Last night I downloaded and installed Mozilla Build 2002051009, rc2. I'll get rc3 and install it tonight. I downloaded Netscape 7 for Windows, and found it it be very fast on this 200 mhz 128 mb machine. I tried Netscape 7 for Linux, (RHL 7.1), but could not get it to run after installation. The installer said the install was successful, and the install log did not disclose anything that would lead me to the reason why it won't run. I have installed lots of netscape tarballs, and all of them run ok, except for when I tried Netscape 1.22 on a RHL 6.1 machine. Opera also installs very easily from a tarball. Mozilla is pretty much the same thing as Netscape 7 I suppose, so I am not out much by not getting NS7 to run. The Windows experience was so positive, I will always wonder if NS7 is a bit faster, etc. than Mozilla.
I found that Netscape 7.0b1 for Windows 98 starts very fast on my 200 mhz - 128 mb machine, and is really nice, and quick too. I was amazed. I installed the linux version on the same machine in RHL 7.1, and cannot even get it to run. The installer went along just fine, almost as nicely as the windows one. I've installed netscape on my linux machines lots of times, but this is the first time it won't run. My installation log file seems ok, no hint there that it's not going to run. I suspect that this machine, once KDE is booted up, cannot handle this version (probably due to memory requirements) of netscape, but I am not certain. I am running Mozilla Build ID: 2001031614 right now on this RHL 7.1 system, and it seems ok. What's strange, is that the Windows version of Netscape 7.0 is very fast, and imho is as fast as they come. I'm going to use it quite a bit, especially in the morning before I get coffee down, and need something quick and reliable like Netscape 7.0. Just wish I could get the Linux version to boot up!
When I installed Netscape 7.0 for Windows, the installer asked for my username and password, and commented that if I had an AOL account, that would do. I've always liked Netscape, starting out with Version 1.22, and I do have an AOL account, so I went ahead and gave the installer that. It connected back and forth with the Netscape server with the information I provided during the installation, all very well handled. Very nice setup, so now I almost feel that I have AOL within Netscape. The new Netscape home page is really very nice, and provides CNN news and other features that rival MSN and AOL itself. Can't wait till AOL comes out with Netscape as the browser. Now, to go setup the Linux version:-)
I always liked the "home" button on browsers. AOL eliminated it in 6.0, and I see that Netscape 7 has lost the home button also. To go there, one can press the ALT-Home keys, or use the drop down box under Go.
I'm thinking this is a way of drawing attention away from the idea of a "home" so the user will keep the default. I've talked to a few newbies that have no idea how to change the home page in their browser, and now, this will make it harder. I use this one, that I made to my own tastes:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/star.html
On some of my older machines, that have a hard time getting up in the morning, I just have a local copy of a start pages similar to the "star.html" above, and something like a PS/1 running Windows 95 can get Opera 6.02 up and going reasonably well.
I am impressed with the speed and quality of Netscape 7.0b1, however. The F11 full screen is a good setup very much like IE 6 and Opera 6 (which leaves out the scrollbars.) Netscape is very much in the running, as far as I am concerned. At one time, Opera 3.62 for Windows 3.1 could outdo Netscape 3.04 (Linux/Windows). I like Opera, but it is getting bigger all the time, no longer fits on one disk. I'll use this new Netscape 7.0 quite a bit now, it's nice.
Same here. First time I saw someone playing the Sims game, I thought it was strange to see a grown man playing with a doll house, and boring too. My main interest would be in getting it to run on my system, after that, I'd let someone else play with it. Now an online version where strangers interact in a Sims world? Sitting on the couch together watching TV? Now that would be funny!
Not having tried/usr/sbin/urpmi, I came up with this url for those interested in checking into that further:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cookfire/i386/ Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi-1.3-10mdk.i386.html
Also, I presume that cd's for Mandrake cooker will have metacity in.rpm format so one can add that to the list of window managers that can be selected at startup, etc., and give it a try. If it's boring, I suppose it must look like anotherlevel, which I use sometimes with RHL 6.1.
