Talk about weird words … ok, according to Wikipedia disemvoweling is the term for replacing or removing vowels from words. Commonly used as a tool for moderating. I’m pretty sure everyone has run across certain disemvoweled words on the internet like f*ck or sh*t. Anyway I went and made a pure html/javascript page that does just that, [...]
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captcha cracking
This is a pretty old posting from 2009 I just recently discovered in my “drafts” directory. Nowadays there are probably easier and more elegant ways of defeating a captcha, but for old times sake, here is my simple approach.
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Eclectic and Marko were so kind as to “provide” me a captcha to play around with. Took [...]
bash: using the content of a variable as variable name
Since the implementation of Arrays in Bash is somewhat lacking compared to higher level programming languages (only one-dimensional), and hash lists require a bit of work to set up, you may run into a situation where you have a small list of key/value pairs that are both variable and you need to store.
There are various [...]
Farmville
Farmvill can be a fun way to pass some time, but if your fields get to be a bit big clicking on every single field can get to be a bit tiresome. I found this autohotkey script in the depths of the internet. It simplifies the process greatly
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!^c::
GoSub GetFarmSq
GoSub Getfirstsq
i=1
SetMouseDelay, 0
cycle [...]
bash scripting … switching into directory of the script
Sometimes it is useful to switch into the directory of the script e.g. when we need to call or include further files and don’t want to go through the hassle of searching for the script in the file system. Especially when symlinks are involved everything get a bit more interesting. This little snippet switches into [...]
