Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[sprior]

"Get that idiot Prior on the radio and ask him if he wants me to direct the traffic to Bangkok or Rangoon"

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I am saddened nobody tried to break the code. [:(]

Is it "Drink more Ovaltine"?

[Chickenboy]

After I saw that it clearly wasn't 8-6-7-5-3-0-9 I gave up trying.

[sprior]

It's in hexadecimal, innit?

[Chickenboy]

It's a "two-tone".

[Wuffer]

ORIGINAL: sprior

"Sarcasm will get you nowhere in life." my boss told me.

"Well it got me to the 'International Sarcasm' finals in Santiago, Chile in 2009." I informed him.

"Really?" he asked.

"No." I said.

gorgeous.
You know, some day I will nick it, perhaps it's better called a hommage then.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: Wuffer

ORIGINAL: sprior

"Sarcasm will get you nowhere in life." my boss told me.

"Well it got me to the 'International Sarcasm' finals in Santiago, Chile in 2009." I informed him.

"Really?" he asked.

"No." I said.

gorgeous.
You know, some day I will nick it, perhaps it's better called a hommage then.

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

It's in hexadecimal, innit?

That's pigeon crap at the lower right. [;)]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

"Get that idiot Prior on the radio and ask him if he wants me to direct the traffic to Bangkok or Rangoon"

I'd say go East and cut off their rail links. Leave a division at Moulmein. Of course, we have to capture it first.

[CaptDave]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I am saddened nobody tried to break the code. [:(]

Thought about it but brain wasn't working at midnight.
LANDING KURILES 6 DAYS

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: CaptDave

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I am saddened nobody tried to break the code. [:(]

Thought about it but brain wasn't working at midnight.
LANDING KURILES 6 DAYS

Splendid! You should get a job at Bletchley Park.

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt


(It's hexadecimal to ASCII) [;)]

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

OK, I just bought a pound of what I think is coffee from some cheerleader types on a fund raiser.  Reciept is from M & M Enterprises.  I think Cap here is starting to go all commercial on us [:-]

1. Was it a pound, or a reduced size package (ala Starbucks)-in reality 10-12 oz.?
2. Was it, in fact, coffee?
3. Did the per unit cost work out to $70/pound?
4. Were the cheerleader types sporting distractingly large breatesses so that you wouldn't hector them with these questions?

1. damnifIknow
2. it's brown
3. not quite
4. uhm....huh?

Seriously, I asked them if they knew Mandrake. One of them said "Sure,the dog"

[rtrapasso]

Seriously, I asked them if they knew Mandrake. One of them said "Sure,the dog"

Wrong Mandrake...

[Cap Mandrake]

Wow...pretty cool.[:)]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: CaptDave

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I am saddened nobody tried to break the code. [:(]

Thought about it but brain wasn't working at midnight.
LANDING KURILES 6 DAYS

Splendid! You should get a job at Bletchley Park.

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt


(It's hexadecimal to ASCII) [;)]

Mixing metaphors. Now if you said EBCDIC to ASCII... [:)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC

Open-source-software advocate and hacker Eric S. Raymond writes in his Jargon File that EBCDIC was almost universally loathed by early hackers and programmers because of its multitude of different versions, none of which resembled the other versions, and that IBM produced it in direct competition with the already-established ASCII.

The Jargon File 4.4.7 gives the following definition:[5]

“ EBCDIC: /eb´s@·dik/, /eb´see`dik/, /eb´k@·dik/, n.
[abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from punched card code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see connector conspiracy), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very name of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest evil.
”

Another popular complaint is that the EBCDIC alphabetic characters follow a punched card encoding convention rather than a linear ordering like ASCII. One consequence of this is that incrementing the character code for "I" does not produce the code for "J", and likewise there is a gap between the codes for "R" and "S".

These incompatibilities were also the source of many jokes. One such joke went:

Professor: "So the American government went to IBM to come up with an encryption standard, and they came up with—"

Student: "EBCDIC!"

References to the EBCDIC character set are made in the classic Infocom adventure game series Zork. In the "Machine Room" in Zork II, there is a collection of ancient computers and other machines of uncertain purpose. The following is the description of the room, with EBCDIC used to imply an incomprehensible language:

“ This is a large room full of assorted heavy machinery, whirring noisily. The room smells of burned resistors. Along one wall are three buttons which are, respectively, round, triangular, and square. Naturally, above these buttons are instructions written in EBCDIC... ”

Furthermore, a similar description can be found in the "Maintenance Room" in Zork:

“ This is what appears to have been the maintenance room for Flood Control Dam #3, judging by the assortment of tool chests around the room. Apparently, this room has been ransacked recently, for most of the valuable equipment is gone. On the wall in front of you is a group of buttons, which are labelled in EBCDIC. However, they are of different colors: Blue, Yellow, Brown, and Red.

[Cap Mandrake]

Siam and Andaman Sea: Can JJ stand up to a shock attack at Moulmein?

[Cap Mandrake]

Okinawa:

[Cap Mandrake]

Now, hold on there. Is not that string of numbers in hexadecimal? ?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Now, hold on there. Is not that string of numbers in hexadecimal? ?

Yes, and they are also already in ASCII.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Now, hold on there. Is not that string of numbers in hexadecimal? ?

Yes, and they are also already in ASCII.

Yes I see your point. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it hexadecimal to the Phoenician alphabet to English.

But to make that conversion you first have to recognize they are hexadecimal numbers and that there is a code to convert them into English characters.