2010 Geek IQ Test

snydeq writes "Windows NT name size limits, network cabling and protocols, Linux printer daemon commands, AD&D character alignments — find out how much you know where it really counts by taking InfoWorld's 2010 Geek IQ Test."

Comments

Re:100%, and I didn't even take it.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

I will wait for a karma whore to post the summary. I would not even have to toggle between the tabs.

Re:slashdotted already.

[Freshly Exhumed]

Yep, and just like that it went bye-bye while the number of reads on this item still showed 3.

Re:Karma Whoring Post

[JWW]

Technically for #14, your just restarting the printer que.

I think the correct answer would be to run lpd restart or cups restart (depending on your print daemon) from the init directory.

Of course, I didn't actually get to see the quiz as its been slashdotted to hell.

Re:Failed on the first question

[sconeu]

I think it's ABP, not NoScript. I temporarily enabled the sites NoScript showed, one by one, and still got no display.

Re:100%, and I didn't even take it.

[darkpixel2k]

I know I'll ace it, because I'll open Google in another window.

And that, of course, is the correct answer, in 2010.

Wrong.

It'll be more like this:

Question 1: You are digging through event logs trying to solve a problem and you find an error that says "ID: 1526 SOURCE: KERBEROS Description: An unknown error occurred while processing a login request. The error was: Access Denied"

You'll Google for that text and the best result you will get is a thread:

So I'm getting an error message that says 'An unknown...

With a reply: "My too, did you ever get it fixed?"

With another reply: "I had that problem a few months ago. If I remember correctly, I rebooted and it worked."

And another reply: "I tried that, it didn't work."

And another reply: "Can you tell me what's in your autoexec.bat?"

...."I ran into that problem yesterday too--rebooting didn't work for me, but I did go outside for a smoke and I came back and it was fixed."

..."Mee too. Rebooting didn't work, but I had a cheese pizza for lunch and it's fixed--but now I'm getting a new error that the SMTP service won't start".

..."I'm having that SMTP error too, did you ever find a fix?"

I hate dealing with retarded Windows issues and the retarded people who claim to be Windows admins. If you're good enough to be a competent Windows admin, you're either competent enough to realize there are better alternatives out there, or you are really good at wading through the piles of forum shit on Google.

(the part I can't easily display in Slashdot comments are the 17 inches of screen real-estate used up by each post because of advertisements and the posters sig showing their 'dream rig' along with the stats of their awesomely elite Windows box and a picture of a scantily-clad woman)