On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Jim Thompson wrote:
>I remember the delight when I left X behind, with its ugliness. I
>don't want to configure every last aspect of the UI so that I can
>work hard to make it look even uglier than the apparently color-blind
>author of the program chose. I just want to be abl
On Jul 24, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Jimen Ching wrote:
Die, X, die. Now. BitBlt on wheels is so last century. I don't
want fully generalized mediocrity. Just have it not suck.
Spoken like a true Mac user.
I noticed this pattern in all of the complaints from users of X and
Linux
(or Unix l
Jimen Ching wrote:
I don't understand why people need to point out that Unix and X are 30
year old technology. Do these people realize that cars still use
combustion engines that were developped almost a century ago? Why aren't
they complaining that we aren't using anti-matter or something? T
On Jul 24, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Last Friday, Sun made available free download of Neveda build 17
(or 2nd Solaris 11 beta). In the release note, Sun mentioned that
one of the key events is that "the AGPgart driver is integrated".
Yeah, but its a minimal imple
On 日, 2005-07-24 at 19:33, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
> Jimen Ching wrote:
> Last Friday, Sun made available free download of Neveda build 17 (or 2nd
> Solaris 11 beta). In the release note, Sun mentioned that one of the
> key events is that "the AGPgart driver is integrated". It can be sa
On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:18 AM, James A. Stroble wrote:
So Wayne, I have to ask you what I have asked you in person, do you
own
stock in Sun?
I dunno about Wayne, but my wife just sold the last of ours earlier
this year. The last five years was... rough. :-)
James A. Stroble wrote:
So Wayne, I have to ask you what I have asked you in person, do you own
stock in Sun?
Yes I do. But they were bought before the bubble burst. (Sold CISCO
and kept SUNW. Just to let everyone know who smart I am.) Wayne
