If you were a contestant on Master Mind

[Buckaroo]

What would be your chosen subject?

How many points would you score?


I'd go for either the life of Jimi Hendrix or The Lord of the Rings.

Not too shabby at general knowledge, so I reckon a solid 16 give or take.

[Yorick]

MotoGP 1976 - present. I'm a bit of a nerd

[KungFooBob]

The 1985 movie 'Commando'.

[Count Steer]

Don't have a specialist subject*, just know a little bit about lots of things, so I'd be ok on the general knowledge round. Given time to revise from scratch I'd choose something like 'the life of Guillaume de Machaut' or 'Crusader castles'

* I don't think that the incorporation of nitrogen in oxide glasses or the heat treatment of sintered tool steels would qualify.

[.....]

Sorry to piss on your strawberries, but you need at least 3, possibly 4 specialist subjects
The humour of Yorick
The philosophy of MLSP
Pornhub 1998-
Jellybabies

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Oh God, I've just realised the only thing I know well enough to have as a specialised subject without any studying is IPv4 addressing and routing.

[KungFooBob]

Oh God, I've just realised the only thing I know well enough to have as a specialised subject without any studying is IPv4 addressing and routing.

Can you do CIDR in binary

[MyLittleStudPony]

The old IPv4 addressing and routing game, hardest game in the world.

[KungFooBob]

The old IPv4 addressing and routing game, hardest game in the world.

That and Spanning Tree.

[Yorick]

Oh God, I've just realised the only thing I know well enough to have as a specialised subject without any studying is IPv4 addressing and routing.

I did that over the years to a lesser extent. I had to know lots of stuff to be a DBA.

[Felix]

Had you asked about 15/20 years ago i would have said car tail lights. I spent to many years working nights and doing lots of motorway miles. To relieve the boredom i would guess the car tail lights as i approached them and got that good at it. I got to the stage where i seldom got one wrong.

[ZRX61]

'72-'85 Kawasaki 900-1100's.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Oh God, I've just realised the only thing I know well enough to have as a specialised subject without any studying is IPv4 addressing and routing.

Can you do CIDR in binary

Yes, that's pretty easy really, and if you understand the binary you'll understand subnet masking

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The old IPv4 addressing and routing game, hardest game in the world.

That and Spanning Tree.

Rapid, shared or pvst ?

[KungFooBob]

I learnt how to do it for the CCNA, then discovered I was using the book for the previous version of the exam, DOH!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Last time I did a CCNA was about 15 years ago and the exam decided to ask loads of questions about VTP, something I hadn't bothered learning because it's basically useless, I scraped a pass with 828 points, pass was 825. The previous CCNA I did was nearly all ipv4 addressing and routing, I got nearly 1000 points in that one. I can't be arsed to do them now, my side kick at work thinks he's going to get a CCNP by March, he's done zero studying so far.

[Scud]

I think it would be “How to fuck up any opportunity 1990-1999”

Pretty much full marks on that

[Taipan]

How to wing it in jobs you shouldn't be doing!

[Trinity765]

The History of Household Vacuum Cleaners: Collection Efficiency, Emissions Characteristics and Abiotic and Biological Air Pollution
The Biochemistry of Washing Detergents
European Crochet Stitches (American Terminology)

[Docca]

If the view is that we need 4 subjects, then I'm not strong in anything really but I'd go for:


* The life and times of Samuel Bellamy

* Jurassic 5: 1993-2002

* The films of Veronica Avluv

* The 'Biology of Human Starvation' (Minnesota starvation experiment, 1944-5)