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madCoder
 Mar 1, 06 - 3:52 AM |
A Tribute to Rich's World
Ok, so I started looking through some of the things you hadn't gotten around to deciphering yet, Shirkie, and here's some meaningless babble :) The numbers to the left of "See above box, heh." are hexadecimal representations of ASCII characters (same as the final ESP from the Ledger at the end of Season 3). The values translate to: "GAN TA NU I KA TAN RU". Haven't tried rearranging this yet. For the 2nd heiroglyphics message, the link you posted to for the transliteration shows the 2nd and 4th symbols to be an 'a' not an 'e'. It reads "NAHAM IS BAKKWARDS". In the bible, Naham is Hodiah's brother, and Hodiah is Ezra's wife. So Naham is Ezra's brother-in-law. Another source says "A Judahite chieftain, father of Keilah the Garmite." Naham means "comfort" or "consolation". I haven't been able to determine anything from the "Ä.╙.'.A" message, nor the others. But a few things I noticed: First, in your transcription of the text from the forum, you put "@╝╚°ü", but the actual text should be "@╩ºü" (notice that you split the ╩ character into two: ╝╚, and you used the ord character without the _: ° should be º). Next, I don't know if it means anything, but the one that's in the Local News section is *almost* identical to the one on the forums here, except that the ╩ is replaced with a -. Also, just wanted to mention that all 3 seem to be related. 1) the one on the Local News is actually a shoutout to me, after I pointed something out to Ritch about Instamail and/or brainwave (it was a long time ago, i dont remember exactly); 2) the one on the forums was posted by brainwave and referenced a phrase that appeared in that same news article: "Like a snowflake"; 3) The one on the Masks page is accompanied by a message pointing to the post on the forums. So (3) points to (2), which points to (1). Still doesn't help me with translating what it's supposed to mean yet, but it could just be a way of setting those things apart ..? One thing's for sure: "brainwave" posts here have got to be Ritch's doing ;) "aklhitnrf meiehoeu iebritds rprrn!i asaiko rnn yg .?" The letters are broken into groups of 9, 8, 8, 7, 6, 3, 2, 2 characters, showing that it's in decending order, which usually means a triangle shape of some sort. It doesn't make an even triangle, so it's a little hard to tell exactly what it's meant for, but the words I can get from it: "Amira", "keeps", "library", "herring", "I think not!" (?), "or edifus" (?). Those last two are a little confusing to me, because they don't quite follow the pattern. Google thinks "Edifus" is a misspelling of "Oedipus", even though there are many results containing "edifus". Also, recall that Amira appeared earlier in the line "Amira, time out of mind". Also not sure where the punctuation should be, or the correct order of words. Shirkie, you can probably figure out how that works out? :P And, not sure about "S3L3C4N 1V1T1R"... Looks like something new. Though it seems like it might be something like "sentence 3, line 3, character 4, ..." but i can't make any sense of the rest of it.. Hope that helps some :x |
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Lana_Lang#1
Mar 6th, 2006 - 10:54 PM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
I remember this from Ksite and I dunno if anyone ever saw it but I'm posting this stuff here in case the Kryptonsite links are destroyed: Rich's World has more Ezra content New Ezra content available at Rich's World (http://pages.cthome.net/richsworld/index.html). The new Ezra content is hidden, though, so I've put together a handy-dandy guide (http://www.ezrasmall.com/rich.htm) to the secret stuff Rich has hidden throughout his site. Explore the site on your own, or use my guide, but don't miss new codes. I suggest you visit my guide and scroll all the way to the bottom to see the latest info added, what I've been able to decode, and what remains to be decoded (I'm looking for you, MadCoder and Eh,Man?You-El? especially!). ENJOY! shirkie AAAHHHHHH! I had a breakthrough on the code that looks like this... First, I broke the code down into those U+4-digits to create symbols in Microsoft Character Map. Ä.╙.'.A Symbol 1: 00c4 Symbol 2: 002E Symbol 3: 2559 34.255.27.41? Symbol 4: 002E Symbol 5: 0027 Symbol 6: 002E Symbol 7: 0041 Skipping the 0's and assigning numeric value to the letters, S1 became 34, represents a stop still (work with me) and is excluded, s3 becomes 2559, which I truncate out of pure arbitrariness to 255. S5 becomes 27, and S7 becomes 41. The resulting IP address is 34.255.27.41. I thought this would be a complete waste of time because I figured I was off (I possibly still am!), but if you type this IP address into ARIN WHOIS (http://www.arin.net/), you're going to get an interesting answer... quote: OrgID: HALLIB-1 Address: 10200 Bellaire Blvd City: Houston StateProv: TX PostalCode: 77072-5299 Country: US NetRange: 34.0.0.0 - 34.255.255.255 CIDR: 34.0.0.0/8 NetName: HALLIBURTON ROFLMAO! Now what exactly this has to do with the Kawatches or Krypton or anything... Maybe the Alaskan drilling project might interfere with the Fortress of Solitude??? Using the same method on the symbol with the ellipsis, I moved the ellipes points to where IP points should be and went from there. The IP address I derived was 40.24.20.63, and it's listed to... quote: OrgID: ELILIL Address: Lilly Corporate Center City: Indianapolis StateProv: IN PostalCode: 46285 Country: US NetRange: 40.0.0.0 - 40.255.255.255 CIDR: 40.0.0.0/8 NetName: LILLY-NET Is Lex going to do a buyout of EliLilly, the drug company?? Now, using the same method on the symbol @╩ºü, won't seem to work becuase inserting a period between each symbol ends up with an IP address that's just too long. Can anyone provide fresh insight into this puzzle? I've seriously been going at it all night and this (sadly) is all I got. Heh. Shirkie |
