I'm running Linux, Slackware distribution version 7.1, 2.2.18 Kernel, with the full glibc (not the u one mentioned in another/. article), installed via zipslack, using a rescue floppy with unzip. Works quite well, even X works fine, although some local X apps get slow, it works fine as a remote "X-terminal" across a ssh tunnel. Mostly work in Virtual Consoles though. I usually have Lynx runnning on one (usually reading/.), Pine in another, Tac (an AIM client) in another, VI or JStar in another, (depending on if I'm programming or writing a letter), and maybe an ssh session in another. Fetchmail, Sendmail, Cron are running in the background. I have lynx configured to show image links so I can see images with SEEJPEG using SVGALIB.The only time I notice any slowdown in the system (other than running X appps) is when PINE is sorting my mailbox (It is getting large), or Lynx in rendering a >200k webpage, or when SEEJPEG is decoding an image. The only reason I ask the question is because my wife uses the computer also and is doesn't like the current editors. I remember some good word processing packages back (15-20 years ago) in my Apple// days (Appleworks, MouseWord, MouseWrite, and few others whose names leave my mind), and there seem to be none of those (text mode ones) left. I tempted to run an Apple// emulator and run some of those (if my media is still readable). I should try PC-Write in FreeDos using DOSEMU. It may be what I'mm looking for. Of course, I could just buy a new computer, but what fun would that be
This sounds like an opportunity for neighbors to join together with wireless networks. Split the expensive bandwidth costs between them...
The Bell's not having to share their copper may also increase commercial wireless opportunities. I work for a minicipal electric utility that has access to many street light poles for wireless access points, along with provisions (empty underground conduit) for future data comm. Might be a business for some utilities to get into...
another thing....provide dial-up shell access, with easy text based menus for *modem file transfers of pre-configured software, access to lynx and pine. that way if one can't get ppp configured support can tell then to dial in using terminal and let then get preconfigured software, access to their mail and www.
Also provide a webmail service so people that don't feel comfortable configuring their pop/imap clients...Also a web based news reader might be handy for newbies also. In addition, provide a www-cache (such as a squid server, you can call it a web accelerator) so that a./'d site can still be visible (from cache) to people. Dont do any transparent proxy crap, just offer it as a service to people who can enter the address in the proxy server configuration of their clients
Give them a CD with both netscape and mozilla for many different (Linux, a *BSD or two, Winbloes, Mac, Solaris). Maybe also Amaya (the w3c reference browser) and "free" versions of Opera. Also include zipslack and a freebsd installer also, so when people complain about M$'s latest product, you can tell them they already havean alternative
I am running slackware on a 486/DX2-50 8M RAM 240MB HDD with X (and FVWM95) installed, but I spend most of my time in console mode. I use Pine for email, Lynx for browsing (with image links enabled and spawning seejpeg to view images using SVGALib), even play mp3's with mpg123. older versions of Netscape and Amaya work fine also. I can also run remote X and VNC sessions to other computers with little sluggishness (other than one would expect with a dial-up access) Zipslack reduces the nees for an installer that occupies memory. You simply need a single floppy distro with mkfs and unzip utilities
To the BSD fans, what is the best BSD for a low resource system? Open, Net, or Free? I would like to try out BSD on that system.
This Link shows how a single window can be shared using VNC....You just have 50 Word sessions open, each person can connect to their own single window...(might need some more code tweaking, but may be possible).
So, if someone wanted to write a "Citrix Like" app based on VNC, it is most certainly possible
I do most of my home browsing with Lynx on a Linux Console......Nothing annoys me more than a site the has falsh on the main page and no links to get inside. I usually go a google search to find an inside page so I can view the real content.
Halstad Telephone has been offering this service for a couple of years now. Basicially it is a DSL line providing streaming video. Not much different than each DSL subscriber running a Streaming Video player (such as Real Player)
I work for a municipality, and the public Library is part of my resposibility
Recently the Librarians were wooed over by the 'Bill and Melinda(?) Gates Foudation' They are offering free computers, software (MS), and training.
I'm just wondering when they will call in a favor and remove anything not-MS from their shelves...
I warned the library board that this would be like making a deal with the devil, but my thoughts fall on deaf ears
Better yet, let's all put our part 15 FM transmitters on the air where ever we are at and create a nationwide "freedom station".
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I'm an IT person for a northern MN municipality, and am forced to be a union member (Teamster's), in the same barganing unit as the garbage, sewer, and waterworks workers (If one person gets a pay increase (due to market surveys, excellent job performance, etc.), everyone cries that they deserve one just because they need to keep their standing in the union ranks). I can't say that the union has ever helped me yet, I'm not making much more than I was at my previous job and the benefits are a little less...although I'll see what they do during the next contract negotiations
I haven't heard any cues yet, but I bet it will become annoying...
