How and where would linux kernel developers run into this chap:

Hint: Autoraja is going to look for a specific 8 character string.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar and Ananth

Another guest question from guest question super-hero %gqh% logik

Ironically enough, what is the device called?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Rohan, rickde, KK, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar and Ananth

Guest question from logik %gqh%.

One more joins the club. How do you get this?

Note: gif animation.

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

Guest question by logik. %gqh%

Identify.

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Cracked by: Logik, rickde, s m muneer ali, Rohan, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Ananth, Rogi, Supritha Maiya and Bipin Banavalikar

Plaintext question - Googling/yahooing/duckduckgoing/etc forbidden.

What medium connects:
On the first day of Christmas, technology gave to me:
A database with a broken b-tree (what the hell is a b-tree
anyway?)

On the second day of Christmas, technology gave to me:
Two transceiver failures (CRC errors? Collisions? What is
going on?)
And a database with a broken b-tree (Rebuild WHAT? It’s a
10GB database!)

All the world’s a net! And all the data in it merely packets
come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are
heard no more. ‘Tis a network waiting to be switched!

To switch or not to switch? That is the question. Whether
’tis wiser in the net to suffer the store and forward of
stochastic networks or to raise up circuits against a sea
of packets and, by dedication, serve them.

                Twas brillig, and the Protocols
                     Did USER-SERVER in the wabe.
                All mimsey was the FTP,
                     And the RJE outgrabe,

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, rickde and Logik

What’s so special about this hat?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, rickde, KK and Ananth

Guess who ‘owns’ this design now?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, s m muneer ali, manas, rickde, KK, Vishnu Prashanth, Muthu sundaresan, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar and Rohan

What is this visualization depicting?

Cracked by: rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, s m muneer ali and Ananth

Identify (PS: look closely)

Cracked by: Goyal, rickde, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, manas, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar, s m muneer ali and Ananth

Who’s the guy?

Cracked by: Ananth and Rogi