Cannot have desktop icons in anotherlevel, so everthing needs to be added to the start menu. I have some files on that at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux.html.
When there, scroll down to the fvwm2rc.menus.m4
section. As for the dialer files on that site,
kindly go to http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html
for a better presentation of those files.
Anyway, I can't wait to try out the metacity wm!
If it's fairly light, it'll work good on older machines not stout enough for KDE;-)
This thing sounds like it's going to be something like EverQuest, however, that requires downloads, cd's etc. Do we have some games like EverQuest for Linux? That is a Sony product, and they are interested in Linux, a kit is soon to be out for the PS2 that converts it to a linux box. Thousands were sold in Japan. A star trek convention/game sounds like a good way to get folks started on a new permanent game, where the "convention" goes on forever. Also, there is Neverwinter Nights, very nice, but no real way to get players interested like a Star Trek Convention idea.
I use it, with a byoa connection. I wanted to see what web pages looked like in an AOL browser. I do use the AOL ftp server, so files can be downloaded as required by visitors to my site. I have to block all AOL mail, due to excessive spam. Same thing with MSN explorer. Spend too much time cleaning out the inbox. Encouraging news, that AOL will be using Netscape products for the browser, and I understand that the Mac's get first crack at that, in AOL for Mac OS X. Can't wait till we get a Linux version, but do not have anything I know about on this. I have an AOL instant messenger that runs on Linux, but that's all. Worse thing about the AOL setup is that if you lose the network connection, your pictures of Brittany vanish. With an ordinary dial up, and Netscape, the connection can go down, and the browser will remain, with whatever page you are viewing...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
"panel about five inches square will supply enough cooling power to cool an entire house."
I wonder what my light bill would be to power this thing.
Press "F11" to go to full screen, and presto, no ad banner!, also, no scroll bars! Just use the up and down arrow keys, and/or Page Up, Page Down. It gets the job done...btw, I am using Opera 6.0 for linux, just released today. Going to get 6.2 for Windows 98 after I reboot to that OS, but right now I am having a fine time with Opera and RHL 6.1!
I'm not alone, I'm sure, in setting up Redhat to do what you want. I have used Mandrake, and it has all the advantages of Redhat, and more. It too, can be configured like you want it. I use RHL 6.1
a lot, and also RHL 7.1 (better). Mandrake sure has a lot of class, you'll have to admit, for the newbie moving from Win98 or partitioning with the two os's. Sure is funny that Redhat won't give the rebate to Windows folks. They only have one option, and that's to pay $200 for XP, so why give them a rebate. They ought to give them a rebate because of the new experience they will be going through, adding Linux to a computer that came with Windows. Lots of new and interesting things to learn even if the installation wizard keeps things simple. (Mandrake excels here). I say, Jump in there, Redhat, and give everybody a rebate! Anything that can be done to get folks to try/use Linux (wait till they see the virtual desktops!) needs to be done. BTW, I paid $20.00 for a set of RHL 7.1 CD's, that's cheap compared to XP.
If we did not have the cold war expenses, I wonder how much more space exploration would have been possible. What if the USSR and USA cooperated on early space ventures, moon, etc. rather than competed with one another? Throughout modern Russian aviation history, they have seemed to need the competition factor, and also the war factor, to get things done. So have we. Trying to pay for wars and space exploration at the same time has been difficult to afford, on both sides. The Russians are apparently getting out of several areas of space exploration, and it is fortunate that they are a part of the ISS project. So much talent that does not need to go to waste.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 4015CDS, (not a new or current machine) and when it starts to get a little hot, the fan starts up.
This notebook has a 266 PII, and 160 MB of ram, running Win 98. There is a cache on the m.b. of 512K, so it is fairly powerful for the time it was built. Most of the time, the fan stays off. Battery life is short, so it's plugged in and protected by a Belkin 525VA USP most of the time.
