Please help me to solve 'One Minute Man' challenge

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:42 am

I don't understand of the question which is given. I've tried to click the link on the question and stayed for 1 minute but nothing happened.. Please help me to solve this. What should i do to solve this? Thanks..

shadowlord · Post by **shadowlord** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:11 am

I think the words of this challenge is self-explanatory on how to find the answer...
Well... you said you have waited for one minute on the page, have you read the source? This is the first basic thing to do.......

dorahan · Post by **dorahan** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:24 am

yes.. i've read the page source of the question and found nothing usefull, there is no script or something.. and i clicked the 'lazy oracle' button but there is nothing and that page... the page only say "back later" and i've tried to see the source page but it's only this that i found

<html><body>
back later

I've tried to search about it in google too.. But there is not any useful information to me to solve it.. I found just 'minutemen' means Minutemen were members of teams of select men from the American colonial militia during the American Revolutionary War. And
like this... "One Minute Man" is a hip hop single released in 2001 by American female rapper Missy Elliott, featuring fellow rappers Ludacris and Trina from her third album Miss E… So Addictive...

ARghh.. @_@

i don't understand what do you mean with "I think the words of this challenge is self-explanatory on how to find the answer... "

The tittle is 'One Minute Man' and the words in the question is 'We have constructed a lazy oracle to give you the answer to this challenge. How lazy? She only works one minute out of the day.'

Do you mean there is a clue in the sentence above which be the clue to solve it? Arghh.. i don't get it... I've search for lazy oracle but didn't find anything... and also tried to search about oracle corporation but didn't find any useful... and also tried to search 'databate' and still don't understand...

The type of the challenge is web.. so i've tried to view the source page and see all of codes and i've tried also to see all the css code of the page... but i'm still do not understand till now...

Argh so confusing..

Kuzmin · Post by **Kuzmin** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:51 pm

Check the page once every minute of the day.

Dr. Halo · Post by **Dr. Halo** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:38 pm

I don't know what I am missing here - despite grabbing the contents of this site every 30 seconds since a few days (!), there is always the same content... I'm starting to feel like a noob regardless the nearly 90 challenges I solved...

sigi · Post by **sigi** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:52 pm

Check it more often. Once every 30 seconds might not be enough because it gives you exactly one shot at retrieving the document with the answer. If that request doesn't get through, for whatever reason, you are missing out for another 24 hours.

Also, if you're on a dialup-line, it might be that your connection got reset at the critical moment.

I've also found the hacker.org web server quite laggy from time to time. You might just have been unlucky.

I've checked the page once every 10 seconds with my script and got the answer right away (during the first 24 hours).

gfoot · Post by **gfoot** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 10:25 pm

I worried about the same thing, and made sure I knew exactly when my requests got through, in case I needed to schedule some repeats for minutes I missed. I didn't actually miss the minute in question, but I did miss a lot of other minutes entirely.

dot_Cipher · Post by **dot_Cipher** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:21 pm

What kind of scripting language should one learn for this challenge?

V4hn · Post by **V4hn** » Sat Aug 08, 2009 9:57 pm

oh come on,
as if this matters anyhow..
learn whatever you want, any language with an easy http-download interface is good enough, every other possible too..

Masti6 · Post by **Masti6** » Mon May 17, 2010 12:08 pm

Now that I've studied Python, could someone tell me as much as how to make it repeat the html-downloading script every 30 seconds for .. 24h?
I can't keep my computer on during midnight, this question is only waste of electricity imho.
Anyways, please tell me a way. Googling didn't do any good.

Karian · Post by **Karian** » Wed May 19, 2010 3:51 pm

please don't ask the same question twice in different threads, you won't gain points by being active in this forum. You do gain some respect from other people if you are contributing in a nice way.

What concerns the question, I'm not a Python expert, so I can't help you with that

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Wed May 19, 2010 5:15 pm

I am amazed that Python doesn't have a) a manual, b) a time-date type or c) a for-loop!

tails · Post by **tails** » Thu May 20, 2010 12:30 pm

d) users who can find those three ...?

Omgaskinhead · Post by **Omgaskinhead** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:54 pm

laz0r wrote:I am amazed that Python doesn't have a) a manual, b) a time-date type or c) a for-loop!

tails wrote:d) users who can find those three ...?

Stopit, please stop it! Or I'll die of a laughing fit! [ROFL]

Masti6 · Post by **Masti6** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:29 pm

Masti6 wrote:Now that I've studied Python, could someone tell me as much as how to make it repeat the html-downloading script every 30 seconds for .. 24h?
I can't keep my computer on during midnight, this question is only waste of electricity imho.
Anyways, please tell me a way. Googling didn't do any good.

I would also consider it a waste of time to keep my computer on all night.
Any way to determine when I could check in with results?
If not, waste of electricity challenge imho.
It's not about knowing how to make a code that gets needed information but keeping the computer on 24/7 in addition.

Any useful tips for us trying to save electricity?
PS: Using a laptop would of course be better for electricity bills but still keeping it up 24/7 would be bare waste.