pub quiz version 1.0
Hertfordshire Linux User Group
sorry, but this has gone completely off my radar so I am just dumping the following.
I foolishly let the two team names choose their own names. the "lamers" and the "l0Z3rs", it was just as bad last year, so bad it was never recorded ! Teams had been selected, now who was to start? ... Found a Windows Vista cover CD that looked at first glance like a real Vista CD, so we had fun chucking that about, the side with the image was heads, the shiny side tails. Round one was called "shout out". I had downloaded and printed out the list of known Linux distros from wikipedia. The teams alternatively shouted out a linux distro that either appear on my list from wikipedia or that everyone could agree on. Gave lots of healthy argument and education ;) From the Version 1.0 quiz I had :CMOS Acronym: What does acronym CMOS in CMOS-battery stand for ? Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Bonus: what do any other letters in the acronym stand for and :GTK: GNOME and One Laptop Per Child both use GTK but what does the G stand for ? GIMP (tool kit) Bonus: what does GIMP stand for ? Gnu image manipulation program/project And for zero points ... :How is Linux pronounced : 0 points Play ogg. Another one for argument as there seem to be more than one way of achieving this. :command: $command -name windows -action install : how to change windows to linux without using the up arrow or bring-up the value from history via CTRL+r etc? ^windows^linux becomes part of the history One of my favorite bash commands in the "I have never heard of that" category :OD: What does the command od do ? Octal Dump/display od -t x1 that .ogg Richard Stalmans middle name: What is Matthew Linus Torvalds middle name: What is Benedic :file: you recieve a file called 'cheese' when you 'cat' it, it messes up the screen and you have to type 'reset' to restore your terminal, how can you find out what it is ? file cheese. :Alias: You create a bash alias for "ls --color=auto" (you may have this, run 'alias') how can you run the original ls ? /bin/ls - which ls \ls - :books: orielly - :filelight: identify obscured :piet: what do these images represent ? - sco: how many infringing lines did SCO claim Linux infringed on ? hundereds of thousands, more than a million, 1-1.5 million [Chris Sontag:Sr VP:SCO] :Outlook password: My wife needed to recover her outlook POP3 password from one machine to put onto another how can she see it? wireshark/ethereal - plain text - :tux: mission envelopes. include pencil and note "ATTACK the following task = draw tux the penguin" you have 45 seconds starting now ! - :Sync/reboot: the machine has become unresponsive due to a program taking up all the cpu how can you syncronise the data in memory buffers to the hard drive, unmount filesystems and reboot? ALT+SYSRQ + (s/u/b) ssh is accepted :tar acronym: tape archive - boob: what programing language has "boob" as a reserved word? fuckfuck :bonus: how main brainfuck derivities are there? 51 :ubuntu: how to skip sudo for every command when doing something? sudo -s - free memory: in meg free -m in k ? free -k or just free cat /proc/meminfo :ping: what happens if you ping 255.255.255.255 / 255.255.255.0 message "Do you want to ping broadcast? Then -b", man page warns against it. destination specified is invalid :route: You can not get access on to the internet and you suspect the routing table is to blame, how ever when you run route it takes ages before displaying the routing table, what is wrong and what can you do about it. route -n :RSI: RSI/Repetitive Stress Injury can be a killer for typing and using the mouse what cures normal RSI (not carpal tunnel syndrome) ? rest, keep warm, relax, gentle exercise :microsoft: What is microsoft good at ? hardware :leds: How many leds in total are on my binary watch ? 4+6 = 10 :rot13: sealed envelope "decode" first is winner :cd distro: what was the first linux distrobution available on CD ? Yggdrasil, it was released in 1992 and cost $99 and came with 1 CD, one 3.5" and one 5.25" floppy disk :grounded: open case:You want to install a new ram chip in your machine, but the packaging warns not discharge all static first, what can you do ? case WITH cable to mains, radiator, antistatic wrist strap. :rss: in blog feeds what does the acronym RSS stand for Really Simple Syndication what sort of file is it? XML :ssl: What does the acronym SSL, the protocol used in https transactions stand for Secure Sockets Layer how many bits are currently used in SSL keys for https transactions ? 512/1024 (128 iis) ?? :domain name: longest example rule http://linux.support.baddomainname.com only 13 chars baddomainname is counted :wiki: what does the acronym wiki stand for ? nothing bonus: means Hawaiian for quick :Team: how many in your team have a gmail account hotmail/passport/live account pgp key blog built own linux kernel have windows vista on at least one computer in their home. have a myspace page have a facebook page :mime: missed :( :uptime: you want to know how long your system has been been running for since you last rebooted it, for 0 points what command would you use ? now, uptime is has been deleted what can you do now ? cat /proc/uptime bonus second value :cpu: My CPU is an amd 64bit 3500+ How can I find out from the command line what the exact mhz and bogomips of this cpu are cat /proc/cpuinfo :Temp of my CPU: Check on day - `sensors` :number of emails: in trash /spamassain :coords of the hall: what are the GPS coords of this hall, lat, long ?
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