The Geekword Puzzle
By Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann
Our Geekword Puzzle editor, Sam Bisbee, has now gone off to become the
Wizard-in-Residence to some lucky company - which means that he will no
longer have the time to create the GP. Great for them... less so for us,
although we certainly wish Sam the best of luck. Dear readers, if you know
someone who is a puzzlemaster (is that the right word?), please steer them
in our direction; the Geekword is something we'd hate to lose as a feature.
This is yet another way you can give back to the Linux community - not
something you'd normally expect from that skillset!
-- Ben Okopnik, Editor-in-Chief
Solution to the last month's Geekword (ASCII version here):
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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/ 22: Easy version of this puzzle's theme answers 24: Easy version of this puzzle's theme answers 27: Smaller, faster version of 37A 29: Greek letter, often for density 30: Red Hat security _ (bugs) 33: Used as iterators when sleeping 36: Closed source, to some 38: Version of sh, is a bad pun 40: Shell with static library links 41: Ctrl+Tab repeatedly 42: Germanic creature made popular by Tolkien 45: Germanic creature made popular by Tolkien 49: Epoch, _ remember for programmers 50: 1980s AT&T Bell Labs shell 51: Digital advocacy group 53: 1980s AT&T Bell Labs shell 54: Extends 15A, 21A, and tcsh 56: Supporters 60: 43 55 48 52 54 4C 4F 4E 46 62: Polynomial with two terms 65: Parallel circuit look alike 69: SYN-ACK 70: "Why did _ symlink?" 71: `/(I traveled)/` with synonym 72: 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: _ 9000, or CARL in French 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 28: RIHL 31: Red Hat += Security-Enhanced Linux (abbr) 32: RIHL 34: Popular "going once, going twice" website 35: "You don't leave an IRC channel, you _ it" 37: Spanish, German, and Tagalog 39: Open source, _ coders one at a time 41: Crazed Looney Toons character 42: Specifies SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, for example 43: "_, humbug!" 44: XML, tags _ among other tags 46: _ybd, virtual on-screen midi keyboard 47: Controversial open software advocate 48: Specifies SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, for example 52: `perl -e 'print "Use ". reverse $answer ." GRUB is not available.\n"'` 55: _n, deconfigure 57: `rm` synonym 58: i_s, extracts CPP conditionals 59: _n, deconfigure 60: `cp` 61: VU1PQQ== 62: Network _dge, links network segments at the data link layer 63: Sun _, a stateless thin-client 64: "War Games" gov't agency, s/A/O/ 66: 8D decrypts this 67: GNOME widgets by Nautilus hackers 68: Sun _, a stateless thin-client |
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![[BIO]](../gx/authors/bisbee.jpg)
Sam was born ('87) and raised in the Boston, MA area. His interest in all things electronic was established early by his electrician father and database designer mother. Teaching himself HTML and basic web design at the age of 10, Sam has spiraled deeper into the confusion that is computer science and the FOSS community. His first Linux install was Red Hat, which he installed on a Pentium 233GHz i686 when he was about 13. He found his way into the computer club in high school at Northfield Mount Hermon, a New England boarding school, which was lovingly named GEECS for Electronics, Engineering, Computers, and Science. This venue allowed him to share in and teach the Linux experience to fellow students and teachers alike. Late in high school Sam was abducted into the Open and Free Technology Community, had his first article published, and became more involved in the FOSS community as a whole. After a year at Boston University he decided the experience was not for him, striking out on his own as a software developer and contractor.