In Tuesday's (May 7, 2002) Wall Street Journal, page B1 there is a photograph of GE Global Research Senior VP Scott Donnelly holding a prototype for the high-intensity LED being developed at GE's research labs. It appears to be fairly bright, and about an inch square. He's also holding a replica of the original Edison light bulb, for comparison. neither one appears to be plugged into any sort of power, and naturally, the edison bulb is not lit. Not so for the LED, which appears in the photograph to be white hot. IMHO a bunch of these would provide a decent light. This is the first time I have seen a LED compared to the light bulb as a light source.
No technical details, yet.
I would expect them to release CD's with Book as a source of income. I bought Redhat 7.1 from http://www.chguy.net/ for a few dollars, and that came with a nice sheet of instructions that I found very helpful. He downloads using broadband, and burns copies for you. They just have the disk number in magic marker, no label, etc.
I got Redhat 6.1 with the book "Red Hat Linux Secrets" by Naba Barkakati, and that is very complete, and was $40.00 new. When I can come up with bread to get a new HDD, I'll also ask the genie for enought to visit chguy.net and have him send me RHL 7.3. That'll install on a slave HDD, right under the master I have all my goodies on now.
About Apple dropping support for OS 9. That's what it takes to keep looking ahead, to the future, with their OS X. I don't expect Microsoft to issue updates to Windows 3.1, all of us out there will take care of getting Win 31 to run the way we want it to, with our own add-ons. I have a little entertainment with my Windows 3.11 and Calmira setups, they are fairly fast, and I consider myself lucky if I go a while with no problems or lockups. Really, that combo does go on for quite a while doing ok before something happens. Then I go back to Linux - Opera 6 or back to Windows 98 and Communicator 4.79 and relax a while. I have an old Mac Quadra 660av with Mac OS 7.5.3 on it, and gee it is old. I don't expect Apple to keep that one up. The fact that the Quadra can carry on several conversations at once with the 21 voice speech setup is enough. Sounds like a crowded room full of fools. What a blast!
It's fantastic, really, that a company can amass such an amount of cash, in a day of income taxes as we now have. There was a time in American business history before income taxes, and some did manage to create great wealth.
Windows is just an operating system, and we have all paid dearly to get it on our computers. Linux, as we now enjoy it, apparently came along too late. I use Linux, and pay very little for Redhat, Mandrake, etc. I even have a neat little linux called Grey Cat Linux, that I managed to download using dialup. Now I have that on all my computers. No, it does not compare to Windows. Really, Windows 3.1 was the stuff of dreams. I have that, and use Netscape (have for years) Eudora, and have enjoyed the Internet with that wonderful operating system. Then there is the grand and glorious Windows 98. Only Linux, with the virtual desktops is more fun. After being exposed to that, Windows 98, for all that it is, feels cramped. I say good for Microsoft, however, because very few of us would want to cook up our own operating system, or even have any idea how to begin. By "us", I mean the millions that have purchased Windows, and created the 40 billion cash on hand that they now have.
Don't you just hate it when you are motoring along on a 45 mph road, and the green light ahead suddenly snaps a quick yellow at you, and then it's red? If you clamp on the brakes, you risk getting hit from behind as you suprise the drivers behind you. If you proceed on, you risk getting hit by those quick away from the light.
If I'm on the green (for the moment)I find that I study the cross traffic caught at the light to see how many have been waiting. Lots of cars, etc. may mean that the light I am approaching will soon turn to red, and I need to be prepared for that. In any event, don't depend on the light, look at the cross-traffic, waiting or going through the intersection you are approaching. I've seen a few running a red that has everyone else stopped, this happening on multi lane cross roads.
A Very informative and interesting post! Thanks for the insight as to what goes on at companies like yours. I was at-once captivated and entertained by your post!
My daughters voicestream phone suddenly wouldn't connect to the network, so we took it in to the Voicesteam store where it was purchased a month ago to see what they could do about it. The lady fixed it in two minutes. Took the battery out, and reinstalled it, so the phone rebooted, and corrected the problem. As we left, she said, "You know, these phones are just like computers. If they lock up, they have to be rebooted." Don't know what caused it, the adapter is left plugged in to a UPS, and the phone is plugged in at night to recharge. Perhaps the phone should be plugged in first, then the adapter plugged in to the UPS, in that order. Also, the firmware may have a glitch in it, and only time will tell. Anyway, this instance of Tech Support was a winner. BTW, the Voicestream lady said to call customer support if the phone does it again, or repeatedly, and they will send us another phone. So, not only did she fix the problem, she backed it up with something else we could do in the future.
