On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:43:50 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Montag 19 September 2011, 19:25:28 schrieb Michael Schreckenbauer: > > On Monday, 19. September 2011 18:36:18 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > Am Montag 19 September 2011, 16:41:08 schrieb Michael > > > Schreckenbauer: > > > > On Monday, 19. September 2011 16:22:31 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:30:41 +0200 > > > > > > > > > > Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebre...@piing.fr> wrote: > > > > > > The 17/09/11, pk wrote: > > > > > > > dbus is installed in my system, but only because I run > > > > > > > Xfce4 > > > > > > > (I > > > > > > > am > > > > > > > thinking of installing something else due to it's > > > > > > > becoming > > > > > > > bloated > > > > > > > just like gnome). And I have "-dbus" in my global > > > > > > > make.conf. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > PS. I am quite astonished at the fact that I have a > > > > > > > computer > > > > > > > that is > > > > > > > _way_ faster than the first machine I installed > > > > > > > GNU/Linux > > > > > > > (an > > > > > > > Amiga > > > > > > > 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz) on but the "experience" > > > > > > > is > > > > > > > still > > > > > > > the same; it takes about the same time to boot, the same > > > > > > > time > > > > > > > (or > > > > > > > even slower) to load a program. It seems the faster the > > > > > > > computer > > > > > > > the more I have to wait for it to finish some task. > > > > > > > Contradictory, > > > > > > > no? Wonder why that is... (bloat?). > > > > > > > > > > > > Believe it or not but I bet you're not doing the same tasks > > > > > > with > > > > > > your > > > > > > modern machine and could just not run the user-end software > > > > > > you > > > > > > use > > > > > > today on a Amiga 4000 with a 68040 cpu at 40Mhz because they > > > > > > learn > > > > > > new > > > > > > feature since then. > > > > > : > > > > > :-) Example: > > > > > Try run a browser on that Amiga. I doubt it would even manage > > > > > to display the Gentoo logo at http://www.gentoo.org. > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser > > > > > > and I am sure that it will display pngs and jpegs with full > > > colours just fine. I am sure displaying 2 or 4 MP pictures will > > > be working great. Just > > > like the mpeg4 you are trying to watch. Or the ogv. > > > > I don't think so :) > > But it is a web-browser, that runs on classic amiga os and I really > > think, that it can display http://www.gentoo.org just fine. > > so can lynx. Does it make it usefull with todays internet? There are > more pages than just gentoo.org - The Sun for example or CNN or other > high quality sites. > I still find lynx quite useful, though obviously not useful enough to use as my only browser. Until they got bought out by Wells Fargo, Wachovia's banking site worked in lynx. It was the reason I chose to bank with them. :) -- caveat utilitor
