Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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