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Donald Knuth has a dedicated work computer, too - but apparently completely without network capabilities: I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone lap
by jsrn 18y ago
Donald Knuth has a dedicated work computer, too - but apparently completely without network capabilities:
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop—it has
no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory
drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for
network surfing and graphics;
taken from an interview with Knuth:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
(it was posted here a few weeks ago)
- nadim 18y agoAnd Richard Stallman: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time. [1] [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/ http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/