[GLLUG] uzbl

[Chick Tower]

I'll be sure not to mention any health problems I may have now or may 
develop in the future to this group.  You folks would be fighting over 
who gets to load the cartidges in the pistol and who gets to shoot me 
with it.


                                Chick

On 12/13/2011 03:11 PM, 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'
>
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