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A large brick wrapped in a slice of lemon
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Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
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Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
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What kind of stuff would you do for fun?
Pretty much what the challenge is about: try to get online :-). There is an endless stream of stuff to keep me occupied. (i mean, sure, i'd also do the sunbath and swimming bits, but based on previous experience, most of my time will be spent on the computer :-P)
Heh nice, I don’t know if you like sports but climbing is really fun. Each climbing problem is pretty similar to figuring out a programming problem: breaking something down into sub problems, figuring out how to do each one, and then knitting it all together! This is something I like to do for fun :)
Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
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A basic shell with just forks and execs binaries from $PATH and nothing more. Maybe, just maybe, file redirection. You won't have neither echo(1) or cat(1), you must reimplement them. Echo(1) is damn easy.
Better would be to have a scheduled execution of some bits on the disk, every 5 minutes or so, and you are only allowed to write to disk, not execute anything on your own.
Sounds like a neat scenario for a CTF :-)
Re: Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run?
#284If you have bash, you could retrieve wget or CURL and go from there. { echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: ftp.gnu.org\r\n\r" >&3; cat /dev/tcp/ftp.gnu.org/80
`cat` is not bash so you should revise that one-liner to use the bash built-in `read`.