Thursday, March 25, 2010

THE ASCII TRAIN !

FOOLING AROUND @ UBUNTU 9.10

Every coder sometimes or the other, looks for a lighter moment and Ubuntu has plenty of those. One such instance .....

Install 'sl' using sudo apt-get install sl. Then, type sl in the terminal ! and watch the ASCII Train !

Saturday, March 13, 2010

MOO .....

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE !

#1. MOO

In Ubuntu 9.10, while trying the command sudo apt-get moo ! ...... there is sure some surprise in store.


#.2 COWS ..... FROM OUTER SPACE !


Whoever put these easter eggs into Ubuntu (9.10) was sure some cow sympathiser !

Try this ..... Alt + F2 + 'gegls from outer space' + enter !


Voila ! ..... the 'gegls' !

Thursday, March 4, 2010

JYTHON : FIRST CONTACT !

JYTHON, MARRIAGE OF JAVA AND PYTHON

Trying my first shot at Jython, using java swing in python-like interactive interface !



CHECKING FOR SQUARES !

AN ELEGANT CODE IN PYTHON !

This program confirms if a number is square or not !