[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-18 Thread UNIX admin
Nice troll, but stuff like Looking Glass proves it's an unfounded bias. Bad programming makes apps slow. It's not a troll, it's a fact Sun marketing doesn't like to hear! Just run a Java program in a web browser, then you'll rightly know what it's like watching the paint dry. And don't

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-17 Thread Hugh McIntyre
UNIX admin wrote: I wonder if the people at Microsoft will port MSIE 7 to Solaris. Don't laugh. The penetration of MSIE 7 into the user space will be huge and having it on Solaris would be a win. At one time Microsoft would not support the Amiga platform, at that time the #1 home,

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-17 Thread ken mays
UNIX admin wrote: I wonder if the people at Microsoft will port MSIE 7 to Solaris. Don't laugh. The penetration of MSIE 7 into the user space will be huge and having it on Solaris would be a win. At one time Microsoft would not support the Amiga platform, at that time the #1 home,

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-16 Thread UNIX admin
I wonder if the people at Microsoft will port MSIE 7 to Solaris. Don't laugh. The penetration of MSIE 7 into the user space will be huge and having it on Solaris would be a win. At one time Microsoft would not support the Amiga platform, at that time the #1 home, multimedia and personal

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Google Earth

2006-06-14 Thread Peter Eriksson
Something even more freaky .. I know that if I search around in my backup tapes I can find a copy of MSIE 5.0 for Solaris in there somewhere. [0] algorah:~ ls -l /pkg/microsoft/ie5u1/bin/ total 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root2500 Dec 4 2001 iexplorer* -rw-r--r-- 1 root other