CTF Monthly Contest - Oct 2011

[OliverE]

This months 1st place prize is;

• 1 Years worth of CTF Pro Status
• 1000 points, to spend at the downloads section, or anything else

This months 2nd place prize is;

• 1 months worth of CTF Specialist Status
• 500 points, to spend at the shop, or anything else

So on with the contest. The questions are as follows, make sure you read the question before answering to make sure you have the best chance of winning.
Note: No Staff Entry Allowed. Sorry Guys

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What do the following stand for?
For an extra mark (per abreviation), state a short meaning.

• CPU
• URL
• WWW
• HTTP
• HTML
• CSS
• BIOS
• FTP
• BASIC

Answer the following questions, each are worth 1 mark.

• How many kilobytes in a terabyte?
• By which 2 people and when was Google Inc. founded?
• By which 2 people and when was Microsoft Inc. founded?
• By which 3 people and when was Apple Inc. founded?
• In the programming language VB.net, what is the term used to test and application for bugs and defects, pre-release? Hint: Not Beta or equvilent

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Ok thats it. First person and second to reply with all the correct answers win all the prizes mentioned above.

Good Luck

 

[Charles]

I just spent time finding answers to read no staff entry.

 

[dave8520]

Cpu - central processing unit
Url - uniform resource locator
Www - world wide web
Http - Hypertext transfer protocol
Html - hypertext markup language
Css - Cascading style sheets
Bios - basic input-output system
ftp - file transfer protocol
Basic - beginer's all-purpose symbolic instruction code

1: 1000000000
2: sergey brin, larry page
3 : bil gates, paul allen
4: steve jobs, steve wozniak, ronald wayn
5: incident

 

[OliverE]

No hints factor
Dave your close but not close enough.

 

[Aiz3n]

Term definitions :=
â–ºCPU :- Central processing unit
â–ºURL :- Uniform resource locator
â–ºWWW :- World Wide Web
â–ºHTTP :- Hypertext transfer protocol
â–ºHTML :- Hypertext markup language
â–ºCSS :- Cascading style sheets
â–ºBios :- Basic input-output system
â–ºftp :- File transfer protocol
â–ºBasic :- Beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code

Answers For the questions
● 1073741824
● Larry Page and Sergey Brin on 4 September 1998
● Paul Allen and Bil Gates on 4 April 1975
● Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976
● Release Candidate

::Med::

 

[Factor8™]

Term definitions :=
â–ºCPU :- Central processing unit
â–ºURL :- Uniform resource locator
â–ºWWW :- World Wide Web
â–ºHTTP :- Hypertext transfer protocol
â–ºHTML :- Hypertext markup language
â–ºCSS :- Cascading style sheets
â–ºBios :- Basic input-output system
â–ºftp :- File transfer protocol
â–ºBasic :- Beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code

Answers For the questions
● 1073741824
● Larry Page and Sergey Brin on 4 September 1998
● Paul Allen and Bil Gates on 4 April 1975
● Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976
● Release Candidate

::Med::

As far as number five goes, read the question again.

#5 says not beta or equivalent. RC is equivalent or similar to beta.

 

[OliverE]

Everyone is so close. But you seem to be struggling on the last question

A few hints that have and have not been mentioned;
Its NOT Beta, Alpha or anything to do with pre-releases.
Its a term used to try and find whats wrong with your code, like troubleshooting etc.