________

Cracked by: Aparna, KK and Dibyo

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FTP, Archie was one of the first search engines and it searched FTP sites.


Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Yes but does it have instagram?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify this gadget

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, soda buddi, KK, vinayaknp, Supritha Maiya, Harsha, mankuTimma and Ananth

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The Sectera Edge, or the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME-PED) is, apparently, the US army’s very own smartphone designed for high security communication.


Monday, September 3, 2012

Prometheus?

—devadutta @ 22:25

Guest question from %gqh% Dibyo. Thanks a ton saar!

What is blocked out in Yellow (second one from the top)? Bonus if you tell us what is blocked out in Green.

Send guestions (Guest Questions, haha) to [email protected]

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Prabhu, Aparna, Vishnu Prashanth, vinayaknp, KK, Supritha Maiya, mankuTimma, Harsha, Ananth and soda buddi

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Gilese 163 c, the newest “habitable” exoplanet to be discovered.


Sunday, September 2, 2012

At least it makes for a good workout if you carry it around...

—devadutta @ 13:33

1 is the first of its kind , 2 is the first to hit mass production. Identify 1 and 2. (Either one will make AutoRaja happy, both will make me happy)

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Aparna, vinayaknp, Vishnu Prashanth, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Prabhu, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, soda buddi, Dibyo and Mayukh Bose

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1 is the Xero Note Taker and 2 is the Osborne 1. The first of portable computers.


Saturday, September 1, 2012

$35

—devadutta @ 22:02

What it is?

Cracked by: Rogi, SV, Supritha Maiya, Sujoy, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Manish Achuth, manas, Aparna, Prabhu, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Harsha, Puneet, thiru d gr8 and Ananth

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Raspberry Pi