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In article <nevin-1901960000170001@150.135.1.79>,
Nevin ":-]" Liber <nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
>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.

I will keep using it if I can do so for free and the alternatives
cost more money than I think they are worth.  I can pay $30 a month
for the school's new dialup service or connect for free.  If I
connect for free then I will rarely get a line faster than 2400 baud.
Since I go to school every day and can see all the nice graphics
there then I don't see the point in paying.

>> 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

I meant how your Mac would resolve the URL in my situation.  I
already know how it works in yours.

>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.

Perhaps you should get a faster net connection like a T3.  It rarely
takes more than 5 seconds to load any page inside the US.  I suppose
you like using inferior technology.

>> >> 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,

Duh, and my problem isn't because I wasn't using a Mac, it's because
I wasn't using any kind of graphical interface that would actually
be able to make some sense out of a mouse click.

>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?

No.  You implied that I would somehow not be lazy if I were using
a Mac because it would be "easier" when in fact using a terminal
program in a Mac would have been just as "difficult."

>        Nevin ":-)" Liber       nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU    (520) 293-2799

For someone with a smiley in his name you sure never seem very happy.

Ravi
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