Tech Trivia
Quagga is an open source project named after a zebra with a striped front end and a plain brown back end. True or false?
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Secret Word of the Day
This is the essential center of a computer operating system, the core that provides basic services for all other parts of the operating system. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
The FSF was founded in 1983 along with its demonstration GNU project. What does FSF stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What kind of computer was the Multix OS created for?
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Secret Word of the Day
This term describes something unpleasant that tends to accumulate — like dust bunnies under your bed (or desk). In programming, it’s elements of a program, system or product that are useless, poorly designed or both. What’s the secret word?
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IT Acronym Challenge
GNU stands for GNU’s not Unix — which makes it a special type of acronym. What kind of acronym is it?
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Tech Trivia
Why is free software not always free of charge?
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Secret Word of the Day
More familiar in a boxing context, in IT this term describes a language, protocol or program that is less complex than the norm. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
The LSB project seeks to increase compatibility among systems that use different versions of Unix and to make them more compatible with non-Unix systems as well. What does LSB stand for?
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Tech Trivia
In electronics, is a jack a male or female connector?
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Secret Word of the Day
This open source collection of tools allows Unix or Linux applications to be compiled and run on a Windows operating system from within a Linux-like interface. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
Richard Stallman and others created the FSF and demonstrated that an OS could be developed and shared freely. The result was the Unix-like GNU in August 1996. What does FSF stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What computer-based training network, developed in the 1960s, is often credited as the earliest example of a virtual community?
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Secret Word of the Day
This keyboard-oriented, text-only Web browser was developed at the University of Kansas primarily for students who used UNIX workstations. What is the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
NSFNET was a network for research computing deployed in the mid-1980s that in time also became the first backbone infrastructure for the commercial public Internet. NET meant “network — what does NFS stand for?
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