[dyndak]

Is it something about tech support phone numbers given in the readme?
404-287-9111
800-719-4660

[Energiser]

I had an idea... in the readme file there are two numbered lists, with them both having at least points 1-7. Now, in the code, each part is in the form a-b-c where a, b, and c, are numbers. Now, a is only ever number 1 or 2, I believe to represent to check either list 1 or list 2. b is only a number between 1 and 5, possibly showing which line of each list to go to. This would leave c as meaning either which character, or word is supposed to be part of the answer, but is it words or characters, if its characters does it include spaces and symbols, does it include the "1. " (I think not since it does reference characters 1, 2 and 3). I have tried a number of these things, but only come up with gibberish each time. from there it could be an anagram, maybe the spaces dictate word sizes, maybe they just show how many words it is supposed to be...

Here are the results I have come up with:
nhlla cihwiueikecon n lta
n, s, e, l, a, h, i, i, h, s, i, u, e, c, k, e, c, o, n, h, t, t, l, h, d

[Tyrian]

Not quite, dyndak.  Nice try though.

Close Energiser.  Very close. 

Here's a hint:

Go watch National Treasure. 

[Polpolion]

you have to much time on you're hands, tyrian...

[Tyrian]

I know.   

If you want it to stop, crack the code.  How to get the answer is in the riddle.

EDIT:  I just can't do anything useful, like FRED, edit tables, or mod.  So I give comic relief and brain-twisting riddles.

[Mefustae]

Here's a hint:

Go watch National Treasure. 

I'd advise against that. National Treasure is one of those movies that looks really cool in the ads and not bad while you're watching it, but afterwards leaves you wondering why you pissed away 2 hours. Nothing neccessarily wrong with it, just has a rather bad aftertaste.

[Tyrian]

Watching National Treasure is a hint.  I stole...er...borrowed the code from a specific scene.  If you've never seen the cipher that I used, watching a specific scene from the movie tells you how to interpret it.  The code is featured in the movie at the guy's dad's house...On the back of something rather important.  The riddle tells where to find the key to deciphering the numbers.  Apply the numbers to the key and you get through the first of two layers of the code.

[Harbinger of DOOM]

Damn, I knew I should've TiVO'ed that movie when it was on Starz....

[Polpolion]

Watching National Treasure is a hint.  I stole...er...borrowed the code from a specific scene.  If you've never seen the cipher that I used, watching a specific scene from the movie tells you how to interpret it.  The code is featured in the movie at the guy's dad's house...On the back of something rather important.  The riddle tells where to find the key to deciphering the numbers.  Apply the numbers to the key and you get through the first of two layers of the code.

gahh... I get it


I'll crack it tomarrow thought...

[Energiser]

Meh, I put in my bit, I Could go and download the movie off the Uni network, but I'm working off a strict quota, so that wouldn't work. Anyway, good luck to people. I'll keep an eye out to see what it was that I was missing.

[Polpolion]

Aap. woop nevermind. I know excactly where you got it from, but it doesn't seem to work...

[Charismatic]

The 'you have too much time on your hands' comment is seconded by me.

But this is really cool tho. Read the whole thread. Kudos Tryian.

[Tyrian]

@Sizzler -- You got a bunch of random letters right?  What did you use for the first, second, and third numbers?  And post the letters you got...They might actually be right.  The National Treasure code is only the first layer...There is another code buried inside those random letters...   

[TheSleeve]

I haven't seen National Treasure but I do remember an old 3-number code system used for the very old computer game: The Ancient Art of War in the Skies.

If you see 5,3,2...  you turn to page 5, look at the third paragraph, and read the second word.

In the game, that was the copy protection.  You had to have the manual with you to enter in the secret word every time.

Is it something similar?

[Tyrian]

That is it!  Except it doesn't start with page number.  It starts with something else you mentioned.

[Sandwich]

Chapter (or section or whatever it's called)?

[Colonol Dekker]

Someone finished this yet? 

[Tyrian]

*cough* Paragraph *cough*
*cough* Line Number *cough*
*cough* Letter in the line *cough*

Man...I must get that cough looked at...   

[Sandwich]

The Mindspring readme doesn't have applicable paragraphs, and the manual's paragraphs don't match the code after the 3rd grouping.

[Tyrian]

When I say paragraphs, I mean the blocks that the text is divided into.  There are three main blocks.  At least my Readme has them...