If you watch Dateline NBC and some other NBC programming, and you turn your Closed Caption decoder on to capture text page 2, you can already see URLs stream across (I assume they are related to the programming - for WebTv users).
I think that Closed Caption decoder chips are now in the $10 range (retail), which would allow for taking the data off the VBI for cheap..
Actually HAMs already do fast-scan tv (evem FMTV) and 10Mbps communication check out your local microwave (10 GHz) group. You'll be amazed at what they do
Does anyone remember the audio "notch" that was going to be placed in pre-recorded DATs to prevent D-A-D recordings? How long until they start recommending the same thing for CDs? (Although they can't kill the CD industry at this point, like they killed the DAT industry)
Hopefully no one at the record companies remembers the audio "notch" that was going to be added to DATs to prevent D-A-D recording. I don't remember, how exactly did DAT get killed?
It is true that M$ only produces the software, but might this be an attempt started by a suggestion from M$ to help kill off all non-M$ OS devices. It seems fishy that none of the Win CE (Pocket PC, or whatever the current name is) device manufacturers are mentioned in the lawsuit.
I work for an electric utility in northern MN (I don't know where your 'cold north' is). Instead of kuldging a timer onto your water heater, many power companies up here offer "off-peak" programs where they will give you a discount on your electricity (in our case you heating power at 50% of our regular rate - which gives you a 2.9 cents/KWH rate) if you let them control your large loads, such as your water heater, slab/storage heat, and/or switch your main heat from electric to oil/gas when demand get high (usually late afternoon and early evening). We also have a program in the summer for air conditioning....It might be worth a call to your local utility to see if you can get cheaper electricity for shutting off your water heater during the day.
Slashdot Mirror
Hopefully it will go the way of modula-2 (which I was required to take in college in the early 90's)
Dont forget
*.microsoft.com
This is from 3 years ago, but it should give one a good base to start from. It gives most of the functionality of Exchange server http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-11 -07-001-05-NW-LF
I'm running Linux, Slackware distribution version 7.1, 2.2.18 Kernel, with the full glibc (not the u one mentioned in another /. article), installed via zipslack, using a rescue floppy with unzip. /.), Pine in another, Tac (an AIM client) in another, VI or JStar in another, (depending on if I'm programming or writing a letter), and maybe an ssh session in another. Fetchmail, Sendmail, Cron are running in the background. // days (Appleworks, MouseWord, MouseWrite, and few others whose names leave my mind), and there seem to be none of those (text mode ones) left. I tempted to run an Apple // emulator and run some of those (if my media is still readable).
Works quite well, even X works fine, although some local X apps get slow, it works fine as a remote "X-terminal" across a ssh tunnel.
Mostly work in Virtual Consoles though. I usually have Lynx runnning on one (usually reading
I have lynx configured to show image links so I can see images with SEEJPEG using SVGALIB.The only time I notice any slowdown in the system (other than running X appps) is when PINE is sorting my mailbox (It is getting large), or Lynx in rendering a >200k webpage, or when SEEJPEG is decoding an image.
The only reason I ask the question is because my wife uses the computer also and is doesn't like the current editors. I remember some good word processing packages back (15-20 years ago) in my Apple
I should try PC-Write in FreeDos using DOSEMU. It may be what I'mm looking for.
Of course, I could just buy a new computer, but what fun would that be
in NW minnesota, Halstad Telephone has been offering this for at least a couple of years now...
It's from 3 years ago, but it should give one a good base to start from
1 -07-001-05-NW-LF
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-1
This sounds like an opportunity for neighbors to join together with wireless networks. Split the expensive bandwidth costs between them...
The Bell's not having to share their copper may also increase commercial wireless opportunities. I work for a minicipal electric utility that has access to many street light poles for wireless access points, along with provisions (empty underground conduit) for future data comm. Might be a business for some utilities to get into...
another thing ....provide dial-up shell access, with easy text based menus for *modem file transfers of pre-configured software, access to lynx and pine. that way if one can't get ppp configured support can tell then to dial in using terminal and let then get preconfigured software, access to their mail and www.
Also provide a webmail service so people that don't feel comfortable configuring their pop/imap clients...Also a web based news reader might be handy for newbies also. ./'d site can still be visible (from cache) to people. Dont do any transparent proxy crap, just offer it as a service to people who can enter the address in the proxy server configuration of their clients
In addition, provide a www-cache (such as a squid server, you can call it a web accelerator) so that a
Give them a CD with both netscape and mozilla for many different (Linux, a *BSD or two, Winbloes, Mac, Solaris). Maybe also Amaya (the w3c reference browser) and "free" versions of Opera.
