Monday, December 21, 2009

Appulous Troll Bridge Question & Answer

Q: Kyek modified a Greasemonkey plugin to allow you to see if an Appulous IPA link was dead before you clicked it. The original plugin was the ________ Links Checker.
A: Cavern

Q: You ssh to your phone and decide to rename "Documents" to "Other crap". Type the command to do it, without using quotes.
A: mv Documents Other\ Crap
(Sorry to everyone using the updater but \ can't show up on it)

Q: You're connected to our IRC server.To join our room,what would you type?
A: /join #chatulous

Q: What German publication ran a two-page feature on Appulous in September? (It looks like a typo... but it's not!)
A: pc magazin

Q: I posted a job on rent-a-coder for someone to make an Appulous knockoff for my site. Kyek accepted the job under another name and pwned me :(. But we're cool now. Who am I?
A: pr0x

Q: This site made a bad knockoff of Appulous to try to get hits, but ended up getting DDoSed until they took it down. It's ____________.com
A: Imodzone
(Crap sorry hit L instead of I)

Q: My name used to be Omgwtf. Who am I now?
A: Saladfork

Q: Before Genius' Hackulous tag said "Root Admin", what did it say?
A: President
(Sorry for delay I was in a lecture and my iphone ran out of battery :P)

(Sorry to the people using the updater program but its to hard with the spaces.)
Q: Convert this to ASCII: 0×20496c31497c4f306f272222272020. (Okok, so maybe I’m a *little* evil. I’m just looking forward to constantly refreshing the password-sharing sites and laughing maniacally xD)
A: (Space)Il1I|O0o'""'(Space)(Space)

Q: You ssh into your phone and need to make a symlink from “cow” to “chicken”. Type the command.
A: Ln -s cow chicken

Q: I have two Hackulous accounts: My main one, and one I made just for fun. Which is the latter?
A: THEPOET

Q: TheMonkeysBall.com was a two-man team Wyze and …….?
A: Scuzzy19

Q: Who wrote the code that powered TheMonkeysBall.com?
A: wyze

Q: What parent company hosted TheMonkeysBall.com?
A: ovh

Q: I wrote this command-line app to take revenge on those trying to sell cracked apps.
A:Grabulous

Q: I was part of the team that discovered how to crack apps. My name is ________-fr.
A: iceman

Q: Who was the first person to start mass-cracking "self-aware" apps?
A: panik

Q: Who did Labrat attempt to con into writing a private Appulous clone for his website?
A: andydam

Q: If the permissions are r-xrwxrwx, who can’t write?
A: owner

Q: ‘Salad fork is slightly _______ ‘ ?
A: forky

Q: To whom did SaladFork turn over the Crackulous project?
A: `Angel

Q: Who leaked the original Crackulous source code?
A: cdecl

Q: What feature of PHP 5.3 does Appulous make the most use of in itsdatabase system?
A: Late static binding

Q: The Appulous test servers, on which new backend code and server configs are tested semi-publicly before moving to production, are provided by what company?
A: Amazon

Q: Approximately how many douchebags are trying to promote their lame websites, youtube accounts, and duplicate facebook groups by claiming they have the answers to these questions?
B: over 9,000

Q: B00sted4fun’s Russian repo was hosted by what company
A: Dreamhost


Q: What was the name of the app written specifically for downloading and installing IPAs from the b00sted4fun repository, and who wrote it? Answer in the format “APPNAME by AUTHOR
A: APPSHARE by FLAWLESS


Q: Who ran the most successful and largest IPA site before Appulous?
A: B00sted4fun (two zeros)

Q: This domain name got popular when the site admin started bundling IPA files into torrents and advertised his website in them.
A: pr0x.org

Q: When Appulous was tiny, it ran on a VPS provided by _________________.com. (Rhymes with SnapsBoasting)
A: bapshosting


Q: I work for Apple’s law firm and have been trying to get Appulous shut down since the beginning. I wish I was better at my job :( . What’s Kyek’s nickname for me?
A: rammy

Q: Who is the cracker most credited with discovering the cracking method we use today?
A: lsemtex

Q: Who was the admit of Hackstore?
A: Labrat

Q: The very first public forum dedicated specifically to iPhone 2.0 app cracking was hosted at ___.com
A: haklabs

Q: What did appulous start off as _.net
A: Geniusblog

Q: Four letters. Who am I?
A: Keyk

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