Boiledbeans

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November 2012

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Just wait until Michael Bolton uses these..

—devadutta @ 02:02

What is happening here?

Cracked by: manas, rickde, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, KK, Logik, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, raklodramA, Dibyo and jayanth

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Nokia released 3D printing files (templates) for its Luma 820 phones. Many people are heralding this as a huge validation to 3D printer becoming mainstream.


iSee

—devadutta @ 01:59

Sitter again. Explain

Cracked by: Andy, manas, rickde, bhargava, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, KK, Logik, jinz, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, Vishnu Prashanth, raklodramA, Dibyo, Mayukh Bose, Anjul and jayanth

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Ashton Kutcher starring as Steve Jobs in the new movie on Steve Jobs called jOBS.


Sunday, November 18, 2012

You're probably not one of them.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who? (The group, not the person)

Cracked by: bhargava, rickde, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Logik, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, raklodramA and Dibyo

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The Luddites, who took their name from Ned Ludd - a person (and possible nutcase) who went around breaking stocking frames to protest the use of technology taking jobs away from people.


Saturday, November 17, 2012

Answer is probably inconsistent, or incomplete.

—srikanth @ 23:59

(2) said his “own work no longer meant much, that he came to the Institute merely…to have the privilege of walking home with (1)”

(1) on the left, (2) on the right.

Identify (1) and (2), please.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul, KK, Logik, Ananth, bhargava, vinayaknp, raklodramA, Dibyo and Mayukh Bose

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Kurt Godel, Albert Einstein


Friday, November 16, 2012

Did you say encrypted?

—devadutta @ 18:42

Identify and connect

Bonus cookie points if you tell us why 1 is holding up that disk with a sense of great accomplishment.

P.S: Medals and cookies are broken thanks to Wordpress 3.5 deciding to render comments differently to appease the “social crowd”. Fix coming up.

Cracked by: raklodramA, manas, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Ananth and Logik

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DVD Jon, who was the first to break CSS encryption on DVDs has started a more legitimate operation via a software company called doubleTwist. This is old news for a lot of us, but just posting it here in case someone missed it


Thursday, November 15, 2012

"Windows Everywhere" path?

—devadutta @ 18:37

Another sitter. Identify.

Cracked by: raklodramA, KK, manas, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Manish Achuth, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, bhargava, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma, Logik and Supritha Maiya

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Ubuntu cell phone os.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

No need to wipe C:

—devadutta @ 18:32

What is blocked out in red? and also tell us why this Linux distribution was EPIC.

Cracked by: raklodramA, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, mankuTimma and Logik

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Yggdrasil Linux. THe first Live CD Linux distribution.


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Works only in vacuum

—devadutta @ 18:23

Identify the “joke” and tell us which OS is named after this

Cracked by: Ananth, raklodramA, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, bhargava, Supritha Maiya and Logik

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Spherical Cow, the famous physics joke. And Fedora’s latest release is named after this..


Monday, November 12, 2012

ta ta!

—devadutta @ 01:06

Sitter. Identify logo.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, thiru d gr8, Bipin Banavalikar, Sai Teja Gajula, Manish Achuth, Anjul, vizag sudhakar, raklodramA, KK, manas, ala123, Mayukh Bose, Rogi, Ananth, Supritha Maiya and Jayaprakash B R

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WikiVoyage


Sunday, November 11, 2012

Drink

—devadutta @ 14:29

what is special about this cola drink?

Cracked by: Anjul, manas, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, thiru d gr8, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, raklodramA, vizag sudhakar and KK

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This is Open Cola, an open source cola!