I've used myrealbox since they started offering the service. They offer a good mail interface, pop3, imap and decent spam filtering (not as good as spamassassin, but better than nothing). However, lately it's been a lot less than reliable. I have had mail that arrives several weeks late, and their service is frequently unavailable. Their spam filters now also block a fair bit of legitimate mail from arriving.
My sibling posters here seem to have had a different experience, but I know enough other users that have had the same experiences as I, that I feel I'm not alone in seeing this degradation in their performance.
I would encourage you to look at other providers, like fastmail.fm for now.
Well, come to think of it - a game based on the Mortal Combat films might be really good. Hey, what about the Street Fighter game? Lots of potential there. Then again, Van Damme in a computer game? Naaah.
"My name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux" - it's almost har to imagine how happy I was when I heard that little ditty for the first time... (and then it's become ethed into my brain after repeated listenings on many systems...)
rdiff-backup also takes snapshots, which are kept as reverse diffs. Very nice. A short word of warning though - running it on a p200 is slow. It probably has the same issues with samba as you describe.
Actually, I believe that was 32 POWER 4s, not 970s (I'm sure I've seen something about that linked from/. as well, but a quick search didn't find it.).
While the parent seems to have been more of a joke, some forms of keyboard shortcuts are available. You can use 'accesskey' for form elements. IIRC, links has implemented accesskey, but lynx hasn't.
for example <input accesskey="g" name="field g" type="text"/>
The card I have here in sweden came with a little gadget to put on your keychain. You slip it onto the card and the built in LCD display that tells you how much you have left on the card.
Hmm, just uploaded another via Amaya (got that to work), but that also attached to an unknown section of the document. Strange.
The Amaya one shows up in amaya in the proper location. both show up in the in the anonzilla toolbar, but as attached to an unknown section, but the Anonzilla aone created doesnt't show up in amaya.
hmm, I may have screwed that up. The annotated url is http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/04 58208
but the annotation is apparently attached to 'an unknown' portion of the document...
Annotea apparently still has some rough edges, and I can't get Amaya to upload the annotations to the annotation server... *sigh*
While I'm not about to start using amaya to surf the web and post to/. - it's fun to play with things liek the annotations. They can be stored on a remote server and shared apparently, but I've not tried that yet. All in all - I think it looks just liek what the posted was asking for.
ok, first of all - I'm not all that familiar with this - but here goes anyway. there is a W3 project called Annotea It is implemented in Amaya as annotations, which apparnelty can be stored on a remote server. It uses this RDF annotation schema and stored on a remote annotation server (the annotation server howto)
When you have created an annotation for a piece of text, there is a pencil icon next to it. Click it and the annotation appears as a popup. It appears to be a very nice concept - but I've not used it much. I assume that teh annotations could be presented inline in the document.
One of the features I like about rpm is its --verify option, which checks if files in a package has been modified. Very useful - plus it informs you if a file is a configuration file - so those file changes can be ignored. verifying the integrity of a whole installation is just a small matter of a bit of awk to weed out the config files - then looking though the files that remains.
Automatic checking of GPG signatures and md5sums - also vital.
Freshening of packages, like the rpm -F, and query options that let you see what files belong to what package, and also ways to easily check what depends on what.
Could be done better
Better automatic dependancy resolution. apt-get for rpm is available, but neither it, nor mandrake's tools have worked well for me. red carpet looks promising, but I've never been able to use it with the latest mandrake versions properly (well, it's been a while since I checked last...
Better LSB conformance, as mentioned by many here already.
Better handling of -devel packages, automatic upgrading. Oh, and better source rpm handling - better dependancies for those, and they should have an option to install the built rpm!
Options for interactive installs - where common options coudl be confirmed or changed at install itme - like debian (but preferrably only if I ask for them)
There are some productivity apps on linux that are fairly light on the resources. The word processor that I would recommend is Abiword. It doesn't support things like tables, but considering the requirements I don't think they'll be missed.
There are a lot of light apps one can run. I had a similar setup up until not so long ago. These are the apps that I found ran nicely on that hardware.
xwc - great little file manager, really fast
blackbox - as mentioned
dfm - for desktop icons, your relatives might like this app.
gkrellm - system monitor. It acatully feels faster if you can see the CPU go at it. Really.:)
Blackbox, or fluxbox and a few little apps can be used to make a very, very snappy system. There's no need to give up one's graphical tools to do it either. I run on a p200 with 64Mb of RAM, and the following setup even makes it feel fast.
bbkeys for keybaord shortcuts. Built in to fluxbox
esetroot or bsetroot to set the background image.
'asmix -s -w' a volume knob, swallowed by the slit. Looks great, very useful.
'ascd +w' cd player, swallowed by the slit.
'gkrellm -w' lovely, themeable system monitor. Configured to be thin.
xmms, fully shaded.
aterms, nicely transparent and shaded. there's no need to have a dull looking desktop just because it has to be fast!
xwc as a filemanager. As snappy as mc (really! hard to believe without having tried it - but it really is amazing) Good looking too.
dfm - for desktop icons, I don't use the file manager that's built in (it's slow and IMO not attractive). As a desktop icon manager though, it's very snappy.
