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Paradoxic · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 160

Beowulf is the hero in the great Anglo-Saxon peom 'Beowulf'... you may also recognize the main 'antagonist': Grendal.

eowulf is also a name given to a specific setup of machines running in a cluster, called a 'beowulf cluster' (oddly enough). Very common ways to get a system running many CPUs. You see them in universities around the world for physics or math or computer science or whatever tests.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:56 pm

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rasmus · Greenhorn Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 8

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:05 pm

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**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:21 pm

foxhound · Guest

Just a quick note if you check the blog it mentions that Dana was contacted by someone who called himself "xnbomb" I did a search on Google and found this link...

http://metacortechs.netninja.com/little-boxes/aim-11-15/

if you look down the list you will see a txt document of a AIM conversation with xnbomb.

IT appears he was a character from a Matrix style ARG.

also NetNinja.com is also responsible for posting the supposed clues for the riddles on ilovebees.com

Confused

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:52 pm

aliendial

Poor xnbomb; he's so good, he's become unreal. It's a good thing he's a member of UnFiction, then.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:57 pm

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ScarpeGrosse

This was discussed already in a separate thread.

Sorry to disappoint, but xnbomb is really just a player like everyone else.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=44165&highlight=#44165

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:09 pm

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foxhound · Guest

I kinda figured that. My question is what does he have to do with this particular game.

I will search the boards thanks for the info.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:16 pm

guest · Guest

Re: Whois info

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:15 pm

pirate · Guest

sorry...

I actually googled this...like a phone number (415)248-2617

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:29 pm

vpisteve

Yeah, I saw that bungie ref when I did the same thing. I think it's just a coincidence, but it is really odd.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:56 pm

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d3adcell · Guest

Check this out http://photos1.blogger.com/img/23/1259/640/honey.2.jpg Its a picture of the site before it was wrong, look at the link up there and type it in to your browser.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:57 pm

d3adcell · Guest

Anyway it brings u to http://mappa.mundi.net

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:02 am

Paradoxic · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 160

I don't see any connection to Mappa Mundi though. According to the whois information for mundi.net, it was set up in 1998 and does appear to be a real website.

Registrar: Alice's Registry, Inc.
Domain Name: MUNDI.NET
Created on: 19-Oct-1998
Expires on: 18-Oct-2005
Last Updated on: 22-Jul-2004

Registrant:
Malamud, Carl
PO Box 300
Sixes, Oregon 97476
US
+1.5415551212

Administrative Contact:
Malamud, Carl carlSPLATmedia.org
PO Box 300
Sixes, Oregon 97476
US
+1.5415551212

Technical and Zone Contact:
Malamud, Carl carlSPLATmedia.org
PO Box 300
Sixes, Oregon 97476
US
+1.5415551212

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:09 am

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d3adcell · Guest

Whats strange is, the site is updated from san fransisco right? But the timezone on the countdown is eastern time.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:13 am

Paradoxic · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 160

Well... technically the website is hosted on a server owned by hosting giant Rackspace (the kind of place that offers 500MB of storage for free when you sign up... also the kind of place that easily survives slashdotting). Rackspace has locations in a few places, one of which is London and the other is Virginia. My bet is that it is hosted at the VA location, hence the EST server clock.

Oh well, I guess the other option would have been hosting it at MS, at least it has the right Timezone... but I suppose they wouldn't want it to be that obvious a connection.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:20 am

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