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The Geekword Puzzle

By Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann

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[ Crossword formatting and JavaScript via Alon Altman's cwd. The ASCII-art, printable version is available here. ]

 

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

 


Solution to the last month's Geekword (ASCII version here):

 

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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]

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 (http://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.


Copyright © 2007, Samuel Kotel Bisbee-vonKaufmann. Released under the Open Publication License unless otherwise noted in the body of the article. Linux Gazette is not produced, sponsored, or endorsed by its prior host, SSC, Inc.

Published in Issue 139 of Linux Gazette, June 2007

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