Comments for What's your Digital IQ

Comment from Valdis on 2005-01-10

2005-01-10T18:04:43Z

Unfortunately, this quiz assumes you are a PC user. Many of these questions are moot for Macs. Why install Linux? We already have a very nice flavor of Unix installed, thank you. Why update Virus files... have not done that > 1 year and NOT a problem.

They should include two more questions: 1) How many hours have you spent reformatting your hard-drive, removing spyware, extricating worms/viruses? 2) How many hours of productivity have you lost to the "blue screen of death"? The answers, in hours, should be multiplied by 5 and then SUBTRACTED from the total. Of course, for us Mac user the total would ZERO!

Comment from Shannon Clark on 2005-01-10

2005-01-10T19:26:09Z

There are many questions missing - and many ways to more finely grade some of the questions than they used.. still my score of 207 seems relatively accurate. :)

For example - I think bonus points might be in order for how low your ID number is for Slashdot (i.e. my 5 digit id in the 18,000's probably marks me as a long time geek)

As well something about say "what decade did you first send an email in?" and/or do you manage a server on the internet? for how many years have you? etc.

Amusing nonetheless...

Shannon

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Comment from Greg Hughes on 2006-01-22

2006-01-23T04:51:12Z

>> "Many of these questions are moot for Macs."

Ah, but Mac users are not "geeks," they are "visionaries." :)