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Comment Re:Dillo (Score 1) 147

Dillo is fantastic... and being actively developed again.

I've been using it as basically my main browser since 2000 or so, and it has been consistently good. It uses less RAM than Lynx or w3m, despite being a GUI program instead of running in a terminal. And quite often, being a "Web 1.0" browser is a feature, not a bug. It's lightning quick, and doesn't generally have ads or exploits, because it doesn't have the components necessary to display the ads or do the exploits... like javascript.

Of course, I still have to use a heavyweight browser for "Web 2.0" sites... but in general, I try Dillo first, and fall back to something else only when the site needs features Dillo doesn't have.

One of these days, I should write a thing to save snapshots of my Dillo session(s). I typically have a few dozen instances open, each with multiple tabs, and it'd be nice to periodically dump that session to a file so I can restore it later in case something goes wrong. I wrote a session/tab/window/bookmark/etc manager (TKTSTO) for mainstream browsers, and I miss some of its features while using Dillo. But I heard Dillo now has some of the inter-process communication mechanisms needed to query what's open, so I've been meaning to update my copy and write a session export tool.

Music

Wal-Mart Ends DRM Support 231

An anonymous reader writes "So, you thought you did well to support the fledgling music industry by purchasing your tracks legally from the Wal-Mart store? Well, forget about moving these tracks to a new PC! Since they started selling DRM-free tracks last year, there's no money to be made in maintaining the DRM support systems, and in fact, support is being shut down. Make sure you circumvent the restrictions by burning the tracks to an old-fashioned CD before Wal-mart 'will no longer be able to assist with digital rights management issues for protected WMA files purchased from Walmart.com.' Support ends October 9th."
Government

California Sec. of State Wants Open Source E-Voting Systems 112

Lucas123 writes "California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, was among a group of e-voting experts at MIT yesterday who said the nation's electronic voting systems are still not secure and many run on faulty software. Among the suggestions offered to fix the problem: use open source software, stop delivering e-voting machines to polling places weeks in advance of an election, and keep a paper trail for auditing purposes. Bowen also believes that a ubiquitous Internet voting system could not work without the use of a national ID card system."

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