[81889] in Cypherpunks
Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tzeruch@ceddec.com)
Mon Jun 16 11:53:30 1997
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:59:52 -0400
From: tzeruch@ceddec.com
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <v03102803afc9c0a4fffd@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: tzeruch@ceddec.com
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
> I'm about to abandon 3.0 and go back to 2.x. Or look at Explorer. The
> memory footprint went up dramatically (Macintosh version at least), so that
> I can no longer have all my favorite apps open. If I want to check stock
> quotes, I have to quit one of my other Internet apps.
>
> The dancing Java ads are not worth it.
>
> --Tim May
There is a windows console version of Lynx now. You won't see the dancing
java ads, but will see your quotes. If you want fancy tables, I have an
awk script which renders them. A few more stupid AWK tricks (cygnus.com
has most GNU stuff ported), and you can type "getquote msft" and have the
info without the ads appear. And if "lynx -source" is too big, I have a
tiny URL to stdout program (which supports user/pass and SSL!). It is
running now in a timed script that displays the quotes I want to a
virtual console.
Become an iconoclast, and crawl into a shell.
