This is a bit of a rant session, so if you're not interested in hearing someone complain, skip this entry.
(1) My internet connection @ home is down. So I'm stuck playing with Mozilla 1.7 RC1 and Nvu 0.2. Nor can I get recent source code from the trunk.
(2) The neighborhood I live in does not have DSL support yet.
(3) SBC won't give me a friggin' clue when the neighborhood I live in might have DSL.
(4) I don't think I can afford cable broadband (at $7.50/hr, 32 hrs/wk, the budget is a bit tight)
(5) What about dial-up? Only the desperate would consider doing CVS updates via 56K modems... of course, I did consider it...
(6) ... until I found out the computer I work with at home doesn't have a 56K modem.
(7) Laptop computer? I'm actually saving up for one, and I probably can purchase one at the end of the year... bear in mind this comes from a projected surplus of $150.00/month, after the first three months (during which I'm really thinking about OSCON and Abacus).
(8) Of course, when I do have the money saved up for a laptop, it probably won't be top-of-the-line, and I'll still have to go to Kinko's to get my CVS updates and recent software...
(9) My efforts to convince the local library to install Mozilla anything have gone completely unanswered. *sigh*
On another note: Firefox 0.9 is out, eh? I'm surprised to see both mozilla.org and mozillazine.org responding well today. I'd think the slashdot effect would make people cringe. (Thank goodness they didn't release Mozilla 1.7 final at the same time...)
Posted by WeirdAl at June 15, 2004 2:32 PMWell the nice thing about hacking with old tech is that it gives you incentive to make your programs fast... if it runs decently on old tech, on new tech it will be real speedy.
Posted by: Jason at June 15, 2004 11:23 PMThat assumes, of course, that a "feature which works" in the build I'm developing in doesn't get fixed later... (and that's been known to happen...)
Posted by: Alex Vincent (WeirdAl) at June 16, 2004 2:13 PM