Re: Free Opera!
 

then there are command line browsers? arnt they browsers?

i started life using Lynx and made my first website for that... atari st half meg of memory and 720k disk drive (no HD) use a shell account for news and email then when the www appeared used Lynx .. all that on half meg of memory and a disk haha and I was recently asked if a celeron this that and the other.. 20gig hd and hundreds of megs of memory would be enough to get onto the internet ... hahaha oh dear :) i ressisted the temptation to tell them no... :)

Re: Free Opera!
 

I know what you mean Kipax but lets be honest, put a modern user in front of lynx and they would have a heart attack! :)

Yes its a browser but not in the sense of the word that people today would recognise.

Re: Free Opera!
 

Take away all there pretty buttons and colours and they will think the world has ended :) thig is.. even home computer users where aware of DOS and setting up sound cards for games etc... they dont even have to do that now ..

Saying that.. I had a belly full of shell accounts, command lines and two colour screens... I have to use ssh a lot for work and crave a few buttons and mouse :)

Re: Free Opera!
 

I think your all talking jibberish!!!

Re: Free Opera!
 

Ian looks at the 16 SSH shells he has currently open :(

You do get used to it and as you know, its much more powerful :)

Re: Free Opera!
 

16 then there on your own internal system yes? I have various ssh accounts but couldnt envisage needing them all at once.. mebbe a couple ... if watching live error logs

i aint a sys admin and only use ssh to get down to nitty gritty problems or handle stuff like mysql that are too big for phpadmin to work on. some other bits but using less and less now thank goodness.

nowerdays I have to have my static IP as a lot of sys admins wont let you ssh in otherwise.. so i pay the couple of quid extra for static

Re: Free Opera!
 

Ian I bet you go to the linux meetings eh?

Re: Free Opera!
 

16 is quite low amount tbh, We have 8 build/test enviroments across ~30 boxes with multiple workloads(partitions) on each each with virtual IPs I can be working on most of these at the same time. If things are going pear shaped then it gets rather crazy.

PS, I haven't managed a meet yet :)