[RndTbl] X11 - LOL

[Kevin McGregor]

Hey -- *I've* edited ModeLines! Ack! Does that mean I'm elderly? And I
thought I was only middle-aged.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Gilbert E. Detillieux <
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca> 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
>
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