The Japanese are known for their competitive spirit. I say, "Good for them" on the computer they have made. Give credit where credit is due.
Now, it's your turn to make/create something worthwhile.
I make some of my images using GIMP on a Redhat Linux 7.1 machine, and in my rush to get them up, I just saved them as.gif. Next time I'll try.jpg, and see what GIMP can do in the way of file sizes for a comparable image.
I ran into the same problems when I first installed RHL 6.1. After some time, I collected my dialup stuff on a web page:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html
I put these items on the page so I could install them on a computer right from the website. Typically, I install msdos 6.21, then perhaps Arachne 1.70, then go download the linux dialup files from my page. After that is done, I install linux, and use the files to get connected. One favorite I have is Opera, and while using Arachne I might download it, or just transfer the dialer files and Opera using intersvr in DOS, from another computer thru a laplink cable connected to the serial port. Even with really nice setups like Mandrake 8.x or Redhat 7.x I tend to use my "dial" and "hangup" in an xterm window to get going really fast. I find that the Redhat dialer is too slow, and requires too much "oking" to use it on a daily basis. I always upgrade to Windows 98 or 95 on my msdos partition, so I make it big enough with that in mind. Lots of fun having both Windows and Linux on all my boxes. I often design a web page using Linux, and save the file to the
Windows partition, then I can reboot to Win 98, and send it up to the AOL FTP server using AOL 7.
Hope this helps.
Go to Mobile Alabama and take a free tour of the Submarine there, the Drum, that saw service in the Pacific in WWII. It is in perfect shape, and really nice. That ought to do it. No need to go out and buy your own.
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Last night I downloaded and installed Mozilla Build 2002051009, rc2. I'll get rc3 and install it tonight. I downloaded Netscape 7 for Windows, and found it it be very fast on this 200 mhz 128 mb machine. I tried Netscape 7 for Linux, (RHL 7.1), but could not get it to run after installation. The installer said the install was successful, and the install log did not disclose anything that would lead me to the reason why it won't run. I have installed lots of netscape tarballs, and all of them run ok, except for when I tried Netscape 1.22 on a RHL 6.1 machine. Opera also installs very easily from a tarball. Mozilla is pretty much the same thing as Netscape 7 I suppose, so I am not out much by not getting NS7 to run. The Windows experience was so positive, I will always wonder if NS7 is a bit faster, etc. than Mozilla.
I found that Netscape 7.0b1 for Windows 98 starts very fast on my 200 mhz - 128 mb machine, and is really nice, and quick too. I was amazed. I installed the linux version on the same machine in RHL 7.1, and cannot even get it to run. The installer went along just fine, almost as nicely as the windows one. I've installed netscape on my linux machines lots of times, but this is the first time it won't run. My installation log file seems ok, no hint there that it's not going to run. I suspect that this machine, once KDE is booted up, cannot handle this version (probably due to memory requirements) of netscape, but I am not certain. I am running Mozilla Build ID: 2001031614 right now on this RHL 7.1 system, and it seems ok. What's strange, is that the Windows version of Netscape 7.0 is very fast, and imho is as fast as they come. I'm going to use it quite a bit, especially in the morning before I get coffee down, and need something quick and reliable like Netscape 7.0. Just wish I could get the Linux version to boot up!
