On one laptop I have the little lightbulbs, (florescent bulbs I believe) have gone out. no one will sell you any, and it's about $100.00 to send the machine off to get them replaced. So, eventually, your LCD screen will have this problem. A nice CRT monitor is much cheaper, and easier on your eyes. My only problem with laptops is the battery, if you have to power the LCD screen, the working time is not much at all. On Windows 98, you can have more lockups using the battery, so you have that to contend with. Sure, it's the cost of the LCD monitors that keeps me and others from getting one, but the aforementioned shortcomings figure into it too.
From the looks of it, they have chased the spammers right into my pop-3 email account. I have to use Pegasus to clean up my email before I download what's left with Netscape Messenger.
No fair looking at this thread with anything but KDE.
I really hate to say this but KDE with Redhat 7.1 and all the virtual desktops makes Windows 98 look cramped. Now, for an upgrade to the new 3.0 someday soon...
The Opera Web browser has an ad bar, but it is a very good browser, and I use it to test my web pages as I put them together. Sometimes the ads are kinda distracting (well, really distracting) and make it harder to work with that going on up there...
I can't imagine a web site that alters your browser any more than a simple ad bar, but I suppose it is
possible, and no, it should not be legal. Keep the ads in the viewing window, and not anywhere else, unless one chooses a browser, like Opera, that provides an ad bar area.
My first ISP years ago was Compuserve. Had Mosaic, and a timer to show how many minutes you were connected. It worked, but was expensive. After a month of so of that, I got a local ISP, and they mailed me a few floppies that had connectivity software, Eudora, and Netscape 1.22. That was very nice, and worked like a charm. Ran on win 3.1.
Unlimited surfing. Now, I run linux, using the same ISP, and generally connect using the methods outlined at:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html
That's my page, and I usually just enter "dial" and "hangup" in the terminal and that's it. As for AOL, I'm forever trying to get that to work on all sorts of old equipment, and I have AOL 4.0 / win 95 on an IBM PS/1. (All right, I did soup up that PS/1, but a lot of the credit goes to windows 95)
Can't wait until they get a nice AOL to run on linux.
Looking at this, I note the criticism of X11. I have always wondered why Netscape Communicator looks and works better in Windows 3.1, 95 than in
Redhat or Mandrake. Is is X11 overall, and it's handling of the fonts? If so, then the Bill Hayden
project is something that needs doing, so some of us can perhaps one day get an installation cd of his work, and try it out on some of the older machines (some say BeOS won't work on the newer ones). I have Redhat 6.1 on this souped-up PS/1,
(25 mhz bus), with 32 mb ram, and evergreen 486 upgrade processor. It works very well, but not nearly as well as the Windows 95 I have in the other partition (I'm using Windows 95 now, and Communicator 4.78). Would appreciate some thoughts
on on the subject of an eventual release, and it's ability to run on something like an AMD K6-2, for instance.
I believe sony had about 9000 or so upgrade kits sold in Japan, and are taking preorders here for the kit, $200.00, for a 40 GB HDD, os, keyboard, etc. due to ship in May, 2002, and that the idea is to let people write their own games for the PS2. Much more is possible, I'm sure.
I'm feeding my cat Hill's Science Diet Hairball Control Formula, light. He comes in and eats that when he gets hungry. Too fat to catch anything, and the neighborhood dogs get first crack at the dead squirrels. He's not gonna bring anything in, and if he does, we'll fry it up and serve it for dinner!
linuxconf breaking things. You know, when it's booted up for the first time, there is a page that explains how good it is, etc. all very mysterious, and not very specific. I cannot find anything that went wrong by using it. I have used it to cull unneeded services, and to set up ppp, all working just fine. I too would like to hear from those more experienced in linux as to what can go wrong using linuxconf, so we can make a note of it. I got started using it in setting up rhl 6.1 using the book by Naba Barkakati, Red Hat Linux Secrets, page 80. I just took it for granted that linuxconf was ok.
