Re: tlug: It works!

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <- 3Web <jq@example.com>> writes:

    >> Probably has something to do with the number of licenses they
    >> could sell, and the amount of competition they faced.  Until
    >> two three years ago, my Institute would buy _one_ copy of
    >> software, then put the

    jb> Your institute and just about every other entity in Japan :-)

Not funny.

    jb> But Netscape had been free for personal use for a long time,
    jb> so it's hard to imagine licensing being the problem (or
    jb> competition, until IE 3.0 came out, and moreso after IE 4.0),
    jb> and it has always had Japanese input support on other
    jb> platforms.

The other platforms have corporate clients who DO license, bigtime.
None for Linux.  Where do you think Netscape makes its money?  No, I'm
not talking about licensing and supprting the browser (although that's
a nice chunk of change).  I'm talking about intranet solutions based
on their _servers_, which they just happen to recomment use of their
browsers with.  How many large corporate clients base their intranets
on Linux?

>From the no. 1 hit album "System Consultants' Basement Tapes", by
Beavis and Butthead:

"Beavis, are you out of your f**king mind?  We are NOT putting Unix
systems on the intranet under the control of you dope-smoking service
consultants.  Not no way, not no how.  How would YOU like to have a
mike on your desk wired to the building PA?"

"heh-he-heh-heh ... I bet we could snake some girls, eh, Butthead?"

    jb> And it's not very nice, either.  When it's loading a page, it
    jb> essentially freezes the whole system until it's done; even the
    jb> mouse will move only sporadically.  I've never seen it do that
    jb> on any platform; this is one "feature" I could do without very
    jb> nicely :-)

Never seen that, on any system including some '386s (although I
haven't tried anything more recent than 2.x on a '386).

Sounds to me like you have font problems.  The only think I know of
that freezes the X server for a long period of time is scaling
Japanese bitmap fonts.  Use the X font server, that should help.

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