MaximumPC 2004 06

Geekus Peakuses have completely unhinged
themselves from society at large. They never
call IT because they don’t have jobs; instead,
you’ll find them doing a little freelance PERL
scripting here, a little XML massaging there.
Their bodies have not only adapted to xan-
thum gum, partially hydrogenated oils, and
FD&C Red#4—they require it. Their preferred
names are acronyms (Phillip Ulyssis Grant
would prefer to be known as “Pug”). And they
don’t seem to mind if no one laughs at a joke

about the chick in Accounting with the

FAT32 ass.

TIVO SELECTIONS: Manga and Anime

from cable (that’s nonetheless criti-

cized for not being as good as the

“real Japanese stuff”).

GAMEPLAY: PC RPGs (while qui-

etly holding a torch for the pen-

cil-and-paper D&D of yore). n

14) Which core

logic chipset does not

support dual-channel

memory?

A Intel 815

B Intel 840

C Intel 865G

D VIA PT880

15) What technique is

used to render Doom 3’s

shadows?

A Shadow volumes

B Transparency boundaries

C Drop differentials

D Alpha channels

16) What color is most

often the ground wire in

a power connector?

A Blue

B Red

C Green

D Black

17) What Intel CPU

will first get AMD’s

64-bit extensions?

A Pentium 4

B Xeon

C Centrino

D i960

18) What is the correct

term for the architecture

in Intel’s Pentium 4-series

of CPUs?

A P6

B P7

C NetBurst

D HyperThreading

19) What socket

doesn’t support AMD

CPUs?

A Socket 940

B Socket 939

C Socket 754

D Socket 604

20) The psychoacoustic

phenomenon that tricks

your ears into thinking

bass notes are deeper

than they actually are

is called:

A The missing fundamental

B Sub-level acoustic fields

C Renfrow sonic elements

D Bipolar sonar reversal

ANSWERS 1=C, 2=B, 3=A, 4=D, 5=D, 6=B, 7=B, 8=A, 9=A, 10=D, 11=A, 12=C, 13=A, 14=A, 15=A, 16=D, 17=B, 18=C, 19=D, 20=A

Geekus Peakus