On ANY site that offers FREE webmail (or pop3/imap/smtp) that you come across, set up an account named fuck_spam with the password fuckers. Then, if it offers a redirect, send it to a listserv that is a spammer blacklist. Be sure to make it a member of the listserv. They get a deluge of e-mail from the FIRST ONE. So it WOULD crash the box eventually, but hey, it's the price you gotta pay!
Softhome's sweet, but their webmail client SUCKS ROCKS. They also have what seems to me like small transfer limits. Not to mention, they've got a MESSAGE LIMIT. Too much space on the mail server to have over 150 msgs?
Pics in My Pictures, MP3/WMAs in My Music (it'd be straight MP3s if it weren't for WiMP not encoding MP3s), everything else in My Documents, good e-mail in the Inbox, bad in either Spam or Trash (Spam if SAproxy marks it as spam).
That's a Chinese distro. They've branded OpenOffice with their brand and released as Supreme Office Suite (the best alternative to WINDOWS XP) (my bolding and capitalization of Windows) or ThizOffice and distribute it with cheap PCChips mobos.
With an HP, that's suicide. They come with mountains of SPYWARE! My HP Pavilion 6535 (back in the 98SE days) had about 100MB of spyware! OK, so there was about 500MB of semi-useful stuff too, but... I'm currently using Windows 2000 on that box. Works well too...
Yes. I actually gasped when I opened up one of my school's Dell L866r units to do a PSU swap. The PSU (MicroATX case - mininum for the standard is 90w) was a Foxconn 85W MicroATX form-factor (I say form-factor because it's lower than 90w) PSU. Holy shit! The config was:
I call Opera flame! Have you even tried Opera? (haven't tried it on Linux) Or did you try 3.0 or something? I'm rather impressed with 7.11 (or is it 12 now?). It works with most sites, it's fast, the tabbed browsing works great, and it's rather small.
Of course, did they run Mac OS? No. (Granted, I've never liked Macs, but the 65c02-based IIs are my favorite old boxes) Then again, if you're really nitpicking, it's 1976. $666 for an Apple 1 mobo.
If they sold them only via mail (or web, or phone) order, they'd be as successful as Dell. Now, if they didn't preload the OS, most people WOULD freak.
How about a Phat Linux-like system? No, not the install-then-live-cd part, the UNTFS part. Phat Linux can install on an NTFS partition. Ever heard of UMSDOS? Several distros (including Armed Linux - their domain's been bought by Lindows - and WinLinux) use this technique. Phat Linux has extended it to NTFS. Why not do that instead? 100GB HDD, 100% NTFS 5.1. Linux and Windows co-existing on one partition. 95GB available for both OSes to play with without keeping Windows from getting space that Linux gets to play with (Linux gets to play with it all anyway).
SERIAL ALL THE WAY. Go with Zoom. They own Hayes, and Hayes is the best to buy. After all, they FSCKING INVENTED THE STANDARD! Also, MAKE FSCKING SURE it's a SERIAL modem. USB and PCI are often soundcards with software to make it look like a modem.
I think that's what they did. Look at a just-before-merger Compaq, and look at a new HP.
BTW, I have one of those fugly HP sub-micro-towers (yes, it's smaller than HP's microtower spec - it's got good air, but the bay config sucks - 1 5.25" bay, 2 3.5" external bays (one FDD only), 1 HDD bay). It's a Pavilion 6535. Nice box if you don't play games and you up the RAM... a LOT... and the 8.4GB HDD... but mine is an OK server (I need to upgrade the HDD...). SuSE 8.2 live-eval recognized everything (don't know about the stock Winmodem - that's been pitched after a power surge hit it - but I should have pitched it after I pulled the box out of the box). It's running Win2k now (MS dependencies... they're worse than RPM dependencies...).
WordPad doesn't support double-spacing easily. My instructors REQUIRE double-spaced 12-point (except for one, who can't see too well, and needs 14-point) printouts.
Because the short-hand glyphs can be read over a bad connection (well...) Try that with a static-filled connection where you can barely hear the other person. (come to think about it, dial-up doesn't work well over my phone lines...)
How about Mini-ITX? A VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemia with a slimline (CD-RW/)DVD-ROM drive and a 2.5" laptop HDD, when playing a DVD - which is much more CPU load than a server would have - takes less than 38 watts of power.
http://www.lex.com.tw/cv860b.htm, which is the second link in the post suggesting a lex board. Really, I'm looking at the BN860T. It's 10mm larger than a mini-itx board, but it takes any P3/Cel3/C3/Eden.
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On ANY site that offers FREE webmail (or pop3/imap/smtp) that you come across, set up an account named fuck_spam with the password fuckers. Then, if it offers a redirect, send it to a listserv that is a spammer blacklist. Be sure to make it a member of the listserv. They get a deluge of e-mail from the FIRST ONE. So it WOULD crash the box eventually, but hey, it's the price you gotta pay!
