IEC Open Source Mela 2009
Quiz Prelims

Across:
1. Form Follows Function (6)
6. The market and the church is popularly known as _________ (4)
9. “Free” as in free beer (7)
*10. (5)
13. (6)
15. Mr.Chrome needs a compass to go on a safari (6)
17. (4)
Hint: It is unwelcome.
18. Which is the first comic-strip to have the creator's e-mail address printed with the strip, to incorporate situations
suggested by readers? (7)
19. Cluster and Linux, SUN's distributed baby on the disk. (6)
Down:
2. \"Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the
times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as
promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a
follower.\" (7)

3. Let's call it cute (2)
4. (9)
5. A widely used metasyntactic variable. Its use originally propagated through DEC system manuals by Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1960s and early 1970s. It has been suggested it spread among early computer
engineers partly because of the popular WW II era army slang acronym rendition “fouled up beyond all repair” and
partly because it parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal; if a digital signal is active low (so a negative
or zero-voltage condition represents a \"1\") then a horizontal bar is commonly placed over the signal label. (6)
6. The term used to denote the practice of registering domain names on the Internet and then reselling them for a
profit. (14)
*7. (3, 6)
8. Giant Amoeba of bits and bytes (4)
11. (8)
12. Troubled bat in here, sleeping for winter (9)
14. In the movie \"The Matrix - Reloaded\", what program does Trinity also use to hack into the power station before
shutting down the power grids? (4)
*16. (4)