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From AMFPN@NEUVM1.BITNET Tue Oct 31 20:46:54 1989
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From: Per Nielsen <AMFPN@NEUVM1.BITNET>
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Subject: Hacker test (was: Forwarded mail for FREETALK)
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THE HACKER TEST - Version 1.0
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Preface: 06.16.89
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This test was conceived and written by Felix Lee, John Hayes and Angela
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Thomas at the end of the spring semester, 1989. It has gone through
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many revisions prior to this initial release, and will undoubtedly go
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through many more.
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(Herewith a compendium of fact and folklore about computer hackerdom,
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cunningly disguised as a test.)
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Scoring - Count 1 for each item that you have done, or each
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question that you can answer correctly.
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If you score is between: You are
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0x000 and 0x010 -> Computer Illiterate
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0x011 and 0x040 -> a User
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0x041 and 0x080 -> an Operator
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0x081 and 0x0C0 -> a Nerd
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0x0C1 and 0x100 -> a Hacker
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0x101 and 0x180 -> a Guru
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0x181 and 0x200 -> a Wizard
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Note: If you don't understand the scoring, stop here.
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And now for the questions...
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0001 Have you ever used a computer?
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0002 ... for more than 4 hours continuously?
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0003 ... more than 8 hours?
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0004 ... more than 16 hours?
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0005 ... more than 32 hours?
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0006 Have you ever patched paper tape?
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0007 Have you ever missed a class while programming?
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0008 ... Missed an examination?
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0009 ... Missed a wedding?
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0010 ... Missed your own wedding?
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0011 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated?
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0012 ... Did it make sense the next day?
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0013 Have you ever written a flight simulator?
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0014 Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment?
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0015 Ever change the value of 4?
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0016 ... Unintentionally?
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0017 ... In a language other than Fortran?
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0018 Do you use DWIM to make life interesting?
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0019 Have you named a computer?
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0020 Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed?
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0021 Do you eat slime-molds?
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0022 Do you know how many days old you are?
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0023 Have you ever wanted to download pizza?
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0024 Have you ever invented a computer joke?
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0025 ... Did someone not 'get' it?
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0026 Can you recite Jabberwocky?
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0027 ... Backwards?
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0028 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"?
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0029 Have you seen "Tron"?
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0030 Have you seen "Wargames"?
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0031 Do you know what ASCII stands for?
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0032 ... EBCDIC?
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0033 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal?
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0034 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes?
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0035 Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex?
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0036 Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa?
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0037 Do you know what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC?
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0038 Do you know maxint on your system?
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0039 Ever define your own numerical type to get better precision?
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0040 Can you name powers of two up to 2**16 in arbitrary order?
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0041 ... up to 2**32?
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0042 ... up to 2**64?
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0043 Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes?
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0044 ... feeling the holes?
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0045 Have you ever patched binary code?
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0046 ... While the program was running?
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0047 Have you ever used program overlays?
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0048 Have you met any IBM vice-president?
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0049 Do you know Dennis, Bill, or Ken?
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0050 Have you ever taken a picture of a CRT?
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0051 Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT?
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0052 Have you ever digitized a picture?
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0053 Did you ever forget to mount a scratch monkey?
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0054 Have you ever optimized an idle loop?
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0055 Did you ever optimize a bubble sort?
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0056 Does your terminal/computer talk to you?
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0057 Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?
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0058 ... Did it answer?
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0059 Can you whistle 300 baud?
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0060 ... 1200 baud?
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0061 Can you whistle a telephone number?
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0062 Have you witnessed a disk crash?
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0063 Have you made a disk drive "walk"?
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0064 Can you build a puffer train?
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0065 ... Do you know what it is?
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0066 Can you play music on your line printer?
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0067 ... Your disk drive?
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0068 ... Your tape drive?
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0069 Do you have a Snoopy calendar?
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0070 ... Is it out-of-date?
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0071 Do you have a line printer picture of...
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0072 ... the Mona Lisa?
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0073 ... the Enterprise?
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0074 ... Einstein?
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0075 ... Oliver?
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0076 Have you ever made a line printer picture?
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0077 Do you know what the following stand for?
