[GLLUG] uzbl

[STeve Andre']

On 12/13/11 16:11, STeve Andre' wrote:
> On 12/13/11 14:29, Clay Dowling wrote:
>> On 12/13/11 2:25 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>>> Has anyone tried the uzbl web browser?  (See http://www.uzbl.org/ for
>>> more info.)  If so, how well did you like it?  What problems, if any,
>>> did you find?  Thanks for any information.
>>>
>>> I'm on the hunt for a new, lightweight web browser.  My old stand-by,
>>> Midori, now bogs down on my old laptops.  I could add RAM, but I'm
>>> disinclined to add a component that costs more than the laptop itself
>>> would now.
>> Chick, I think some of the laptops you have are nearly old enough to get
>> a driver's license, and I swear I've seen one old enough to drink at the
>> room party.  Maybe a hardware update is in order?  I picked up a new
>> ASUS eee PC for $250.  It can do cool things like run modern web
>> browsers and office applications.  Not that I don't do my word
>> processing in vi myself, just sayin' that you're probably investing more
>> energy in keeping these dinosaurs running than a new smaller machine
>> would cost.
>>
>> Clay
>>
> Yeah, +1
>
> I'll point out that used ThinkPads are always available in the flood of
> used hardware on Ebay.  I got my daughter a  T42, which was a 1.6GHz
> Pentium M, 1G ram, 80G disk for $149.  The extra kicker was that the
> battery was in good shape!
>
> So by vulturizing on Ebay you can find stuff at good prices...
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
I just saw a T42 on ebay expire.  No bids, the person was asking $125.
I see a lot of stuff like this.  People tend to think that Windows 7 or
whatever can't run on an M, so they gloss over stuff like this?

It's a great time to be looking at hardware, not running a Windows OS. ;-)

--STeve Andre'