Hacks. More Spidering Hacks. O'Reilly Book Excerpts: Spidering Hacks by Morbus Iff and Tara Calishain Editor's note: In last week's sample hacks, excerpted from Spidering Hacks, we showed you two workarounds that will save you time and extra trips to your favorite web sites.
This week we offer two more hacks on grabbing--or scraping--the information you need, whether it's the link count for a particular Yahoo! Category, or the quick answer for the word that's just on the tip of your tongue. Enjoy. Hack #49: Yahoo! How does link popularity compare in Yahoo! ' Yahoo! This hack scrapes all the URLs in a specified subcategory of the Yahoo! TIP: What's a link count? There are a couple of ways you can use your knowledge of a subcategory's link count.
We got this idea from a similar experiment Jon Udell ( did in 2001. The Code You will need a Google API account ( as well as the SOAP::Lite and HTML::LinkExtor Perl modules to run the following code: Running The Hack The hack has its only configuration — the Yahoo! Yahoo! Apple news and rumors since 1997. Apple, Macintosh, iPod and iPhone news. Mac Rumors: Apple Mac iOS Rumors and News You Care About.
From Standard to Administrator. This article outlines how to give an account on Mac OS X administrator privileges, without previous knowledge of the root or an administrator’s password.
We’ll be using Single User Mode (SUM) to gain root access to the computer. If you’re still unfamiliar with SUM, it’s a diagnostic boot option built into Unix that automatically logs you in as the root user, or “super-user”, allowing the usage of unrestricted commands. Requirements Access to Single User Mode (If you’re locked out, check out our post on how to unlock it.) 1. If your computer is on, go ahead and turn it off. 2.
Press the power button, and as soon as the computer begins to turn on, immediately and simultaneously hold the Command (Apple) key and the “s” key. 3. To make changes to the files, including the “user group” that a user’s account is in (Standard, Managed, or Administrator), we need to mount the file system, because in SUM, the system doesn’t do it automatically. Mount -uw / 4. Dscl . Reboot And hit return. passwd. Hack-Mac. I’m happy to announce that our hacking guide, Hack A Mac – With Only 30 Minutes of Physical Access, is finished!
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