[svlug] Maximum Linux dead

[Rick Moen]

begin  Gareth J. Greenaway quotation:

> Just curious.

Please don't be a patsy for Aaron Lehmann's trolling.  Surely, that
wasn't _that_ difficult to figure out.

Now, I do remember quite clearly Daevid telling a whole bunch of us, at
our dinner table at Max's Diner following a BALUG meeting, what type of
job opportunity in Seattle he said he was moving there to pursue.  Which
was the basis of my casual comments (much) earlier on this list.  But I
neither know nor care whom he ended up working for, once he got there.
It's not even an interesting question.

I _do_ find interesting how Daevid _does_ almost nothing else on this
mailing list other than shilling for Microsoft Corporation -- using MS
Outlook to do it, of course.  E.g., here he comes (again) pushing MSIE.
What a piece of crud that software is!  The bookmarks implementation
(like the cache) puts an ungodly profusion of tiny files all over
Microsoft's fragmentation-prone filesystems.  All printouts get
festooned with Microsoft's name on the headers.  The cookies
implementation is impossible to assert user control over for privacy
reasons (unlike Netscape's).  And, of course, we hear Daevid's claims
about "speed" based solely on an OS platform where Microsoft Corporation
stacks the deck using secret programming interfaces.  MSIE cannot
compete for speed with, say, Omniweb or the Opera browser on Mac OS (9.x
or X).

Much less can that pile of OLE compete for RAM usage.

"No standard for audio" mean no _Microsoft_-type standard for audio.
/dev/audio is in fact pretty much the same on every machine.  It's just
not prepackaged for MFC programmers.

I don't know much about 3D video.  But I know enough that I'm perfectly
happy to let proprietary DirectX protocols go rot.  Mesa and DRI/GLX
will suffice, just fine.

Nor am I likely to learn much about Daevid's current employer, given the
crappy HTML it publishes, complete with buggy, unterminated Javascript.  
Is it from MS Front Page?  All the signs are there:  Null ALT tags,
riddled with Javascript, nested tables, and GIFs, attempts to
micro-control image placement in pixels, etc.  Almost certainly, the
author never even looks at the resulting HTML.

-- 
Cheers,                                Before enlightenment, caffeine.
Rick Moen                              After enlightenment, caffeine.
rick at linuxmafia.com