Thursday·02·March·2006
German voting statistics viewed from a Debian System //at 01:54 //by abe
The last years I always sticked to the voting statistics of the ARD Tagesschau, since the only acceptable other news source in German television, ZDF heute corporated with MSNBC.
But this year, also the Tagesschau showed the Microsoft logo in some statistic on TV, which the German Linux association LIVE tried to get removed by stating that this an illegal advertisment in a political TV show.
Well, they weren’t successful, but at least the statistics on the web don’t show an M$ logo. But they have another problem:
My desktop system, a Pentium II with 400 MHz and 578 MB of RAM, is still running Woody, because I yet can’t live without Galeon 1.2.x, which was replaced on Sarge by Galeon 1.3.x — a complete rewrite which lacks most features I liked in Galeon 1.2.x. Galeon 1.2.x doesn’t show the above mentioned website that good, so I tried some browsers from Sarge. But none of them showed that page correctly:
 Galeon 1.2.5 based on Mozilla 1.4.2 from Debian 3.0 Woody |
 Firefox 1.0.4 from Debian 3.1 Sarge |
 Konqueror 3.3.2 from Debian 3.1 Sarge |
 Dillo 0.8.3 from Debian 3.1 Sarge |
So interestingly, the page is best readable in Konqueror and Dillo while only Firefox doesn’t show all of the main content of the page.
Somehow I fear, the pages have been “optimised” for MSIE, while the ZDF voting statistics page just don’t work at all: It needs JavaShit and Flash. *plonk*
Regarding the published extrapolations: I’m at least happy that CDU
(black, right conservative) and FDP (yellow, business liberal / free market) probably won’t have a majority. But what
this will result in is still unknown. There are too many options open
for our politicians to do any prediction. I would probably prefer
Red-Red-Green or Red-Green as we have it at them moment. Worst case
for me would be Black-Yellow.
Tagged as: *plonk*, ARD, Browser, CDU, Debian, Dillo, Doofe Parteien, FDP, Firefox, Fläsch, Galeon, Gecko, JavaShit, Konqueror, Linux, MSIE, Sarge, Screenshot, Symlink-Artikel, Wahlen, Woody, ZDF
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