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0078 ... DASD
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0079 ... Emacs
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0080 ... ITS
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0081 ... RSTS/E
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0082 ... SNA
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0083 ... Spool
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0084 ... TCP/IP
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Have you ever used
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0085 ... TPU?
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0086 ... TECO?
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0087 ... Emacs?
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0088 ... ed?
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0089 ... vi?
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0090 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?
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0091 ... SOS?
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0092 ... EDT?
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0093 ... Wordstar?
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0094 Have you ever written a CLIST?
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Have you ever programmed in
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0095 ... the X windowing system?
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0096 ... CICS?
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0097 Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy?
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0098 Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key?
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0099 ... Was it the power switch?
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Have you ever attended
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0100 ... Usenix?
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0101 ... DECUS?
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0102 ... SHARE?
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0103 ... SIGGRAPH?
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0104 ... NetCon?
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0105 Have you ever participated in a standards group?
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0106 Have you ever debugged machine code over the telephone?
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0107 Have you ever seen voice mail?
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0108 ... Can you read it?
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0109 Do you solve word puzzles with an on-line dictionary?
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0110 Have you ever taken a Turing test?
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0111 ... Did you fail?
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0112 Ever drop a card deck?
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0113 ... Did you successfully put it back together?
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0114 ... Without looking?
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0115 Have you ever used IPCS?
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0116 Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer?
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0117 Does your computer come in 'designer' colors?
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0118 Ever interrupted a UPS?
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0119 Ever mask an NMI?
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0120 Have you ever set off a Halon system?
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0121 ... Intentionally?
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0122 ... Do you still work there?
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0123 Have you ever hit the emergency power switch?
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0124 ... Intentionally?
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0125 Do you have any defunct documentation?
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0126 ... Do you still read it?
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0127 Ever reverse-engineer or decompile a program?
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0128 ... Did you find bugs in it?
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0129 Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer?
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0130 Ever tried rack mounting your telephone?
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0131 Ever thrown a computer from more than two stories high?
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0132 Ever patched a bug the vendor does not acknowledge?
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0133 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?
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0134 ... Vice versa?
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0135 Ever belong to a user/support group?
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0136 Ever been mentioned in Computer Recreations?
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0137 Ever had your activities mentioned in the newspaper?
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0138 ... Did you get away with it?
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0139 Ever engage a drum brake while the drum was spinning?
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0140 Ever write comments in a non-native language?
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0141 Ever physically destroy equipment from software?
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0142 Ever tried to improve your score on the Hacker Test?
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0143 Do you take listings with you to lunch?
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0144 ... To bed?
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0145 Ever patch a microcode bug?
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0146 ... around a microcode bug?
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0147 Can you program a Turing machine?
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0148 Can you convert postfix to prefix in your head?
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0149 Can you convert hex to octal in your head?
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0150 Do you know how to use a Kleene star?
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0151 Have you ever starved while dining with philosophers?
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0152 Have you solved the halting problem?
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0153 ... Correctly?
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0154 Ever deadlock trying eating spaghetti?
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0155 Ever written a self-reproducing program?
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0156 Ever swapped out the swapper?
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0157 Can you read a state diagram?
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0158 ... Do you need one?
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0159 Ever create an unkillable program?
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0160 ... Intentionally?
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0161 Ever been asked for a cookie?
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0162 Ever speed up a system by removing a jumper?
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* Do you know...
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0163 Do you know who wrote Rogue?
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0164 ... Rogomatic?
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0165 Do you know Gray code?
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0166 Do you know what HCF means?
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0167 ... Ever use it?
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0168 ... Intentionally?
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0169 Do you know what a lace card is?
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0170 ... Ever make one?
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0171 Do you know the end of the epoch?
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0172 ... Have you celebrated the end of an epoch?
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0173 ... Did you have to rewrite code?
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0174 Do you know the difference between DTE and DCE?
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0175 Do you know the RS-232C pinout?
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0176 ... Can you wire a connector without looking?
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* Do you have...
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0177 Do you have a copy of Dec Wars?
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0178 Do you have the Canonical Collection of Lightbulb Jokes?
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0179 Do you have a copy of the Hacker's dictionary?
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0180 ... Did you contribute to it?
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0181 Do you have a flowchart template?
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0182 ... Is it unused?
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0183 Do you have your own fortune-cookie file?
