t; In unix, we share a great deal in common: a shell, pipes, xterms.
> >From there, we diverge to other tools that differ, depending
> on our tasks but more depending upon our views: for example, get it done now,
> or be able to get future tasks done.
> As the flexible user seeks Debian over RedHat,
> the same user chooses programming over gui tools, and
> the same future-oriented user might well choose Perl over Bash shell
> programming.
>
very good points, thanks for the discussion.
-James Pollard
e question. your
BogoMIPS count went up dramatically, but did it really feel like you had a
performance increase? if so, why switch back? if not, why care about them
unless it was just idle curiosity?
-James Pollard
red perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but
why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language
over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any platform, so when
whatever shell you are programming for fades away or when you switch from
one platform to another, your perl scripts will live on.
-James Pollard
o choose, and modularize the OS and suite of apps environment.
> Microsoft actually did good things. It simply never did them for the correct
> purpose.
this is also the way HotJava is supposed to work, but they charge like 300
dollars for the license to use it in other applications. if they had made
it stand-alone and interfaceable from any application, perhaps we'd already
have a tool like that.
-James Pollard
going to
make a fresh install, but i'd rather not kill my netscape install, because
then i have to redo the settings, but i'm not familiar with other methods
of upgrade besides using newer .deb files. how evil would it be to just
fake a new .deb file by changing a couple strings in nets
Quoting Matthew Parry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
>
>I was wondering whether it was possible to overlay text on to an image in
>HTML... specifying a background image for a table cell or something like
>that. I think I've seen it done before, but of course I can't find the
>website now
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