The Geekword Puzzle
By Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann
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Across 1: Franz Lisp for MS-DOS 7: First column of four digit number 15: Scali's Message Passing Interface 16: Arial and Impact, for example 17: Parent's process is usually init 18: MIT, BSD, Apache 19: 200 in access.log 21: Sun product, s/office/league/ 24: Easy version of this puzzle's theme answers 27: Smaller, faster version of 37A 28: Greek letter, often for density 29: Red Hat security _ (bugs) 32: Used as iterators when sleeping 35: Closed source, to some 37: Version of sh, is a bad pun 39: Shell with static library links 40: Ctrl+Tab repeatedly 44: Germanic creature made popular by Tolkien 48: Epoch, _ remember for programmers 49: Digital advocacy group 51: 1980s AT&T Bell Labs shell 52: Extends 37A, 51A, and tcsh 53: Supporters 57: 43 55 48 52 54 4C 4F 4E 46 59: Polynomial with two terms 62: Parallel circuit look alike 66: SYN-ACK 67: "Why did _ symlink?" 68: `/(I traveled)/` with synonym 69: Sexy programmers, loudly typing _ |
Down 1: Uses MIME type image/photoshop 2: NFS, AFS, SMB, for example 3: Was Janus (Solaris 10) 4: `perl -e '$_ = "IMMLER";' -e 'print "$1R\n" if /(IMML)?E/'` 5: Mailbox file 6: A box sending ICMP Echo Requests 7: Xvnc or SSH, for ex. 8: DeCSS poem type 9: "The HTML is served _h" (2 wds) 10: "Most coders _ to iterate" (2 wds) 11: _-mail, default Pine folder 12: .zip predecessor by SEA 13: 01101110 01101001 01100101 14: NFS, AFS, SMB, for example 20: `echo A G H I J N O T U V W X | awk '{print $1$1$3$9$3$9}'` 21: Common suite of statistical software 22: A safer shell, invoked by Ctrl+X Ctrl+R 23: read_ad, reads data into the page cache 24: Popular postcardware CD ripper that requires Wine 25: _lin, "an extremely aggressive Scheme compiler" 26: _ 9000, or CARL in French 30: Red Hat += Security-Enhanced Linux (abbr) 31: 82 73 72 76 (unicode to ascii) 33: Popular "going once, going twice" website 34: "You don't leave an IRC channel, you _ it" 36: Spanish, German, and Tagalog 38: Open source, _ coders one at a time 40: Crazed Looney Toons character 41: Specifies SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, for example 42: "_, humbug!" 43: XML, tags _ among other tags 45: _ybd, virtual on-screen midi keyboard 46: Controversial open software advocate 47: Specifies SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, for example 50: `perl -e 'print "Use ". reverse $answer ." GRUB is not available.\n"'` 54: `rm` synonym 55: i_s, extracts CPP conditionals 56: _n, deconfigure 57: `cp` 58: VU1PQQ== 59: Network _dge, links network segments at the data link layer 60: hod_, print full months and days in classic Latin 61: "War Games" gov't agency, s/A/O/ 63: 8D decrypts this 64: GNOME widgets by Nautilus hackers 65: Sun _, a stateless thin-client |
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Across 1: The Free Software Desktop Project 6: Sam_, skilled (2 wds) 10: yacc replacement 11: US_, small removable media (2 wds.) 12: `sed -e 'n;n;G;'`, insert a blank line every _ line 13: Sy_in, root synonym 14: Allowed tandem identical PCI Express cards to be run 16: One of three basic cryptographic scheme attacks (abbr.) 17: Multiple shells from one shell 20: `date +%-k%-k` 21: Freedom _ster, provides distro vending machines 22: Smalltalk implementation 24: Comprises a DN in LDAP 25: Pico Con_ 26: `sed -e 's/:/ /g' /etc/passwd | awk '{print $3}'` 28: _Ape, graphical network monitor 32: Oracle JDeveloper's _e class extends TreeNode 33: Seeds a specific number generator in C/C++ 34: Segmentation messages (abbr.) 35: KOrganizer helps manage these |
Down 1: Not so normal gigabyte abbr. 2: _ Class Library, formerly known as OOPS 3: Maintains the Open Source Definition 4: _ code, 1830s telographic data transmission system 5: `until [[ 1 == 2 ]]; do echo ""; done` 6: Early Internet forum system 7: Common web server 8: A soft felt hat that sits next to a red hat 9: 255.255.255.0 to 0.0.0.0 15: "An _", ShowUsTheCode.com is doing this 17: Servlet/JSP framework from 7D 18: A true meaning of hacking 19: 32A cannot generate truely _ numbers 23: _Linux, a SPARC family port 27: 6D admin. tool 29: High availability subsystem (abbr.) 30: `echo -e "\0105\0116\0113"` 31: _d stores analog radio data for _query and lib_ |
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![[BIO]](../gx/authors/bisbee.jpg)
Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann was born ('87) and raised in the Boston, MA area. His interest in all things electronics was established early as his father was an electrician. Teaching himself HTML and web design at the age of 10, Sam has spiraled deeper into the confusion that is computer science and the FOSS community, running his first distro, Red Hat, when he was approximately 13 years old. Entering boarding high school in 2002, Northfield Mount Hermon, he found his way into the school's computer club, GEECS for Electronics, Engineering, Computers, and Science (a recursive acronym), which would allow him to share in and teach the Linux experience to future generations. Also during high school Sam was abducted into the Open and Free Technology Community (https://www.oftc.org), had his first article published, and became more involved in various communities and projects.
Sam is currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science at Boston University and continues to be involved in the FOSS community. Other hobbies include martial arts, writing, buildering, working, chess, and crossword puzzles. Then there is something about Linux, algorithms, programing, etc., but who makes money doing that?
Sam prefers programming in C++ and Bash, is fluent in Java and PHP, and while he can work in Perl, he hates it. If you would like to know more then feel free to ask.