Slashdot Mirror
I've used myrealbox since they started offering the service. They offer a good mail interface, pop3, imap and decent spam filtering (not as good as spamassassin, but better than nothing). However, lately it's been a lot less than reliable. I have had mail that arrives several weeks late, and their service is frequently unavailable. Their spam filters now also block a fair bit of legitimate mail from arriving.
My sibling posters here seem to have had a different experience, but I know enough other users that have had the same experiences as I, that I feel I'm not alone in seeing this degradation in their performance.
I would encourage you to look at other providers, like fastmail.fm for now.
If you feel like running some other scans, get a friend to give you a good probing with nmap or nessus(which performs an nmap scan as well).
Well, come to think of it - a game based on the Mortal Combat films might be really good. Hey, what about the Street Fighter game? Lots of potential there. Then again, Van Damme in a computer game? Naaah.
"My name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux" - it's almost har to imagine how happy I was when I heard that little ditty for the first time... (and then it's become ethed into my brain after repeated listenings on many systems...)
rdiff-backup also takes snapshots, which are kept as reverse diffs. Very nice. A short word of warning though - running it on a p200 is slow. It probably has the same issues with samba as you describe.
A portion of the drivers that relate to 3d gaming are in the kernel, thanks to dri.
According to the dri introduction:
libGL does handle most of the rendering pipeline in userspace, but all hardware access occurs though the kernel module.Actually, I believe that was 32 POWER 4s, not 970s (I'm sure I've seen something about that linked from /. as well, but a quick search didn't find it.).
Rikard
While the parent seems to have been more of a joke, some forms of keyboard shortcuts are available. You can use 'accesskey' for form elements. IIRC, links has implemented accesskey, but lynx hasn't.
for example <input accesskey="g" name="field g" type="text" />
The card I have here in sweden came with a little gadget to put on your keychain. You slip it onto the card and the built in LCD display that tells you how much you have left on the card.
Hmm, just uploaded another via Amaya (got that to work), but that also attached to an unknown section of the document. Strange.
The Amaya one shows up in amaya in the proper location. both show up in the in the anonzilla toolbar, but as attached to an unknown section, but the Anonzilla aone created doesnt't show up in amaya.
/me shakes his head and decides to leave it.
hmm, I may have screwed that up. The annotated url is http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/04 58208
but the annotation is apparently attached to 'an unknown' portion of the document...
Annotea apparently still has some rough edges, and I can't get Amaya to upload the annotations to the annotation server... *sigh*
Boost.Python might be what you're looking for.
I just attached some annotations to the parent post, to demonstrate how it works. Check 'em out either with mozilla, or Anonzilla.
Amaya has annotations buit in.
While I'm not about to start using amaya to surf the web and post to /. - it's fun to play with things liek the annotations. They can be stored on a remote server and shared apparently, but I've not tried that yet. All in all - I think it looks just liek what the posted was asking for.
ok, first of all - I'm not all that familiar with this - but here goes anyway. there is a W3 project called Annotea It is implemented in Amaya as annotations, which apparnelty can be stored on a remote server. It uses this RDF annotation schema and stored on a remote annotation server (the annotation server howto)
When you have created an annotation for a piece of text, there is a pencil icon next to it. Click it and the annotation appears as a popup. It appears to be a very nice concept - but I've not used it much. I assume that teh annotations could be presented inline in the document.
One of the features I like about rpm is its --verify option, which checks if files in a package has been modified. Very useful - plus it informs you if a file is a configuration file - so those file changes can be ignored. verifying the integrity of a whole installation is just a small matter of a bit of awk to weed out the config files - then looking though the files that remains.
Automatic checking of GPG signatures and md5sums - also vital.
Freshening of packages, like the rpm -F, and query options that let you see what files belong to what package, and also ways to easily check what depends on what.
Could be done betterBetter automatic dependancy resolution. apt-get for rpm is available, but neither it, nor mandrake's tools have worked well for me. red carpet looks promising, but I've never been able to use it with the latest mandrake versions properly (well, it's been a while since I checked last...
Better LSB conformance, as mentioned by many here already.
Better handling of -devel packages, automatic upgrading. Oh, and better source rpm handling - better dependancies for those, and they should have an option to install the built rpm!
Options for interactive installs - where common options coudl be confirmed or changed at install itme - like debian (but preferrably only if I ask for them)
Lynx users and people with screen readers. People with impaired vision surfing the web would also be unable to browse that site.
Larry Ewing
I've spent far too much time here for my own good, but I've enjoy pretty much all of it. Thanks for a great site. Keep up the good job.
Dang, what is this, a reunion of oldtimers?
Somebody else already mentioned Siag office.
There are a lot of light apps one can run. I had a similar setup up until not so long ago. These are the apps that I found ran nicely on that hardware.
While of course I understand what you intended by "'merkin", I thought I should point this out.
There is acatully, fluxbox. It's a fork where they've kept developing the blackbox code. You can find it at fluxbox.sf.net
Blackbox, or fluxbox and a few little apps can be used to make a very, very snappy system. There's no need to give up one's graphical tools to do it either. I run on a p200 with 64Mb of RAM, and the following setup even makes it feel fast.