Category: The Nerdy Sixty
Not your average sysadmin sit-down.
The Nerdy Sixty | (56/60) Robot Finds Kitten | Challenge
Install and play the zen game ‘robotfindskitten’, where you roam as a robot (#) to find the kitten among random items.
The Nerdy Sixty | (55/60) Terminal Tetris | Solution
Solution: Use the Tetris game included in BSD Games (`tetris-bsd`) or the one built into Emacs (`M-x tetris`) to play Tetris in a terminal environment.
The Nerdy Sixty | (55/60) Terminal Tetris | Challenge
Use the Tetris game included in BSD Games (`tetris-bsd`) or the one built into Emacs (`M-x tetris`) to play Tetris in a terminal environment.
The Nerdy Sixty | (54/60) Classic Snake Game | Solution
Solution: Install the snake game (for example via the BSD games package or nsnake) to play the classic Snake in your terminal.
The Nerdy Sixty | (54/60) Classic Snake Game | Challenge
Install the snake game (for example via the BSD games package or nsnake) to play the classic Snake in your terminal.
The Nerdy Sixty | (53/60) First Software Easter Egg | Solution
Solution: Discover how Atari’s Adventure (1979) hid the creator’s name, marking the first known Easter egg in a video game.
The Nerdy Sixty | (53/60) First Software Easter Egg | Challenge
Discover how Atari’s Adventure (1979) hid the creator’s name, marking the first known Easter egg in a video game.
The Nerdy Sixty | (52/60) First Computer Bug | Solution
Solution: Learn about the famous incident in 1947 when a moth was found in a computer, coining the term ‘bug’.
The Nerdy Sixty | (52/60) First Computer Bug | Challenge
Learn about the famous incident in 1947 when a moth was found in a computer, coining the term ‘bug’.
The Nerdy Sixty | (51/60) Missing September Days | Solution
Solution: Understand the calendar switch of 1752: 11 days were omitted when the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.
