Bloated *was* pretty bad if, like me, you were using an old PC. I had a Pentium-83 Overdrive and 12 MB of RAM with Windows 95a, and no secondary cache (Packard Bell, I didn't know any better). I remember it taking almost 30 seconds to get Communicator 4.0x to load. It probably took even longer after a crash, since there'd be less free memory.
As it happens, I did use Lynx as my primary browser for a time in 1999-2001, when I spent most of my time at the Linux console (ah, piping images from Lynx to zgv! Good times.). It was also a half-assed-but-usable Usenet client and my intro to same.
Honestly, if Opera hadn't been there, I'd probably have switched back to Netscape 3 on that W95 box. I hadn't used Lynx by that point, and since I had to share that box with my parents and sister textmode wouldn't cut it.
Again, I wonder if you actually *used* 4.0x. I was one of the early adopters who grabbed 4.0, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, and maybe 4.04, and they were all slow and unstable (Windows 95 versions). I was disgusted enough to buy a copy of Opera 3.x, which I never regretted. I stopped buying Opera upgrades after 5.x and switched to Mozilla and then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
I suppose I could have used IE3... no, I couldn't have, and I kept hearing about stability problems with IE4 and Active Desktop.
You're kidding, right? Did you *use* 3.0 and 4.x? 4.x was bloated, unstable dreck that was pushed out the door before it was ready--it was one reason, IMO, why Netscape failed (in addition to MS's malfeasance). 3.x was the last "real" version of Netscape, although 7.2 wasn't that bad (IIRC it was based on Mozilla 1.7), just filled with AOL bloatware.
Uh, no. I can buy Latitudes and Optiplexen with my uni's account & they give us the option to keep the bad hard drive. The price is generally something like $18 for three years, and you can pay a few dollars more for four and five years. We usually get 3-year warranties plus keeping the bad drive for that period.
Assuming that's even true (the Wiki article didn't have a link to the Guinness World Record people) the article stated he had many broken bones and apparently was never 100% again.
If you want *secure*, you can boot the anonym.os LiveCD, which, while a bit out-of-date, has some good anonymization tools as well.
Or, as others have suggested, a dedicated virtual machine which can revert its state at shutdown, so you know there won't be any nasties lurking even in the sandbox.
Most VM programs have "snapshots" which revert the machine state after a reboot. If you're using something with such poor security on the Internet, it's almost a must-have.
It's not so much the bureaucracy as the shite Web and local apps that rely on bug-for-bug compatibility with IE6 (since it was the "standard" for over five years). You've got to update them, re-write them, or purchase new ones, as the budget allows.
We're a midwestern university & use a slightly older version of Squirrelmail as our webmail interface. Just an hour ago some of our users got this phish:
"Confirm Your Email Address!
Dear <domain.edu> Subscriber,
To complete and verify your <domain.edu> account, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your password here (*********)
Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your <domain.edu> account at <correct URL>
Thank you for using DOMAIN. EDU!
<UNIVERSITY NAME> UNIVERSITY WEBMAIL TEAM "
Our version of Squirrelmail is too old to have been one of the compromised ones, and it might not be related, but the timing is mighty suspicious. The reply-to address on this is wi_hamilton (at) yahoo (dot) gr and purports to be from <UNIVERSITY NAME> UNIVERSITY WEBMAIL TEAM <support@domain.edu>, subject "Confirm Your Email Address!", X-Mailer MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420).
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Bloated *was* pretty bad if, like me, you were using an old PC. I had a Pentium-83 Overdrive and 12 MB of RAM with Windows 95a, and no secondary cache (Packard Bell, I didn't know any better). I remember it taking almost 30 seconds to get Communicator 4.0x to load. It probably took even longer after a crash, since there'd be less free memory.
As it happens, I did use Lynx as my primary browser for a time in 1999-2001, when I spent most of my time at the Linux console (ah, piping images from Lynx to zgv! Good times.). It was also a half-assed-but-usable Usenet client and my intro to same.
