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Comments · 5

  1. Dealing with Dial-up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dealing With Dialup

    Fer heaven's sake !
    There are plenty of folks using dial-up and still being able to do email, surf the net, all that good stuff !
    Think outside the box. Close the Windows and keep the bugs out. Windows slows everything down.
    Run DOS !!!
    http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/Arachne, fully graphical browser for DOS does internet and email. There are other browsers that will do SSL and javascript. MPlayer has been ported to DOS.
    There is a widespread base of folks still developing stuff to run in DOS.
    Hell, my business runs in DOS. I also run Linux, and even a slim Linux, with gui and all, will run wonderfully well using dial-up.

  2. USB Bootability by DrYak · · Score: 4, Informative · on FreeDOS 1.0 Released

    USB Key :
    While most old BIOS aren't able to boot from a storage class usb device unlike modern one, there are drivers like DUSE and others, that enable the access to USB devices on those oldies.
    So one could make a generic "boots DOS with USB support" bootdisk / bootiso and use it everytime you have to flash some BIOS / Firmware and want to save the new ROM on a USB stick. (The combination "USB BootISO + ROM on a stick" come VERY handy when flashing floppy-less boxes).

    Front-ends :
    A open variant of GEM (huh... Seals ?) is included in the "larger" distribution of FreeDOS.
    Also, for those who need a small box just to surf the web, no need for a full graphical environnement, there stuff like Arachne (full graphical browser, GPL. Description at Wikipedia).
    Great for a surfbox, and the old 386 on which you'll run it doesn't draw as much power as a Pentium 4.

  3. Re:Where does this fit into the map? by Ron+from+Oz · · Score: 3, Interesting · on FreeDOS 1.0 Released

    You can do all the internet and email (yes, including authenticated SMTP) in DOS.
    Have a look at Arachne http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/, a fully graphical browser/email client/even a desktop if that's what you want.
    As it happens, my entire business runs in DOS.
    DOS dieth not !

  4. Re:Arachne has no problems (link fix) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack

    www.cisnet.com/GlennMcc Real Geeks should check it.Wind0ze l0sers should shy away, unless you can do more than click a mouse with one hand, and flick a mouse with the other.

  5. Arachne has no problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait · on IE Vulnerable to Cross-Browser Spyware Attack

    ww w.cisnet.com/GlennMcc</A>
    Real Geeks should check it.Wind0ze l0sers should shy away, unless you can do more than click a mouse with one hand, and flick a mouse with the other.