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Good practice for tomorrow, when we'll need unabridged dictionaries. 
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Oh grawlix! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Oh grawlix!
This is definitely the most useful new (to me) word that we've had in the CCC. It appeared in a question on a recent episode of Richard Osman's "House of Games" on BBC2 and my wife was amazed that I knew the answer; I only knew it because it had been a CCC.
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I saw the same question, on the same show, and gave the same answer!
Herself thought I was wrong, but ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Herself thought I was wrong, but ...
Is that not what she always thinks?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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ditto (Is Richard Osman a secret lurker in the CP lounge?)
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Grawlix = game heard to cause colds - can you enlighten us, mere lurkers? 😀
Mircea
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A "Grawlix" is the punctuation marks used to replace profanity: "£$%*" instead of "the F-Word" for example.
It has nothing to do with this clue or solution, but was a comment about the probably difficulty of tomorrows clue - Randor is know to post fiendish ones! 
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Sorry, I misread the thread; thought "grawl-ix" somehow related to sound was the solution.
And it looks I'm dumber than I thought as I come from the land of killer draughts[^]
Back to lurking!
Mircea
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Ah! You are from the land of antelopes like Vlad the Impala[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: Randor is know to post fiendish ones!
I've already put up the CCC for tomorrow up if you want to get started early. The difficulty on this one is off the charts. You might need a 24 hour head-start.
It's a completely normal (plain text) CCC but it's just cleverly hidden and obfuscated somewhere on my profile page. It's not a trick or something you need to find with your eyes, it's a normal textual clue. Tomorrow I will drop a hint on how to locate it if it has not been found. Something inside my profile is much more than meets the eye.
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@GregUtas
@jsc42
@Mircea-Neacsu
@petepjksolutionscom
@Rich-Leyshon
@derektp123
@musefan
@Sandeep-Mewara
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Given that the image contains the letters CCC, do we need to be able to read the word underneath "Microsoft Macro Assembler" - I've tried enlarging it but can't make it out ...
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It's not a vision test, there is a large amount of information hidden somewhere on the profile page. Don't worry, tomorrow morning I will reveal how to obtain stage 1 of the puzzle. Talented individuals with unique skills might be able to solve it early.
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Quote: Talented individuals with unique skills might be able to solve it early.
Sorry, I'm not one of those. I tried and the only thing I could find was... a bug! My devious mind thought of going to Google cached page[^] to compare it with the current profile (I know, this is a bit like cheating but, in love and war...  ). The only difference I could spot is that in the cached image David is a member since March 6, 2003 and in the current one the date is March 7th 2003. Probably a minor bug on the database end of the site.
Mircea
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I think I know what it is, but there doesn't seem to be an email link to send my answer in advance.
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jsc42 wrote: I think I know
I will be posting the CCC announcement early tomorrow morning. The innermost CCC puzzle should be extremely easy. The journey to find the puzzle might be difficult. You can attempt to solve it early or wait until the puzzle is finally revealed.
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This is probably way over my head, but I'm honoured to get a mention here!
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I stream classical music from Idagio in FLAC, and the quality is very good but on some albums the volume is pretty low, requiring the preamp to go to eleven ( actually 21 on my system, but whose counting?) and this can impact playing quality, with the poor preamp gasping for breath. Two solutions - a digital booster in the PC or an additional external line-level analogue amp after the DAC. Clearly the digital s/w was the quickest and easiest solution, and my selected package was free - sort of.
I installed it on the hi-fi PC and it performed most excellently - good volume boost, excellent control through a graphic equalizer, and actually improved sound quality from a 10 year old laptop, which though high-end is not up to the quality of the rest of the system. What's not to like? Well, I'll tell you - the installer also installed a 'Luminati SDK'.  Being one for due diligence, I checked them out, and it seems they are now going to use my IP for the Luminati business VPN service, they say 'only when the system is not busy'. 
If I wanted to build a 'volunteer' bot-net, seems this would be a good way to do it. The audio booster s/w company say that if I subscribe for a fee, they take away the SDK, but how the devil would I know? It's buried in their software, it seems.
Suggestions on a postcard to Chris C-B c/o Her Majesty's Prison Service.
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Restore from a known-good backup from before you installed the software. If they're trying to sneak that sort of shinola[^] in under the radar, they obviously can't be trusted.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I always set a restore point before I install anything, so I think I'll run that at the end of the day. They didn't try to slip the SDK in under the radar, though, they were completely up-front with it. However, I might just leave the s/w on the hi-fi machine as that is only on in the evenings, when everything else is off. Living in a Cypriot village I have a very slow connection, and if anybody tries to piggy-back on it when I'm streaming FLAC, I would be aware of it right away.
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If you intend to keep this on your HiFi machine, I would suggest blocking the machine and the relevant ports on your router. Many home routers allow setting up rules (e.g. block machine X on ports Y,Z), which would allow everything else to work normally while disabling VPN connectivity only on the HiFi machine.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Good idea - thanks. I actually have a redundant h/w firewall hanging around, so I might just press that into service.
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
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