Riddle Me This

[Peggy in Alaska]

They call him a streaker!

They call him a streaker!

I've not streaked, but I remember being in a crowded bar years and years ago and a streaker came running bare-naked through the crowd! Too many people in the way!

 

[Ross]

I streaked during the streaking craze era. It was fun right up until I ran into a briar patch trying to get away from the Sheriff.

 

[Johnny Stephens]

Streaking + briar patch + Coumadin = Interesting question for Al.

 

[Ross]

You think I should run it by him once?

 

[hensylee]

Did anyone figure mine out? I don't know what it says. My brother, the programmer, wrote it. He says Ross' first post is in ASCI and there's something else - maybe what Johnny was talking about. But can someone tell me what I said?

It's either silly or profound - he's like a professor and has been a programmer since programmers were invented.

 

[Ross]

Did anyone figure mine out?

I haven't gotten yet. It's funny how he can't fix Windows computers, but he sure knows how to mess with my head.

Translated=ÓÅãââÅÅÁÂÖäãÅÂÃÄÉÃ

 

[Harrybaby666]

Say Bud......

Say Bud......

Ross,

Are you trying to blow out the valves of an innocent pre surgery victim? LOL LOL Harrybaby666

 

[Johnny Stephens]

Ahh Fun with bits

Ahh Fun with bits

All these ones and zeroes are actually numbers, and in groups of eight, form a byte. If you take the first four bits of Ross' first post (0100 1100), for example, and convert it to decimal, you wind up with 76. If you look this up on an ASCII chart, you will see that decimal 76 translates to a capital L:
ASCII Table

So if you sit down with all these binary numbers and a scientific calculator (or do it in your head if you know how), you can convert each group of eight bits to a decimal number. Then you can look each of these decimal numbers up in the chart and get the associated letter.

Hensylee, roughly speaking, your binary numbers are larger in value and therefore the tool translates them into the "Extended Character Set" (used in different languages) that can be seen in the same table. It may be that this is not correct for this set of data, it may be meant for some other coding scheme, i.e. EBCDIC used in IBM mainframes.

 

[fyrfytr]

Hey Johnny,
So what you are trying to tell me is, that the business math I took in high school will not cut it! lol I have a hard enough time trying to figure out friction loss in a fire hose.
I like the binary decoder myself.
Take Care

Dave
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[Johnny Stephens]

Yes, thank heavens for binary decoders! It is a lot of fun.

PS - there's friction loss in a firehose? Now THATS cool!

 

[hensylee]

Yes, Johnny it's what you said. He was into the very FIRST IBM mainframe. He was a big time programmer with some big outfits. He figured somebody might have a good time playing with his puzzle.

 

[Ross]

PS - there's friction loss in a firehose?

It's hard to tell when you see how the stream of water wraps right around a utility pole as if it's not there! Now that's some water pressure.

Hensylee, I haven't given up, I just haven't found the breakdown to that code yet.

He may have to educate me. I'm not getting anywhere here. So far I've gotten this much:

ÓÅãââÅÅÁÂÖäãÅÂÃÄÉÃ

d3c5e3e2e2c5c5c1c2d6e4e3c5c2c3c4c9c3

 

[Brad Nowak]

Ross, so far you've got:

LETS SEE ABOUT EBCDIC

No, I don't know this stuff - are you kidding? I'm a drummer, a goalie and a theatre techie - that's three strikes against me already!

I asked Dad - he's an old IBMer too.

 

[Ross]

Dang it Brad, I thought you were going to educate me. I'm still trying to figure it out. I've converted the extended ASCII characters but it's udder gibberish to me.

 

[Johnny Stephens]

It's not ASCII, it's EBCDIC

d3c5e3e2e2c5c5c1c2d6e4e3c5c2c3c4c9c3

This hexadecimal notation, so a byte is 2 characters:
d3 c5 e3 etc....

Go here and look up each byte in the hex column, and read the letter in the EBCDIC column : acsii-ebcdic

 

[Ross]

Still makes no sense to me? ......And you folks thought I actually knew something.

 

[Eva]

0100 1100 0110 0101 0111 0100 0010 0111 0111 0011
0010 0000 0111 0011 0110 0101 0110 0101 0010 0000
0111 0111 0110 1000 0110 1111 0010 0000 0110 1001
0111 0011 0010 0000 0110 0010 0110 1001 0110 1110
0110 0001 0111 0010 0111 1001 0010 0000 0110 1100
0110 1001 0111 0100 0110 0101 0111 0010 0110 0001
0111 0100 0110 0101 0010 0000 0110 0001 0111 0010
0110 1111 0111 0101 0110 1110 0110 0100 0010 0000
0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 1001 0111 0011 0010 0000
0110 0110 0110 1111 0111 0010 0111 0101 0110 1101
0010 1110 0010 0000 0101 0111 0110 1000 0110 1111
0010 0000 0111 0111 0110 1001 0110 1100 0110 1100
0010 0000 0110 0011 0111 0010 0110 0001 0110 0011
0110 1011 0010 0000 0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 0101
0010 0000 0110 0011 0110 1111 0110 0100 0110 0101
0010 0000 0110 0110 0110 1001 0111 0010 0111 0011
0111 0100 0011 1111

Here is the answer for the above:

Let's see who is binary literate around this forum. Who will crack the code first?

 

[Cris N]

4e 65 76 65 72 20 62 65 20 61 66 72 61 69 64 20 74 6f 20 64 6f 20 73 6f 6d 65 74 68 69 6e 67 20 6e 65 77 2e 20 52 65 6d 65 6d 62 65 72 2c 20 61 6d 61 74 65 75 72 73 20 62 75 69 6c 74 20 74 68 65 20 61 72 6b 3b 20 70 72 6f 66 65 73 73 69 6f 6e 61 6c 73 20 62 75 69 6c 74 20 74 68 65 20 74 69 74 61 6e 69 63 2e

 

[abbanabba]

Man.... and I thought I had too much time on my hands!!!

 

[Duff Man]

4e 65 76 65 72 20 62 65 20 61 66 72 61 69 64 20 74 6f 20 64 6f 20 73 6f 6d 65 74 68 69 6e 67 20 6e 65 77 2e 20 52 65 6d 65 6d 62 65 72 2c 20 61 6d 61 74 65 75 72 73 20 62 75 69 6c 74 20 74 68 65 20 61 72 6b 3b 20 70 72 6f 66 65 73 73 69 6f 6e 61 6c 73 20 62 75 69 6c 74 20 74 68 65 20 74 69 74 61 6e 69 63 2e

Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic.

You guys are giving me flashbacks to my classes.