@jwtear: yes, it does work - I tried it myself and I could register.

entering "date -u +%V`uname`|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'" (without double-quotes obviously) in my konsole generated a sting like others have said, but when I copied and pasted into captcha form box at archlinux, it was accepted and I now have an account at ArchLinux...

Perhaps the 'answer' string that is generated in console is different based on your flavor of Linux? I'm running openSuSE 12.2...

fyi, i was me, a user in console... i was going to use su (root), but tried as me first and again, it worked.

Landis.

Can't register neither...
 

Why must they choose such a retarded captcha? Installation of the crap arch distro fails and I can't even ask for help! Such idiots!

The new line of questioning for registration at the Arch forums have definitely thrown a number of users for a loop, but they are having a tough time with bots/spammers joining the forums, hence the harder questions. It is simple.

"be8e31bbbe543ec5507ce07a8dbb05d2dd50ec154b0fb56da0619ad2cd4ed3ad12f703400e3075378bdd3f6cd05304d3fd6 5766c76479097012fc85cb524084f"

Installed arch. Trying to install nvidia proprietary drivers, so no X, no clipboard/copy-paste from the terminal.
Using elinks to get help...
Am I supposed to type over this whole string while switching between two consoles ?

As a not-newbie I simply refused to do that, but that didn't mean I spend 1H+ trying to register !!

So, it's a creative captcha, but I tend to believe there's better alternatives...

i love this thread.
it shows exactly the reasons WHY they installed this extra hurdle.