Yea, there has to be something odd about my installation. If everyone using Firefox/Linux ran into this there would have been a lot more noise about it. I did try installing the latest version of Firefox, but that didn't help either.
On Friday 04 September 2009 00:44:16 Dhruva Sagar wrote: > 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_ebne >reschenbac.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
