Now that's a tough one. I don't think I can name a specific one, so in no particular order:
* Manos: The Hands of Fate * Laserblast * Danger: Death Ray * Riding with Death * Attack of the the Eye Creatures * The Starfighters * This Island Earth * Any Gamera one
shorts:
* Mr. B. Natural * Robot Rump(us) * Progress Island, USA * Junior Rodeo Daredevils * Speech * Why Study Industrial Arts?
So many memories... even though the show might be past its prime, I still enjoy it. Maybe they could do more movies. Had to drive 2 hours to see the last one!
| But look at it this way. Until Home Depot came | along, the mom-n-pops were a booming business. | You could setup a small | town shop with great customer service and | imagine this - the possibility of actually | handling something before you buy it.
Notice the "great customer service" part above. There are a a number of small local computer dealers in the area. Of the three that I've been to in quest of parts, all have been incredibly overpriced, had poor service, and have had very little in stock.
Now back in the "old" days, it was different, but my sampling of "local" computer stores leaves me heading back to mail order/online businesses every time!
Case in point - wanted to purchaase an ATX case for my new motherboard. Now this isn't a particularly small or light item and I wanted it quickly, so I went to the local computer shop. For the price they wanted for the case, I could have bought the *same* case mail order and had it delivered next day air... *and* still have $25 left over!!! I can see paying a little more than from a mail order house for the convenience and to help out the local guy, but I'm not going to let myself be royally screwed in the name of local business.
Disclaimwr: Sure, there must be a lot of these great local shops. I've just never found one since 1992.
|Also I love the idea of owning a non-Intel Linux |box but I've become lazy and am too used to |simply installing binary RPMs for 386, and I| |imagine there are alot fewer RPMs for Alpha.
On the Alpha, as well as on the other non-x86 Linux systems, rpm --rebuild on a source RPM is your friend. Half the time, I download source RPMs anyway when available, as that way I can feed my Alpha and my Cyrix off of one download.
|Also I imagine that alot of programs out |there used on Linux don't work on the Alpha
Binary-only programs you'll have trouble with, though you can run some of them through em86 (the Intel emulator). You can get Applixware for Alphas for "office" type work.
There's no native Alpha-Linux Netscape. On an Alpha, you need to use Digital Unix netscape ($$$ for the libraries you need to run it), x86 Netscape under em86 (slow and buggy), or a natively compiled Mozilla (faster and buggy). Or, you can use kfm if you want all the KDE baggage. A Mozilla compiled with lesstif can be had on my homepage (see URL above), and other ones can be had on the Alpha-Linux page (http://www.alphalinux.org).
|And the cases they use look semi-slick but are |such a major pain in the ass to open and close, |it's ridiculous.
I dunno. The case on our lab's Dimension XPS P90 is easy to open, though it doensn't seem to be a very sturdy case. At any rate, it's easier to get into the Dell than the Gateway boxes.
However, we've also had the most trouble with the Dell. I'd rather have a more-difficult to get into case that I didn't need to get into so often.:)
Looks like from the old US page that it's glibc2 based (probably good with all the RPMs made for RH 5.x out there that my SuSE-5.3-using friend has so much trouble with).
I saw another interesting thing on the FTP site, though. Stuff in the Changelog like:
++++ bowman:
- checks for Linux/Alpha
So is Linux-Alpha supported now? It's hard to tell from the readmes on the site.
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This music was digitally recorded, then erased, then rerecorded on a Dictaphone.
Watch out for snakes!
BOMBIIIIING! Yeah!
Knees up!
We got the MRxL, and you got none!
Now is a good time for some phrases. Flag on the moon. A woman's purse.
Next week, geriatric rodeo!
They just didn't care.
Forgiving the fact that Ator is flying a hang glider, HE'S DOING IT OVER A MODERN CITY!
Now that's a tough one. I don't think I can name a specific one, so in no particular order:
... even though the show might be past its prime, I still enjoy it. Maybe they could do more movies. Had to drive 2 hours to see the last one!
* Manos: The Hands of Fate
* Laserblast
* Danger: Death Ray
* Riding with Death
* Attack of the the Eye Creatures
* The Starfighters
* This Island Earth
* Any Gamera one
shorts:
* Mr. B. Natural
* Robot Rump(us)
* Progress Island, USA
* Junior Rodeo Daredevils
* Speech
* Why Study Industrial Arts?
So many memories
| But look at it this way. Until Home Depot came
... *and* still have $25 left over!!! I can see paying a little more than from a mail order house for the convenience and to help out the local guy, but I'm not going to let myself be royally screwed in the name of local business.
| along, the mom-n-pops were a booming business.
| You could setup a small
| town shop with great customer service and
| imagine this - the possibility of actually
| handling something before you buy it.
Notice the "great customer service" part above. There are a a number of small local computer dealers in the area. Of the three that I've been to in quest of parts, all have been incredibly overpriced, had poor service, and have had very little in stock.
Now back in the "old" days, it was different, but my sampling of "local" computer stores leaves me heading back to mail order/online businesses every time!
Case in point - wanted to purchaase an ATX case for my new motherboard. Now this isn't a particularly small or light item and I wanted it quickly, so I went to the local computer shop. For the price they wanted for the case, I could have bought the *same* case mail order and had it delivered next day air
Disclaimwr: Sure, there must be a lot of these great local shops. I've just never found one since 1992.
Isn't the best bang/buck ratio right now still an overclocked Celery^Hon?
As one of those people who tends to shake his leg involuntarily, I can see what would happen should I get a device like this:
I wOuLd TyPe lIkE sOmE ElItE IrC fReAk.
You can also read the Changes file that comes with 2.2.1 ... in it are instructions to fix Realplayer without downloading anything.
|Also I love the idea of owning a non-Intel Linux
|box but I've become lazy and am too used to
|simply installing binary RPMs for 386, and I|
|imagine there are alot fewer RPMs for Alpha.
On the Alpha, as well as on the other non-x86 Linux systems, rpm --rebuild on a source RPM is your friend. Half the time, I download source RPMs anyway when available, as that way I can feed my Alpha and my Cyrix off of one download.
|Also I imagine that alot of programs out
|there used on Linux don't work on the Alpha
Binary-only programs you'll have trouble with, though you can run some of them through em86 (the Intel emulator). You can get Applixware for Alphas for "office" type work.
There's no native Alpha-Linux Netscape. On an Alpha, you need to use Digital Unix netscape ($$$ for the libraries you need to run it), x86 Netscape under em86 (slow and buggy), or a natively compiled Mozilla (faster and buggy). Or, you can use kfm if you want all the KDE baggage. A Mozilla compiled with lesstif can be had on my homepage (see URL above), and other ones can be had on the Alpha-Linux page (http://www.alphalinux.org).
|And the cases they use look semi-slick but are
:)
|such a major pain in the ass to open and close,
|it's ridiculous.
I dunno. The case on our lab's Dimension XPS P90 is easy to open, though it doensn't seem to be a very sturdy case. At any rate, it's easier to get into the Dell than the Gateway boxes.
However, we've also had the most trouble with the Dell. I'd rather have a more-difficult to get into case that I didn't need to get into so often.
Looks like from the old US page that it's glibc2 based (probably good with all the RPMs made for RH 5.x out there that my SuSE-5.3-using friend has so much trouble with).
I saw another interesting thing on the FTP site, though. Stuff in the Changelog like:
++++ bowman:
- checks for Linux/Alpha
So is Linux-Alpha supported now? It's hard to tell from the readmes on the site.