I just wanted to let everyone know that we've extended the deadline for VERT Challenge #1 to Monday. We've received some good feedback and comments and some good discussion about it on other blogs and websites, but I haven't seen any submissions that I would consider to be serious contenders yet. Monday is coming fast, so get your entries in soon if you've been working on them... If you haven't, you'd better get started now.
Also, it should be noted that we're using this challenge to gauge interest. This will, in a way, be a deciding factor for future VERT Challenges. Personally, I'd much prefer this be VERT Challenge #1 and not VERT Challenge FINAL. We have a bunch of challenges lined up for you... do you have the goods?
Pass this on to anyone you know as well... Anyone you think would be interested in accepting the challenge.. For those of you that are procrastinating and putting this off... consider this a virtual kick in the pants to get you in gear and working on it... After all who wouldn't want to drive their victory lap with a nCircle Remote Control Car!?
Bragging rights are yours... Come and get 'em.
Comments (4)
I gave this a shot this weekend when I freed up some time, but I gotta admit I'm still a little bit out of my familiar waters. Despite having no entry, I look forward to seeing what parts I missed out on (really, I just need to convert the string). If nothing else, I've learned quite a bit about Winny when before I knew nothing! :)
Even if you don't have many entries, I would still appreciate regular challenges as I find them to be one of the best ways to learn new things.
Posted by LonerVamp | March 19, 2007 10:49 AM
Posted on March 19, 2007 10:49
There's no harm in submitting whatever you did come up with... You never know... If it's one of the 3 best, even if you're unhappy with what you came up with, you could win yourself a prize...
Also you never know, you may end up surprising yourself :) Send us what you have... it's worth a shot. Now you can even take a while longer and submit it to us.
Posted by Tyler Reguly | March 20, 2007 8:26 PM
Posted on March 20, 2007 20:26
Something makes me think you guys haven't even tried it yourself. Have you? Or is this just a way to get others to do the work for you?
Perhaps you can enlighten us with a few hints?
Posted by tom hanks | March 28, 2007 10:53 AM
Posted on March 28, 2007 10:53
What would be the purpose of asking someone else to do our work for us? How could I possibly judge the entries or decide who is the winner. I could point you towards the press release announcing our WinNY coverage but I'm guessing that wouldn't be sufficient for you.
I've already also made it clear that I'd release a tutorial of sorts on the subject upon contest completion... There's also the possibility of release a python script I wrote for this purpose.
If you think this is me trying to get you to do my work for me because of the extensions... That's not the case. I've got the prizes sitting here, waiting to be shipped out. I'm eager for contest winners so I can give the prizes away.
As for giving out hints... I don't want to make this too easy... So I'll give out one of the final answers.
When working with Winny 1 (1.14 to be exact). The decrypted message string is '\x15\x00\x00\x00\x00'
Posted by Tyler Reguly | March 28, 2007 12:32 PM
Posted on March 28, 2007 12:32