Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

Post by odbol » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

542458 wrote: post #183

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #29

Hey, the PHP creator included a selfie! (Full disclosure: I write PHP on a daily basis, and reject the opinion that it should be avoided for various reasons, but I recognise the stereotype (that it's not a very 'good' language) enough to derive humour from it - consider it sort of self-deprecating)

I'm with you there - you can pry PHP out of my cold, dead hands. You just can't beat it IMHO for getting small systems up and running quickly. Lots of available libraries and code, and it's either preinstalled or trivial to install on almost everything these days.

Post by glass- » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

smegger001 wrote: post #164

glass- wrote: post #148

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I wonder if he realises that browsing over Tor with IceCat will be causing him to have quite a distinct browser fingerprint. He should just use Tor Browser.

He could just be changing his user agent to normalize it.

Post by unsignedint » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:44 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #131

raverbashing wrote: post #57

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Which is funny because the effect was important on a 100MHz Pentium, but pretty much negligible beyond that.

I had a Toshiba Libretto 30 with a 486DX processor at 100MHz that was exactly on the boundary. It could play MP3s, but only with the Fraunhofer codec: WinAMP was not quite fast enough. It was a lovely little machine that I set up to dual-boot Linux. If it had had mobile networking it would have been fantastic.

Post by unsignedint » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:52 PM UTC

cobalt wrote: post #186

xdinomode wrote: post #145

Richard Stallman is a legend. While most of us blindly agree to terms and conditions for crap proprietary software, he doesn't even need a GUI. He's one of my top inspirations. Edit: grammar

while I applaud him for sticking to his convictions, thats like saying that one should walk everywhere because we didn't used to have cars/don't need them

Post by rconti » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #60

mangecoeur wrote: post #45

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> clean and neat Really? You miss that special "concrete gray and primary blue" feel? I think I used every MS operating system starting with DOS, and I miss exactly none of the "historic" interfaces. To the extent I get annoyed when institutional IT departments force you to use the "classic" theme on modern windows boxes ("It's faster!" - no, it isn't to any human perceptible degree, and I appreciate not having to st…

I still think that Windows NT 4 was the best Windows OS ever. And may be the best GUI ever. I always switch to classic theme, if I have to use Windows. In last versions it's not very classic, though.