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Lana_Lang#1
Mar 6th, 2006 - 10:55 PM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
You're a marvel Shirkie, I wouldn't even have though anything even close to what you've come up with! Good work so far, as for this code I have no idea what to do. Hey Shirkie I dunno if this helps or not... I typed Smallville into ARIN: WHOIS Database Search and this is what I got. SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS (SMALLV) OrgName: SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS OrgID: SMALLV Address: 8136 LEAVENWORTH RD City: KANSAS CITY StateProv: KS PostalCode: 66109 Country: US Comment: RegDate: 2001-03-27 Updated: 2001-03-27 - Organization name: Smallville! Location: Kansas City! Looks like we're getting closer! SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS FON-106830028874804 (NET-63-172-248-0-1) 63.172.248.0 - 63.172.248.255 OrgName: SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS OrgID: SMALLV Address: 8136 LEAVENWORTH RD City: KANSAS CITY StateProv: KS PostalCode: 66109 Country: US NetRange: 63.172.248.0 - 63.172.248.255 CIDR: 63.172.248.0/24 NetName: FON-106830028874804 NetHandle: NET-63-172-248-0-1 Parent: NET-63-160-0-0-1 NetType: Reassigned Comment: RegDate: 2001-03-27 Updated: 2001-03-27 RTechHandle: WD140-ARIN RTechName: DOTSON, BILL RTechPhone: +1-913-334-6654 RTechEmail: BDOT@toto.net SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS FON-110134476875387 (NET-65-165-48-0-1) 65.165.48.0 - 65.165.63.255 OrgName: SMALLVILLE COMMUNICATIONS OrgID: SMALLV Address: 8136 LEAVENWORTH RD City: KANSAS CITY StateProv: KS PostalCode: 66109 Country: US NetRange: 65.165.48.0 - 65.165.63.255 CIDR: 65.165.48.0/20 NetName: FON-110134476875387 NetHandle: NET-65-165-48-0-1 Parent: NET-65-160-0-0-1 NetType: Reassigned Comment: RegDate: 2001-04-05 Updated: 2001-04-05 RTechHandle: WD140-ARIN RTechName: DOTSON, BILL RTechPhone: +1-913-334-6654 RTechEmail: BDOT@toto.net I typed Level 3 into ARIN: WHOIS Database Search and this is what I got: CustName: Level 3 Audio Visual Address: 10403 S 159th St City: Gilbert StateProv: AZ PostalCode: 85234 Country: US RegDate: 2005-11-21 Updated: 2005-11-21 NetRange: 69.88.110.120 - 69.88.110.127 CIDR: 69.88.110.120/29 NetName: ESCH-69-88-110-120 NetHandle: NET-69-88-110-120-1 Parent: NET-69-88-64-0-1 NetType: Reassigned Comment: RegDate: 2005-11-21 Updated: 2005-11-21 RAbuseHandle: ENAT-ARIN RAbuseName: Eschelon Network Abuse Team RAbusePhone: +1-866-372-4356 RAbuseEmail: abuse@eschelon.com RNOCHandle: ENOC1-ARIN RNOCName: Network Operations Center RNOCPhone: +1-866-372-4356 RNOCEmail: noc@eschelon.com RTechHandle: JM5649-ARIN RTechName: Malacko, Jason Wade RTechPhone: +1-866-372-4356 RTechEmail: jmalacko@eschelon.com OrgAbuseHandle: ENAT-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Eschelon Network Abuse Team OrgAbusePhone: +1-866-372-4356 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@eschelon.com OrgNOCHandle: ENOC1-ARIN OrgNOCName: Network Operations Center OrgNOCPhone: +1-866-372-4356 OrgNOCEmail: noc@eschelon.com OrgTechHandle: JM5649-ARIN OrgTechName: Malacko, Jason Wade OrgTechPhone: +1-866-372-4356 OrgTechEmail: jmalacko@eschelon.com - Now maybe I'm waaay off my handle here but I do know that Jason Wade is a guitarist for Lifehouse, a band constantly played on Smallville. Eschelon: ECHELON is a highly secretive world-wide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community. ECHELON can capture radio and satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and e-mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated analysis and sorting of intercepts. ECHELON is estimated to intercept up to 3 billion communications every day. - Doesn't Lex like to use top secret spying technology to watch people? Antenna 4 (through the wire) in former Echelon intelligence gathering station at Silvermine, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Cape Penisula: The Cape Peninsula, also known as the Peninsula of the Cape of Good Hope, is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out for 75 kilometres into the Southern Ocean at the the south-western (NOT the southern) extremity of the African continent. The peninsula was once an island but about sixty million years ago it was joined to the mainland by the emergence from the sea of the sandy area now known as the Cape Flats. On the northern end is the famous Table Mountain, overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula now form part of the greater City of Cape Town. Come on! Cape Town! the Peninsula of the Cape of Good Hope! Isn't good hope what Superman is all about? Huh? huh? I'm really just shooting in the dark and hoping that I hit something and hopefully not someone... Thanks for listening to me being crazy! |
