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

["Igor Izyumin Jr." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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.
Actually, with a good theme, it looks even better than KDE.  I like the 
MicroGUI one.  The taskbar looks windowsy (start menu, quick launch, 
clock...), and it's not bad.  Definitely not 1996.

> :) No issues running Gnome/KDE programs etc?
None that I noticed, if you have the libraries installed.

> 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 :)
Ick.  What I hate the most is when somebody makes a stupid animated logo with 
Java.  I think people deserve to be shot for doing that.  Then mozilla starts 
popping up a bunch of windows and bugging you.  BTW, to fix this, delete 
libnullplugin.so from the mozilla/plugins directory.  It's usually easy 
enough to tell that you don't have flash or java without the damn thing 
bugging you.

> I have no money. People can sue me til they are blue in the face.
If you're not providing warranty or support or something or trying to sell 
it, I really doubt they could sue you.  Maybe if netscape integrated it into 
their browser, which is technically commercial, but still unlikely.  Besides, 
I don't think anyone is suing those webwasher guys.

> 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
hehe.  Actually, I used to use adzapper, and it zapped the ads quite nicely 
with only about 50 rules (customizable).  I wonder if it could be integrated 
into mozilla.  It's in Python, btw.

> 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.
Yes.  I don't know about speed, though, but somebody already did something 
like that, albeit it sucks (it just hides the image after it loads it).

> 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. :)
Well, squid is a mature program.  The adzapping crap usually isn't.  Besides, 
there's no point in running it separately - it should be in the browser.
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-- Igor
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