[RndTbl] X11 - LOL

Mike Pfaiffer high.res.mike at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 11:19:09 CDT 2011


On 11-10-13 10:17 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
> On 2011-10-13 02:29, Sean Cody wrote:
>> Gah! I think I'm somehow both...
>>
>> On 2011-10-12, at 11:07 PM, Adam Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> http://xkcd.com/963/
>>>
>>> If you have no idea what this means, you're either way too old or way
>>> too young...
>>>
>>> -Adam
>
> Ah, you young whipper-snappers don't know how good you had it with
> xorg.conf. I remember hand-editing ModeLines in XFree86.conf... And that
> was an improvement over the old days, where you had to edit the Xserver
> source code!...
>
> I vaguely remember hearing/reading a quote from the late Steve Jobs, way
> back when NeXT was a new company, where he referred to the X Window
> system as "incredibly ornate and baroque". I think he gave it way too
> much credit. ;P
>

	XFree.conf... HAH! I remember hand editing the termcaps and printcaps 
files. THOSE were an improvement from what I gather.

				Later
				Mike




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