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Questions

1. What is the computing port 1214/tcp used for?

2. Who wrote the P2P file distribution tool BitTorrent?

3. In the context of BitTorrent, all `peers' sharing a torrent are called... ?

4. Who developed the Token-Ring LAN technology in the 1980s?

5. How many bytes to a petabyte?

6. How is ISO/IEC 11172-3 Layer 3 commonly known?

7. Which Indian individual won the World Technology Award for Media & Journalism in 2003?

8. Which company, acquired by Yahoo! in 2002, was founded by UC Berkeley professor Eric Brewer and a graduate student Paul Gauthier?

9. Why was Apple I priced at $666.66 when launched?

10. Which company has developed the industry-standard rendering software `RenderMan'?

Answers

1. Kazaa

2. Bram Cohen in Python

3. Swarm

4. IBM

5. One quadrillion or one long scale billiard bytes.

6. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 i.e MP3

7. Dr. Krishna Bharat of Google

8. Inktomi

9. As a reference to Steve Wozniak's Dial-A-Joke machine phone number that ended in -6666.

10. Pixar

V.V. Ramanan

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