Le Jeudi 29 Août 2002 12:34, Chuck Shirley a écrit :
> >> I'm glad there aren't any high activity widgets when installing packages
> >> on gurpmi, the one that went back and forth like knigh rider before
> >> could swamp a pair of T1's running from remote :-/
> >
> >Not sure my english is enough to fully understand.. ;p
>
> See, Guillaume, I told you folks would come around to appreciating
> the new rpmdrake! BTW, Jason meant, in his second paragraph, that
> the side-to-side oscillating "Please Wait" window from Old rpmdrake
> used too much network bandwidth when run on a remote display. He
> makes a reference to "Knight Rider" TV show of the '80s that had an
> automobile with a sensor that oscillated back and forth in the same
> manner. That gimmick was stolen from the '70s TV show "Battle Star
> Galactica" which further stole it from the '60s TV show "Star Trek,"
> which, in turn, probably got the idea from the '50s movies "The Day
> The Earth Stood Still," and "Forbidden Planet." (Sometimes, we
> Americans lack creativity... Look at any Movie since "Star Trek:
> Undiscovered Country," which had the expanding ring around the
> explosion of Praxxis. Every movie since then featuring an explosion
> of sufficient size has included the same stupid gimmick...)
Wow, that is the cultural moment of the day. We really need a cooker best-of
:-)
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