When I installed Netscape 7.0 for Windows, the installer asked for my username and password, and commented that if I had an AOL account, that would do. I've always liked Netscape, starting out with Version 1.22, and I do have an AOL account, so I went ahead and gave the installer that. It connected back and forth with the Netscape server with the information I provided during the installation, all very well handled. Very nice setup, so now I almost feel that I have AOL within Netscape. The new Netscape home page is really very nice, and provides CNN news and other features that rival MSN and AOL itself. Can't wait till AOL comes out with Netscape as the browser. Now, to go setup the Linux version:-)
I always liked the "home" button on browsers. AOL eliminated it in 6.0, and I see that Netscape 7 has lost the home button also. To go there, one can press the ALT-Home keys, or use the drop down box under Go. I'm thinking this is a way of drawing attention away from the idea of a "home" so the user will keep the default. I've talked to a few newbies that have no idea how to change the home page in their browser, and now, this will make it harder. I use this one, that I made to my own tastes: http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/star.html On some of my older machines, that have a hard time getting up in the morning, I just have a local copy of a start pages similar to the "star.html" above, and something like a PS/1 running Windows 95 can get Opera 6.02 up and going reasonably well. I am impressed with the speed and quality of Netscape 7.0b1, however. The F11 full screen is a good setup very much like IE 6 and Opera 6 (which leaves out the scrollbars.) Netscape is very much in the running, as far as I am concerned. At one time, Opera 3.62 for Windows 3.1 could outdo Netscape 3.04 (Linux/Windows). I like Opera, but it is getting bigger all the time, no longer fits on one disk. I'll use this new Netscape 7.0 quite a bit now, it's nice.
Same here. First time I saw someone playing the Sims game, I thought it was strange to see a grown man playing with a doll house, and boring too. My main interest would be in getting it to run on my system, after that, I'd let someone else play with it. Now an online version where strangers interact in a Sims world? Sitting on the couch together watching TV? Now that would be funny!
Not having tried /usr/sbin/urpmi, I came up with this url for those interested in checking into that further:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cookfire/i386/ Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi-1.3-10mdk.i386.html
Also, I presume that cd's for Mandrake cooker will have metacity in .rpm format so one can add that to the list of window managers that can be selected at startup, etc., and give it a try. If it's boring, I suppose it must look like anotherlevel, which I use sometimes with RHL 6.1.
Cannot have desktop icons in anotherlevel, so everthing needs to be added to the start menu. I have some files on that at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux.html.
When there, scroll down to the fvwm2rc.menus.m4
section. As for the dialer files on that site,
kindly go to http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html
for a better presentation of those files.
Anyway, I can't wait to try out the metacity wm!
If it's fairly light, it'll work good on older machines not stout enough for KDE;-)
This thing sounds like it's going to be something like EverQuest, however, that requires downloads, cd's etc. Do we have some games like EverQuest for Linux? That is a Sony product, and they are interested in Linux, a kit is soon to be out for the PS2 that converts it to a linux box. Thousands were sold in Japan. A star trek convention/game sounds like a good way to get folks started on a new permanent game, where the "convention" goes on forever. Also, there is Neverwinter Nights, very nice, but no real way to get players interested like a Star Trek Convention idea.
I use it, with a byoa connection. I wanted to see what web pages looked like in an AOL browser. I do use the AOL ftp server, so files can be downloaded as required by visitors to my site. I have to block all AOL mail, due to excessive spam. Same thing with MSN explorer. Spend too much time cleaning out the inbox. Encouraging news, that AOL will be using Netscape products for the browser, and I understand that the Mac's get first crack at that, in AOL for Mac OS X. Can't wait till we get a Linux version, but do not have anything I know about on this. I have an AOL instant messenger that runs on Linux, but that's all. Worse thing about the AOL setup is that if you lose the network connection, your pictures of Brittany vanish. With an ordinary dial up, and Netscape, the connection can go down, and the browser will remain, with whatever page you are viewing...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. "panel about five inches square will supply enough cooling power to cool an entire house." I wonder what my light bill would be to power this thing.
Press "F11" to go to full screen, and presto, no ad banner!, also, no scroll bars! Just use the up and down arrow keys, and/or Page Up, Page Down. It gets the job done...btw, I am using Opera 6.0 for linux, just released today. Going to get 6.2 for Windows 98 after I reboot to that OS, but right now I am having a fine time with Opera and RHL 6.1!
