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
WikiVoyage
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
This is Open Cola, an open source cola!
Identify
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, raklodramA and KK
SOFIA IR Laboratory. Very interesting.
What is happening here?
Cracked by: Rogi, s m muneer ali, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, rickde, KK, jinz and Manish Achuth
Boeing using potatoes instead of humans for testing Wi-Fi
Claim to fame?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth
Microsoft terminated support for Halo 2 multiplayer on XBOX live, but there was a caveat: the service would stay on as long as people were still online. A few diehard fans tried to prolong its life by never logging out. APACHE N4SIR was the last one to log off, effectively ending Halo 2 multiplayer via XBL. In the process he kept it alive for almost a month past its final termination date.
Plain-text question:
Something happened in 2012 that caused, at the very least, these sites to go down. It is very likely there were far more failures than this, so I will not claim this list to be exhaustive in any way:
What caused the outage?
Cracked by: Bharat Shetty, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde and KK
The gurus running the central NTP servers added a leap second in 2012. This triggered a couple of obscure bugs that brought down many services en-masse, leading to all these sites going down :)
Not very geeky but I thought a bit of variety might be fun. The many faces of who?
Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, s m muneer ali, Ananth, rickde, KK and jinz
Daft Punk
Simplish question. Identify.
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, rickde and KK
A Gravity Powered LED light.
What is this? AutoRaja will look for its official name.
Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and rickde
SHOAL, a robotic fish that operates in swarms to detect oceanic pollutants.
(2)’s treatment seems to have cured (1) of something. (1), (2) and the ‘something’, please?
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth
(1) is Timothy Ray Brown, AKA The Berlin Patient