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Heh would be too easy. When default.htm does not exist, you should get a listing of the directory if it enabled or error 403 if it is not. Neither one is error 404.

OKay. Raise your hand if you have ever set up a real web server. Now the rest of you, gather around and listen. This is in fact a real 404 error page but it is not produced by Firefox or Internet Explorer. It is in fact produced by the webserver itself (IIS in this case). Most webservers, and IIS is...

Hate to burst your bubble but you are bending reality to your convenience here: The original base 7 numbers read 001 012 034 053 This translates to base 10 as follows: 001 009 025 038 This has been mentioned by many people before me. I just want to point out that 001(base7) translates to 001 in ANY ...

Look up wikipedia under John 117

I don't think the books are actually numbered but then I know very little about the bible.

I treat this as sort of an add on, a bone or an easter egg that bungie decided to throw us in addition to the main purpose those numbers may serve.

Revelations has been used a lot in Halo universe. It also seems to be the most common book for people to rip profoundly sounding passages out of. Cold logic. A bit cynical.

As for Jeremiah, like I said it was the only one with anything meaningful under 25:38, so I included 1:9 just in case.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before so I'll post it here. I love the coordinates idea and we're definitely onto something there. But to be thorough I figured I'd take another approach: look up corresponding passages in the Bible. There are some interesting ones: Revelations 1:12 I turned arou...

In how many ways can we spell out IRIS? Interim Reclaimer Interface System Initial Response Integration System Isolated Redundant Index Storage With dozens of people here why don't we each give it a shot and see if something meaningful comes out? P.S. Mods, does this belong into speculation? I'm not...

I've tried some more types of port scanning specifically on ports (51, 503, 191, 100, 117, 115, 118) and came up with nothing. I think it's safe to abandon this line of thinking at this point and look for something else.

Just an update. A basic scan only showed port 80 (HTTP) open and port 443 (HTTPS) closed. I am trying some more advanced scanning but at this point it is unlikely that any other magic ports would be open.

You can try hitting ports from firefox (i.e. http://206.16.223.65:100, http://206.16.223.65:503, etc), which will effectively send an HTTP GET request to those ports. I hit them in the same sequence as you indicated and got nothing. The full scan is taking longer than I anticipated and is now about ...