In the student labs in the University of Waterloo Math and Computer building, users are stuck using a browser from the 1990s: Netscape 4.x. How many of you are reading this right now using that browser? Zero. Why? Because it sucks.
So every week now on uw.mfcf.gripe, or uw.mfcf.questions, someone asks if the fine qualified people of MFCF would please install a modern browser in the math undergrad environment. But all we hear back are lame excuses for excuses. "Too busy." Or "IST uses Netscape 4.x." Or "We'd have to install and support in on 1000s of machines."
What a load. It took me personally less than 15 minutes to 1) compile and install GTK and GLIB for Solaris. And 2) download and install Mozilla 1.2.1 binaries. And it worked perfectly. I don't know who's running the show at the center of that ugly concrete cube we call MC, but I think they should start acting less like the slothly unresponsive bureaucrats* that run the rest of the university and more in the interests of everyday students.
* From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bureaucrat Bu*reau"crat, n.
An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a
narrow and arbitrary routine. --C. Kingsley.
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