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Comment Re:Twitter motto: (Score 1) 115

Also it seems he cant bother to research things. It's been done over and over and over for the past 8 years. I think I saw a story to a "tweeting toilet" back in 2006 here on slashdot, and even then it's nothing special as others have done things like Myspace posting toilet before that.

Tomorrow on Slashdot, Man figures out how to send an email, claims he invented email.

Comment X Windows Isn't Very Big, and Servers Need it (Score 1) 282

Yes, X is a lot more bloated now than it was back in the late 1980s, when I was running it on 386/25 PCs or Sun3s. But on just about anything but an ARM microcontroller, it's still small enough that you can run a basic X distribution that's enough to fire up a browser, and still not make a dent in the system resources. And you need that browser to use lots of management applications, some of which you're going to need before all the networking is really done, and you probably also want to run a couple of X-terms at the same time, doing something that alternatively you'd have to do on a 24x80 Emacs screen.

Yes, there are lots of tools that want Gnome or KDE, which are both a lot more bloated than some TWM upgrade or Motif or something, and sometimes they're useful enough to drag them in, but you can still have enough X Windows for a server machine without including all the LibreOffice, GIMP, and other large desktop application suites.

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