History/People
Creators of the C programming language
Dennis Richie and Brian Kernighan
Latest USB spec version
USB 4.0
Most ubiquitous monitor refresh rate
60 Hz
Command to send ICMP Echo Requests
ping
What series of low cost Intel CPUs was killed in 2023
Intel Celeron
What serial bus standard shortly predates USB
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
What IEEE standard defines floating-point arithmatic
IEE 754
What is the address block 127.0.0.0/8 reserved for
loopback/local networking
How are shell variables accesses
With a $
Do you want 200 points
Yes
Which came first: GNU or Linux
GNU
How many steps in the TCP handshake
3
What IP range is reserved for class B subnets
172.16.0.0/16
Name a Bluetooth version
1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, or 6.0
What company created the first household computer
Apple
What does HDMI stand for
High Definition Multimedia Interface
What does a KVM switch do
Allow keyboard, video, and mouse control of multiple machines
What command loads kernel modules
insmod
What does this do?
main(){char*a;printf(a="main(){char*a;printf(a=%c%s%c,34,a,34);}",34,a,34);}
Prints a copy of it's source code (It's a quine)
What prominent company's name was chosen from a list of 10,000 computer generated words
Exxon
What is the nominal speed of QSFP+
40 Gb/s
This CPU architecture mandates that all instructions must complete in a single data memory cycle (cpu cycle)
RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer)
Where in /sys can you find information on your battery percentage
/sys/class/power_supply
How do you center a div?
You don't