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"Well," said Programmer, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows."
"What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said End-user. "For I am an End-user of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me."
"It means the Thing to Do."
"As long as it means that, I don't mind," said End-user humbly.
As I was telling Meredydd the other day, I'd rather write to a machine's spec than a user's. Someone needs to write about the art and science of UI design. I think there's a book on it already.
Glade has been acting up. It freezes on a select() call every time I paste an object in. I have to kill it everytime, and lose my work. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| install_tar.sh:
#!/bin/bash
skip=9
# blah blah blah
tail -n +$skip $0 | tar jxvf - | (while read a; do echo -n "."; done; echo;)
exit
__LINE_8_END_OF_CODE__
and then cat whatever.tar.bz2 >> install_tar.sh
voila, you have a self extracting tarball. Don't forget the exit just before the __LINE_8_END_OF_CODE__, and make sure that that *is* the last line of your shell code.
set skip to the line where your tar.bz2 data starts. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Someone sent me this piece of code saying it was asked in an aptitude test for Intel:
int i, n = 20;
for(i = 0; i < n; i--)
printf("-");
You've got to get it to print - 20 times. You may add, subtract OR replace only one character in the above code.
I'm posting my solutions as a comment, and screening it for a while.
[update]my bad, the problem was wrong. n is initialised to 20. thanks kalyan[/update]
[update 15-11-03, 19:00 IST]I should add that I've got 3 solutions[/update] | | comments: 27 comments or Leave a comment |
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