So today (3/1/2010) there was an update to portal that has caused an uproar in the community. The main focus are these new sound files.
There are a ton of new sounds found in the GCF.
They are all named dinosaur##.
The Sound files
Some of the sounds just sound like screeching. A select few sound like morse code.
The sounds that sound like morse code have been tanslated by the community.
dinosaur1.wav = INTERIOR TRANSMISSION ACTIVE EXTERNAL DATALINE ACTIVE MESSAGE DIGEST ACTIVE
dinosaur5.wav = 9e107d9d372bb6826bd81d3542a419d6
MD5 of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" Try it yourself
dinosaur12.wav =
SYSTEM DATA DUMP ACTIVE
USER BACKUP ACTIVE
PASSWORD BACKUP ACTIVE
This converts to '.-.. --- .-..' which decodes to "LOL"
All of the other sounds can be converted into images?! WTF?!?! Anyway. Heres the app they used to do so. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sv1/files/sonic-visualiser/1.7.1/sonic-visualiser-1.7.1-win32.zip/download
Here are the sounds converted to images for you.
dinosaur2
You can see this equation in the picture above
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%27s_law_for_magnetism
dinosaur3
dinosaur4
dinosaur6
dinosaur7
dinosaur8
dinosaur9
dinosaur10
BBS = Bulletin board system?
dinosaur11
dinosaur13
Referring to a N-sphere???
dinosaur14
dinosaur15
dinosaur16
dinosaur18
dinosaur19
Phone number layout?
dinosaur20
dinosaur21
dinosaur22
dinosaur23
dinosaur24
dinosaur25
dinosaur26
All Images in one
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1969/asdfrt.jpg
Better quality?
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2029/portalredone1.png
You can see in some of the pictures there are markers that say stuff like #/32.
Each of these pictures seem to have a number or letter than can be broken down like so.
01/32 - 9
02/32 - 4
03/32 - 5
04/32 - 9
05/32 = C
06/32 = 6
07/32 = C
08/32 = A
09/32 = C
10/32 = 8
11/32 = C
12/32 = 2
13/32 = 0
14/32 = 3
15/32 = B
16/32 = 8
17/32 = 1
18/32 = 2
19/32 = 8
20/32 = B
21/32 = 7
22/32 = C
23/32 = C
24/32 = 6
25/32 = 3
26/32 = 0
27/32 = 6
28/32 = 8
29/32 = D
30/32 = 4
31/32 = F
32/32 = D
From images: 9459C6CAC8C203B8128B7CC63068D4FD
Translates to BBS#: (425) 822-5251 Try it yourself
Audio when trying to call the number = http://www.supload.com/listen?s=tyXqpe
Phone number results
We can get some Latitude & Logitude
Connecting to that number via telnet =
The title of this login screen is GladOS 3.11.
3/11, as in March 11th?
Gabe Newell is set to recieve the Pioneer Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards on 3/11, March 11th.
Possibly we will receive more news on March 11th?
Entering "backup" as the username and password will show
People seem to be getting a lot out of this dialup host thing