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madCoder
Mar 8th, 2006 - 2:20 AM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
Guess I missed that post on KSite :x I haven't had a lot of time lately so i don't visit the forums as much as I used to. Shirkie: Those values from charmap are in hexadecimal ("digits" range from 0 -> F: 0-9, but then 10 is A, 11 is B, up to 15 for F). Then its just like in decimal notation: Decimal means it is "base 10", so for each digit to the left, you multiply that value by 10^(position). For example: 123. 3 is the 1's place, or "position 0". 10^0 is 1. 3 * 1 = 3. Then 2 is in the 10's place, or position 1. 10^1 = 10. 2 * 10 = 20. In position 2: 10^2 = 100. 1 * 100 = 100. So you have 100 + 20 + 3. It's the same concept for converting hexadecimal values, except instead of doing 10^(position), it's 16^(position) (because hexadecimal is what's called "base 16" (hexa = 6, deci = 10; hexadecimal = 16). So, "U+2559" can also be written as "0x2559", or "x2559" or "\x2559". But when we're talking about ASCII characters, you generally only have a range of 0-255, because you're only allowed 1 byte (8 bits, 2^8 = 256, but because we're using 0, the max can only be 255). U+2559 is actually 2 bytes (0x25, and 0x59), which is what is now known as Unicode, or UTF-16). The two bytes, when converted, are: 37,89. But because its Unicode, you don't think of them as two separate bytes, but as one large, combined byte. Think of it like the number 1024. It isn't 10 and 24, it's 24 and 10 * 100 (because the 10 starts in position 2). So to do the same with a 2-byte hex value, it would be 0x59 + 0x25 * (16^2). 0x59 = 89, 0x25 = 37. Which is 9,561. Anyway, that's today's geek-math lesson. The point of all that, is that the IP address idea was a good observation, but the Unicode character is what throws a wrench in it all. Also, the reason I mentioned all the hexadecimal stuff, is cause instead of substituting numbers for letters, it should be a hex->dec conversion. Which leaves us with: Ä=196 ╙=9561 '=39 A=65 Obviously 9561 is too big for an IP. BUT! In old DOS/IBM-PC character sets (that is, pre-Unicode), they made an "extended ASCII" character set that was specifically meant to include box-drawing characters. The Ext ASCII value for the ╙ was 0xd3, or 211. Soo. If you follow that, you'd get: 196.211.39.65. Which, btw, is not an internet-routable IP address, which means we can't access that IP over the Internet. It was a good idea though  Maybe we should be taking a different angle on the values. That is, looking at the decimal numbers, and (separately) the hexadecimal numbers, and even swapping numbers for letters and/or letters for numbers in the hex values. It may be important. It is interesting that the latest on separates each characters with dots, while the other two don't. Those other two are also the ones that are almost the same, except for the 2nd characters. |
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Ritch
Mar 11th, 2006 - 9:19 AM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
Shirkie: Per your message requesting the URL, I am posting the link for you, here it is. It does work! Notice the Upper case "L" followed by the lower case "l" is the way it must be done. Kryptonian was not case-sensitive, but the Unix Server is and I had done it that way on purpose to make it harder to get at the page. http://pages.cthome.net/richsworld/Ll07T5GS1.html |
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Shirkie
Mar 11th, 2006 - 10:43 AM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
Thank you, Rich! Your URL will be properly updated right now by yours truly. You are very patient to put up with my nonsense, friend. |
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Raven
May 14th, 2006 - 3:11 PM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
O.K. I was wrong with that post about Beppo's line about it being the Crow. It was a line that Dr. Fine said to Lex. So, I'm going to try again with one of these Richworld puzzles. I think the Greek writing is about ancient Greecian philospoher Plato. If you try to translate exactly work for word you will lose the correct meaning. "what is the metre a individual?" is not really the write translation (See Bablefish). A more correct to english meaning would be something like "what is the method of measuring a male person?" That's still a bit off, but you can't translate it exactly into English, so it's hard to covey the meaning. I would say more like "How do you measure a man?" and that's what I thought so a quick Google gave me that Plato wrote in ancient Greece "The measure of a man is what he does with power." I think it's trying to ask "What is the measure of a man?" in Greek. To which I think the answer is what Plato said. If I'm right, I think it applies either to Lex Luthor or Clark Kent and what they do with power???? Like I said, I was off last time, so, I'm just guessing here. |
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madCoder
May 16th, 2006 - 3:03 AM |
Re: A Tribute to Rich's World
Raven: nice work. That sounds about right to me. And the meaning is obviously dual - refering to both Clark and Lex. |
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