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0184 Do you have the Anarchist's Cookbook?
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0185 ... Ever make anything from it?
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0186 Do you own a modem?
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0187 ... a terminal?
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0188 ... a toy computer?
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0189 ... a personal computer?
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0190 ... a minicomputer?
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0191 ... a mainframe?
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0192 ... a supercomputer?
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0193 ... a hypercube?
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0194 ... a printer?
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0195 ... a laser printer?
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0196 ... a tape drive?
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0197 ... an outmoded peripheral device?
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0198 Do you have a programmable calculator?
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0199 ... Is it RPN?
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0200 Have you ever owned more than 1 computer?
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0201 ... 4 computers?
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0202 ... 16 computers?
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0203 Do you have a SLIP line?
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0204 ... a T1 line?
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0205 Do you have a separate phone line for your terminal/computer?
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0206 ... Is it legal?
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0207 Do you have core memory?
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0208 ... drum storage?
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0209 ... bubble memory?
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0210 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?
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0211 ... 256 megabytes?
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0212 ... 1 gigabyte?
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0213 ... 16 gigabytes?
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0214 ... 256 gigabytes?
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0215 ... 1 terabyte?
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0216 Do you have an optical disk/disk drive?
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0217 Do you have a personal magnetic tape library?
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0218 ... Is it unlabelled?
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0219 Do you own more than 16 floppy disks?
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0220 ... 64 floppy disks?
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0221 ... 256 floppy disks?
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0222 ... 1024 floppy disks?
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0223 Do you have any 8-inch disks?
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0224 Do you have an internal stack?
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0225 Do you have a clock interrupt?
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0226 Do you own volumes 1 to 3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_?
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0227 ... Have you done all the exercises?
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0228 ... Do you have a MIX simulator?
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0229 ... Can you name the unwritten volumes?
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0230 Can you quote from _The Mythical Man-month_?
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0231 ... Did you participate in the OS/360 project?
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|
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0232 Do you have a TTL handbook?
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0233 Do you have printouts more than three years old?
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* Career
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|
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0234 Do you have a job?
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0235 ... Have you ever had a job?
|
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0236 ... Was it computer-related?
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0237 Do you work irregular hours?
|
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0238 Have you ever been a system administrator?
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|
|||
|
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0239 Do you have more megabytes than megabucks?
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0240 Have you ever downgraded your job to upgrade your processing power?
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0241 Is your job secure?
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0242 ... Do you have code to prove it?
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0243 Have you ever had a security clearance?
|
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|
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* Games
|
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0244 Have you ever played Pong?
|
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Have you ever played
|
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0246 ... Spacewar?
|
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|
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0247 ... Star Trek?
|
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|
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0248 ... Wumpus?
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0249 ... Lunar Lander?
|
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|
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0250 ... Empire?
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Have you ever beaten
|
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|
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0251 ... Moria 4.8?
|
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|
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0252 ... Rogue 3.6?
|
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|
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0253 ... Rogue 5.3?
|
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|
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0254 ... Larn?
|
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|
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0255 ... Hack 1.0.3?
|
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|
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0256 ... Nethack 2.4?
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0257 Can you get a better score on Rogue than Rogomatic?
|
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|
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0258 Have you ever solved Adventure?
|
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|
|
0259 ... Zork?
|
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|
|
|
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|
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0260 Have you ever written any redcode?
|
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|
|
|
|||
|
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0261 Have you ever written an adventure program?
|
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|
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0262 ... a real-time game?
|
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|
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0263 ... a multi-player game?
|
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|
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0264 ... a networked game?
|
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|
|
|
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|
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0265 Can you out-doctor Eliza?
|
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|
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|
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|
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* Hardware
|
|||
|
|
|
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|
|
0266 Have you ever used a light pen?
|
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|
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0267 ... did you build it?
|
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|
|
|
|||
|
|
Have you ever used
|
|||
|
|
0268 ... a teletype?
|
|||
|
|
0269 ... a paper tape?
|
|||
|
|
0270 ... a decwriter?
|
|||
|
|
0271 ... a card reader/punch?
|
|||
|
|
0272 ... a SOL?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Have you ever built
|
|||
|
|
0273 ... an Altair?
