| Math Wizards at Work |
Name_________________________ You are the
owner of a tech support company. A disaster occurred when all of your
work
orders were lost when your computer went down and you
did not back up your files! Now you have
to piece together the jobs
your techs have been sent on. Can
you figure out which technician worked at which company to solve which
problem
and what operating system the computers are using?
This will take you some time to figure
out so take your time and don't give up! Hint:
Modern personal computer operating systems (OS) have been moving toward
the
Unix format, which uses a kernel. The
Windows OS below do not use this format.
Technician
Company
Problem
Operating System Penguin Shirt Co. Mercury Electronics Schubert Ice Cream Stiltskin Elevators Ralph's Car Dealership Hard Drive Crash Network Wiring Software Bug Router Failure Hashing Database MAC WIN 98 WIN 2000 Linux UNIX Doug Cliff Leo Anthony Dennis MAC WIN 98 WIN 2000 Linux UNIX Hard Drive Crash
Network Wiring Software Bug Router Failure
Hashing Database Guru Snafu Here are the clues: 1.
The
operating systems for RalphÕs Car Dealership and Stiltskin
Elevator Co. are not
in the Army, but do have a kernel. 2.
Mercury Electronics computers
run on Windows 98
and Schubert Ice Cream uses Linux. 3.
Dennis, Cliff and Doug
donÕt do windows or work
on bugs, but Anthony does. 4.
The tech working on hashing
the database went to
high school with Doug but not Dennis. 5.
RalphÕs Car Dealership
true to their name had an
accident but Leo and Doug did not fix it but gave Dennis a headache. 6.
Schubert Ice Cream Co.
delivery trucks seem to
have lost their way and Cliff was no help at all. 7.
Anthony
and the techs working on the Stiltskin Elevator and RalphÕs Car
Dealership
donÕt work on databases. 8.
Leo
only works on Windows and databases, Cliff only works on MACs, and Doug
only on
Linux. 9.
Penguin
Shirt Co. did not have any bugs or networking problem.
Guru
Snafu