I worked on Firefox / Ubuntu too, no glitches at all except the file download error, which was a server problem and was fixed soon enough. Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/marie_von_ebnereschenbac.html> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:51 PM, cyberfish <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is strange, I did all my problems on Firefox/Linux, and it worked > flawlessly. > > On Sep 4, 11:04 am, Ken Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is my first time trying this. Ran through several practice drills, > but > > the real contest proved to be quite a different animal. First my version > of > > Firefox still can't login. I didn't think it was a big deal because I > used > > a Windows system to register and the practice drill worked out OK, but > the > > first thing I discovered with the qualification round was that I wasn't > > logged in and couldn't get the input downloads :( > > > > Quickly switched to Konqueror where I could login. Downloaded input > files > > successfully, ran my program and tried to upload answers, only to find > that > > the upload dialogs weren't working. Running out of options, I tried > > downloading Opera, which thankfully worked successfully. And found that > > each of my failed uploads had been counted as an incorrect solution :( > All > > of this would have been fatal in a real round, the qualification round > gave > > me a chance to work out the problems. > > > > The problems themselves were fairly easy. A was trivial, B took some > coding, > > C would have been a show stopper if I hadn't looked up how to solve the > 2008 > > Increasing Speed Limit problem. The technique they used there made the C > > problem fairly easy. > > > > Alas, I didn't get credit for B. I checked my code more times than I can > > count, and read the problem statement 4 times, and still missread the > > preferred direction list as N-W-S-E. > > > > It's certainly been fun, looking forward to next round. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
