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Answers to the pop-quiz 2006 April 5 23:26

Posted by diamond in : Cycling,Skynet,Work , 2 comments

So, here are the answers that you’ve all been no doubt waiting for -) (for those who’ve just tuned in, see here). These are the exact answers used for judging the round in the table-quiz, complete with notes.

  1. What does PERL stand for?
    Practical Extraction and Report Language [1]
  2. What year was linux 1.0 released in?
    1994 (13th of march to be precise -)
  3. What does CIDR stand for?
    Classless Inter-Domain Routing
  4. Which company does Linus Torvalds work for?
    Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) (as of june ’03)
  5. Which language does Alan Cox write his diary in?
    Welsh
  6. What does the 206 status code mean in http 1.1?
    Partial Content
  7. What is the reverse dns zone for ul’s class-b ip allocation?
    201.136.in-addr.arpa. (exactness required)
  8. What is the prefix of link-local in ipv6?
    fe80::
  9. What does MIME stand for?
    Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
  10. Name the most common metasyntactic variable.
    foo
  11. Assuming no ls, how would you list the contents of the current directory in unix? Bonus points for any answer in a compiled language.
    echo * (diamond judges this one)
  12. Bonus question: Best Text Editor: Vim or Emacs?
    Vim. We want a text editor, not an os.

[1] PERL did not initially stand for anything, the above is a bacronym, but taken from the PERL man page and i count it as official.

So.. seeing as some people did make attempts at answering the quiz, i’ll score their attempts here:

So, there you have it. No-one resorted to calling me names either, so no points for that. Ah well.

In completely unrelated news, my dual-core intel mac mini arrived yesterday. So far it’s been wiped twice, but is generally behaving itself. And, still unrelated, some random cycling over the last few weeks:

*Update*
My bad. Reilly did indeed include profanity directed at me. As such i am retroactively upping her score to 2.5.