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modified 26-Apr-22 5:42am.
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Inspired by Randor's heroic effort yesterday, ...
U0c5M0lHUnBaQ0JKSUdkbGRDQm1jbTl0SUdobGNtVWdkRzhnZEdobGNtVS9JQ2czTERVcENnPT0K
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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DECODED TWICE?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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On the right track, but ...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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OK, Ok ...
ENCODED TWICE?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I tried this one 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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YAUT! Yes "here" is the cleartext...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Mmm encoded twice is obviously different than double encoded 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The clue translated as
How did I get from here to there? (7,5) So you need the shorter word second.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Double encoded ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Lost your counting fingers?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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No it was a SWAG - it's 76 characters which in turn is 118h which in turn means nothing to me 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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That's all you could come up with? You had 24 hours. 
I was expecting something more creative! 
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I was considering base32 for the inner encoding, but I didn't feel like being the centrepiece of a public stoning. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I Need to get the magic numbers so that I can install my text editor on my new machine.
Vedit appears to be no more.
Phone: Wrong Number
E-Mail: No Response
Website: Broken Links
I am unable to locate a single human associated with Greenview Data (The Name of the Business Entity which is behind Vedit)
The weird thing: I can still download the installation and trial version of the package.
It seems quite a bit weird to keep my Windows'7 machine active for writing text, simply because I can't reinstall the pack on the new machine.
I really and truly like the Vedit Text Editor better than anything that has come along in the past thirty years.
I hope I don't have to make another downward move in my standard of living because of this.
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Checking "...ICANN WhoIs..." the registrar is GoDaddy and all other info is redacted for privacy.
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What email did you write them to ?
I tried Richard's provided website link, and the only one appearing broken to me is the "products -> documentation" one. 
Do you have maybe an account in which you have your magic number installed ?
Can't you read it out from somewhere on the old machine ?
Don't you have it deep burried in a email somewhere (how did you get it first place?)
OTH, wrong phone number is never a good sign... 
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Rage wrote: What email did you write them to ?
support@vedit.com
Rage wrote: I tried Richard's provided website link, and the only one appearing broken to me is the "products -> documentation" one.
Top Bar > Product > Documentation is broken
Top Bar > Product > FAQ Is broken
On the "...Resources and Other Links| vEdit..." page, the "...vEdit Forum..." link is broken
Same page, the "...Grey Matter..." page does not exist
Rage wrote: Do you have maybe an account in which you have your magic number installed ?
Yes, I've had an account with Vedit since 1991; if memory serves me correctly. Ted Greene (Sp?) and I could recognize each other's voice on the phone without giving either one of us our name. My name appears on the web page of Customer Testimonials. To this day I say that Vedit still beats them all.
Interestingly enough, the website robot says that their database does not have my E-Mail address on file.
I say, huh ?
Rage wrote: Can't you read it out from somewhere on the old machine ?
They use an installation number of something like fifteen digits. My customer serial number only has five digits. I can get that one from the menu on my screen
Rage wrote: Don't you have it deep burried in a email somewhere (how did you get it first place?)
My E-Mail host demanded that I clean up my zillion zigabytes of old E-Mail; I am confident that the Vedit stuff was deleted with that purge.
I got my serial number from the company when I bought the thing, and upgraded through several iterations over several years (Decades, actually). My current copy of the program says that I'm eligible for upgrades through version 7.1 (they are currently at 6-point-something, and I have another 6-point-something).
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OK, I reckon all this indeed looks suspicious.
They also have a sales@vedit.com email from the contact page, maybe it is worth a try.
C-P-User-3 wrote: I could recognize each other's voice on the phone without giving either one of us our name
This is cool 
I once printed out my TotalCommander license that I got per email by error, but for no reasons kept that print out - I also ditched the email since then, so this now yellow piece of paper served me several times already Germans say "Papier hat Geduld". (But I made a picture of it with my phone, just in case).
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Rage wrote: They also have a sales@vedit.com email from the contact page, maybe it is worth a try.
Duh,
Nice brain
Thanks
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