over the death of webOS again.

Not that this is overlap, but wasn't part of the point of webOS that the UIs were HTML, thus streamlining the presentation layer?

That's because you're using Fedora or Ubuntu. Sure they're popular, and with good-ish reasons, but in my circle, most have moved to Debian on the desktop and server, and if not Debian on the desktop, OS X. Installing Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice and leaving things sit, only doing security updates, works just fine and covers the basic needs. And even stock GNOME 2 is "usable", i.e. non-scary for most users. Actually, "GNOME 2 is not scary for average users" is probably the thing Icaza wants to hear the most.

Are there such things? I mean, really... find me a browser that has enough Javascript support to have any hope of rendering Facebook, that doesn't at least support 128-bit RSA SSL. It's not 1998.

I love your optimism, but I want you to try something: get a router that's not brand-new and relatively expensive, and put the "100Mb" WAN port on your LAN, put a machine on the LAN side, and copy data through it from something on your actual network. Not to say technology is standing still; we will have this soon enough. A $1400 Cisco router is only rated to 40Mb of WAN speed.

This is because your card doesn't support video acceleration from one source onto both framebuffers. Afaik, all newer cards now support this. If you turn off hardware video acceleration, it should work, but your CPU will be doing way more work.

Are you calling Word a good text processor?

While it may have a lot of features, be already well-known by users, and have a large install base, that doesn't automatically mean it qualifies as a "good text processor". Software has a lifecycle, and any program is going to have features that make it over-specialized or less modern compared to newer contenders.

I was under the impression they had smugness to spare.

Nah, the O2 is light. Probably only about 30lbs. An Octane will kill a bull elephant when dropped from three feet, however.

What will make him sad, however, is that SGI boxes and IRIX are not epoch-safe and won't work by them time I at least am a pensioner.

Maybe I came to the game late, but installing software, even OS upgrades, to IRIX 6 was kinda easy. Also the GUI was quite slick. It looked great at 1600x1200. The desktop pager was the best I've ever seen on X. Vector icons?! I'm still crying that the GNOME weenies took features that were in 4DWM out of their window manager.

I guess installing was slow on slower boxes. GO figure. The downside to SGI was that you had to buy another $15k computer every 3 or 4 years instead of another $2k PC.

Um, I like everything you've said... until that last sentence.

Labor laws get in the way in high school a little, but in college, you should be OK. The reason people take out loans is because unless your parents or some benefactor is quite well off, a good university costs many times more than an entry level job pays. Education in the US has a somewhat inflated price tag.

Legends wasn't Open Source. It was a re-write of Tribes 2 with licensed Tribes 2 code, with the mechanics of Tribes so you know, it was fun. I know this because my Debian box was used by a friend to test build it during college (yes, Linux support was a goal). I've looked to see if the source tree was still in my backups, but I think I lost it. Oh well, shouldn't really have had it anyway.

Are you like the one guy in the whole world that thought T2 was better that Tribes? Or did they fix a lot in the last 7 years?

Oh. When did they add that feature to slashdot?

It was a Futurama quote. I can't remember which one or even the speaker, honestly. Hope that narrows it down. Also, thank you for being funny by accident.

Did you change your sig to make another on-topic joke?

If not, have you been waiting to make the first joke for years now?