computoman

One thing I like to do is page scraping. I can let the computer pull the data I want for me. Unfortunately, if the page is changed, I have to change the code. This happened recently.  Since my code is generic enough, the changes were no issue. There are three scripts. One for love, one for daily, and one for monthly. When I updated the scripts, made them a bit more generic. Usage: $ ./horoscope.sh astrologysign Save to file" $ ./horoscope.sh astrologysign > savefilename Daily Taurus Daily Thursday 3rd December 2015 Your opinions and ideas could be central in a work discussion. The only 'problem' here is that you might seem to be changing your mind. It's likely that you're not happy with a proposal. Perhaps you feel that the other party hasn't given due thought to commercial realities. At a quite different level you could give thought once more to buying a large item. --------------------------------------------- [code]  #########...

As a tech, not so long ago when installing MSWindows on users computers at a former job, people were dismayed at the fact of having to use a mouse via a gui (graphical user interface) with wysiwyg (what you see is what you get pronounced wizzywig). They protested they preferred the keyboard only environment. They exclaimed the keyboard environment was more efficient and exacting. In fact, we who were installing the new environment were verbally accosted for the change over. Now if you suggest using a system that does not have a gui, you go through the same negative feedback. Decided to do a new kind of roughing it by building a system that was technically obsolete using a non-gui environment, but the operating system was up to date. Yep, that means everything has to be done through the keyboard.  Makes me think of the "Star Trek" movie where the Scotty character was using an old Apple Macintosh computer and could not get it to work. He was trying to talk to the mouse. He w...