Trivia Time… August 15, 2005
Posted by dhar in Misc.trackback
- Claude E. Shannon first used this word in a 1948 paper. Shannon’s bit is a portmanteau word for binary digit. What is the word?
- While working on a project constituted by Sun and Apache to create a web server for Java servlets and JSPs, the team would often meet in a conference room named ______. They later used the name of this conference room as the name of the project. What project?
- What is the term used to describe 4 bits or half a byte?
- ________ is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor — (NASA, 1965). Just fill in the blank
Use comments to answer… And please, no Googling. 🙂
Tachyon Brush 
1) Bit? (btw, was your use of ‘bit’ in the question to mislead us ;)?)
2) Tomcat?
1. LOL! It’s bit!
2. Jakarta?
3. This one I had to look up, so I won’t write the answer here, but it’s a hilarious word.
4. I’m guessing it’s man. Because it’s funny, and it fits. But probably just being too damn clever for my own god.
Chand, the name Tomcat was chosen because the person behind it wanted a picture of a tomcat on the cover when O’Reilly would later release a book. It is Jakarta as Monkeypup pointed out.
Monkeypup, great guess for question 4.
Cheers,
D.
lol this one’s easy. 11th std compsci class :-P, and funny as said by monkey pup. its
3. nibble
and that last one, neat guess, like dhar said.
Wasn’t here on 14th, had some tatti work in VT. But by the way people talked about it I will demand private lessons (lunch/dinner from you goes without saying). 🙂
Pranav,
Bugger! I was kinda expecting to see you in the audi. Anyway, quite a few people have been asking for one more presentation. Will see if I can somehow fit it into the schedule.
Jake,
Correct guess. Nibble, it is.
Cheers,
D.
Thanks for that info D! And awesome guess by monkeypup there!
We need more of these 😉