[gopher] De-lurking...

[N. Theodore Matavka]

I run AIX on two systems: an RS6K and a Power7.

Regarding removing the i itemtype from "Gopherhenge", that would be my
preferred course of action as well.

Personally, Dr Kaiser, how do you browse Gopher?  As I said, I like Lynx.

On 12 August 2010 08:50, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>> I like to see the whole picture, including what transpires behind the
>> scenes; therefore, I have always been aware of these systems, and have
>> a particular soft spot for AIX, which I run at home.
>
> What do you run it on? I'm currently using a heavily modified AIX 4 running
> on an Apple Network Server, although I've got my pennies saved for a POWER7.
> When that comes out, I'll be merging the ANS and the 7300 back into one
> system and gopher.floodgap.com will be a lot faster.
>
>> I've enjoyed the ride, gang.  I was with you when the news hit that
>> Firefox would lose Gopher support.  This was a tremendous blow---the
>> great majority of users will not install a plug-in merely to browse a
>> handful of sites catering mainly to hobbyists.  It's the
>> work-to-reward ratio, I guess.  If something comes with the kitchen
>> sink, users will be drawn to experiment with it; however, if the
>> kitchen sink is detached, only a few people will make an effort to
>> attach it.
>
> I'm still hoping, and I verified that the patch did not bitrot with
> bug 572000, that Mozilla will adopt that patch so that at least the
> curious will have some lead-in. But unfortunately such a move was
> inevitable, no matter how ill advised. I'm glad that we still managed
> to hold the fort for several years or Gopher might have left with Firefox
> 2.
>
>> That said, I am not a great fan of Firefox, Overbite or no Overbite,
>> when it comes to browsing Gopherspace.  I can honestly say that my
>> favourite Gopher, which is guaranteed to be found on every UNIX
>> installation, is Lynx (renders pages in 5 seconds or less).  Yes,
>> that's right, Lynx, which is older than me (no big surprise there, I
>> use TECO as my primary editor) is the Gopher client that I can depend
>> on 100%.  If I'm using one of the more modern Linux distros, I will
>> usually download and install GopherVR.  At this point, I have got to
>> thank Dr Kaiser for maintaining this excellent piece of work, and I
>> hope he gets any bugs worked out to really make this software shine.
>> Thanks, Doc, I'm behind you all the way.  More thanks to Dr Kaiser for
>> TTYtter, which is the only way I ever twitter aside from my
>> CrackBerry, and for Overbite Android.
>
> Hey, thanks! Look for TTYtter 1.2 to start entering the public beta after
> the OAuth transition concludes (I'm holding 1.1 in active status to bang
> out fixes quickly as more people are forced into it).
>
> The biggest change to be made to GopherVR 0.5 will be fixing the way it
> handles i itemtype. It may simply be just to turn it off (and display it
> only in the menu). I also need to add SOCKS proxy support to libgopher.
>
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