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...

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

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

Gifts from the "water chicken" no doubt.
As usual, OpenBSD marches to the sound of its own drum :-))
Nice one.

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

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.

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).

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

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?

Cool! As a big fan of Rush, I like it so much!  Artwork is also incredible!

You are the best, guys.