Honestly, if Opera hadn't been there, I'd probably have switched back to Netscape 3 on that W95 box. I hadn't used Lynx by that point, and since I had to share that box with my parents and sister textmode wouldn't cut it.
Again, I wonder if you actually *used* 4.0x. I was one of the early adopters who grabbed 4.0, 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, and maybe 4.04, and they were all slow and unstable (Windows 95 versions). I was disgusted enough to buy a copy of Opera 3.x, which I never regretted. I stopped buying Opera upgrades after 5.x and switched to Mozilla and then Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
I suppose I could have used IE3... no, I couldn't have, and I kept hearing about stability problems with IE4 and Active Desktop.
Netcraft confirms it & everything.
But seriously, does AOL have any market relevance left? Besides, who uses Netscape anymore besides nostalgiaphiles and AOLers?
You're kidding, right? Did you *use* 3.0 and 4.x? 4.x was bloated, unstable dreck that was pushed out the door before it was ready--it was one reason, IMO, why Netscape failed (in addition to MS's malfeasance). 3.x was the last "real" version of Netscape, although 7.2 wasn't that bad (IIRC it was based on Mozilla 1.7), just filled with AOL bloatware.
~36.4% of PC users are freeloaders.
...you cock-smoking teabagger.
JPEG!
Uh, no. I can buy Latitudes and Optiplexen with my uni's account & they give us the option to keep the bad hard drive. The price is generally something like $18 for three years, and you can pay a few dollars more for four and five years. We usually get 3-year warranties plus keeping the bad drive for that period.
In reality it's IBM's fault because they chose to use the 8088 processor instead of the 68000.
Assuming that's even true (the Wiki article didn't have a link to the Guinness World Record people) the article stated he had many broken bones and apparently was never 100% again.
If you want *secure*, you can boot the anonym.os LiveCD, which, while a bit out-of-date, has some good anonymization tools as well.
Or, as others have suggested, a dedicated virtual machine which can revert its state at shutdown, so you know there won't be any nasties lurking even in the sandbox.
ISAGN. Cognate with "free as in beer" and "free as in speech", we should have a saying like "open as in goatse".
Most VM programs have "snapshots" which revert the machine state after a reboot. If you're using something with such poor security on the Internet, it's almost a must-have.
Can you think of a platform likely to run Firefox that doesn't have GCC?
I'm torn between "insightful" and "funny" on this one.
And you forgot "including being an actor, which means I'm better at lying convincingly".
Trust me on this.
you commie.
It's not so much the bureaucracy as the shite Web and local apps that rely on bug-for-bug compatibility with IE6 (since it was the "standard" for over five years). You've got to update them, re-write them, or purchase new ones, as the budget allows.
Richard Stallman owns Ballmer's chair.
Again, if Microsoft is about "Developers Developers Developers" then Apple's meat and drink is "Rumors Rumors Rumors".
How's it work with PDAs? Squirrelmail sucks balls on a PDA-sized screen.
We're a midwestern university & use a slightly older version of Squirrelmail as our webmail interface. Just an hour ago some of our users got this phish:
"Confirm Your Email Address!
Dear <domain.edu> Subscriber,
To complete and verify your <domain.edu> account, you must reply to this email immediately and enter your password here (*********)
Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database.
You can also confirm your email address by logging into your <domain.edu> account at <correct URL>
Thank you for using DOMAIN. EDU!
<UNIVERSITY NAME> UNIVERSITY WEBMAIL TEAM
"
Our version of Squirrelmail is too old to have been one of the compromised ones, and it might not be related, but the timing is mighty suspicious. The reply-to address on this is wi_hamilton (at) yahoo (dot) gr and purports to be from <UNIVERSITY NAME> UNIVERSITY WEBMAIL TEAM <support@domain.edu>, subject "Confirm Your Email Address!", X-Mailer MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420).