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ristau5741
PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:40 am 
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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the numbers to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

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Ok, hint #2.

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Looks like the innards to a dot matrix printer.

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wirerat wrote:
Looks like the innards to a dot matrix printer.


That's what I was thinking.
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wirerat wrote:
Looks like the innards to a dot matrix printer.


The insides of a Heathkit H14 dot-matrix printer to be more specific. :wink:
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That last hint did it for me. Did anyone else get it?
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bertschs wrote:
That last hint did it for me. Did anyone else get it?


Hahaha nope :lol:

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bertschs wrote:
That last hint did it for me. Did anyone else get it?


Yep, our first winner. Nice job.

Pick your prize.

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bertschs wrote:
That last hint did it for me. Did anyone else get it?


Hahaha nope :lol:


I'm still clueless it appears.
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I'll go for the cash via PayPal. :)
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Another day another clue for the clueless???

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I arranged them as a 3*11 matrix (as in dot matrix), and added each line, here's the result:

59 39 42 13 43 63 52 48 61 38 39 37 39 37 52 48 33 48

I'll now do some padding on the left side of their binary form and try to make sth up.

The binary forms here:

00111011
00100111
00101010
00001101
00101011
00111111
00110100
00110000
00111101
00100110
00100111
00100101
00100111
00110100
00110000
00100001
00110000
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rafi
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I probably got it as well.
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rafi wrote:
I probably got it as well.


Confirmed. Pick your prize.

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I'll go for the print or ebook of my choice, please.

Thanks,
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Damn!! Thought i cracked it but when i put it together it was a no go!!

Your killing me Steve

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Steve wrote:
Ok, hint #2.

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Looks like an old NST with the cover taken off...
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ristau5741 wrote:
yeah stevester1

the contest was to decyphr the activation code, transmit it to one of Steve's robot scripts out on the internet, which would then create a new user account here, login, find the appropriate forum and thread, then post 2 messages, the second of which is
"I am very appreciated" to win the contest.

now to figure out who did it, see below for more hints on that...

W.

T.

F??!?!?!
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here is what I have so far...

I took the original code and ran it through both Base64 and base32 conversions to binary or hex. I then took the results and tried to line them up with dot-matrix character output but got nothing. Im finding several different binary mappings for dot-matrix but non of them are lining up. But i could be doing things wrong...

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You sly dog you.

EDIT: I meant that as a "I got it", btw.
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