Lynx

Hi Piergiorgio,

In sci.electronics.design Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.removethis.de> wrote:
[]
> I tell you two more.
> 
> "mutt" for email, which I regularly use and

I use alpine regularly.

> "slrn" for usenet (which I do not use).

I use tin regularly.

> Because real programmers don't use Pascal... :-)

And why would that be so?

Hi Al,

On 8/13/2014 7:30 AM, alb wrote:
> In sci.electronics.design Don Y<this@is.not.me.com>  wrote:
> []
>>> If you use Firefox as your "real" browser, there's an excellent flash
>>> blocker called FlashBlocker :-)
>>
>> I don't have Flash installed!  Works really good at blocking Flash
>> apps!  :>   (so far, all it's cost me is the inability to watch silly
>> cat videos, etc.)
>
> same here, but I can still see silly cat videos with chromium and HTML5 *if* I
> really want to!

I have <mumble> Firefox add-on installed that lets me download flash
animations (which I can view elsewhere).  But, aside from testing it
to familiarize myself with its operation, I've never actually *used*
it!

SWMBO "misses" the Flash-ability as many of her friends/colleagues
take to emailing her links to various bits of fluff.  However, I
think she has come to realize that she's not really missing anything
of substance!

I've toyed with the idea of setting up this machine with something
like Deep Freeze -- or, even building a new "restore image" for it
such that I can overwrite the disk with the original system image
quickly (a matter of minutes).  But, so far, that hasn't risen to the
level of importance to make it onto the REAL ToDo list!  :-/

On 2014-08-13 16:32, alb wrote:
[...]
>> Because real programmers don't use Pascal... :-)
> 
> And why would that be so?
> 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don%27t_Use_Pascal

:-)

bye,

-- 

piergiorgio

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:55:43 +0200, Piergiorgio Sartor
<piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> wrote:

>On 2014-08-13 16:32, alb wrote:
>[...]
>>> Because real programmers don't use Pascal... :-)
>> 
>> And why would that be so?
>> 
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don%27t_Use_Pascal
>
>:-)
>
>bye,

Piker.  BTDT.  Then i got smarter and learned more directly powerful
languages that saved me typing time.  ByBy machine code.  I still find toy
languages disgusting.  Pascal used to be such, then wiser heads took over.
Tough toenails.

?-)
 

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:24:58 +0000 (UTC), Aleksandar Kuktin
<akuktin@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:23:16 -0500, Tim Wescott wrote:
>
>> If you're a certain kind of weird, the Linx text-based web browser still
>> works: you can install it in about 30 seconds on a Linux machine.
>> 
>> Then you can wonder why in @#$% you bothered.
>
>Occasionally, you will find yourself with a very, very narrow pipe to the 
>Internet that also has some kind of a data cap. The imperative is to use 
>only what you need.
>
>You can also sometimes find yourself with a link that is extremely 
>unstable or just really, really doesn't like establishing new TCP 
>sessions, thus making it very difficult to download all the crap 
>pictures, scripts, iframes and what not.
>
>Enter text browsers.
>
>I always keep a copy of Lynx on my machine.
>
>And on a somewhat related note, you know what I miss from the Old Web? 
>That thing Internet Explorer 4 did where it would render as much of the 
>page as it could, and then expand and rerender the page as more content 
>got downloaded.


I sometimes use lynx  in a shell by calling up  "lynx ."  to browse
through files and directories.

Hi boB,

In sci.electronics.design boB wrote:
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> I sometimes use lynx  in a shell by calling up  "lynx ."  to browse
> through files and directories.

hey that rocks! and opening up file is much faster, you simply select it and 
hit 'return'. I wonder which default application it is using... jee I should 
stop reading and start working today!

In article <lsduhe$s0t$2@speranza.aioe.org>, Don Y  <this@is.not.me.com> wrote:
.. web browsing ...
}(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations
}on demand!)

Then I suggest you try Opera.

I (capital i) toggles the display of images.

G toggles use of style (very useful for those pages which have dark
writing on a black background, or yellow text on white).

F12 brings up a menu on which you can toggle animated images (E),
Javascript (a), and cookies (c), and others, as well as a dialog (d)
which allows you to save per-site preferences for some of these.

Hi Charles,

On 8/14/2014 5:54 PM, Charles Bryant wrote:
> In article<lsduhe$s0t$2@speranza.aioe.org>, Don Y<this@is.not.me.com>  wrote:
> ... web browsing ...
> }(I still wish I had a button to disable images/graphics/animations
> }on demand!)
>
> Then I suggest you try Opera.
>
> I (capital i) toggles the display of images.
>
> G toggles use of style (very useful for those pages which have dark
> writing on a black background, or yellow text on white).
>
> F12 brings up a menu on which you can toggle animated images (E),
> Javascript (a), and cookies (c), and others, as well as a dialog (d)
> which allows you to save per-site preferences for some of these.

Does it inhibit their *download*, as well?  I.e., if you can prevent
them from being "fetched" by the browser, often the pages can
display at lightning speed!

On 15/08/14 02:19, Don Y wrote:
> Does it inhibit their *download*, as well?  I.e., if you can prevent
> them from being "fetched" by the browser, often the pages can
> display at lightning speed!

For "normal" browsers AdBlock Plus is useful in that regard,
and NoScript allows selective execution of JavaScript,
and Ghostery allows trackers to be blocked.

AdblockPlus is especially beneficial when connected via 3G

Hi Tom,

On 8/14/2014 11:53 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
> On 15/08/14 02:19, Don Y wrote:
>> Does it inhibit their *download*, as well? I.e., if you can prevent
>> them from being "fetched" by the browser, often the pages can
>> display at lightning speed!
>
> For "normal" browsers AdBlock Plus is useful in that regard,
> and NoScript allows selective execution of JavaScript,
> and Ghostery allows trackers to be blocked.
>
> AdblockPlus is especially beneficial when connected via 3G

Yeah, I've used AdBlock and currently use NoScript.

But, ages ago, (e.g., Netscape days) you could inhibit all "pictures"
(which I assume could easily be defined with specific mime types)
from download.  Then, if you decided you wanted to see them, you could
INDIVIDUALLY download those of interest *or* enable all of them,
again.  Because each image had a particular spot on the page, it was
easy to identify which ones would likely be interesting/pertinent
and which would be ads, fluff, etc.

E.g., with NoScript, you have to play a guessing game as to which
domains you want to temporarily enable for that page (usually you
can make educated guesses and hit it on the first or second pass
without having to resort to enabling "all on this page")