True.

BSD

Who needs Windows to run a word processor? Who needs Windows to run TurboTax when the preparation companies own web based products work just fine in almost any web browser? Who needs Windows for games when there's a BSD running PS4?

I don't need Windows:

[CronoCloud@ ~]$ uname -a
Linux 3.19.1-201.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 18 04:29:24 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[CronoCloud@ ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)

That is a VERY good point, and you are technically correct, but I think the "real programmers" would laugh at me if I called that bit I did with sed, programming. We have to draw a line "somewhere".

Well, sed IS Turing complete, true. But again, we have to draw a line "somewhere". Don't ask me where, I'm not a programmer! Yes, yes I've given sed, bash and BASIC examples in this discussion, but I can't program my way out of a paper bag.

That said, I think a course in scripting or computing concepts would be more useful to more people than teaching them Java (Personally I think they should use python). Knowing the very basics of if/then/else/do/while/for/next concepts has been useful for me. Heck just teaching people that there's more to computing than their web browser would be good.

My PS4 would like to have a word with you about that "should run Windows" bit.

Using the built in features of sed or vim, isn't "programming" "to me."

Now if you were talking about writing bash scripts, now that would be more akin to programming.. And personally I think knowing "scripting" would be more useful to more people than knowing "programming".

For example, if I wanted to check if list of websites were offline or not...I could open them in tabs.....or:

#!/bin/sh
for x in $(cat url_list.txt);
do
              lynx -dump $x | grep -ol "Error 404";
done

That is more akin to a program than my simple usage of sed, but still isn't the same as:

10 print "input name"
20 input a$
30 print "Hello, "a$

Who needs a batch script.

sed -i".bak" '/w00t/d' foo.csv

I don't even know sed syntax, all it took was a bit of googling. Looks similar to vim syntax which I am slightly more familiar with. Open up the file in vim and :g/w00t/d

Shouldn't the standard version be good enough?

yum install w3c-libwww-apps

I once built a Firefox build on a PS2, I had the libs so I could enable a ton of features that the community builds didn't. The process was so horrible I only did it once....and then settled for the community builds even if they lacked gtk2 support (and other things)

I figured out that it was easier to IGNORE most of the build instructions and just do a standard traditional ./configure, because setting up a frickin MOZCONFIG that worked was the devil's work.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1

That's an actual gopher link, you'll need something like lynx or the OverbiteFF extension to use it.

Ken Kuturagi, who was batshit insane in his design decisions. Developers complained about the arcane architecture of the PS2 and then he made something even MORE arcane.

Sure they're both extremely powerful for their time in certain ways, but Kuturagi forgot that developers are lazy, especially X86 devs and that they would be unwilling to take the extra measures for the most part.

It's better than it was. And even back when I created my first key back in 2007 (Yeah I'm a johnny-come-lately), I used a GUI to do so.

Perhaps, but you only need to do the setup once.

I take it you saw the Alienware Alpha? Maximum PC actually said it competes with current-gen consoles. And you can guess what I thought. "Not at that price ($599) with only a dual core and only 4GB of slow RAM"

The higher end versions are better, of course, but they also cost more.

By Your Command.

http://xkcd.com/927/

Google says there is a working Firefox 3 build for Irix.

True, and then hit you with a wrench until you cough up the passphrase, but that is not very likely.

Rootkitted? I think that's unlikely, even the NSA isn't omnipotent. But do I think they are monitoring Tor nodes from their own nodes, probably. They'd only rootkit you if they wanted specific data from a specific person-of-interest, I think.

Yep, you'll have to use the edituser page to change it:

https://slashdot.org/users.pl?...

I hate saying this, but do you "really" need to access your e-mail on more than one machine these days, with the ubiquity of phones and tablets? If you're away from your "home machine", then use the tablet/phone. Android DOES have e-mail clients that support IMAP and gnupg

Sure it will stop the NSA, they can't break pgp/gpg. And the only way to use gpg with gmail is with a client like Thunderbird or Claws-Mail over IMAP/POP3.

And you might want to replace your expired gpg pubkey on slashdot with your current one: the one with Key ID: 55EC123A Key fingerprint = 3665 3E11 22C0 8BCE A16D 1529 08C1 70DE 55EC 123A