The Geekword Puzzle
By Ben Okopnik
Welcome back to the LG Geekword Puzzle! I hope everyone had a good time solving it... given the email that I've received in regard to it this past month, it seems that many people found it challenging and fun. This time, we have last month's solutions and a new puzzle for those who enjoy turning their brain into a pretzel. Enjoy!
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Across 1: A database that predicts the future 7: The programmer's whatchamacallit 9: A network protocol for small car accidents 10: Console-based rodent server 11: The One True Compiler 12: Default spellchecker in many Linux apps 14: Program to adjust parallel ports and old records 16: Extended pattern matcher |
Down 2: Routing protocol for cemeteries 3: BOFH, for one 4: An operating system that makes you flinch 5: It can make hard ones and soft ones 6: The 800-lb. gorilla of network monitors 7: A small fruit that prints banners? 8: A ghost's spreadsheet? 10: Partition guesser 13: (In)secure WiFi makes people cry? 15: In response to regular expressions? (abbrev) |
Solution to the last month's Geekword (ASCII version here):
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Ben is the Editor-in-Chief for Linux Gazette and a member of The Answer Gang.
Ben was born in Moscow, Russia in 1962. He became interested in electricity at the tender age of six, promptly demonstrated it by sticking a fork into a socket and starting a fire, and has been falling down technological mineshafts ever since. He has been working with computers since the Elder Days, when they had to be built by soldering parts onto printed circuit boards and programs had to fit into 4k of memory. He would gladly pay good money to any psychologist who can cure him of the recurrent nightmares.
His subsequent experiences include creating software in nearly a dozen languages, network and database maintenance during the approach of a hurricane, and writing articles for publications ranging from sailing magazines to technological journals. After a seven-year Atlantic/Caribbean cruise under sail and passages up and down the East coast of the US, he is currently anchored in St. Augustine, Florida. He works as a technical instructor for Sun Microsystems and a private Open Source consultant/Web developer. His current set of hobbies includes flying, yoga, martial arts, motorcycles, writing, and Roman history; his Palm Pilot is crammed full of alarms, many of which contain exclamation points.
He has been working with Linux since 1997, and credits it with his complete loss of interest in waging nuclear warfare on parts of the Pacific Northwest.
