Just back from my (hiking) trip, I am happy to announce the 4.2
song has been added to the lyrics page at

	http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

Yes, it is designed to sound like a mid-era Rush song, ie. something
from Grace Under Pressure or such.  And there's a few easter eggs
hidden in the song as well.  It also explains the inside sleeve
image...

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Cool! As a big fan of Rush, I like it so much!  Artwork is also incredible!
You are the best, guys.

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Gifts from the "water chicken" no doubt.

As usual, OpenBSD marches to the sound of its own drum :-))

Nice one.

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Okay, I can't bear it any longer. I thought that maybe binary 100001
and 1010101 stood for decimal 33 and 85, and that made me think of
ASCII ! and U. But I just don't get it. Is anybody in a mood to
enlighten me?

Cheers,
ropers

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I think it should have been 1000001 instead of 100001. But if it's not 
than it's a good easter egg :-p (and I don't get it).


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That's real interesting, guys.
TheRaven64 writes that (0)100001 1010101 is (caesar-)ciphertext for Au.
But going with Tom's suggestion of a missing 0, 1000001 1010101 is
plaintext for AU.

So is Gold the answer or is it "not you"?
I dunno, but me likey! :)

--ropers

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Well back on last Sunday I put my guess on undeadl
at:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071007002942&mode=expanded&
count=26
and it was Gold as you can easily see.

I didn't explain my reasoning because it might have been a spoiler but
now there are two others getting gold, both differing from mine in the
method.

Listen to the song. The two strings are broken and come out as:
100  001 that gives 41 which is A in hex
101  0101 that gives 55 which is U in hex.

Gosh, three ways to make gold.
OpenBSD is Alchemy!

I'd award it gold in the marathon for sure.


From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

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ASCII ! and U.
Merged: !U
As in: Not U
As in: Not you
As in: Not you to us (the seventh to last the line in the song)

That's how I've interpreted it.

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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:55:11AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:


Someone is giving it a go:
http://slashdot.org/~TheRaven64/journal/184027


 Gord

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Nothing gets any nerdier than this, O - M - G. *thinks of revenge of the nerds*


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