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Paul Vixie, a Common card
Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 100
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,700
Power 100 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Vixie quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Vixie card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie ______.
Answer
Enterprises. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises. From the Paul Vixie article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrea Montermini. Andrea Montermini 65 · Paul Vixie 60 · Kite balloon 56 · Urszula Dudziak 53 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service.
- He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron.
- At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Vixie article was read about 9,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Paul Vixie
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Paul Vixie in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Urszula DudziakCommon · History · ATK 53 DEF 47
- Andrea MonterminiCommon · Society · ATK 65 DEF 35
- Eyvind JohnsonCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 44
- SustCommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 48
- Mountain bike racingCommon · Nature · ATK 61 DEF 39
- Sugata MitraCommon · Science · ATK 60 DEF 40
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paul Vixie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ImaginingtheInternet, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
