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[TRIVIA] Things I have found out
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Quirk
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 		[TRIVIA] Things I have found out
Okay, so a lot of people have been IMing me lately asking various questions about OhVerisimilitude and thematrixisreal.com. I've been working at this whole thing from a pure boredom point of view. I have the worlds easiest job so I have to find something to do to pass the time. I'm just going to post things I have come across. I haven't really told anyone how I've figured these things out, and there might be a step or two I might omit, but only because it might step over the bounds.

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One day while waiting on http://thematrixisreal.com/iverilyquote.html to load I noticed that http://the1.no-ip.com/~sachchit was being accessed. It is exactly the same as the first page, except it is on a white background. http://the1.no-ip.com is a very simple page. At the moment it says something about new users not being taken on at the time. I found this weeks ago and when I did they were still taking on accounts. To use one of these accounts you'll need a SSH client, which I just happen to have. I made my account and logged in. One kinda cool thing about linux (as far as i know) is that you can browse directories. Well, there are a lot of people who have an account on this server. in /home/sachchit there are two directories, public_html (where the log page is located) and aim-web. aim-web contains the program that takes IMs and puts them on the page. When I first found this, no special permissions were set and I was able to download everything. I found OVs password. The next time OV came on I told him. He wasn't upset or anything and said that it was part of the 'game' just wasn't supposed to happen yet. He changed the password, but didn't change permissions, so i got it again. Telling him I had it, i'm not trying to piss the guy off, just trying to play the game. This time he seemed a more upset and changed the password along with the permissions. Every so often I check back to see if the permissions have been changed, this time they were. So, once again, I had the password. I told him, like always, and he said, basically, that it was more fitting this time. He changed things like usual.


*edit* the1.no-ip.com is taking new signups now.


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I was chatting with Selina when she got her email account. She didn't get any sort of info with it, just the address. I had something new to try and figure out. After going to HostOnce (I found this from the email header that was sent when someone emailed a answer to the riddle) which I have determined is the host of thematrixisreal.com. I browsed their site and found a demo of their control panel. In the demo it said that the webmail path was domain:2004, so i tried it. Viola, http://thematrixisreal.com:2004 TheMatrixIsReal WebMail. It does look like the page has been edited a little bit so I am kinda wondering about the version of the software. Doind a search for IMail v7.07 I found a blurb on a blog about how Saddam's email had been viewed by a known exploit in v7.07. I don't know if this was intentional or know, but just for future reference.


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When i had the password to OhVerisimilitude i couldn't help but sign on. The buddylist is maxed out, not a single name could be added. This was about a month ago that this happen, so things might've changed. I browsed everyones profile that was on and noticed that just about all the phone numbers were from the 310 area code. when i logged into the1.no-ip.com to sign up for my account, it asked for a room number. combining these together i came up with the university of maryland. doings some research on UofM shows that they have a pretty hardcore AI department. I came across an writeup of AI based on human DNA. this was kinda hit me as important considering that OV posed this question in a conversation he/she/it had one night. we were going back and forth on what makes something no longer artificial and things of the sort. he said something along the lines of "if AI were based on superhuman dna, would that still make it artificial.


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I don't know if the answer to the riddle is supposed to be an image or text, and i have no idea what a verbal answer would be, so i drew it. it took a couple attempts, but i came up with this http://jason.cybertears.net/images/misc/riddleanswer.bmp. It fits all the rules.


i've been asked how i did the links and bold text on iverilyquote.html. to be honest, this just happened. i don't use the AIM client, i use gaim and apparently my text formatting just makes it through. the link thing is the same, i dunno if the real AIM client works like this.

That's about it for now. I'm going at this whole thing from a completely different angle that it seems most people are. I'm probably going to continue posting any new findings i have in this topic.

feel free to contact me, i've met some cool people via OV.
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 		riddle
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The point where the four triangles meet (in the riddle answer that cybertears put up) may not be mathematically touching...its just a point, not a line. This problem is called the Four Color Theorem.

Mathworld info


Ask Dr. Math

I emailed OV with this...haven't heard back yet...so maybe OV was looking for what Cyber has drawn up. I did the same thing Cyber (with the the1.no-ip.net) but couldn't figure out his password....i'm still trying to figure out how to get into the email login on thematrixisreal.com. Still very fun though.

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Quirk
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Passwords for OhVerisimilitude in the past month

i've gotten the password 3 times for the screen name. 1) pword1one 2) watchout 3) y1kes

the 3rd one i got at like 3am this morning.

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Quirk
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 		Found that a couple days of quotes from http://www.thematrixisreal.com/iverilyquote.html have been saved:

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http://the1.no-ip.com/~sachchit/11-13bindex.html

http://the1.no-ip.com/~sachchit/11-16index.html


I don't think there is much to this, but just more things to help progress.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:43 am
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Quirk
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 		While browsing my website access logs, I noticed that someone came to my site from thematrixisreal.com access logs. A password is required to get to the access logs so I am guessing that Sachchit has visited my website after finding that people were going to his from mine. Nothing of interest, except that it appears our buddy Sachchit uses a Macintosh and Firefox. I guess I technically have his IP (if it is indeed him that viewed it) but I don't think any good will come of having the IP, so no need in reporting it.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:51 am
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Quirk wrote:
While browsing my website access logs, I noticed that someone came to my site from thematrixisreal.com access logs. A password is required to get to the access logs so I am guessing that Sachchit has visited my website after finding that people were going to his from mine. Nothing of interest, except that it appears our buddy Sachchit uses a Macintosh and Firefox. I guess I technically have his IP (if it is indeed him that viewed it) but I don't think any good will come of having the IP, so no need in reporting it.


is it possible for you to provide at least the url?? i think that would help a lot... Laughing

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Quirk
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 		yeah... i can post the URL he came to my site from, but it isn't going to do anyone any good. it is simply him checking his access logs.

http://thematrixisreal.com/stats/usage_200412.html is the URL he came from. good luck checking it out... it's password protected.
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