|
|||
|
|
0274 ... a Heath/Zenith computer?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Do you know how to use
|
|||
|
|
0275 ... an oscilliscope?
|
|||
|
|
0276 ... a voltmeter?
|
|||
|
|
0277 ... a frequency counter?
|
|||
|
|
0278 ... a logic probe?
|
|||
|
|
0279 ... a wirewrap tool?
|
|||
|
|
0280 ... a soldering iron?
|
|||
|
|
0281 ... a logic analyzer?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0282 Have you ever designed an LSI chip?
|
|||
|
|
0283 ... has it been fabricated?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0284 Have you ever etched a printed circuit board?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Historical
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0285 Have you ever toggled in boot code on the front panel?
|
|||
|
|
0286 ... from memory?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0287 Can you program an Eniac?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0288 Ever seen a 90 column card?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* IBM
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0289 Do you recite IBM part numbers in your sleep?
|
|||
|
|
0290 Do you know what IBM part number 7320154 is?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0291 Do you understand 3270 data streams?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0292 Do you know what the VM privilege classes are?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0293 Have you IPLed an IBM off the tape drive?
|
|||
|
|
0294 ... off a card reader?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0295 Can you sing something from the IBM Songbook?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Languages
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0296 Do you know more than 4 programming languages?
|
|||
|
|
0297 ... 8 languages?
|
|||
|
|
0298 ... 16 languages?
|
|||
|
|
0299 ... 32 languages?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0300 Have you ever designed a programming language?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0301 Do you know what Basic stands for?
|
|||
|
|
0302 ... Pascal?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0303 Can you program in Basic?
|
|||
|
|
0304 ... Do you admit it?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0305 Can you program in Cobol?
|
|||
|
|
0306 ... Do you deny it?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0307 Do you know Pascal?
|
|||
|
|
0308 ... Modula-2?
|
|||
|
|
0309 ... Oberon?
|
|||
|
|
0310 ... More that two Wirth languages?
|
|||
|
|
0311 ... Can you recite a Nicklaus Wirth joke?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0312 Do you know Algol-60?
|
|||
|
|
0313 ... Algol-W?
|
|||
|
|
0314 ... Algol-68?
|
|||
|
|
0315 ... Do you understand the Algol-68 report?
|
|||
|
|
0316 ... Do you like two-level grammars?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0317 Can you program in assembler on 2 different machines?
|
|||
|
|
0318 ... on 4 different machines?
|
|||
|
|
0319 ... on 8 different machines?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Do you know
|
|||
|
|
0320 ... APL?
|
|||
|
|
0321 ... Ada?
|
|||
|
|
0322 ... BCPL?
|
|||
|
|
0323 ... C++?
|
|||
|
|
0324 ... C?
|
|||
|
|
0325 ... Comal?
|
|||
|
|
0326 ... Eiffel?
|
|||
|
|
0327 ... Forth?
|
|||
|
|
0328 ... Fortran?
|
|||
|
|
0329 ... Hypertalk?
|
|||
|
|
0330 ... Icon?
|
|||
|
|
0331 ... Lisp?
|
|||
|
|
0332 ... Logo?
|
|||
|
|
0333 ... MIIS?
|
|||
|
|
0334 ... MUMPS?
|
|||
|
|
0335 ... PL/I?
|
|||
|
|
0336 ... Pilot?
|
|||
|
|
0337 ... Plato?
|
|||
|
|
0338 ... Prolog?
|
|||
|
|
0339 ... RPG?
|
|||
|
|
0340 ... Rexx (or ARexx)?
|
|||
|
|
0341 ... SETL?
|
|||
|
|
0342 ... Smalltalk?
|
|||
|
|
0343 ... Snobol?
|
|||
|
|
0344 ... VHDL?
|
|||
|
|
0345 ... any assembly language?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0346 Can you talk VT-100?
|
|||
|
|
0347 ... Postscript?
|
|||
|
|
0348 ... SMTP?
|
|||
|
|
0349 ... UUCP?
|
|||
|
|
0350 ... English?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Micros
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0351 Ever copy a copy-protected disk?
