Netscape sucks, and more stimulating news
Netscape on all platforms seems to be the crappiest passable browser. For instance, it renders my blog completely without formatting. Hello, it’s called CSS! Whatever happened to the Mozilla promise? I’ve Mozilla running on Linux– actually, I have it installed on my system, which unfortunately isn’t hooked up to the net– and it looks pretty darn good. Why hasn’t it been released for production-quality use yet? How long can it take to get the bugs out of an *open source* code base? Why am I asking all these rhetorical questions?
I just started reading another book on UNIX, in this case, on the implementation of System V Release 4(?). It (the book) seems like the perfect admixture of an intro to OS concepts textbook, and a hacker’s purview of the actual code and design behind the OS. Maybe I’ll actually finish this one… 
School is turning out to be boring, as expected. I might even end up a year behind in my degree-plan. Hopefully I’ll only be a semester behind, if they would just accept my I-thought-this-meant-something-and-it-should-at-this-crappy-school AP physics score!
In related news, the Honors College has been funding a radio program. Of course, they require the program draw a little attention to them; an excerpt: “over the past 30 yrs, … [students have attended] including hundreds of National Merit Scholars.” Hmmm… what a scam. I came here because I was misled into thinking I would recieve the National Merit Scholarship; when I was ineluctably in UH’s grasp, they withdrew the carrot. And now, I find they’re using me and my kind in an ad (ok, so I have no right to control the label National Merit Scholar, but still). I wonder, where does all the money *I pay* because they denied me my scholarship go to? Paying for those ads?
Possibly relevant posts:
- Domain name hassles (4/23/2004)
- NSCS Responsibilities (5/22/2003)
- Winter Break Plans (12/12/2004)