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o noes the webserver was acting up earlier and it was spewing out all those full path disclosures ..
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Tks, I'm checking my code.
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are you thinking of level 4? I'm sure there's been plenty of people who were dismayed after calculating the answer
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Also... Level5 lol, when you get the answer you'll shout at your computer, guaranteed.
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DnD, none of the challenges have been changed in a long time, i can assure you, none of them have a bug (Except level13, and it's more of a quirk than a bug)

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by: redore - 2010-02-03 05:13:12

A simple low bandwidth way to extract some meaningful information from GoogleEarth's cache files.

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by: bb - 2010-01-13 11:11:02

A bash script to check if the sabnzbd usenet program is running on a linux environment, and restart it if it has stopped or died.

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-11-02 20:14:15

Welcome to all the new challengers, and a big thanks to the members that got involved this month.

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by: MaxMouse - 2009-10-29 10:18:42

While developing across several domains I found AJAX lacking, in that I could only request an XML document from the same domain the script was currently executing from. Since I required some data to be shared across several domains I ended up with duplicate XML documents, updating them meant updating the master local XML document then uploading it to all of the different servers one after another. The following is a demonstration on cross site AJAX using a PHP proxy, pAJAX anyone?

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by: ateam - 2009-10-26 16:50:33

I am a university student double-majoring in Italian and CompSci. I am very involved with helping the Italian department get up to speed with the 21st century in terms of digital media.

One recent project involved getting 120 YouTube videos into MP3 format for the students and the professor of an Italian Music class. A little research brought me to "youtube-dl." From this and two other tools, I put together a script to take care of this task for me automatically!

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-10-16 21:08:12

Welcome WeChall.net competitors

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by: manila - 2009-10-08 03:59:29

A brief explanation of Class in Java. What is it?

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by: bb - 2009-09-30 10:47:13

We have just joined up with the WeChall network, which allows users to appear on a global high score table for all participating challenge sites.

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-09-01 18:46:59

A good month with lots of new members and a few new articles and tests.

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by: MaxMouse - 2009-08-30 23:51:07

It may not look like it, but computers, behind all of their gloss and fancy glass effects are stupid. Lets discuss why.

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by: MaxMouse - 2009-08-21 11:20:34

Recently i was trying to improve search engine spidering on a website, and read several articles regarding spiders, do they like something.php?somevar=foo&anotherVar=bar do they follow them using the entire querystring or not? well the jury is still out, there is evidence google (for example) does at least make a passing effort to spider them. But this wasn't good enough for me, the following article explains how to use custom 404 error pages to serve pages that do not exist.

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-08-05 05:34:53

A big welcome goes out to all of our new members.

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by: silverknight - 2009-08-04 22:12:19

A PHP-based portal system, including features such as ping, traceroute, whois, dns records, pastebin and more.

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by: dbirdz - 2009-07-25 07:27:18

This is an extension of the code written by Gimlock published on 2005-07-22, with some issues of inflexibility addressed. Additionally it supports not only WinForm ListControls, but also WebForm ListControls.

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-07-11 02:21:52

Another good month for membership. Get involved today to help keep the people coming.

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by: SAJChurchey - 2009-06-06 15:52:08

Membership is up up up . . .

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by: cadey - 2009-05-27 16:11:03

This seems like a hot topic and so I decided to make my own class to do this simple function. Its got a few extras that may not be needed for your implementation but feel free to rip those out or add more functionality to it :)

Added this as a project.
http://www.osix.net/modules/folder/index.php?tid=33709&action=vf

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by: irah - 2009-05-13 05:28:55

This article is for PHP programmers.

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by: Pertinax - 2009-05-06 18:18:31

I created a WinForms utility that depended on some DLLs and wanted the user to be able to just download and click on the exe to run the app. Usually if your exe needs some other files you wrap things up into a package and the user has to go through an install process. This takes time and forces the user to unistall if they don't want the program after it's served its purpose. I didn't like this and found a way to embed the files I needed into my exe and extract and link them when the program ran.

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by: k0rn - 2009-04-30 17:42:42

This is an IRC bot I wrote in perl. Tell me what you think. I took the ytbot idea of showing the title of a youtube url, and I used it for porn instead.

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