Just finished CTC! I feel a lot better now
I was losing sleep over the 3-letter word, and Tron91 gave me a hint too,
but I tried bruteforce anyway and it worked!!
(there aren't a lot of 3-letter english words)
Thanks to *all* of you guys (and gals, if any) who helped others with the challenges.
This thread was really very helpful to me for getting by some levels.
Especially the one where we're asked to name something that's described as being narcissistic, happy, perfect and untouchable.
And I just *KNEW* the answer had to be women! or cats!
But no, apparently, it was not! I tried all kinds of synonyms like girls, girl, girlfriend, woman, females, felines, etc. but I got it all wrong, of course.
I even tried men!
Thanks to your Google It! hint Tron91, I was able to figure it out.
P.S. If anybody else had the same thoughts and are still stuck at that level, then trust me, it ain't gotta do *anything* with women, men or cats
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Niiice Tron91, you seem to be good with programming and stuff. And if you crave for more computer oriented challenges, you should give *www.hackthisite.org/ a try
If anyone among you is interested in harder, more computer security oriented challenges, then you should register yourself at *www.wechall.net/
It's a hacker world ranking site that has hackers and computer enthusiasts from all over the world trying out computer security challenges. You're ranked among all the hackers in the world! (at least the one's who registered at WeChall)
You'll learn a *lot* about computers too!
These sites teach you about all kinds of cool stuff like Steganography, Programming, Exploits, etc.
India is currently ranked 13 on the site
(*www.wechall.net/countryranking.php?countryid=33)
and with geeks like you onboard, it can only get better!
My personal favorites are:
> *www.net-force.nl/
> *www.hackthisite.org/
> *thisislegal.com/
> *www.rankk.org/
> *www.dareyourmind.net/
> *www.brainquest.sk/
> *www.black-zero.com/
And if you're into programming with C and C++, you can try out *www.cstutoringcenter.com/ which also provides some basic C and C++ tutorials and a hell lot of C/C++ challs.
Trivia: 'chall' is short for challenge
Have fun!
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I just found out something and thought I'd share it with you guys.
The hex.exe file that we're supposed to fix in the level 'I put a hex on this'
doesn't work on a 64-bit Windows 7 system even if you've fixed it correctly.
I think it might not work on any 64-bit systems. I got around this by trying out the fixed file out on Windows XP that I'm running using VirtualBox. It works fine then.
Just thought you guys should know about this just in case someone with a 64-bit system out there is having problems