On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 at 04:39 GMT, Stuart Lamble (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On 2005-01-24, Mr Pyro <pyro@localhost> wrote:
>> TimC wrote:
> [on Thunderbird]
>>> Bloody bloatware.
>>>
>>> Mozilla I find is almost unusable. Unfortunately, all other browsers
>>> suck harder. Galeon used to be nice, but then some moron upgraded it
>>> to GTK 2 or somesuch.
>>
>> Bloatware? You're joking right ...
Way more bloated than what it needs to be. And damn slow on my 500MHz
box. I remember reporting a bug report years ago essentially saying
this was too slow (download manager handling -- it was taking a second
to add or delete a single item from a download manager history list
(which seems to form no useful purpose, because you can't resume dead
downloads, anyway) with only a few tens of thousand entries in it -
how hard is it to implement a damned linked list?). I wanted orders
of magnitude speedup. They closed the bug a few months later, saying
it had been fixed in the latest release. It was now 20% quicker. I
don't even *notice* 20% -- I'm an astronomer, dammit!
> Now I'm feeling old. I remember the days when a mail client (Pegasus
> Mail, to be precise) fit very comfortably on a 1.44 MB floppy. It
> wouldn't surprise me if it fit very comfortably on a 720 KB floppy ...
> du -h `which pine`
3.5M /usr/bin/pine
3.5MB for a text based email client?! Furrfu!
PB during commuting this morning - 24.5. I might be able to crack a
25km/h average soon! And I'm not even a lard ****; slow, but not lard
I got a bit of extra energy along Burwood road towards the uni, and
was passing cars that were all doing about 45. I was doing 50 up a
slight uphill. Usually maybe doing 35 there. The wind at melbourne
airport was going slightly against me, but I can't recall what the
wind was doing where I actually was - whether I had a headwind or not.
It was only low knottage, anyway.
I suspect I may be slower tomorrow. I hope I remember to get up
early...
--
TimC --
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
I'm all for computer dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister. --unk