OOo background color - Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Sep, OpenOffice Styles - for groff fans and real people too

[Mark Komarinski]

On 09/21/2007 03:37 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
> http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html
>   
I have a bunch of disagreements with Unix Haters book, the first of 
which is that many of the problems were implementation problems (app X 
on platform Y does Z) rather than a design problem.  I realize that much 
of it is good-natured griping rather than actual "unix is stupid", but 
the comments following your quote are comedy gold:

- X-Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money.

- X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look 
clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory!

1.4MB!?!  The Horror!  My gnome-terminal (with 4 windows open) is 
345MB.  Don't ask what firefox and thunderbird each use.  Good thing I 
have more RAM than they had disk space.

-Mark