Hosting for smart. Results of the competition

^{Spoiler warning! This post contains the passage of the puzzle . If you have not tried to go through it yourself, then it’s better not to go inside the post right now.}


We are glad to announce that the contest was successful, despite the popular opinion about the first pancake. Conclusions that we have made:

1. The need for such contests exists. We will definitely continue. There is a difficulty in the lack of time - we are still a startup, and we don’t have bored employees, but this is our problem.
2. The first steps of the puzzle are to simplify and organize a competition so that you can get a prize without reaching the end. Most people did not go beyond the first couple of steps.
3. We will warn about the next contest in 12-24 hours in advance in order to equalize chances.
4. If you have any suggestions regarding the format of contests or prizes, we ask in the comments. Price Prize for the first place prize is $ 1000
5. We think that it is possible to conduct thematic contests with specific technical tasks, for example, those that require knowledge of circuit engineering or serious knowledge of Javasript

First place: Apple iPad 4gen 16Gb Wi-Fi + Cellular (4G) + certificate for $ 500 for hosting from Serverclub received Oleg Demyanov jmeprogrammer from the Web-canape team, congratulations to the winner!

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Also received prizes:
Second place: Apple iPod Touch 5gen 8Gb + certificate for $ 480 for hosting from Serverclub received Pavel DorBer Kistenyov
Third place: Apple iPod shuffle 2GB + certificate for $ 460 for hosting from Serverclub received Maxim nogoody Kuptsov

Fourth place: Certificate for $ 440 for hosting from Serverclub was received by Dmitry (not habrauzer)
Fifth place: Certificate for $ 420 for hosting from Serverclub received Kidar

But what they successfully thought of:

Question number 1: What does the cow (bull) think?

Passage:

1. Download a picture with a cow on your disk
2. View tags to file
3. Follow the link in tags (http://nekaka.com/d/rkjZfIGJwk)
4. Download video.3gp file
5. Rename it to wav
6. In the audio editor, deploy backwards and speed up.
7. Let's hear the numbers 658309806. Guess what is the ICQ number
8. In the profile details there will be a link to question.zip (http://nekaka.com/d/mWkg1mMZ8L)
9. It should be renamed to PNG and in the HEX editor to replace the first three characters inside with PNG, we will get a picture:
10. 
11. We solve the integral, send a photo to email.
12. In response, we receive an email with a link nekaka.com/d/ppnWzWWk1C
13. The link downloads a picture:
14. 
15. We are stupid in the file and trying to come up with a domain that contains a table, a knife and a golf club.
16. Notice that the file tag says "wrong way"
17. Go back a step and look at the source code of the page on the file sharing service from where the file was downloaded (a very non-obvious step, albeit a simple one. Intuitively, it seems that there cannot be custom text on the exchanger)
18. There the answer is written in Russian: “the cow thinks about pension reform in the Russian Federation”

Question number 2: What about Fedor Mikhailovich?

Passage

1. Download image with Dostoevsky to disk
2. Tweak the brightness in Photoshop and see the link (http://nekaka.com/d/KV89CfV4Q1)
3. This is a link to file sharing. There is a file. In the file archive. In the picture “Name of the composer.png” and password-protected .rar:
   
   Translate notes into letters using musical notation, get (BACH) to guess that the password to the “Bach” archive, although this is not the name as indicated by the file name.
4. Inside the .rar file are: password.png and another password-protected rar.
5. 
6. Look at the picture, try to substitute an error word as a password (help)
7. Guess the c help of which the hero Kraft (in the pictures Starcraft, Warcraft, Minecraft) of the novel Teenager Dostoevsky left us. (password to the archive "Revolver")
8. Unzip .rar using this password.
9. There Furher.wav
10. Where backwards, the French dictated the number 48717121382 (the cunning habrovchane used google-translator in the phone, so the language could be any :))
11. You need to call him
12. Answering machine will say hi to habr and number (601665212555)
13. * There was a mistake, the fives should have been 4. When I understood this in the commentary to the task a “attentiveness test” was added, the comment where it was said that if you see three fives, think that there are four of them.
14. It is necessary to enter the .com domain with this number.
15. There in the wrong encoding the answer will be written. “An autopsy showed that Dostoevsky had nothing to do with it.”

Question number 3: How many nuts?

Passage:

1. Look at the tags to the file
2. See the archive link there
3. Under the link password-protected answer.rar
4. Find the password to the archive "password"
5. There is the “This” folder in it, the “way” file in it is the text “is wrong”
6. Return to the beginning and stupidly count the nuts

Most of all the difficulties were caused by the third question and the last stage of the first question.
The solutions were so simple that it never occurred to anyone to try :)

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