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Jimbo: Reverted edits by MorganPeters (Talk) to last revision by Jimbo

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Reverted edits by MorganPeters (Talk) to last revision by Jimbo

MorganPeters at 12:41, 3 August 2011

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Jimbo: Reverted edits by 196.35.33.39 (Talk) to last revision by Jimbo

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Reverted edits by 196.35.33.39 (Talk) to last revision by Jimbo

196.35.33.39: Undo revision 9869 by Jimbo (Talk)

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Undo revision 9869 by Jimbo (Talk)

Jimbo at 23:49, 29 November 2009

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Jimbo: Reverted edits by 80.90.160.194 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jimbo

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Reverted edits by 80.90.160.194 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jimbo

Jimbo at 16:09, 26 January 2008

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Jimbo: revert spam

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Jimbo at 22:02, 8 January 2008

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 Someone else can give it a try? There are many slashdot editors so there is bound to be one that is thrilled by the idea of a BSD wiki!
-We might want to provide one grandma-usable drolling-idiot-proof script that installs java on a browser or other feats unheard of in freeBSD newbie circles. It would prove technical competence, and provide a story because sun would stubornly insist on clicking on one of their agreements but made the whole install very obnoxious to most users precisely because they wanted <span class="plainlinks">[http://xTiburon.com/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">technology news</span>] users to see the license agreement. Such behavior isn't very open source minded.
+We might want to provide one grandma-usable drolling-idiot-proof script that installs java on a browser or other feats unheard of in freeBSD newbie circles. It would prove technical competence, and provide a story because sun would stubornly insist on clicking on one of their agreements but made the whole install very obnoxious to most users precisely because they wanted users to see the license agreement. Such behavior isn't very open source minded.
 Anyhow that's what I based my slashdot story attempt on (the obnoxious license preventing a simple &amp;amp;quot;make install&amp;amp;quot; from being used and the wiki as last hope of the FreeBSD newbie), but I'm sure someone else would word it better than me.

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 Someone else can give it a try? There are many slashdot editors so there is bound to be one that is thrilled by the idea of a BSD wiki!
-We might want to provide one grandma-usable drolling-idiot-proof script that installs java on a browser or other feats unheard of in freeBSD newbie circles. It would prove technical competence, and provide a story because sun would stubornly insist on clicking on one of their agreements but made the whole install very obnoxious to most users precisely because they wanted users to see the license agreement. Such behavior isn't very open source minded.
+We might want to provide one grandma-usable drolling-idiot-proof script that installs java on a browser or other feats unheard of in freeBSD newbie circles. It would prove technical competence, and provide a story because sun would stubornly insist on clicking on one of their agreements but made the whole install very obnoxious to most users precisely because they wanted <span class="plainlinks">[http://xTiburon.com/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">technology news</span>] users to see the license agreement. Such behavior isn't very open source minded.
 Anyhow that's what I based my slashdot story attempt on (the obnoxious license preventing a simple &amp;amp;quot;make install&amp;amp;quot; from being used and the wiki as last hope of the FreeBSD newbie), but I'm sure someone else would word it better than me.

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+PITA = Pain In The Ass.  And installing Java is ALWAYS going to be a PITA as long as Sun requires you to click a very complex piece of shit in a web page that can't possibly be rendered without a complex graphical browser in order to download the code, which is one reason why I very very frequently rather fervently espouse AVOIDING Java - the damn thing just isn't that great of a platform to make it worth saddling yourself with all that legal shit, &amp;amp;quot;free&amp;amp;quot; or not.  It might be free as in beer, but it's a loooooooooooong way from being free as in speech.
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-PITA = Pain In The Ass.  And installing Java is ALWAYS going to be a PITA as long as Sun requires you to click a very complex piece of shit in a web page that can't possibly be rendered without a complex graphical browser in order to download the code, which is one reason why I very very frequently rather fervently espouse AVOIDING Java - the damn thing just isn't that great of a platform to make it worth saddling yourself with all that legal shit, &amp;amp;quot;free&amp;amp;quot; or not.  It might be free as in beer, but it's a loooooooooooong way from being free as in speech.
+PITA = Pai42.123|24.202.242.123]]
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-As far as putting together a *complete* walkthrough... well, that's what the wiki here is all about.  By all means, hit it up!  You're right, a complete walkthrough of getting Java set up for [browser] would be great, and helpful... so make one.  That way, the NEXT time you have to do this, you'll have a nicely documented path to walk down of all the things that actually worked the first time - which is, again, what this wiki is all about. =)  If all the good simple documentation were already out there, I wouldn't have set this thing up to begin with.  --[[User:Jimbo|Jimbo]] 22:59, 12 Jan 2005 (EST)
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-I added this wiki to my stumpleupon page. Those moz extensions (stubleupon being my fav) are truly something M$ can't duplicate! (-;
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