From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 17 16:47:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856B915054 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:47:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat60.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.252]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id CAA12548; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:47:30 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA06102; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:36:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:36:31 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brooks Davis Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , Brett Glass , "van Rooij, Guido" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft go it right ;-) Message-ID: <20000118023631.A5990@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <4.2.2.20000117134916.019f97a0@localhost> <20000117131558.A11503@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20000117131558.A11503@orion.ac.hmc.edu> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 01:15:58PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 09:02:58PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > >No; it's the SERVER that responds more slowly. I've watched on a > > >network monitor. > > > > Unbelievable. What a brilliant, but utterly pathetic company. > > Not that Netscape doesn't do it too. I was using a copy of netscape for > Solaris x86 a few years ago and it bus errored every time the the string > microsoft.com appeared in a URL. It wasn't the site, you could type in > any of the IP addresses and it would work fine until you hit a page with > an absolute refrence instead of a relative refrence (causing you to stop > using the IP address in favor of the domain name) at which point it > would bus error again. I'd hate it if I had to to come to the conclusion that 'code cleanup', before the first Mozilla source opening, was all about things like this truly amazing fact. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [?] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message