Archive for April, 2008

Tutorial: SIT – SFTP

Chris Leong on Apr 18th 2008

Instructions on how to access the files in your SIT home directory from your own computer.

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Tutorial: SIT Network Proxy Setup

James Bunton on Apr 14th 2008

Web browser proxy settings for the School of IT network. Also instructions on how to make Unix command line utilities work with proxies.

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Tutorial: Command Line Proxy

James Bunton on Apr 14th 2008

Want to have your command line applications use the correct proxy to connect to the internet? Instructions here are applicable to Linux, OSX and other Unix systems.

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Advanced Algorithms and Problem Solving 2008 Week 4

Edmund Tse on Apr 6th 2008

Problem 1 – Decryption

As you pass through the intergalactic gateway posing as the door to lab 117 only one thought crosses your mind – ‘Here we go again…’.

When your vision stabilises you see a small table in front of you with some paper on it. Part of the text on the page looks like english but then there is a long line of nonsense at the end. Looking closer you read:

To escape this room you will need to follow the encrypted instructions below. Don’t recognise the encryption scheme? Well read on then.

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