Monday, April 2, 2007

Some comp. related stuff

Most are guessable. Atleast to people who dabble around with software and source code.

1. In 1999, David Smith fell in love with a Florida Stripper who unfortunately did not return his passion. So Smith sat down and wrote a virus mourning his love affair and named this virus after the stripper. This virus arrived disguised as an email and supposedly caused damages worth $80 million. Name the virus/stripper.

2. This person is often known as the Wizard of _oz. When he was just 18 years old, he used to sell an illegal device called Blue Box at the Homebrew Computers, that enabled people to make free long distance calls. He went under the name Oak Toebark and his first call using this device was to the Pope in the Vatican, to make a confession. Who?

3. Versions of this old and venerable linux distro are named after characters of a animated movie produced by Walt Disney. Name the distro and the movie.

4."First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful People", and __NOT__ read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture. "
Where would you find this? (Notice the underscores and I don't expect anybody to get it)

- Arjun

4 comments:

Vaibhav Devanathan said...

1. Zryvffn
2. Fgrir Jbmavnx
3. Fabj Juvgr naq gur Frira Qjneirf? Unior ab vqrn nobhg gur qvfgeb fb V'yy whfg fnl Erqung
4. Yvahf Gbeinyqf?

Btw, who posted this?

Snaggletooth said...

This is Arjun. Sorry for not posting my name.

First two are right and the fourth, partly so.
1. Easy one.
2. By the way, the first call went like "Is the Pope there? I'm calling from California, and I need to confess!"
3. The third one is not right.
The distro is qrovna.
Movie is gbl fgbel.
Characters (ohmm, jbbql, fnetr, cbgngb, fyvax, unzz ...)
4. The person is right and easy to get. The quote is found in the "'ZnantrzragFglyr' va gur yvahk xreary qbphzragngvba".
Try it. Its ____ take on znantrzrag
Well, a very arbit question.

Vaibhav Devanathan said...

Nice questions!

The last especially was great.

Sadanand said...

1) Zryvffn
3) Gbl Fgbel - Qrovna

Sadanand