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In article <4dmovb$bk7@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
Krishna Swamy) wrote:

> In article <nevin-1801961639090001@150.135.1.79>,
> Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
> >In article <4dlnmr$5cl@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, rkswamy@unity.ncsu.edu (Ravi
> >Krishna Swamy) wrote:
> >> Perhaps you should check this link instead.  I am too lazy to check now. :)

> >Too lazy just to click your mouse once??  Oh, wait, I forgot, you don't
> >use a Mac; you use a so-called superior system that makes you apply so
> >much more effort just to do even the most trivial of tasks.

> Sigh...  Explain to me how your damn Mac is going to connect to
> the stinking URL when you are connected to the Internet via
> a terminal program running through a 2400 baud modem?

I didn't know that your point of view was from the desire to keep using
80s technology (I haven't had a 2400 baud modem since early 1990).  I
suppose if that is what you want to do, Unix is the way to go.

> Yes, I
> am REALLY waiting to know how the Mac manages to connect
> to the URL.  

How I resolve a URL with a Mac:  I see a URL, usually in a news or email
message, and I command-click somewhere on it (the text need not be
selected, as it would have to be if I was using a more primitive
mechanism, such as copy and paste).  The extension ICeTEe then parses it,
selects the correct text, and sends it to the appropriate application,
which is Netscape in this case.  While Netscape is loading it in the
background, I keep on going through my netnews or email.  Eventually, when
I get bored of news, I go over to Netscape and see what the page looks
like.


> >> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html

> >I tried checking it myself, but it appears to be down.

> I tried it myself with Lynx just now and it appears just fine.
> I guess your Mac is not up to the task.

The problem isn't the Mac, it's with either the server or the Internet,
which were both founded on those oh so great Unix design principles of
shipping the prototype, and coming up with protocols that can waste the
most bandwidth.

> If you want to be
> an annoying idiot and make stupid comments without knowing
> the situation then I have no problems at doing the same.

You said you were lazy.  I agreed with you.  Do you always get so angry
with people who take your side?
-- 
        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799