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[ramsfan]

Doubt this is of any relevance, but the 13th labour seems not to be about medusa (seen off by perseus). There seem to be 2 candidates. The less popular is the glazing of the infinite surface area of Zeus' amphora. The more popular task is fetching the golden roses in the forest of Corinth, guarded by a gorgon, but not that gorgon. Just back from seeing Roddy Frame in our local cinema. He were fantastic.

[tipimike]

[neuromancer]

Hey tipimike, what language did u write ur app in? If it's not too much trouble to ask, could you email me your source code?? It may be helpful for someone to take a look at the algorithm to make sure it's all good.

[lillyplop]

OK...tonight......while the husband is out and the son is in bed pretending to be asleep......I am going to solve this card!

If it takes all night and copious amounts of coffee and proplus.... I will not stop until this card is atop my pile of solved cards.

I know nothing of encoding, decoding or tranferring, translating but I promise you I will do everything in my power to finish this card. You never know it may just need something simple, like me, to break its spirit!

After that I will be having a sacrficial burning of the most hated (so far apart from Up Up down round whatever) perplex city card in my garden, to which you are all invited!

Now if anyone wants to throw me an idea or two thats fine, I wont mind. As soon I have solved this I will let you all know.

Kindest regards

Lillyplop
(c/o Hampton Mental Asylum)

[chichiri]

I reeeeeeeeaaaaaaly think we should arrange all-nighters and all-dayers(for those of us like me who have more day hours free than night) to work on each silvers as hard as we possibly can together in these forums.

It'll be just like having a party on earth, but the pizza, booze and drugs will be replaced with whipsmart ice cream, ungodly difficult puzzles and ceretin.

I suggest organising it like this:

monday night: riemann
monday day: elucidate
tuesday night: shuffled
tuesday day: 13th labour
wednesday night:elucidate
wednesday day:shuffled
thursday night:13th labour
thursday day:riemann

or something like that, so that there is a day and a night for each card.

if we put all of our minds together then we might barely scrape a perplexian mind.

is it a good idea?

no da

[ryandrew]

Sounds good. But, how much time can you really spend on Elucidate without crying? That stuff could be anything.

[chichiri]

OK, if I can get another two confirmations on this then it'll happen, but we may have to play around a bit with the times, or we could just decide on the day which card we'll be working on.

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[oliverkeers13]

Von's hint

[Langley Moor]

Try putting that into google - the entire first page of links that come up bring up a decrypting program for linux. Anyone running that OS and want to download it?It might shed more light on it once we can have a look at this RC5 encryption/decryption program.

[BrianEnigma]

That is *exactly* the sort of source code I have been looking for since the very first page of this thread.

[neuromancer]

wooo!!!

Cheers oliverkeers13, I've got linux on my spare box, so I'll give it a shot. I can't believe all my many hours of googling didn't yield this page!!!

Edit: I'll see if I can get a port of this for windows users, though I can't guarantee anything.

[BrianEnigma]

[WolverineFan]

[poozle]

Well, if anyone manages to create some sort of distributed computing program for this I'll be willing to help (got linux on another partition).

[BrianEnigma]

I can confirm that it will compile and run under Windows (with Cygwin installed, using its gcc.) The datatypes and operations upon them seem good.

I *believe* that with Cygwin, all you need is the executable and the Cygwin DLL when releasing an application and that there are no other dependencies. Attached is a Windows version of the app. It is precompiled and has the Cygwin DLL (someone please let me know if it complains about other dependencies--since everything is installed on the one Windows box I have access to, I can't really QA the prerequisites.)

Note that it is a command-line application and takes two command line parameters. At present, you can't just double-click and expect it to run.