It all happened on a dark night—we’re talking really dark, like back-corner-of-the-server-room dark. It was on nights like these that we were confined to the IT department on the first floor. Just as I was packing up to finally go home for the night, the phone rang and stopped me dead in my tracks. The first ring a warning; the second, a threat. My SysAdmin picked up the receiver nervously like it was a smoking gun. The color drained from his face as he listened to the shouting on the other end of the line. Slowly he turned and shoved the phone at me and stammered, “It’s for you. It’s the CEO!”
I was summoned to the CEO’s office on the 13th floor. My ears popped as the elevator lurched upward. As the door to his office creaked open revealing a gruesome scene, I felt my heart drop to the floor. I saw my old friend; Mr. A.P.P. Lication there on the desk lifeless, completely frozen, and by the looks of our dazed CEO, for a very long time. Not DOA, but APP’s condition was critical, unresponsive to my desperate command prompts. I knew if I were ever going to have another Exchange with my old friend (or keep my job) I’d have to get to the root of this mystery and fast.
THWACKsters, we need your help! Use the Appstack™ mystery-solving tools provided in this mission to get to the bottom of the slowdowns.
February MISSION
Use the mission’s resources to complete the tasks and answer the questions for a chance to win!
- Correctly answer each question during the week and you'll be entered to win the weekly prize.
- Correctly answer all 20 questions over the course of the month and you'll be entered to win the Grand Prize: An Adabox Subscription!
MISSION RULES
A new question will open every day (Monday - Friday) starting on February 6, 2017.
Once a question has opened, it will remain open until March 5, 2017 at 11:59 p.m.
Check the schedule below for exact open/close times.
Correctly answer all five questions within a given week and you’ll be entered to win the weekly prize:
- Week 1 - Drawing on February 13: E-Element™ Mechanical Keyboard with RGB Multicolor Backlit for Office and Gaming
- Week 2 - Drawing on February 20: HyperX™ Cloud Gaming Headset + FiiO® E17K Alpen 2
- Week 3 - Drawing on February 27: CanaKit® Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit - 32 GB Edition
- Week 4 - Drawing on March 6: iFixit Game Console & Electronics Refurbishing Kit
- Grand Prize - Drawing on March 6: Adabox
150 points are being awarded for each correctly answered question. There are 20 questions, which means you can earn a maximum of 3,000 points for this mission.
***Mission shortcut***
In addition to the awesome prizes and THWACK points up for grabs this month, we're bringing back the mission "shortcut". Complete the mission shortcut to earn up to an additional 3,000 THWACK points & enter to win a THWACK Fridge (Worth 80,000 THWACK points)!
The shortcut is simple:
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Mission shortcut Terms & Conditions: US, UK, Canada | Germany | Australia
| Server & Application Monitor | Virtualization Manager | Storage Resource Monitor |
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Find and resolve application problems before they become incidents.
| Optimize and fix virtual issues in minutes with vSphere® and Hyper-V monitoring
| Multi-Vendor Storage Performance & Capacity Monitoring
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| Weekly Prizes | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Winners |
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Complete questions 1-5 by February 12th to be entered to win | ||||||
Complete questions 6-10 by February 19th to be entered to win | ||||||
Complete questions 11-15 by February 26th to be entered to win | ||||||
Complete questions 16-20 by March 5th to be entered to win | ||||||
Monthly Mission Terms & Conditions: US, UK, & Canada | Germany | Australia
