Augury and reading chicken bones for profit... (was Pun-ditry...)

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Jay Ashworth been jivin' 'bout like:
> 
> But have you ever really found a function you couldn't accomplish with
> *some* X app?

Depends.  Does GIMP have lens flare -yet-?  :)  I was using it for four
years and they still didn't have a lens flare plugin.  Damned near
everything -but-.  Everyone wanted it but nobody ever wrote it, and finally
I just got something else for 'doze.  GIMP was also still kind of unstable
when I stopped using it.  Other things like xv are just simply rock solid.

It's been a while since I went and seriously investigated X apps in any
major way.  My current hardware being dog-slow has something to do with
that.  And on the other system, the version of glibc I don't dare upgrade
has more power but not a new enough glibc for some things.

I -can- say if you're going to use gtk+, use v1, not v2.  I've run an
application compiled against both, and while gtk+ v2 has better
functionality, the application itself became entirely unusable at the UI
level within 12hrs or less.  The one compiled against v1 goes weeks without
even a slowdown.  There are serious performance issues with gtk+ v2--even
on good hardware.

When I installed SuSE, I took note of how much has been developed in the
last umpteen years since I was using it regularly as a -desktop-
environment.  I do most of my -work- in 'doze via PuTTY to various *nix
servers.  

And try testing someone's web site only with Mozilla.  *laugh*  Right.  The
differences in CSS handling alone make it a -requirement- that you test it
under IE.  If you don't, you end up with a mess for IE users, which (sadly)
still comprises 93.4 percent of the market (down 1.6% since June 1 due to
the security fiascos).  It's quite apparent from looking at some OSS-based
sites that they've not tested some things against IE 5.5 and 6.0.

The sad truth is that 'doze is still required for some things.  Actually, I
rather like w2k.  It's more stable than win95 and win98se, by far.  If I
have to go 'doze, I'll take that one.  Not that I want it anywhere but
behind a firewall, where it belongs.  :)

mark->
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