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[PUZZLE] #251 - Silver - The Thirteenth Labour - READ POST#1
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poozleModerator
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By tomorrow I should have a Vista Beta 2 system set up and I will let you know if 13th Labour works on that, wish me luck guys Wink

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e_nygma
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poozle wrote:
By tomorrow I should have a Vista Beta 2 system set up and I will let you know if 13th Labour works on that, wish me luck guys Wink


[threadjack]
Rank in terms of order in time (soonest first):
1. Heat death of the universe
2. Solution to Thirteen Labour
3. Windows Vista released commercially
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e_nygma wrote:
poozle wrote:
By tomorrow I should have a Vista Beta 2 system set up and I will let you know if 13th Labour works on that, wish me luck guys Wink


[threadjack]
Rank in terms of order in time (soonest first):
1. Heat death of the universe
2. Solution to Thirteen Labour
3. Windows Vista released commercially
[/threadjack]


LOL, thats just stupid.

Rank in terms of order in time (soonest first):
1. Solution to Thirteen Labour
2. Heat death of the universe
3. Solution to Riemann
4. Windows Vista released commercially

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poozle wrote:


LOL, thats just stupid.

Rank in terms of order in time (soonest first):
1. Solution to Thirteen Labour
2. Heat death of the universe
3. Solution to Riemann
4. Windows Vista released commercially


Nah Nah It should be:

Rank in terms of order in time (soonest first):
1. Solution to Shuffled
2. Solution to Thirteenth Labour
3. Solution to Riemann
4. Finding the Cube in my possession & Claiming £100,000 Laughing

Sorry but Bill Gates Wont be getting any money from me, Would rather use Ubuntu Linux (which is 100% free) then Vista (well until vista is fully tested and bug free, which should be about 2010 Laughing )
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*no offence*
was it just me or did that post just stop you dead from laughing at the two previous ones
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Anyway, the 13th labour program works perfectly fine on vista, most things on the other hand.....

[OFF TOPIC] My first experience of vista was a BSOD, its working ok now just no programs work on it so its pretty useless, I'm reinstalling XP tomorrow. [/OFF TOPIC]

Anyway, lol, I reakon we'll find the cube before riemann is solved, possibly before 13th labour and shuffled depending on how they go.

EDIT 1 & 2: We apear to have just dropped to 5 wus, why are we down so far now, I thought we were at high levels to prevent congestion, it is because there isn't as much congestion anymore?

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lol.. yeah.. it went from 10 to 5 to 8 and now to 20... I think the server has a random number generator going just to see if we're paying attention Laughing I think it should start choosing irrational numbers soon!

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jazzychad wrote:
lol.. yeah.. it went from 10 to 5 to 8 and now to 20... I think the server has a random number generator going just to see if we're paying attention Laughing I think it should start choosing irrational numbers soon!


LOL, I've noticed that change, its confusing, LOL

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I've been playing with a new Work Unit allocation algorithm which is a bit more permissive.

We've had a couple of incidents over the last couple of days of database contention on Work Unit Allocation. When these incidents happen I reduce the work unit size to clear the backlog - then increment it back up to throttle web server load.

The new algorithm is in place now, and I've been able to up the MWU size to 20. I'll leave it at that for now.

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I sort of realize that finding the answer is kind of random, in that we will find it when it wants to be found. I was wondering if MC could make the answer be in the last .1 percentile just to make us sweat. What I'm really asking is if you encrypt with this system can you determine what end of the possibilities the answer lies? or is it always undetermined?

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Bendover wrote:
I sort of realize that finding the answer is kind of random, in that we will find it when it wants to be found. I was wondering if MC could make the answer be in the last .1 percentile just to make us sweat. What I'm really asking is if you encrypt with this system can you determine what end of the possibilities the answer lies? or is it always undetermined?


I'm oversimplifying, but as I understand it, we're trying to find the one "code" that is the key to decryption. So, for example, we've been testing "aaaaaaaa", then "aaaaaaab", then "aaaaaaac"... so yes, I think they do have a sense of where in the "order" of everything the correct answer is.

The other reason I'm pretty sure of this is because MC has said that brute forcing (trying every solution) is the only way to solve it. This leads me to think the answer isn't something easily guess-able, like some word or phrase.
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QBKooky wrote:

The other reason I'm pretty sure of this is because MC has said that brute forcing (trying every solution) is the only way to solve it. This leads me to think the answer isn't something easily guess-able, like some word or phrase.


Maybe it will be a clue for #243 - Shuffled.

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many flavors

can somebody try this for an answer:
many flavors

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Re: many flavors

Godspeed wrote:
can somebody try this for an answer:
many flavors


yep, tried and rejected... just curious, where did you come up w/ that guess?

<edit> oops... should I have waited for chimera et al to try suggested answers first? my bad if I jumped the gun... </edit>

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w00t! Passed the 3 million mark! Go, clients, go!

Thread's been quiet lately... weird...

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