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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):

 

1
P
2
C
3
L
4
I
5
S
6
P
*
7
T
8
H
9
O
10
U
11
S
12
A
13
N
14
D
15
S
C
A
M
P
I
*
16
S
A
N
S
E
R
I
F
17
D
A
E
M
O
N
*
18
L
I
C
E
N
C
E
S
* * *
19
L
O
G
20
A
O
K
H
I
T
* * *
21
S
22
T
23
A
R
L
E
A
G
U
E
* *
24
E
25
S
26
H
27
A
S
H
* *
28
R
H
O
*
29
E
30
R
31
R
A
T
A
32
S
H
E
33
E
34
P
*
35
U
N
36
E
T
H
I
C
A
L
* * *
37
B
A
38
S
H
*
39
S
A
S
H
* * *
40
T
41
A
42
B
A
R
O
U
43
N
D
*
44
E
L
45
V
46
E
47
S
48
A
D
A
Y
T
O
*
49
E
E
50
F
* *
51
K
S
H
52
Z
S
H
* *
53
T
54
E
S
T
I
55
F
56
I
E
R
S
* * *
57
C
58
U
H
R
T
L
O
N
F
* * *
59
B
60
I
61
N
O
M
I
A
L
*
62
L
A
D
63
D
64
E
65
R
66
R
E
S
P
O
N
S
E
*
67
I
M
O
V
E
A
68
I
V
O
Y
A
G
E
D
*
69
L
E
W
D
L
Y

 

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]

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.


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Published in Issue 140 of Linux Gazette, July 2007

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