Week 4 Challenge

1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
1,223-Pounds (http://www.miramarevents.com/weighoff/weighoff.html)

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett? www.granthacketonline.com

3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
18-inch prehensile tongue (http://www.case.edu/news/giraffes/stats.htm)

4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
Ontology is the study of being or existence. It looks to describe the different categories of existence and reality. (Wikipedia)

LECTURE

Well i learnt something new today: that the internet, the web and cyberspace are not the same thing!

Internet - sum of interconnected computer hardware and the software that runs it.

Web- is a particular application of the Internet that is particularly easy to use.

Cyberspace- is the sum of the users' imagination as they use the Internet.

We also looked at the early Internet applications such as Email, FTP IRC etc and the more recent such as IM, p2p just to name a few.

I also learnt the different between Hacker and Crackers. Hackers are the good guys that want to make programmes free for all to use - it the crackers that are the baddies!

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
Stereo 1969 (Wikipedia)

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
January 8, 1986 (http://www.phrack.org/archives/7/P07-03)

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?

It began 30 years ago when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be Central 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc. Due to the “low fill” of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen. Generic and satirical advertisements and commercials often used 555 numbers. In the early days of exchange names the prefix Klondike-5 was used as this exchange did not exist.http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
Ferry - from experience

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?

Do the Clam by Elvis Presley

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?

Black Assassins