this is the start of the week-long holidays! yay! and what's more is that i learnt something new and fascinating today! well ok everyone else would probably think it's boring. but nevertheless i find it fascinating in a way. there's something in the world of computers (not again!?) that's known as "installers". the aim of these programs are to install other programs. and previously i had no idea how these stuff works. so i'm actually delving into how these things work. apparently they work by scripts, which then compile into an executable and the installer can be executed from that executable! sounds so fun just talking about it. i'd been tinkering with this sort of thing because we thought it might be pretty cool to let our "client" install whatever things we have to offer just by a few clicks of a mouse! thus i'm learning this so-called "new" scripting language, of which this one i'm looking at is for the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System which is free! and apparently they had a number of "famous" users to boot too!
sorry ah techie person is like that one. easily fascinated by this sort of stuff... so yes my better part of today was spent figuring out how setup programs run silently, configuring batch (.bat) files and not forgetting installing/uninstalling/reinstalling my various programs. i can imagine my harddisk is pretty fragmented now after all those operations. bad. :( but it was arduously fun. and now i've got something pretty to show for. well not really pretty, but more presentable! :)
*one sweet! xD*
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