Also include zipslack and a freebsd installer also, so when people complain about M$'s latest product, you can tell them they already havean alternative
I am running slackware on a 486/DX2-50 8M RAM 240MB HDD with X (and FVWM95) installed, but I spend most of my time in console mode.
I use Pine for email, Lynx for browsing (with image links enabled and spawning seejpeg to view images using SVGALib), even play mp3's with mpg123.
older versions of Netscape and Amaya work fine also. I can also run remote X and VNC sessions to other computers with little sluggishness (other than one would expect with a dial-up access)
Zipslack reduces the nees for an installer that occupies memory. You simply need a single floppy distro with mkfs and unzip utilities
To the BSD fans, what is the best BSD for a low resource system? Open, Net, or Free? I would like to try out BSD on that system.
This Link shows how a single window can be shared using VNC....You just have 50 Word sessions open, each person can connect to their own single window...(might need some more code tweaking, but may be possible).
So, if someone wanted to write a "Citrix Like" app based on VNC, it is most certainly possible
I do most of my home browsing with Lynx on a Linux Console......Nothing annoys me more than a site the has falsh on the main page and no links to get inside. I usually go a google search to find an inside page so I can view the real content.
Halstad Telephone has been offering this service for a couple of years now. Basicially it is a DSL line providing streaming video. Not much different than each DSL subscriber running a Streaming Video player (such as Real Player)
I work for a municipality, and the public Library is part of my resposibility
Recently the Librarians were wooed over by the 'Bill and Melinda(?) Gates Foudation' They are offering free computers, software (MS), and training.
I'm just wondering when they will call in a favor and remove anything not-MS from their shelves...
I warned the library board that this would be like making a deal with the devil, but my thoughts fall on deaf ears
Better yet, let's all put our part 15 FM transmitters on the air where ever we are at and create a nationwide "freedom station".
I'm an IT person for a northern MN municipality, and am forced to be a union member (Teamster's), in the same barganing unit as the garbage, sewer, and waterworks workers (If one person gets a pay increase (due to market surveys, excellent job performance, etc.), everyone cries that they deserve one just because they need to keep their standing in the union ranks). I can't say that the union has ever helped me yet, I'm not making much more than I was at my previous job and the benefits are a little less...although I'll see what they do during the next contract negotiations
I haven't heard any cues yet, but I bet it will become annoying... If you watch Dateline NBC and some other NBC programming, and you turn your Closed Caption decoder on to capture text page 2, you can already see URLs stream across (I assume they are related to the programming - for WebTv users). I think that Closed Caption decoder chips are now in the $10 range (retail), which would allow for taking the data off the VBI for cheap..
Actually HAMs already do fast-scan tv (evem FMTV) and 10Mbps communication check out your local microwave (10 GHz) group. You'll be amazed at what they do
Does anyone remember the audio "notch" that was going to be placed in pre-recorded DATs to prevent D-A-D recordings? How long until they start recommending the same thing for CDs? (Although they can't kill the CD industry at this point, like they killed the DAT industry)
Hopefully no one at the record companies remembers the audio "notch" that was going to be added to DATs to prevent D-A-D recording. I don't remember, how exactly did DAT get killed?
It is true that M$ only produces the software, but might this be an attempt started by a suggestion from M$ to help kill off all non-M$ OS devices. It seems fishy that none of the Win CE (Pocket PC, or whatever the current name is) device manufacturers are mentioned in the lawsuit.
I work for an electric utility in northern MN (I don't know where your 'cold north' is). Instead of kuldging a timer onto your water heater, many power companies up here offer "off-peak" programs where they will give you a discount on your electricity (in our case you heating power at 50% of our regular rate - which gives you a 2.9 cents/KWH rate) if you let them control your large loads, such as your water heater, slab/storage heat, and/or switch your main heat from electric to oil/gas when demand get high (usually late afternoon and early evening). We also have a program in the summer for air conditioning....It might be worth a call to your local utility to see if you can get cheaper electricity for shutting off your water heater during the day.
Why would you use frontpage???
.... Oh yea, you're a windoze weenie who needs clippy(TM) to hold your hand through the whole process....
< and > are too hard you to type, so you have to go to multiple layers of menus and create the ugliest (source) documents that are not portable?
you can use teX
Here's a better solution for ignorant persons: outsource your newsletter
You already can get a productivity suite delivered to your browser using PHP and applets...try
http://www.myfreedesk.com