|
|||
|
|
0352 Ever create a copy-protection scheme?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0353 Have you ever made a "flippy" disk?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0354 Have you ever recovered data from a damaged disk?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0355 Ever boot a naked floppy?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Networking
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0356 Have you ever been logged in to two different timezones at once?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0357 Have you memorized the UUCP map for your country?
|
|||
|
|
0358 ... For any country?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0359 Have you ever found a sendmail bug?
|
|||
|
|
0360 ... Was it a security hole?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0361 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?
|
|||
|
|
0362 ... Are you up to date?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0363 Can you name all the top-level nameservers and their addresses?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0364 Do you know RFC-822 by heart?
|
|||
|
|
0365 ... Can you recite all the errors in it?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0366 Have you written a Sendmail configuration file?
|
|||
|
|
0367 ... Does it work?
|
|||
|
|
0368 ... Do you mumble "defocus" in your sleep?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0369 Do you know the max packet lifetime?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Operating systems
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Can you use
|
|||
|
|
0370 ... BSD Unix?
|
|||
|
|
0371 ... non-BSD Unix?
|
|||
|
|
0372 ... AIX
|
|||
|
|
0373 ... VM/CMS?
|
|||
|
|
0374 ... VMS?
|
|||
|
|
0375 ... MVS?
|
|||
|
|
0376 ... VSE?
|
|||
|
|
0377 ... RSTS/E?
|
|||
|
|
0378 ... CP/M?
|
|||
|
|
0379 ... COS?
|
|||
|
|
0380 ... NOS?
|
|||
|
|
0381 ... CP-67?
|
|||
|
|
0382 ... RT-11?
|
|||
|
|
0383 ... MS-DOS?
|
|||
|
|
0384 ... Finder?
|
|||
|
|
0385 ... PRODOS?
|
|||
|
|
0386 ... more than one OS for the TRS-80?
|
|||
|
|
0387 ... Tops-10?
|
|||
|
|
0388 ... Tops-20?
|
|||
|
|
0389 ... OS-9?
|
|||
|
|
0390 ... OS/2?
|
|||
|
|
0391 ... AOS/VS?
|
|||
|
|
0392 ... Multics?
|
|||
|
|
0393 ... ITS?
|
|||
|
|
0394 ... Vulcan?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0395 Have you ever paged or swapped off a tape drive?
|
|||
|
|
0396 ... Off a card reader/punch?
|
|||
|
|
0397 ... Off a teletype?
|
|||
|
|
0398 ... Off a networked (non-local) disk?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0399 Have you ever found an operating system bug?
|
|||
|
|
0400 ... Did you exploit it?
|
|||
|
|
0401 ... Did you report it?
|
|||
|
|
0402 ... Was your report ignored?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0403 Have you ever crashed a machine?
|
|||
|
|
0404 ... Intentionally?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* People
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0405 Do you know any people?
|
|||
|
|
0406 ... more than one?
|
|||
|
|
0407 ... more than two?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Personal
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0408 Are your shoelaces untied?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0409 Do you interface well with strangers?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0410 Are you able to recite phone numbers for half-a-dozen computer systems
|
|||
|
|
but unable to recite your own?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0411 Do you log in before breakfast?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0412 Do you consume more than LD-50 caffeine a day?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0413 Do you answer either-or questions with "yes"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0414 Do you own an up-to-date copy of any operating system manual?
|
|||
|
|
0415 ... *every* operating system manual?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0416 Do other people have difficulty using your customized environment?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0417 Do you dream in any programming languages?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0418 Do you have difficulty focusing on three-dimensional objects?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0419 Do you ignore mice?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0420 Do you despise the CAPS LOCK key?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0421 Do you believe menus belong in restaurants?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0422 Do you have a Mandelbrot hanging on your wall?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0423 Have you ever decorated with magnetic tape or punched cards?
|
|||
|
|
0424 Do you have a disk platter or a naked floppy hanging in your home?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0425 Have you ever seen the dawn?
|
|||
|
|
0426 ... Twice in a row?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0427 Do you use "foobar" in daily conversation?
|
|||
|
|
0428 ... "bletch"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0429 Do you use the "P convention"?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0430 Do you automatically respond to any user question with RTFM?
