Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] programmers that don't know tarballs?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> That's about all IceWM offers.  There's a taskbar with two icons - netscape 
> and xterm.  I didn't even bother to change it, since these are the two apps I 
> use most often.  Everything else I just launch from the xterm.

How ugly does it make things look? I don't require everything look like
Enlightenment unleashed but I don't want it to look like it did in 1996.
:) No issues running Gnome/KDE programs etc?

> Yes - amazing.  The same people who can design a nice looking brochure 
> usually make the ugliest websites.

And those people tend to fill the site with large images where non is
needed.. simply because it looks good in a brochure. For sites selling a
product it is good to provide decent pics of what you're selling but more
often than not they go way overboard. Even worse is people who've
experience in tv commercials.. quicktime movies, flash, java, etc just to
spew ad banners. LOL :)

> Yes, exactly.  The only way the banners don't end up hurting them is because 
> everyone ignores them.  Otherwise, it would be like having one commercial 
> interrupted by another.  Completely pointless.

"We interrupt this commercial break to bring you this important
anouncement.. today only $.50 off every can of spam."

> Who gives a f*ck about the website whores?  No, really, why do we even have 
> to be considerate about them.  Just screw them out of their banners and 
> they'll go away.  Of course, if you're doing it commercially, it's kinda 
> possible that they would sue, but still it's not likely.

I have no money. People can sue me til they are blue in the face.

> One possible idea I had is that there would be a centralized database of ads, 
> and the plugin would automatically sync itself.  That would be a very good 
> idea, in fact.

I have quite the database of ads. Of course it isn't all inclusive but it
typically has just about all ads that appear on any geek sites or any of
the major sites. I'm probably the only person around that collects them
and sits around looking at them. LMAO

> Yes.  By the way, mozilla has all kinds of javascript-based plugins, so it 
> shouldn't be hard to implement something like that.

It should also have XML/XSL support built in I think. Maybe could do it
that way. Just Javascript it. Perfect for lazy people like me.

> Proxies are annoying in that they are a separate program and have to be 
> running.  If the program hangs, the browser is screwed.  Besides, everyone 
> else hates the damn things because they die so often.  And frankly, most 
> proxies are either dog-slow (Java, junkbuster, etc) or unstable (python, I 
> have no idea why).

Squid has never crashed on me. The only problem is when I hit it with to
many requests at once it sort of clogs up but then I do that on purpose to
keep my web spiders from running wild. Haven't noticed it slowing anything
down either. Greatly increases the speed of loading pages usually. And hey
it's an easy way to collect all images, video, and audio users and
programs fetch off the web. :)

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