Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

7 Things To Do With The Pipe In a Linux Shell

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

The pipe is the vertical line above your enter key. It looks like this without the quotes: "|". Using the pipe character in the Linux shell allows you to string commands together, performing another command on the output from the first. This is a list of 10 things you can ...

Consequences of Living in a Simulated Universe

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Introduction There are several fictional works that have been produced entertaining the idea that we may live in a simulated universe. While it is obvious that these are works of fiction, modern physicists have actually taken similar ideas very seriously. I don't think that anyone has ever written a doctoral thesis ...

7 Linux Commands I Use Every Day

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

This article is for people who have just began to use Linux, it is not for Linux experts. If you know quite a bit about Linux, you will not find this article useful. It does not fully cover the use of these commands, but gives basic examples. These commands are ...

Preventing XSS in Perl

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Last time we covered XSS in php. What about perl? It turns out there's an even more in house solution to XSS in perl, because it has been used so long for cgi. We'll use the same basic example. [sourcecode language='html'] alert('XSS!'); [/sourcecode] This is the XSS attack. [sourcecode language='html'] This script is vulnerable to ...

Prevent XSS in Php with the Owasp Sanitize Library

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

If you're at all knew to web development, it's possible that you haven't heard of XSS. Maybe you have heard of it, but you don't know the technical details? This article will shed some light on the basics of coding against XSS in php, with vulnerable and patched code examples, ...