|
|||
|
|
0431 ... Do you know what it means?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0432 Do you think garbage collection means memory management?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0433 Do you have problems allocating horizontal space in your room/office?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0434 Do you read Scientific American in bars to pick up women?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0435 Is your license plate computer-related?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0436 Have you ever taken the Purity test?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0437 Ever have an out-of-CPU experience?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0438 Have you ever set up a blind date over the computer?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0439 Do you talk to the person next to you via computer?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Programming
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0440 Can you write a Fortran compiler?
|
|||
|
|
0441 ... In TECO?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0442 Can you read a machine dump?
|
|||
|
|
0443 Can you disassemble code in your head?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Have you ever written
|
|||
|
|
0444 ... a compiler?
|
|||
|
|
0445 ... an operating system?
|
|||
|
|
0446 ... a device driver?
|
|||
|
|
0447 ... a text processor?
|
|||
|
|
0448 ... a display hack?
|
|||
|
|
0449 ... a database system?
|
|||
|
|
0450 ... an expert system?
|
|||
|
|
0451 ... an edge detector?
|
|||
|
|
0452 ... a real-time control system?
|
|||
|
|
0453 ... an accounting package?
|
|||
|
|
0454 ... a virus?
|
|||
|
|
0455 ... a prophylactic?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0456 Have you ever written a biorhythm program?
|
|||
|
|
0457 ... Did you sell the output?
|
|||
|
|
0458 ... Was the output arbitrarily invented?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0459 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?
|
|||
|
|
0460 ... the number e?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0461 Ever find a prime number of more than a hundred digits?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0462 Have you ever written self-modifying code?
|
|||
|
|
0463 ... Are you proud of it?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0464 Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?
|
|||
|
|
0465 ... Was it longer than 20 lines?
|
|||
|
|
0466 ... 100 lines?
|
|||
|
|
0467 ... Was it in assembly language?
|
|||
|
|
0468 ... Did it work the second time?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0469 Can you solve the Towers of Hanoi recursively?
|
|||
|
|
0470 ... Non-recursively?
|
|||
|
|
0471 ... Using the Troff text formatter?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0472 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?
|
|||
|
|
0473 ... Did it win?
|
|||
|
|
0474 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0475 Do you know Duff's device?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0476 Do you know Jensen's device?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0477 Ever spend ten minutes trying to find a single-character error?
|
|||
|
|
0478 ... More than an hour?
|
|||
|
|
0479 ... More than a day?
|
|||
|
|
0480 ... More than a week?
|
|||
|
|
0481 ... Did the first person you show it to find it immediately?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Unix
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0482 Can you use Berkeley Unix?
|
|||
|
|
0483 .. Non-Berkeley Unix?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0484 Can you distinguish between sections 4 and 5 of the Unix manual?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0485 Can you find TERMIO in the System V release 2 documentation?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0486 Have you ever mounted a tape as a Unix file system?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
0487 Have you ever built Minix?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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0488 Can you answer "quiz function ed-command" correctly?
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0489 ... How about "quiz ed-command function"?
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* Usenet
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0490 Do you read news?
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0491 ... More than 32 newsgroups?
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0492 ... More than 256 newsgroups?
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0493 ... All the newsgroups?
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0494 Have you ever posted an article?
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0495 ... Do you post regularly?
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0496 Have you ever posted a flame?
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0497 ... Ever flame a cross-posting?
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0498 ... Ever flame a flame?
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0499 ... Do you flame regularly?
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0500 Ever have your program posted to a source newsgroup?
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0501 Ever forge a posting?
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0502 Ever form a new newsgroup?
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0503 ... Does it still exist?
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0504 Do you remember
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0505 ... mod.ber?
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0506 ... the Stupid People's Court?
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0507 ... Bandy-grams?
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* Phreaking
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0508 Have you ever built a black box?
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0509 Can you name all of the 'colors' of boxes?
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0510 ... and their associated functions?
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0511 Does your touch tone phone have 16 DTMF buttons on it?
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0512 Did the breakup of MaBell create more opportunities for you?
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If you have any comments of suggestions regarding the HACKER TEST,
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Please send then to: hayes@psunuce.bitnet
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or jwh100@psuvm.bitnet / jwh100@psuvmxa.bitnet
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or jwh100@psuvm.psu.edu / jwh100@psuvmxa.psu.edu
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or ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!jwh100
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