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Questions

1. Name the two technology institutes in India that have been included in Intel's PlanetLab project.

2. Who is Jon von Tetzchner?

3. Where is Red Hat headquartered?

4. Which popular game's tagline is `Your Life. Your Imagination'?

5. What is `barf'?

6. What is the second sequel to `Myst' called?

7. One more on Intel. Name the Indian who has been promoted as senior vice-president and general manager of the enterprise platforms group.

8. Name the new mass-mailing virus discovered on May 11, that wipes out Windows Media Player?

9. What is the re-christened name of Mozilla Foundation's standalone browser?

10. Who is developing chips codenamed `Niagara' and `Rock'?

Answers

1. Indian Institute of Information Technology (Bangalore) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee).

2. Chief Executive of Opera.

3. Raleigh, North Carolina.

4. Linden Labs' `Secondlife'.

5. The junk left in files or on the screen after a program ceases to exist. It originally referred to the core dump file generated on early OSs.

6. Myst III: Exile.

7. Abhijit Y. Talwalkar.

8. Wallon.

9. Firefox (from Firebird).

10. Sun Microsystems.

V.V. Ramanan

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