I'm not alone, I'm sure, in setting up Redhat to do what you want. I have used Mandrake, and it has all the advantages of Redhat, and more. It too, can be configured like you want it. I use RHL 6.1 a lot, and also RHL 7.1 (better). Mandrake sure has a lot of class, you'll have to admit, for the newbie moving from Win98 or partitioning with the two os's. Sure is funny that Redhat won't give the rebate to Windows folks. They only have one option, and that's to pay $200 for XP, so why give them a rebate. They ought to give them a rebate because of the new experience they will be going through, adding Linux to a computer that came with Windows. Lots of new and interesting things to learn even if the installation wizard keeps things simple. (Mandrake excels here). I say, Jump in there, Redhat, and give everybody a rebate! Anything that can be done to get folks to try/use Linux (wait till they see the virtual desktops!) needs to be done. BTW, I paid $20.00 for a set of RHL 7.1 CD's, that's cheap compared to XP.
If we did not have the cold war expenses, I wonder how much more space exploration would have been possible. What if the USSR and USA cooperated on early space ventures, moon, etc. rather than competed with one another? Throughout modern Russian aviation history, they have seemed to need the competition factor, and also the war factor, to get things done. So have we. Trying to pay for wars and space exploration at the same time has been difficult to afford, on both sides. The Russians are apparently getting out of several areas of space exploration, and it is fortunate that they are a part of the ISS project. So much talent that does not need to go to waste.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 4015CDS, (not a new or current machine) and when it starts to get a little hot, the fan starts up. This notebook has a 266 PII, and 160 MB of ram, running Win 98. There is a cache on the m.b. of 512K, so it is fairly powerful for the time it was built. Most of the time, the fan stays off. Battery life is short, so it's plugged in and protected by a Belkin 525VA USP most of the time.
In Tuesday's (May 7, 2002) Wall Street Journal, page B1 there is a photograph of GE Global Research Senior VP Scott Donnelly holding a prototype for the high-intensity LED being developed at GE's research labs. It appears to be fairly bright, and about an inch square. He's also holding a replica of the original Edison light bulb, for comparison. neither one appears to be plugged into any sort of power, and naturally, the edison bulb is not lit. Not so for the LED, which appears in the photograph to be white hot. IMHO a bunch of these would provide a decent light. This is the first time I have seen a LED compared to the light bulb as a light source. No technical details, yet.
I would expect them to release CD's with Book as a source of income. I bought Redhat 7.1 from http://www.chguy.net/ for a few dollars, and that came with a nice sheet of instructions that I found very helpful. He downloads using broadband, and burns copies for you. They just have the disk number in magic marker, no label, etc. I got Redhat 6.1 with the book "Red Hat Linux Secrets" by Naba Barkakati, and that is very complete, and was $40.00 new. When I can come up with bread to get a new HDD, I'll also ask the genie for enought to visit chguy.net and have him send me RHL 7.3. That'll install on a slave HDD, right under the master I have all my goodies on now.
About Apple dropping support for OS 9. That's what it takes to keep looking ahead, to the future, with their OS X. I don't expect Microsoft to issue updates to Windows 3.1, all of us out there will take care of getting Win 31 to run the way we want it to, with our own add-ons. I have a little entertainment with my Windows 3.11 and Calmira setups, they are fairly fast, and I consider myself lucky if I go a while with no problems or lockups. Really, that combo does go on for quite a while doing ok before something happens. Then I go back to Linux - Opera 6 or back to Windows 98 and Communicator 4.79 and relax a while. I have an old Mac Quadra 660av with Mac OS 7.5.3 on it, and gee it is old. I don't expect Apple to keep that one up. The fact that the Quadra can carry on several conversations at once with the 21 voice speech setup is enough. Sounds like a crowded room full of fools. What a blast!
