Tutorial Task 4- Scavenger Hunt without using GOOGLE and WIKIPEDIA.
1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman, 24, a computer school student, has admitting writing a password-stealing program as a school project. De Guzman's attorney told a news conference that the virus may have been sent out from de Guzman's apartment by mistake and that he meant no harm.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html
2. Who invented the paper clip?
Invention:
paper clip in 1899
Definition:
noun / paper clip, gem clip, paperclip
Function:
A paper clip is a device which holds several sheets of paper together by means of pressure: it leaves the paper intact and can be easily removed.
Patent:
636,272 (US) issued November 7, 1899
Inventor:
William D. Middlebrook
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm
That familiar double-oval-shaped clip, sometimes called the Gem clip, we all know and love was actually never patented. In 1901, an American named William Middlebrook patented a paper-clip making machine for the Gem Manufacturing company in England. A sketch of the clip was included in the patent, but the patent only covered the machine itself.
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031120.html
1867 Samuel Fay invents and patents a Ticket Fastener that also can be used to hold paper1899 William D. Middlebrook invents and patents paper clip and production machine1899 Middlebrook sells patent to Cushman & Denison1899 Cushman & Denison trademark the name GEM for their paper clip1901 Johan Vaaler patents paper clip1903 George McGill patents a paper clip that looks very similar to today's versionpaper clip, gem paper clip, fastener, clasp, george middlebrook, cushman and denison, johan vaaler, samuel fay, george mvgill, invention, history, inventor of, history of, who invented, invention of, fascinating facts.
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/paperclip.htm
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
Ebola was first recognized in 1976, and since then it has appeared sporadically. The virus gets its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first recognized.
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/from-what-place-did-the-ebola-virus-get-its-name.html
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
1960:
The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/422390.stm
5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
A file size of 1 terabytes can also be expressed as
1099511627776 bytes
1073741824 kilobytes (abbreviated as KB or Kb*)
1048576 megabytes (abbreviated as M or MB)
1024 gigabytes (abbreviated as G or GB)
1 terabytes
0.0009766 petabytes
0.00000095 exabytes
http://www.t1shopper.com/cgi-bin/calculate.pl
6. Who is the creator of email?
In 1971, there WAS such a thing as a computer mailbox. It was simply your text file that other users on the same machine could add stuff to the bottom of. It was kind of a long running note that other people could add to, but only the owner could clear. It was simple, and worked fine on one machine.
At this time, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson was working writing on a file transfer program that would allow files to be transferred BETWEEN machines. He figured out that his program could easily also add something to someone's mailbox file - on another machine! To identify the users on different machines, he decided to use the "@" symbol, mostly because it made sense. First, they were "at" that machine. Also, two people on two different machines might pick the same mailbox file name, but if their address had a last name too (so to speak), then addresses would always be unique. He tried sending a couple of messages to his own mailboxes at different machines. It worked, and real across-the-network email was born.
http://jackysuch.com/Email/EmailHistory.html
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
The so-called Storm worm is actually not a worm, but rather a family of Trojans that typically have the following components:
A backdoor component that allows surreptitious access to infected systems;
A spam relay component that turns infected machines into spam-bots;
A peer networking component that allows the Storm Trojans to communicate with other infected computers on the Storm botnet;
An email harvester to steal email addresses found on infected computers;
A downloader/dropper component to update itself or download additional malware; and,
A rootkit is often included to hide the presence of the Storm Trojans.
http://antivirus.about.com/od/virusdescriptions/a/stormworm.htm
Using YAHOO search engine.
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?
Parliament House
Suite MG 8Parliament HouseCanberra ACT 2600
Tel:
(02) 6277 7700
Fax:
(02) 6273 4100
Griffith Electorate Office
630 Wynnum Road Morningside, QLD, 4170
Tel:
(07) 3899 4031
Fax:
(07) 3899 5755
Postal Address:
PO Box 476AMorningside, QLD, 4170
Web:
http://www.pm.gov.au/
http://www.alp.org.au/people/qld/rudd_kevin.php
9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?
Stephen Stockwell has previously worked as a journalist for 4ZZZ-fm, JJJ and ABC TV’s Four Corners. He has also worked as a press secretary and media adviser in the political arena. In the creative sphere, Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band, the Black Assassins, wrote many satirical articles for the Cane Toad Times and had his documentary Big Things shown at festivals in Berlin, London and New York. Stephen’s PhD was on rhetoric and democracy in political campaigns and most recently he has been working on books about political campaign strategy and the politics of trash culture
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
What is Web 2.0 in you own words?
The web is now a platform that everone can use an alter to any extent. It is the transition from old to new internet possibilities.
