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—devadutta @ May 2, 2009

Connect

  1. 8b74daf0274c600bd0e6eb7eef8e8e59 2. 8b5fbf49946bb3d12f26f5e7e8a11562

with this equation ad8f5f0c3a4b1a5ff156170ed52519de

p.s: yes, something similar to this had come up a long time ago, but this question is different.

Cracked by: udupendra , p vs np , akhi , Dibyo , Raghuvansh , Shrey Gupta , byslexia , Higgers , u2001137 and Goyal.

udupendra, p vs np, akhi, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Shrey Gupta, byslexia, Higgers, u2001137 and Goyal


No GNUs here

—srikanth @ May 1, 2009

Identify and connect to one of the fastest virtual supercomputers around:

  1. 9be6170cc6af732a9509039736a03e68
  2. eafd553f4ba5c4c77a67b6d22c1b5fdf
  3. 19b2d8bf5bb279f43bf19333fc48d197

Cracked by only udupendra , Logik and Rithwik K. Great work, folks!

udupendra, Logik and Rithwik K


Narf

—srikanth @ April 30, 2009

Identify and connect to famous mad scientist

  1. 4892399fc4e129f36b4456d6e7571482
  2. e8f0c47835ef4617904e9ef97f8d7e83
  3. 69abe65c5b391dad1addf9ee79340b07

[Edit: sigh Yes, small goofup. Not significant enough to require removing question since enough clues are still available.]

Cracked by udupendra , akhi , Dibyo , KRIK , Raghuvansh , nishansolo and Rithwik K.

udupendra, akhi, Dibyo, KRIK, Raghuvansh, nishansolo and Rithwik K


sleep, red red

—srikanth @ April 29, 2009

Identify the gorilla in 1 and connect to an event. 2 is a clue

Identify the gorilla in 1 and connect to an event involving 2.

  1. 432fa16e406699718ab67099716d312a
  2. 2ccbd4e1ed336457189b01f037a14299

[Edit: Note to self: stop framing questions after 2AM.]

Cracked by shrik , jayanth , Dibyo , Mitesh , KRIK , AmK , alephnull , udupendra , Rahulk , madhur , Nakul , Raghuvansh , Ps , Mo , Siddharth Jain and shenoyvarun86.

shrik, jayanth, Dibyo, Mitesh, KRIK, AmK, alephnull, udupendra, Rahulk, madhur, Nakul, Raghuvansh, Ps, Mo, Siddharth Jain and shenoyvarun86


[Tab]

—devadutta @ April 28, 2009

Identify 1 and connect to 2 and 3

1.426444d9d35354ba16fed5b0250739f3 2. 6bca33a70a6f4363a85d707a3264fbc3

  1. 37f96600e90015df125bf5e8f1ccccae

Cracked by: shrik , KRIK , Raghuvansh , udupendra , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo and p vs np.

shrik, KRIK, Raghuvansh, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo and p vs np

Show Answer

Connect is web frameworks. This guy is Django Reinhardt on whom Django is named after. The other two hints point to Ruby on Rails and Cake PHP repectively.


Elementary

—devadutta @ April 28, 2009

Guest question from udupendra. Thanks saar.

Connect

e1814d578fe264ebc4016e10932c5af0 9dfafbbc5b3514ddd89756dcd5dd747e

Cracked by: Vijay Shankar , Raghuvansh , Higgers , Rahul and udupendra(contributor).

Vijay Shankar, Raghuvansh, Higgers, Rahul and udupendra

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Quoting Vijay Shankar


Natraj

—devadutta @ April 26, 2009

Who he?

6a53f18a900428abfd47e3725dfe311b

This should ring the some bells

4abcbbb50b1bf63f4f09bf40a5a3ab70

Cracked by: Dibyo , udupendra , u2001137 , Nakul , shrik , emrohit , alephnull , RajT , nishansolo , KRIK , Vinay , Raghuvansh , shenoyvarun86 , Sharada , svgreatest , Rahul , Ajay Parasuram , Wasi Manazir , Ananth , Ameya and Bipin Banavalikar.

Dibyo, udupendra, u2001137, Nakul, shrik, emrohit, alephnull, RajT, nishansolo, KRIK, Vinay, Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, Sharada, svgreatest, Rahul, Ajay Parasuram, Wasi Manazir, Ananth, raklodramA and Bipin Banavalikar


Just for you

—srikanth @ April 25, 2009

Sitter-ish. First book of an infamous series. identify the book and the series.

51db12a3fe7f9fdad5702e8a5d7ae2b5

Cracked by everyone!

nishansolo, KRIK, Ananth, emrohit, Atul Mathew, abhijeet, Anonymous, AmK, Johny Walker, Dibyo, jayanth, Wasi Manazir, Kaiser Soze, shyam, Raghuvansh, madhur, Shrey Gupta, shenoyvarun86, p vs np, RON, Gautam Dn(RV), Mo, akhi, Aparna, shrik, udupendra, piezocake, alephnull, Nakul, RajT, duriel, Rahul, Siddharth Jain, Martin, u2001137, Bipin Banavalikar, Sudharsan, x3n, sidsen, Debasish, joe, Vaishnavi and Anonymous


Monty Python and ...

—devadutta @ April 24, 2009

Identify and connect 1 and 2 to Facebook

  1. dc3d9d7a511b031c058a19cccddc01c7 2. 04833581dae82062c7363cc88fb0a7f7

Cracked by: shenoyvarun86 , Johny Walker , Ajay Parasuram , Raghuvansh , udupendra and dheeraj.

shenoyvarun86, Johny Walker, Ajay Parasuram, Raghuvansh, udupendra and dheeraj

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Blake Ross (one of the founders of Firefox) and Joe Hewitt floted a company called Parakey which was bought out by Facebook. Most of the windows bar like features you see in facebook was derived from Parakey.


Flush twice?

—srikanth @ April 23, 2009

One extremely famous painting. Identify the artist, and the event depicted.

94523f89ca85237e1c60c0ec360a79eb

Cracked by shrik , Dibyo , sidsen , Sharada , KRIK , username , Nakul and Siddharth Jain.

shrik, Dibyo, sidsen, Sharada, KRIK, username, Nakul and Siddharth Jain