[fitzwatermellow]

Once, Ubuntu Desktop issued an update that hosed my fglxr drivers.

I needed to get some work done on a remote machine. I didn't have time to download and re-install graphics drivers so I just soldiered. GNU Screen, elinks, vim, ssh, rsync, irssi, et al. I was amazed how much distraction free actual programming I could do. On an aesthetic full-screen bash console, no less. Was even have tempted to setup Gmail in pine.

Until I needed a browser to test a layout. Finally, I had reached the limits of CLI. Believing I could merely surf to amd.com, download the appropriate tarball (linux x64 supported), unpack install reboot and rejoin modern civ.

Fired up elinks, went to amd.com and was properly re-buffed. There was a javascript "system detection" routine that could not be bypassed to navigate directly to the download urls!

In the end, apt saved the day. Moral of the story: always test your http works in elinks, please ;)