Guest post by 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.
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.
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.
What’s wrong with /etc/rc.d/cups restart?
Heh… I went with the chanting option on that one… none of the others are valid on any Linux box I use, and the mystic chanting fits my past experience of CUPS setup…
Hehe, oh my! For some reason I get a picture in my head of Barack Obama and David Cameron dressed in black robes and doing a dance while chanting at a printer! Now, where’s that psychiatrist?
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.
I’m sitting in front of a RHEL5 box… no ‘restart’ command here that I can find…
>> 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
One of the questions asked how to install Win2k, and claimed the correct answer was WINNT or WIN32. This is not correct – the correct answer is WINNT or WINNT32. Makes you wonder about the merit of these quizzes.
And that was the only think that makes you wonder?
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….
<megalomania>
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…
</megalomania>
I’m a Unix guy, I have no idea about Windows therefore… I’m not a GEEK!!! Hurra!!!
Girls, look at this! I AM NOT A GEEK!!
Probably got something to do with us Unix folk spending less time behind the monitor fixing things.
That might explain why I am married and have some sort of a life. I’m a Unix guy as well
Yes, the quiz was terribly windows centric.
i got a 60% and it told me i probably use an iphone.
sigh :]
I got 70 and still says the same
Maybe it’s the only thing it says, I’m not interested or bored enough to do it again to see 
hehe, I only scored a 60% too. It came close, tho. I don’t own an iPhone but I do own an iPod Touch :p
only 45% right.
So did I and just for the heck of it I took the IT personality type quiz too…and according to that Im an uber geek. Never mind that I chose “None” on half the questions.
I just took that one too. Ended up with “Holy split personality! The Shadow, The Scary Sysadmin ^aEUR” make up your mind already!”
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!
Or that they’re using one of those annoying editors that helpfully capitalizes the first letter of what it thinks is a sentence.
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.
The only point is to make money for InfoWorld. Look at the page layout: 1 question per page, filling less than 25% of the screen, the rest being advertising.
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)
11 out of 20, I suck. I knew a lot of the terms but I forgot quite a bit of it, especially the protocol stuff.
I only got 7 out of 20, but I’d have to agree with the others, it was way too Windows-esque of a quiz. A true geek know no bounds.
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
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.
1. Windows Genuine Advantage is …
___ a. a famous Seattle beer
___ b. a means of validating the Windows license on a system
___ c. the feeling you get when your corporate offices are raided by the KGB
2. Silverlight enables developers to …
___ a. replace some of their “blink” tags
___ b. create rich-content applications on the web using .NET
___ c. waste thousands of dollars creating applications that now only run on a phone
3. Office 2011 for Apple Macintosh is …
___ a. an office located in a building in Cupertino right next to Office 2013
___ b. a powerful suite of applications empowering you to communicate in today’s business world
___ c. a nice way to justify spending a load of cash on a shiny Mac Pro laptop