http://flixey.com Randomizing the web Sun, 11 May 2008 10:13:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry I haven't been posting (if anyone actually reads my posts.) I've been plain busy and I have to admit lazy. My AP Calculus exam just ended today and before that I had a lot of work to finish. I'm still being bombarded with work but decided to post after ... http://flixey.com/2008/05/07/browser-based-game (preview) This is another one of the scripts I wrote quite a while ago. It just wrote it out of pure boredom and actually got somewhere. Korean social securyity numbers have a pattern, consisting of 13 digits segmented into 2 parts of 6 and 7 digits. The first part is like ... http://flixey.com/2008/04/14/korean-social-security-number-brute-forcer After about a weeks planning, I have finally bought the Samsung Syncmaster 245B. It is a 24 inch TN TFT LCD monitor with VGA and DVI input. Its maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 which gives quite a bit of workspace. Somereviews say the vewing angles aren't too good, but ... http://flixey.com/2008/04/05/samsung-syncmaster-245b-arrives I made another program under my friend's request for it. It's a RapidShare.com link checker. It checks if links are dead or not then adds up the filesizes. It's a very simple PHP script. It basically works by opening each HTML document, searching for the string with the memory, storing ... http://flixey.com/2008/04/05/rapid-share-link-checker SQL injection is a fun thing to do when you're bored. Just try submitting a typical injection query into a login form, it'll work some of the time. I was aware if this, but I am still surprised by the stupidity of many institutions and organization that leave their security ... http://flixey.com/2008/04/03/the-importance-of-escaping-characters I'm releasing my old FLV downloader source. It's pretty out-dated and doesn't work at all, but you can look at it and make modifications so that it does. The source is really messy which is one of the reasons I decided to remake it into what I have up now ... http://flixey.com/2008/03/31/flv-downloader-source It has been a while since I started to follow web standards and started cross-browser coding (not to be confused to cross-site scripting). I became aware of the importance when I saw the immense number of visitors using Firefox and IE Explorer along with other browsers like Safari and Opera. ... http://flixey.com/2008/03/31/web-standards As some people might have noticed, the whole site including the video downloader were down for quite a bit yesterday. I was moving hosting and had to get used to the different environment. I switched from awardspace to hostican. So far I'm very pleased and think I've moved well. Awardspace ... http://flixey.com/2008/03/29/hosting-update-hostican-review Ubuntu is an free and open source linux distribution. It can be installed by using their free ship-it service or by downloading. Ubuntu has many features and in some ways is better than windows. It has nice graphical effects using compiz, supports multiple desktop, and has a good design. It's ... http://flixey.com/2008/03/29/ubuntu-710-vs-windows-xp SQL Injection is a technique used to exploit security holes in a system using SQLs such as MySQL. This kind of security hole usually occurs when a programmer doesn't filter quotes or other meta-characters properly. The following code is an example of a such a vulnerability. if(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM member_tables WHERE ... http://flixey.com/2008/03/29/simple-sql-injection