Windows NT name size limits, network cabling and protocols, Linux printer daemon commands, AD&D character alignments -- find out how much you know where it really counts by taking InfoWorld's 2010 Geek IQ Test.
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I'd argue that none of the options would because your IP is still getting logged all over the place and users are still giving away their details to social networks.
But if this is the same site that produced an open source quiz which got the answer wrong for the history behind the naming of Linux, then I'm hardly surprised I found fault with this quiz too.
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Isn't that "restart" method just some Red Hat wrapper for /etc/rc.d/ scripts? I have always thought so since I haven't seen that program shipped with any distribution after ditching Red Hat Linux 6 ten years ago.
Though I admit I could be wrong. I haven't even tried using "restart" because running an init script works with every distro and is much more logical.
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I'm sitting in front of a RHEL5 box... no 'restart' command here that I can find...
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>> Restart [printer name] (from the quiz)
I think the quiz master might be thinking of the command you would give to lpc if you were using a Linux system which used bsd-lp/lpr (can't be many these days). That said, I don't think any lpc will accept "Restart" with a capital R as a valid command.
edit: Added lpr and bit about case sensitivity.
Edited 2010-11-19 13:51 UTC
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That THING asked me questions about Windows, and accused me of watching Television and owning an iPhone.
Windows warps the brain, and if I ever watch Television, it's the Simpsons, or Futurama, not f***ing Alley McBeal. I got the free Win Mobile phone from Verizon, and put Android on it....
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I've talked to int21h, I have the root password. How dare they speak to me in that manner.
Come back when you've fiddled with CP/M, or at least hex edited a piece of software as a prank.... then you can talk to me...
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Correct Answer: Restart [printer name]
On what system is there a command called 'Restart' which is used to restart a daemon? Some other commenter mentions a redhat-specific 'restart' wrapper, so I suppose that's what this was referring to, but to capitalize the R indicates (1) that the authors are unix neophytes at best and (2) that no one who doesn't use this command regularly will choose this option. I went with chanting on this one since all options were obviously incorrect.
I can understand including a little Windows trivia, like the aero acronym thing, but there was far, far too much. Makes me pine for the days of the ludicrous speed nerd test!
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Or that they're using one of those annoying editors that helpfully capitalizes the first letter of what it thinks is a sentence.
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I use editors like that all the time and I put myself through the pain of going back every time it 'corrects' a word that should start with a lower case letter and uncorrecting it. I am not sympathetic for people who are so unobservant or lazy that they don't notice or don't bother to do the same.
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What advertising?
If there was some, it was stopped by AdBlock filter.
If it passed the filter, I didn't look at it.
If I've seen it, I don't remember what was advertised.
All what I'm left with is a lame test that won't improve my picture of InfoWorld (and neither it does the utter insult that I should be an iPhone owner)
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Not sure how, exactly, I guessed on 80%... and scored 80%.
Yikes. It didn't say I used an iPhone, so that was nice.
It called me a "geek hatchling."
This is rather funny as I'm very much NOT Windows-centric, nor Networking centric much like the quiz.
I guess I absorbed a surprising amount from my Win admin pals. I don't even know what Active Directory does! HAH! Seriously, never looked it up...
Guess I should do that now...
--The loon
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As a Unix developer in my mid 20's, I scored a 6. I didn't even manage to get the Linux question right, since the joke option was just as likely to work as any of the others.
Apparently, my lack of knowledge about (old) Windows trivia means I'm a cheerleader with a Windows phone.
When a lot of the older network mentioned was still prevalent, I'd have been at most 10 years old. Hell, by the time things like FDDI or pre-AD Windows NT networks were on the way out, I was still in high school.
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