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Potpourri
100
A 1995 Microsoft software product, intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1x, 95, and NT operating systems, featuring a UI that looked like a room.
What is Microsoft Bob
100
The year that the IPhone launched
What is 2007
100
Application, Presentation, Session, Transport, Network, DataLink, Physical are the seven layers in this networking model
What is the OSI Model
100
These are used to copy and paste on Windows computers
What is CTRL+C and CTRL+V
100
This is the type of cable used to connect the floppy drive
What is a Molex cable?
200
The default interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content
Who is Clippy?
200
He was the first CEO of Apple
Who is Michael Scott
200
This networking technology, commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 1983 as IEEE_802.3 has been refined to support higher bit rates and longer link distances.
What is Ethernet?
200
This shortcut allows you to choose an app to force quit on a MAC
What is Command+Option+Esc
200
This was where Xantrion held its floating customer appreciation events
What is the USS Potomic
300
With better performance, advanced graphics with 16 colors, and improved icons, a new wave of 386 PCs helps drive the popularity of this version of Windows
What is Windows 3.1
300
Tangerine, Lime, Strawberry, Blueberry, and Grape
What were the original iMac flavors?
300
This is the method of priortizing certain types of traffic when congestion affects performance
What is QoS (Quality of Service)
300
This allows you to go directly to the task manager
What is Ctrl+Shift+Escape?
300
Xantrion's largest current client (both headcount and revenue)
Who is Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy?
400
The last version of Windows to be based on MS-DOS
What is Windows 98
400
First personal computer with a GUI
What is the Apple "Lisa"?
400
In late March of 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, this company became the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of more than US$500 billion.
Who is CISCO Systems?
400
This sends an message from Outlook
What is Ctrl+Shift+Enter
400
Eli Novin, Sean O, John W, and Rich Ericksen all came to Xantrion from this previous employer?
What is Ex'pression College
500
This version of Exchange was the first to have no built-in Directory Service and had a dependency upon Active Directory.
What is Exchange 2000
500
The first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers (in 1995)
Who is Power Computing
500
This is the acronym used to describe the bundling of several physical ports to form a single logical channel.
What is Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
500
This reopens a tab that was just closed, in most browsers (in Windows)
What is CTRL+Shift+T?
500
Name the street in Oakland where Xantrion first existed. The address was 5030 - which coincidentally is where the 50.30 part of our subnet comes from.
What is College Ave?