Tutorial Task 4

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

Onel de Guzman - http://www.cnn.com/

2. Who invented the paper clip?

The first bent-wire paper clip was patented by Samuel B. Fay in 1867. This clip was originally intended primarily for attaching tickets to fabric, although the patent recognized that it could be used to attach papers together. - http://www.officemuseum.com/

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?

It was named after the Ebola area of Zaire where it was first discovered in an outbreak occurring in 1976, when there was also an outbreak in the western equatorial region of Sudan; a second outbreak occurred in the same area of Sudan in 1979. - http://www.britishcouncil.org/

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

The largest recorded earthquake in the world was a magnitude 9.5 (Mw) in Chile on May 22, 1960. - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?

1073741824 kilobytes - http://www.t1shopper.com/

6. Who is the creator of email?

Ray Tomlinson, 1971 - http://au.encarta.msn.com/

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?

W32.Storm.Worm is a worm that seeks out Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) systems that have not applied the proper security patches. Any such systems that it finds are then infected with the worm. When this worm is run, it sets up a server FTP thread and starts to scan 10,000,000 IP addresses in an attempt to find a vulnerable system at one of the targeted addresses. - http://www.symantec.com/

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 RoadMorningside, QLD, 4170
Tel:
(07) 3899 4031
Fax:
(07) 3899 5755

Postal Address:
PO Box 476AMorningside, QLD, 4170

Web:

http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?

Black Assassins - https://secure6.ozhosting.com/brisbanewritersfestival/

"The Black Assassins were a dirty-assed punk rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in the middle of 1981...The Black Assassins had strong political opinions but were very inexperienced musicians who knew no shame." - http://blackassassins.net/

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

A lot of web sites... - http://www.go2web20.net/

How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?

They follow a set of rules, known as an algorithm. One of the the main rules in a ranking algorithm involves the location and frequency of keywords on a web page. Pages with the search terms appearing in the HTML title tag are often assumed to be more relevant than others to the topic. Search engines will also check to see if the search keywords appear near the top of a web page, such as in the headline or in the first few paragraphs of text. They assume that any page relevant to the topic will mention those words right from the beginning. Frequency is the other major factor in how search engines determine relevancy. A search engine will analyze how often keywords appear in relation to other words in a web page. Those with a higher frequency are often deemed more relevant than other web pages.- http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2167961