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Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx
Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Sorry, that looks like shit in Lynx. Try again?
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
At least the screenshot of the toolbar is worth a chuckle.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
How the hell are you supposed to see the ponies if you don't have a graphical browser? ASCII art? There aren't any ASCII ponies, and if I have my way there never will be.
DOWN WITH ASCII PONIES!!!
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/farm.htm#horse
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
I'll doubt it is this one. Lynx is a pretty safe browser you know.
Psh...that achievement is just a myth. No one has ever actually achieved it.
I hope that Chase doesn't change that on me.
Though I normally, just use it on my phone, it's quite nice having access to my accounts from any browser.
Daniel
The one saying "2009 will be Year of the Linux Desktop."
How about seeing long-time Microsoft shill John C. Dvorak penning a column titled "Dvorak likes Linux"? You wouldn't fall for that, would you?
It actually happened back on March 9: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp
Dvorak wrote: "I cannot wean myself off Windows altogether because, well, I write about Windows. But for ancillary machines that I put together where I need reliability and low price, I'm always going to see whether Ubuntu works. And if it does, that's what gets installed. "
I think he's shooting for an achievement for -5 troll... just a guess, you know with the title and all.
In a vaguely related manner, does it still count as a april fools story if it's a story linking to a april fools story on another site? We're at one level of indirection here.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
You can download the CAPTCHA images and view them externally, for example in fbi: http://linux.die.net/man/1/fbi
True, but even though it's April 1 I was being truthful. Derek's native port of Lynx:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/os2lynx2_8.zip
is a rather different code base from the traditional POSIX port:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/lx287d9.zip
Another source of Lynx for OS/2 for completeness:
http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/lynx/index.html
and of course the versions of Links which are available are well-documented here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/links-2.1pre14.zip
http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/browser/links/index.html
I've not actually used any eLinks port under OS/2, though.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser/elinks03pre3.zip
Oh yeah, and there's w3m as well:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/w3m.html
I'm not a fan of w3m, though. :-)
Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
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