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Chris K · Boot Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 37

I thought we'd decided it was Ataturuk.

That's what the red stamp says.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:25 pm

da5id · Veteran Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 80

but that does not necessarily mean that the pic is from there. Wink

**Posted:** Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:52 pm

MO75 · Guest

Yeah, Ataturk Airport is definitely Istanbul's main airport. Brief history: Ataturk is Turkey's national hero, he headed the fight against the invading Allied Forces in WW1 and later as the president of the modern Turkish Republic he modernised the country. Don't mean to sidetrack, but it's basically the same as JFK Airport in NY, or John Lennon Airport in Liverpool.

My wife is Turkish, she has friends in Istanbul, if you have any questions I'm sure they'd be only too happy to help. Let me know and I'll see what I can do (I'll check back in a couple of days)... Other than trying to read the writing, there's not much I can think of. I'll get the mrs to have a look and see if she can decipher it...

BTW, this is Ataturk Airport's website: http://www.ataturkairport.com/en/indexframe.html

Just looking at the website, and comparing say the pictures in the Shopping part, the flooring looks similar, and the lighting looks very similar too... But then, airports aren't exactly known for their individualistic charm, are they?

**Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:41 pm

MO75 · Guest

Yeah, Ataturk Airport is definitely Istanbul's main airport. Brief history: Ataturk is Turkey's national hero, he headed the fight against the invading Allied Forces in WW1 and later as the president of the modern Turkish Republic he modernised the country. Don't mean to sidetrack, but it's basically the same as JFK Airport in NY, or John Lennon Airport in Liverpool.

My wife is Turkish, she has friends in Istanbul, if you have any questions I'm sure they'd be only too happy to help. Let me know and I'll see what I can do (I'll check back in a couple of days)... Other than trying to read the writing, there's not much I can think of. I'll get the mrs to have a look and see if she can decipher it...

BTW, this is Ataturk Airport's website: http://www.ataturkairport.com/en/indexframe.html

Just looking at the website, and comparing say the pictures in the Shopping part, the flooring looks similar, and the lighting looks very similar too... But then, airports aren't exactly known for their individualistic charm, are they?

**Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:41 pm

chrome_halo

I emailed Ataturk Airport and enquired if they recognized the picture, no reply so far......

**Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:56 am

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tsal · Kilroy Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 1

the postcard

**Posted:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:17 pm

Darkfall

Yep, its been posted. In the postcard section.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:33 pm

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jomolungma · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 38 Location: NY, NY

I realize this is a very old topic, but I didn't see this mentioned anywhere and I thought it might be relevant because the errorlogs were discussed in this topic:

if you plot the cache file names in a listing of the first 16 10-digit sequences in the number e, you get two series of 8, or two binary numbers. If you color the numbers that are in the cache file one color, and the numbers that aren't another color, you get your 1's and 0's. If the first sequence (2718281828) is a 1, the next is a zero and so forth.

The first binary number translates to the ASCii symbol for cent.
Seems relevant. The second sequence would translate to the ASCii symbol for cube.

Word of caution - the binary decoder I was using translates a lot of things to the cube symbol, particularly errors. So I'm not 100% that the second sequence tranlates that way, but it has an eerie relevance.

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:32 am

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**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:07 pm

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jomolungma · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 38 Location: NY, NY

right you are! my apologies -

the bold represents "missing" number sequences
the plain text are number sequences that correspond to cache files

2718281828 4590452353 6028747135 2662497757 2470936999 5957496696 7627724076 6303535475

9457138217 8525166427 4274663919 3200305992 1817413596 6290435729 0033429526 0595630738

if bold numbers are "1"s and plain text are "0"s, the binaries are:

10100010 - "cent" symbol
00010010 - "cube" symbol

**Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:25 pm

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10010 = 18 = ^R or Ctrl + R (whichever notation your familiar with) which you probably saw as a "square" because it has no display character.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:46 am

jomolungma · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 38 Location: NY, NY

**Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:27 pm

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