<div dir="ltr">Some short scripts I wrote:<div><br></div><div>Download a website every 5 minutes and send me a email if it changed (used when waiting for grades in physics)</div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">
<br>- Windows doesn't have a method of downloading a file, doesn't have a method of sending emails, doesn't have a method of comparing files<br>- In linux this took me less than a minute to write<br><br></blockquote>
Rotate between several background images<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">- I have no idea what a programmer needs to do in windows to change the background, it might be simple, but I'm guessing it's not<br>
- In linux (gnome) if you change the file used as background, the background changes. Rotating between images in a directory was easy to write<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I have a icon in my toolbar that pops up a window in which I paste a URL to a PDF file, when I hit OK the PDF is sent to the printer (two sided)<div>
<br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;">- Good luck getting that done in windows</blockquote><div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/11/1 Shahar Dag <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dag@cs.technion.ac.il">dag@cs.technion.ac.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><font size="3">Hello</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><font size="3">To extent Elli's
question:</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><font size="3">We try to convince our
students that programming on Linux is easier / faster relative to Windows, so
they better learn how to work with Linux.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial">We claim that using the build in shell commands and pipes we can
compose a solution for complex problem (almost) without programming.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial">Can you point us for real life examples that prove our claims?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial">Thanks in advanced</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; text-align: left; "><font face="Arial" size="2">Shahar Dag<br>System & Software Development Laboratory
(SSDL)<br>Computer Science Department<br>Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology<br>Haifa, Israel<br>Tel. 972-4-829-4880<br>Fax
972-4-829-4878<br></font></p></div></div>
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