Trivial Net – Computer and Tech Trivia for Geeks

Gato

Question: In the game Gato, your primary weapon was

• an ax
• a pistol
• a laser rifle
• a torpedo

Answer: a torpedo

Gato was an early submarine simulator.

September 30th, 2008

Radio Shack

Question: What UNIX-like operating system ran on the Radio Shack Color Computer?

• CoCo OS
• Color UNIX
• OS/9
• Tandy OS

Answer: OS/9

It ran in 64K RAM, and really was a multi-user system.

September 29th, 2008

Mozilla

Question: If you're using Netscape Navigator (or other Mozilla-based browser) and type "about:mozilla" as a URL, what will you see?

• A picture of the development team
• A passage from The Book of Mozilla
• A paragraph from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• A live image of the fish tank at Netscape Communications

Answer: A passage from The Book of Mozilla

"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."
– The Book of Mozilla, 12:10

September 28th, 2008

Stressed-out

Question: In their book "TechnoStress", psychologists Michelle Weil and Larry Rosen say that the growing dependence on technology affects us negatively, and that we count on our machines to do so much that when something goes wrong with our technology, we are thrown into a tailspin. Some people become so immersed in technology that they risk losing their own identity, a syndrome called

• techno-ego-nullification
• technophelia
• technopia
• technosis

Answer: technosis

Do you feel out of touch when you haven't checked your voice mail in the past 12 hours? Do you believe faster is better? Then you may suffer from technosis, according to the book.

September 27th, 2008

Pumping lemma

Question: The pumping lemma:

• screams "Oh No!" right before he explodes
• is the official name of the Pentium math bug
• fetches memory contents at regular intervals
• is a grammar analysis tool

Answer: is a grammar analysis tool

September 26th, 2008

MIDI

Question: How many pins are on a MIDI plug?

• 3
• 5
• 8
• 25

Answer: 5

September 25th, 2008

InterNIC

Question: What does InterNIC stand for?

• InterNet Information Center
• InterNet Information Clearinghouse
• Internet Network Information Clearinghouse
• Internet Network Information Center

Answer: Internet Network Information Center

September 24th, 2008

Hey, POP

Question: To receive Internet e-mail, many users go through a POP3 server. What is the equivalent server commonly used to send e-mail?

• NTP
• POP2
• SMTP
• TFTP

Answer: SMTP

September 23rd, 2008

Don't wait for me

Question: Because a Call Waiting tone can knock a modem offline, many users with a dial-up connection have to precede each phone number with a special code to disable it. What is that code?

• *69
• *70
• *80
• 1171

Answer: *70

September 22nd, 2008

VERONICA

Question: What does VERONICA stand for?


Answer: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives

September 21st, 2008