Although a number of words could be created and arranged in an order making sense, CLUE 1 pretty much demanded one arrive at the correct 2 words, leaving one only to submit them in the correct order. Obviously you were true to your word, "I want everyone to have a subscription to Linux Journal."

It would be interesting to know just how many entries were received, and how many were winners. I would hope the figures to be large as I would like to see Linux growing as a replacement OS for the MS offering, which I've found to serve my home needs quite well. I might add that I had worked with unix since it's creation, although I've been retired for over a decade now, and don't understand why businesses especially, don't see Linux as more appropriate in their environment.

I'm looking forward to receiving the first issue of the free subscription, however it would have been nicer if it were to begin with April issue as administration is a most important subject for home users who have no administrator to resolve problems they encounter.

Thank you for the contest.

-retired in Thailand-

"I Narc Elk Pen" first, but that didn't seem to make much sense (Is "Elk Pen" a person's name? Or are you narcing on a pen for elk? And why?), much less be very "Linuxy," as Sean said it would be.
So I kept looking and thought I had gotten it! I assumed a "Panel Nicker" must be a British person who had stolen a GNOME panel from the desktop. At least that was a bit "Linuxy", although it didn't make much sense either. And it wasn't very general to Linux itself.
So finally I got "Kernel Panic." That one seems to work and make more sense.

I looked at the contest as an exercise in $crabble while not being a very intuitive $crabble player, I used OpenOffice Draw to make some representative tiles with all of the released letters then moved the tiles around to finally come up with the correct answer.

I kept thinking to myself, there must be an easier way. Didn't there used to be a routine in every beginning programming class where you fed in a series of letters and it would print all of the different combinations?

It was fun.

Cheers

One year free subscription, for me, coming up. :D

Since the contest entry deadline has ended, shouldn't you just post the correct answer for all to see?

search for andy's anagram solver

i confess. i used this to solve it.
http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/cgi-bin/nph-an?line=ackripeelnn&words=2&dict=antworth&doai=on

I must be blind or something, but I run the Friday video at least 6 times and I don't see any letters! (except EDT notations).

Did I miss them or are they really not there?

After using Wordsmith.org to figure this out, I came to understand why a long-time Linux user like myself (since 1994) being so stupid. It has to do with being a literal instruction taker. It's tantamount to cheating to give a guy like me an "N" when you really meant an "n". Shame on you for driving me to lose a good portion of my day trying to figure this out. :D

Haha, I was too lazy to look at it myself, but wordsmith found it for me.

I think I solved it. Shawn Powers says it is something related to Linux...it's easy, just play with the words. Not being an "original english guy" it's no excuse...

Good luck (At least for me, it's times up time lol)