So finally, after just over a week, we reach the last two questions. But first, the answers to yesterday's questions:
15) Dongle. Back in the days when piracy was rife and few people had instant communications to send each other licence numbers, software companies figured that the best way to get around people making copies of products was to have a physical product that was needed to activate the software. And it's a UK invention - credit goes to Graham Heggie, who used a passive device that ordered how pins from a cassette linked to the computer, to protect the Wordcraft program. And it worked - sales grew. Of course, they do tie up a port on the machine; and your machine might not have the right port (think of an office with a mixture of old and new machines; you'd need a mixture of USB and older-style connector dongles).
16) NSLU2. There are plenty of articles about hacking it, of course; the top result on Google for "Linksys file server", in fact.
And now, today's questions - the final two:
17) ADSL is a popular form of broadband Internet, but what type of connector does the standard cable that plugs into the modem use?
18) Which programming language is a human readable form of machine language?
Answers tomorrow. If you want to see the preceding questions and answers (right back to the first), click the "Challenges" hyperlink by the post title above.
