Questions

1. Which project, aimed at a freely available and redistributable UNIX-like operating system, was founded by Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass and Charles M. Hannum?

2. In GUI lingo, which ‘musical instrument’ means an expanded view (by window or thumbnail) of a selected item inside of a list of items?

3. What is ‘Google I/O’?

4. According to a survey by desktop Linux advocate Novell, which application is the top non-Linux application that Linux users would like to have?

5. Name Yahoo’s first site targeting a specific audience and not just a topic, which was launched on March 30.

6. Expand WYCIWYG.

7. Name the veteran Hollywood producer and talent manager with whom Microsoft has entered into an agreement to produce shows for use on the Xbox 360 system.

8. Eurhythmics’ Dave Stewart is a founding member of which telecom’ giant’s ‘Artist Advisory Council’, an initiative created to foster an artist-friendly environment within the company.

9. What was officially dissolved as of March 28, 2008, and the Web site closed accordingly?

10. Name the ‘leading corporate backer of the Wine Project’ with the mission ‘to transform Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems’.

Answers

1. NetBSD Project.

2. Accordion

3. It is ‘a two-day developer event focused on both Google developer products as well as other open initiatives for the web’. It is scheduled to be held at San Fransisco on May 28 and 29.

4. Adobe PhotoShop.

5. ‘Shine’, a Web site aimed at women (http://shine.yahoo.com/).

6. ‘What You Cache Is What You Get’. It is a URI scheme specific to the Mozilla family of web browsers.

7. Peter Safran.

8. Nokia

9. HD DVD Promotional Group.

10. CodeWeavers.

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Organized By: National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur

Key Dates:
Fest: March 29-31, 2008

National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, presents Pravah '08, its 2nd ever techno-management festival, from March 29th to 31th, 2008. This festival had been an event of students passion, dedication and huge participation from students from all over the country.

Pravah has catered to all the fields such as Business, IT quizzes, programming, paper presentation, case study, model presentation, Robotics, CAD-CAM design. Pravah organizes guest lectures and seminars by eminent professors and personalities who shall get you updated about the latest technologies used in today's industries. In brief Pravah is a platform to show up your hidden talents.

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Organised By: VNIT Nagpur and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

Key Dates: February 23-24, 2008

The VNIT Quiz Fest, which took off in the year 2006 has taken a huge leap within two years of its existence.

The total event is divided into
1. General
2. Corporate
3. IT
4. Sports
5. Entertainment

The total event held on Feb 23-24, 2008 with 2 quizzes on each day -- with fillers, crosswords, sudokus and informals conducted during the night. Along with these there are short quizzes on topics of interest like Harry Potter, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tintin, Asterix etc. The fest prize money stands at Rs 150,000/-.

The quizzes consists of a preliminary written round. The top 6 teams out of the the whole lot of about 1000 participants, make it to the next final round where the battle just begins for the crown of one of the best quizzers in the nation. This year's quiz to be conducted by the ace quiz-master Gautam Bose from GreyCells, Kolkata.

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Take IT.... at you own risk.

Q 1: Who has permissions to put food into a database?
A 1: Annadaata (Anna - Data).

Q 2: Which river flows through the IT department?
A 2: Gangotri.

Q 3: What do you need to fix Damien Demello?
A 3: DAEMON Tools.

Q 4: Who can teach Networks and Web Development the best?
A 4: Spiderman (Net-works and Web Development!).

Q 5: Which company sponsored the IT dept?
A 5: Nike. So they could write "Just do IT".

Q 6: What base does the HOD choose for his pizza?
A 6: A Data-base.

Q 7: Why couldn't Harjot convince the teacher to cancel the class?
A 7: Because he is Harjot Singh, Not Convin Singh (convincing).

Q 8: Why is it a nice sight to see Darshan and Sagar Trehan walking together?
A 8: Coz you get to see Sagar-Darshan. (Sight of the sea).

Q 9: What is the Operating System (OS) that Gandhi invented?
A 9: Raghuram OS.

Q 10: What MTP theory can we use to stop the MTP teacher Indraani?
A 10: Motivation! We just have to shout, "Moti, Wait!"

No IT, No fun. Know IT, Know fun. :-)