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Not really fast but quite perlish with substr and =~ : $min_len = 2; STELLE: for ($stelle = 0; $stelle < 1000000; ++$stelle) { LEN: for ($len = $min_len; $len < (1000000 - $stelle); ++$len) { $folge = substr($pi,$stelle,$len); $rest = substr($pi,$stelle+$len); if ($rest =~ /$folge/) { $max = $folge;...

markobr

I solved it after some problems with the question of, er, absolute vs. relative encoding. But there seem to be a few bits which you can't use in the solution - is there anything about them?

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at first i tried just submitting the decoded string and it failed, tried with urlencoding because i thought it was firefox unable to submit these special chars. then i just looked at it and it was clear: pourcoffee :) Almost the same with me, although I didn't try urlencoding but looked for charact...

markobr

I solved it with pen and paper which actually wasn't that time-consuming once I knew some properties of the maze and correctly guessed where the exit might be.

markobr

Yep, to me it sends 8 requests and accepts answers in text/plain.

And just a remark from the nitpicker in me: What I write to solve this is technically not a "server" (which would listen on a port) but a CGI script (which is called by the webserver already in place).

markobr

Interesting - I didn't know nor find out that wireshark works this way round, too. But I did find out that vim has a mode for binary editing. Getting everything correct this way did take a few minutes more I think, but worked well enough.

markobr

What is the point of Imagine all the silicon challenge? There is nothing to look for :? Indeed, what is the point? For Ubuntu users the "challenge" consists in being able to read - and to realise there is indeed no other challenge. Well, this may be fair insofar as there are other challen...

markobr

I used Audacity to play just one or two notes of the tune (not necessaryly in the original order) so I could compare them easily. The rest was singing and humming (and counting).

markobr

Now this was a fine challenge which taught me something new about the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

markobr

I used http://reversehash.info/default/reverse

markobr

My solution in bad Perl:

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print $_ == 0 ? chr(hex($_)) : $_ < 60 ? "*" : " " foreach @chars;

where @chars contains the hex values.

markobr

I soon decrypted the word "the" which led to more function words and made it easy to find out the rest.

markobr

I can't get past level 1 in Breakout because the applet freezes after I finish it. It shows "Level 2" and "Lifes Left: 4" but no blocks are displayed nor does pressing any keys have an effect. Is this part of the challenge, or is there a bug in the applet or my browser installati...

markobr

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use bignum;
$r = ((17 ** 39) ** 11);
for ($i = 0; $i < length($r); $i += 33) {
	print substr($r,$i,1);
}
print "\n";

markobr

I didn't have a java compiler at hand, so I translated it to Perl. Runs without problems and in a fraction of a second. Now what's the challenge?

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