When automata go mad: Radio Times version
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As a UK-resident MythTV user, I get TV listings data from a data feed provided by the Radio Times. Unfortunately, today it didn't work - for some reason, channels.dat (the file listing the available channels) was empty. After looking at the folder on the website where the data files are supposed to be written, I can only conclude that something went horribly wrong:
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You next assigment:
Piece together the original source code.
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Better yet you could design a language that took valid directory listings as it's input - a bit like BF, but even nerdier!
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@GettinSadda said:
Better yet you could design a language that took valid directory listings as it's input - a bit like BF, but even nerdier!
That'd make writing self-modifying code all the easier, since you've already got cp, mv, and rm. In fact, I'd imagine you could "develop" this "language" simply by slapping together a quick shellscript that just reads the contents of a dir, and executes the names of the files as commands. I'd imagine you'd end up in character escaping hell, though.
Either way, this is a great idea to use for the OMGWTF contest ;)
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Give all your folders markup-language names, and use a file reader to parse it as XSLT.
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its even worse if you actually follow the link
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It looks like Apache doesn't escape directory listings properly.
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OMG! I just had the same problem trying to install VMWare Tools on Ubuntu
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Wow. I wonder what kind of screwup would one need to create something that.
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@Sunstorm said:
The numeric files actually seem to open...
The files that are meant to be there are channels.dat and the numeric files (containing machine-readable program listings information)
The real WTF is the wierd and wonderful file-format: ~ delimited text files with screwed up non-ASCII8 characters...