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		<title>How Long Would It Take To Copy The Internet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a non-Yahoo! related post that I responded to on Astahost.  Considering it is an interesting answer and it took some thought and time to create, I am also posting it here.  An Astahost member, FireFoxRules, asks the following question (http://www.astahost.com/Downloading-Internet-t21292.html):
I&#8217;m wondering if it is possible to save a copy of everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=391</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.4.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have published the latest version of YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker which is now at version 2.4.1.  This update was necessary because of a change to the Yahoo! registration page which resulted in a “URI Format Exception” error message being displayed in YCC Yahoo Bot Maker.  The only other change is the addition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=388</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.4.0 Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current version of YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker, 2.4.0, is once again not working.  The error message is “URI Format Exception” which is most likely due to another Yahoo! registration page update.  Since most of the bot makers are currently having a lot of problems making accounts I’m not going to rush a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=386</link>
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		<title>Forum and Blog Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I updated the forum and blog software to their latest versions so let me know if there are any problems.
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		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=384</link>
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		<title>Yahoo! Releases Its Own Version of Apache Hadoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Slashdot article (http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/2142256/Yahoo-Releases-Open-Source-Hadoop-Distribution) points to the fact that Yahoo! will release its own version of the Apache web server.  Yahoo! has used the Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/core/) variety of Apache for years in its search engine and now some of those special modifications can be used under an open source license.  What makes Hadoop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=382</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.4.0 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to a change to the Yahoo! registration page, YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker is now at version 2.4.0.  This version fixes the “unknown” error message displayed after a CAPTCHA has been entered.  Another minor change is that random domains are now turned on my default.  All previous versions will have to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=379</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.3.1 Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It arrears that YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker is once again suffering from downtime.  Preliminary analysis points to another change on the official Yahoo! registration page which is causing each name to be reported as made but showing an “unknown” error message.  I will take a look at the code tonight to see if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=377</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.3.1 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a major release of YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker but you should still download and update your current version if you already have YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker.  The biggest change is to the automatic update system which should work now.  Since this is the fix, you will still have to manually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=373</link>
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		<title>How Spamming Can Solve Some of The World’s Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A story on Slashdot entitled “Looking To Spammers To Solve Hard AI Problems” (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/19/024213#)points to an article in the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16973-innovation-harnessing-spammers-to-advance-ai.html) detailing how solving CAPTCHAs (those impossible to type word images) to spread SPAM can be a good thing.  Although SPAM is a nuisance, the act of solving CAPTCHAs automatically is a tough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=369</link>
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		<title>YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker 2.3.0 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest version of YCC Yahoo! Bot Maker is now at version 2.3.0.  The latest version fixes a problem where accounts were not being created due to a second security question added by Yahoo!  Version 2.3.0 also updated the security questions, fixed a bug that prevented the alternate email from being sent, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ycoderscookbook.com/blog/?p=366</link>
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