-----Original Message----- From: Michael Lankton <satan3@home.com> To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Web graphics.

Ken, most of these monkeys don't know what lynx is, much less care.

Hehe- preaching to the choir, Michael. :) A little background on me: I learned my chops on PC's, starting with DOS+Win 3.X machines in the USAF- 386's thru Pentiums over the course of about six years. I played around on a RS/6000 for a bit at the very tail end of my enlistment, but I had never played with *nix before, so it was pretty much, "How do you list directories again?" for me. I never did any kind of work in *nix before three or four months ago. However, I was a Webmaster for the last three years of my USAF career, and got enough slams from *nix Web surfers in the early days (Netscape was V0.9 BETA, to give you an idea of the time when I started doing HTML <g>) about using the ALT attribute to make it automatic for me. So how did I learn it? As a Web zealot with NO *nix experience. How did I fall into Linux? Like many Linux users, I got totally frustrated with M$ kludgeware that was inconsistent, buggy, and crash prone (I'll slap the next person that tells me NT4 with the service packs is anything more than a classic example of this...), and bought a Power Mac for my first home computer (I was using Wintel machines at the office) because at that point in time, as a budding Web designer, all the most appealing Web sites were being designed on Macs and hosted on *nix servers. I didn't really get frustrated with the Mac for the same reasons I did with Wintel- they're not NEARLY as crash-prone as the M$ zealots would have you believe- esp if you don't try to administer them like they're Wintel boxes, which they're not. The thing I saw happening with the Mac was a combination of my frustration with not being able to procure software without going mail-order or having to engage in inane chats with "3LeEt" "wArEz" "dOoDz", and Apple's utterly inept, clueless, devoid of testosterone management- which hopefully Jobs is turning back around. (And yes, I'm damned excited about OS X, if and when it ever makes it to prime-time.) So where else to turn? For professional development (I went to a tech college rather than a conventional university, so I had no access to a *nix box any other way), learning *nix was certainly a valuable skill, and I liked the idea that 900f what I use a computer for could be done on an operating system where uptime was more than an eventual goal. :)

Most people, if they even know what linux/unix is, think it's dos, because to the unsophisticated pc user a command line interface=dos, they have no concept. None. My mom is the average pc user, and she's thrilled to be able to read email in her aol browser, anything beyond that is gravy ;)

They got YOUR mom, too? :) Hehehe. Friggin AOL- the cheap, narrow lots in the great trailer park we call Cyberspace...

Ken Schuller wrote:

...

Depending on whether or not I a.) have the time and b.) and in a good

enough

...

mood, I'll take a capture from one of the Lynx websites (basically a CGI that you feed a URL to, and in turn it renders a HTML file, displayed in your browser window showing a mockup of the Lynx display) and e-mail it to the Webmaster with a comment like, "This is what your page looks like in Lynx."

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