Thanks Sc00ter. I like linuxconf to cull out all the services I don't want to start, and it works perfectly.
I'm using rhl 7.1 on a box with only 128 MB ram, so I need some unnecessary services dropped. I'm using rhl 6.1 on this machine and that old distro doesn't have as many services started by default, so it seems to run faster than 7.1 until I tune it up with linuxconf.
Very nice image. I'm sure there is some explanation, but I can't see any tail in the image. One knows it's a comet if it has a tail. Would appreciate some technical enlightenment about this.
Gallelo built a nice one and determined from his observations that the Sun was the center of our Solar System, and the rest is history. Of course he paid dearly for his good work. Here's a quote I ran into just a few ago: "One of the main contributions of the Newton-Kepler-Copernicus-Gallelo group was to replace Ptolmey's epicycles
with ellipses in a sun centered coordinate system. The ellipses worked so well that they were used
to predict the existence of the three (previously unobserved) outer planets." Anyway, his work lead to many more discoveries by those that came after him.
A couple of years ago one of these cropped up, and the Pentagon held a mid-morning news conference, saying that an asteroid would pass very close to the earth, within the distance to the moon or so.
Gee, I thought that was very close, and agreed entirely with the Pentagon, on their decision to alert the public. I told the folks at work, and since they were mostly a bunch of twenty-somethings that don't have to worry about DEATH yet, I got no respect, no attention, nothing at all. It was as if "Nobody cares if the Asteroid Misses." It's all in the words you drop in the conversation. Names of Presidents, zero. Names of rap-stars, zero. Anything YOU have to say, zero.
They were right, you know, in not paying attention to mine, and the Pentagon's announcement of Impending Doom. A couple of days later, the calculations on the near miss were redone, and oops, they were WAY off. No chance of any collision between the Asteroid and Earth. See?
Twenty-Somethings are always right when they ignore whatever you have to say.
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On one laptop I have the little lightbulbs, (florescent bulbs I believe) have gone out. no one will sell you any, and it's about $100.00 to send the machine off to get them replaced. So, eventually, your LCD screen will have this problem. A nice CRT monitor is much cheaper, and easier on your eyes. My only problem with laptops is the battery, if you have to power the LCD screen, the working time is not much at all. On Windows 98, you can have more lockups using the battery, so you have that to contend with. Sure, it's the cost of the LCD monitors that keeps me and others from getting one, but the aforementioned shortcomings figure into it too.
From the looks of it, they have chased the spammers right into my pop-3 email account. I have to use Pegasus to clean up my email before I download what's left with Netscape Messenger.
No fair looking at this thread with anything but KDE. I really hate to say this but KDE with Redhat 7.1 and all the virtual desktops makes Windows 98 look cramped. Now, for an upgrade to the new 3.0 someday soon...
Those big processors create a lot of heat. Crank up a bunch of them and call the Air-Conditioning man.
The Opera Web browser has an ad bar, but it is a very good browser, and I use it to test my web pages as I put them together. Sometimes the ads are kinda distracting (well, really distracting) and make it harder to work with that going on up there... I can't imagine a web site that alters your browser any more than a simple ad bar, but I suppose it is possible, and no, it should not be legal. Keep the ads in the viewing window, and not anywhere else, unless one chooses a browser, like Opera, that provides an ad bar area.
I'm never going to get down to the bottom of this thread, I just broke my "Page Down" key...
My first ISP years ago was Compuserve. Had Mosaic, and a timer to show how many minutes you were connected. It worked, but was expensive. After a month of so of that, I got a local ISP, and they mailed me a few floppies that had connectivity software, Eudora, and Netscape 1.22. That was very nice, and worked like a charm. Ran on win 3.1. Unlimited surfing. Now, I run linux, using the same ISP, and generally connect using the methods outlined at: http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/linux2.html That's my page, and I usually just enter "dial" and "hangup" in the terminal and that's it. As for AOL, I'm forever trying to get that to work on all sorts of old equipment, and I have AOL 4.0 / win 95 on an IBM PS/1. (All right, I did soup up that PS/1, but a lot of the credit goes to windows 95) Can't wait until they get a nice AOL to run on linux.
