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You sometimes want announce what music you’re playing on IRC, but when using irssi on a remote server this becomes something of a problem. Therefore I wrote a script for irssi that track info for the currently playing track from last.fm, and prints it to the current channel.

To use the script:
1. Get it and place it in your ~/.irssi/scripts folder.
2. Optionally place a symlink to it in ~/.irssi/scripts/autorun directory to load it automatically when you start irssi.
3. Edit the file and change the $lastfmuser variable to your Last.fm username.
4. Load the script in irssi: /RUN npScriptLastFm.pl
5. You can now use the script by using the command /np

As written in the file itselft it’s distributed under the MIT license.
Hope you’ll find it useful.

Update 2: It is no longer recommended to use this script. See this comment for details and a better alternative.

Update 1: Thanks to Salminen (see comments), the script should now be working, I’ve updated the link so it points to the working version.

Yes, it’s now time for the last clue, here and it is (the original unenciphered text). The text is from Wikipedia (Credit given where credit is due).

And so, as stated before, getting the cipher key should now be a question of brute force ;)

Seeing that I’ve once again have access to the files related to the challenge, it’s time for the next part.
As promised before I’ve now released the source code of the cipher, and you may aquire it from my projects page.

It should now be at least a little bit easier to take on the challenge, but as said before: if no-one manages to beat it, I’ll post the unencrypted text in one week. And after that it should only be a matter of brute force to beat it ;) .

Good luck!