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  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    How about this for starters
    1. What are the four components of a socket?
    Electrical wiring, switch er....patress box and ooh..er..mounting screws
    2. How is a TCP connection established?
    They look into each others eyes and say hello

    3. Could you run two web servers (both on TCP/80) on the same box?
    as long as you have two spiders

    4. How many hosts can you have in a class C network with a 26 bit mask?
    Surely the best parties only have one host

    5. What is a TCP full scan?
    An invasive medical procedure

    6. Give an example of resource starvation DOS attack?
    An angry student with no money

    7. In windows, from the command line, what command would you use to start and or stop a service?
    Shouting at the wife to put the dinner on

    8. Service’s are to windows like _________ is to UNIX?
    broken
    9. What command could you use to change the permissions of a file in UNIX?
    Oi,you, give me that file

    10. What file is used to resolve a hostname if the /etc/host file does not contain the host information and IP address.
    Boss, what's the address of this one

    Best answers so far.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • spud17
    spud17 Posts: 4,451 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    1. What are the four components of a socket?
    Electrical wiring, switch er....patress box and ooh..er..mounting screws
    Incorrect!
    You answered "screws", i.e. implying more than one, making a total of more than 4 components. :p
    Move along, nothing to see.
  • BritBrat
    BritBrat Posts: 3,764 Forumite
    Cheating at exams.

    What is his tutors name and address?
  • Little_John
    Little_John Posts: 4,033 Forumite
    Its always a mate of mine as well :D
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Its always a mate of mine as well :D

    Exactly, why would a "mate" ask a someone who wouldn't know?
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • LittleJo
    LittleJo Posts: 482 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Hi
    Ask Martin about Q6.
    Jo
  • johnmc
    johnmc Posts: 1,265 Forumite
    Ask Martin about Q6.

    Oooooh! Harsh!

    If he reads this he'll chmod your access rights!
  • PeteHerts
    PeteHerts Posts: 957 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Please let me know if your gonna work a financial institution and which one it might be so I can avoid them like the plague!
    Always looking for a bargain and to help
  • Lorian
    Lorian Posts: 6,508 Forumite
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    This is definitley the answer to the TCP full scan question

    180px-TCPLiquid200.jpg

    Oh, maybe it's only a half scan....:rolleyes:
  • Little_John
    Little_John Posts: 4,033 Forumite
    Ohh and I do take offence to being called a "REAL Techy GEEKS!!" If you sit networking courses you know all this, I have and do know the answers but due to your insulting me I won't be passing the info on.
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