Looking at this, I note the criticism of X11. I have always wondered why Netscape Communicator looks and works better in Windows 3.1, 95 than in Redhat or Mandrake. Is is X11 overall, and it's handling of the fonts? If so, then the Bill Hayden project is something that needs doing, so some of us can perhaps one day get an installation cd of his work, and try it out on some of the older machines (some say BeOS won't work on the newer ones). I have Redhat 6.1 on this souped-up PS/1, (25 mhz bus), with 32 mb ram, and evergreen 486 upgrade processor. It works very well, but not nearly as well as the Windows 95 I have in the other partition (I'm using Windows 95 now, and Communicator 4.78). Would appreciate some thoughts on on the subject of an eventual release, and it's ability to run on something like an AMD K6-2, for instance.
I believe sony had about 9000 or so upgrade kits sold in Japan, and are taking preorders here for the kit, $200.00, for a 40 GB HDD, os, keyboard, etc. due to ship in May, 2002, and that the idea is to let people write their own games for the PS2. Much more is possible, I'm sure.
I'm feeding my cat Hill's Science Diet Hairball Control Formula, light. He comes in and eats that when he gets hungry. Too fat to catch anything, and the neighborhood dogs get first crack at the dead squirrels. He's not gonna bring anything in, and if he does, we'll fry it up and serve it for dinner!
linuxconf breaking things. You know, when it's booted up for the first time, there is a page that explains how good it is, etc. all very mysterious, and not very specific. I cannot find anything that went wrong by using it. I have used it to cull unneeded services, and to set up ppp, all working just fine. I too would like to hear from those more experienced in linux as to what can go wrong using linuxconf, so we can make a note of it. I got started using it in setting up rhl 6.1 using the book by Naba Barkakati, Red Hat Linux Secrets, page 80. I just took it for granted that linuxconf was ok.
Thanks Sc00ter. I like linuxconf to cull out all the services I don't want to start, and it works perfectly. I'm using rhl 7.1 on a box with only 128 MB ram, so I need some unnecessary services dropped. I'm using rhl 6.1 on this machine and that old distro doesn't have as many services started by default, so it seems to run faster than 7.1 until I tune it up with linuxconf.
Very nice image. I'm sure there is some explanation, but I can't see any tail in the image. One knows it's a comet if it has a tail. Would appreciate some technical enlightenment about this.
Gallelo built a nice one and determined from his observations that the Sun was the center of our Solar System, and the rest is history. Of course he paid dearly for his good work. Here's a quote I ran into just a few ago: "One of the main contributions of the Newton-Kepler-Copernicus-Gallelo group was to replace Ptolmey's epicycles with ellipses in a sun centered coordinate system. The ellipses worked so well that they were used to predict the existence of the three (previously unobserved) outer planets." Anyway, his work lead to many more discoveries by those that came after him.
Go here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; EN-US;q298931
A couple of years ago one of these cropped up, and the Pentagon held a mid-morning news conference, saying that an asteroid would pass very close to the earth, within the distance to the moon or so. Gee, I thought that was very close, and agreed entirely with the Pentagon, on their decision to alert the public. I told the folks at work, and since they were mostly a bunch of twenty-somethings that don't have to worry about DEATH yet, I got no respect, no attention, nothing at all. It was as if "Nobody cares if the Asteroid Misses." It's all in the words you drop in the conversation. Names of Presidents, zero. Names of rap-stars, zero. Anything YOU have to say, zero. They were right, you know, in not paying attention to mine, and the Pentagon's announcement of Impending Doom. A couple of days later, the calculations on the near miss were redone, and oops, they were WAY off. No chance of any collision between the Asteroid and Earth. See? Twenty-Somethings are always right when they ignore whatever you have to say.