It's fantastic, really, that a company can amass such an amount of cash, in a day of income taxes as we now have. There was a time in American business history before income taxes, and some did manage to create great wealth. Windows is just an operating system, and we have all paid dearly to get it on our computers. Linux, as we now enjoy it, apparently came along too late. I use Linux, and pay very little for Redhat, Mandrake, etc. I even have a neat little linux called Grey Cat Linux, that I managed to download using dialup. Now I have that on all my computers. No, it does not compare to Windows. Really, Windows 3.1 was the stuff of dreams. I have that, and use Netscape (have for years) Eudora, and have enjoyed the Internet with that wonderful operating system. Then there is the grand and glorious Windows 98. Only Linux, with the virtual desktops is more fun. After being exposed to that, Windows 98, for all that it is, feels cramped. I say good for Microsoft, however, because very few of us would want to cook up our own operating system, or even have any idea how to begin. By "us", I mean the millions that have purchased Windows, and created the 40 billion cash on hand that they now have.
Don't you just hate it when you are motoring along on a 45 mph road, and the green light ahead suddenly snaps a quick yellow at you, and then it's red? If you clamp on the brakes, you risk getting hit from behind as you suprise the drivers behind you. If you proceed on, you risk getting hit by those quick away from the light. If I'm on the green (for the moment)I find that I study the cross traffic caught at the light to see how many have been waiting. Lots of cars, etc. may mean that the light I am approaching will soon turn to red, and I need to be prepared for that. In any event, don't depend on the light, look at the cross-traffic, waiting or going through the intersection you are approaching. I've seen a few running a red that has everyone else stopped, this happening on multi lane cross roads.
A Very informative and interesting post! Thanks for the insight as to what goes on at companies like yours. I was at-once captivated and entertained by your post!
My daughters voicestream phone suddenly wouldn't connect to the network, so we took it in to the Voicesteam store where it was purchased a month ago to see what they could do about it. The lady fixed it in two minutes. Took the battery out, and reinstalled it, so the phone rebooted, and corrected the problem. As we left, she said, "You know, these phones are just like computers. If they lock up, they have to be rebooted." Don't know what caused it, the adapter is left plugged in to a UPS, and the phone is plugged in at night to recharge. Perhaps the phone should be plugged in first, then the adapter plugged in to the UPS, in that order. Also, the firmware may have a glitch in it, and only time will tell. Anyway, this instance of Tech Support was a winner. BTW, the Voicestream lady said to call customer support if the phone does it again, or repeatedly, and they will send us another phone. So, not only did she fix the problem, she backed it up with something else we could do in the future.
The Japanese are known for their competitive spirit. I say, "Good for them" on the computer they have made. Give credit where credit is due. Now, it's your turn to make/create something worthwhile.
I make some of my images using GIMP on a Redhat Linux 7.1 machine, and in my rush to get them up, I just saved them as .gif. Next time I'll try .jpg, and see what GIMP can do in the way of file sizes for a comparable image.
and...is that your father's car? (looks sideways at his chick in the passengers seat) Nooo...!
I ran into the same problems when I first installed RHL 6.1. After some time, I collected my dialup stuff on a web page: http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html I put these items on the page so I could install them on a computer right from the website. Typically, I install msdos 6.21, then perhaps Arachne 1.70, then go download the linux dialup files from my page. After that is done, I install linux, and use the files to get connected. One favorite I have is Opera, and while using Arachne I might download it, or just transfer the dialer files and Opera using intersvr in DOS, from another computer thru a laplink cable connected to the serial port. Even with really nice setups like Mandrake 8.x or Redhat 7.x I tend to use my "dial" and "hangup" in an xterm window to get going really fast. I find that the Redhat dialer is too slow, and requires too much "oking" to use it on a daily basis. I always upgrade to Windows 98 or 95 on my msdos partition, so I make it big enough with that in mind. Lots of fun having both Windows and Linux on all my boxes. I often design a web page using Linux, and save the file to the Windows partition, then I can reboot to Win 98, and send it up to the AOL FTP server using AOL 7. Hope this helps.
Go to Mobile Alabama and take a free tour of the Submarine there, the Drum, that saw service in the Pacific in WWII. It is in perfect shape, and really nice. That ought to do it. No need to go out and buy your own.