Softhome's sweet, but their webmail client SUCKS ROCKS. They also have what seems to me like small transfer limits. Not to mention, they've got a MESSAGE LIMIT. Too much space on the mail server to have over 150 msgs?
Pics in My Pictures, MP3/WMAs in My Music (it'd be straight MP3s if it weren't for WiMP not encoding MP3s), everything else in My Documents, good e-mail in the Inbox, bad in either Spam or Trash (Spam if SAproxy marks it as spam).
WTF?!? They've changed it a lot! Take a 4-year old Dimension 4100, and a brand new 4600. Look. See. Are you FSCKING STUPID?
That's a Chinese distro. They've branded OpenOffice with their brand and released as Supreme Office Suite (the best alternative to WINDOWS XP) (my bolding and capitalization of Windows) or ThizOffice and distribute it with cheap PCChips mobos.
With an HP, that's suicide. They come with mountains of SPYWARE! My HP Pavilion 6535 (back in the 98SE days) had about 100MB of spyware! OK, so there was about 500MB of semi-useful stuff too, but... I'm currently using Windows 2000 on that box. Works well too...
Yes. I actually gasped when I opened up one of my school's Dell L866r units to do a PSU swap. The PSU (MicroATX case - mininum for the standard is 90w) was a Foxconn 85W MicroATX form-factor (I say form-factor because it's lower than 90w) PSU. Holy shit! The config was:
Intel CA810E Mobo (Dell-branded BIOS)
Intel Pentium 3 866MHz
128MB SDRAM (PC133?)
Seagate(?) 20GB 5400RPM HDD
3com 3c905 Ethernet
Creative Sound Blaster (don't know which model)
DVD-ROM drive
FDD
I call Opera flame! Have you even tried Opera? (haven't tried it on Linux) Or did you try 3.0 or something? I'm rather impressed with 7.11 (or is it 12 now?). It works with most sites, it's fast, the tabbed browsing works great, and it's rather small.
Of course, did they run Mac OS? No. (Granted, I've never liked Macs, but the 65c02-based IIs are my favorite old boxes) Then again, if you're really nitpicking, it's 1976. $666 for an Apple 1 mobo.
If they sold them only via mail (or web, or phone) order, they'd be as successful as Dell. Now, if they didn't preload the OS, most people WOULD freak.
How about a Phat Linux-like system? No, not the install-then-live-cd part, the UNTFS part. Phat Linux can install on an NTFS partition. Ever heard of UMSDOS? Several distros (including Armed Linux - their domain's been bought by Lindows - and WinLinux) use this technique. Phat Linux has extended it to NTFS. Why not do that instead? 100GB HDD, 100% NTFS 5.1. Linux and Windows co-existing on one partition. 95GB available for both OSes to play with without keeping Windows from getting space that Linux gets to play with (Linux gets to play with it all anyway).
SERIAL ALL THE WAY. Go with Zoom. They own Hayes, and Hayes is the best to buy. After all, they FSCKING INVENTED THE STANDARD! Also, MAKE FSCKING SURE it's a SERIAL modem. USB and PCI are often soundcards with software to make it look like a modem.
Buy from Hayes, and Hayes only (that includes Zoom, which now owns Hayes).
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Use the first one:
http://www.zoomtel.com/products/external-mo
I hope you have legacy ports, though...
I think that's what they did. Look at a just-before-merger Compaq, and look at a new HP.
BTW, I have one of those fugly HP sub-micro-towers (yes, it's smaller than HP's microtower spec - it's got good air, but the bay config sucks - 1 5.25" bay, 2 3.5" external bays (one FDD only), 1 HDD bay). It's a Pavilion 6535. Nice box if you don't play games and you up the RAM... a LOT... and the 8.4GB HDD... but mine is an OK server (I need to upgrade the HDD...). SuSE 8.2 live-eval recognized everything (don't know about the stock Winmodem - that's been pitched after a power surge hit it - but I should have pitched it after I pulled the box out of the box). It's running Win2k now (MS dependencies... they're worse than RPM dependencies...).
Spoiling a joke here, but that's required by MS (or so I think). What it means is that they don't use non-genuine (aka pirated) copies of MS Windows.
WordPad doesn't support double-spacing easily. My instructors REQUIRE double-spaced 12-point (except for one, who can't see too well, and needs 14-point) printouts.
I'm sorry, but THIS has buckling spring available. Is it not cool? (I use the windows keys, but they've got a version w/o windows keys)
Publish-It was the Apple II WYSIWYG DTP of that time. I've still got a set of PI3 disks. (PI4 is the last version)
pdfcreator (sf proj?) - based on GhostScript, but gs is an utter pain to use. This isn't nearly as bad.
Because the short-hand glyphs can be read over a bad connection (well...) Try that with a static-filled connection where you can barely hear the other person. (come to think about it, dial-up doesn't work well over my phone lines...)
ISN'T THAT WHAT I SAID?
RTFP. I said that you could use it as a keyboard too, suggesting that it be used as a terminal.
Actually, I have a copy of Monopoly CD-ROM 1.0 that I bought for $5 from CVS (LONG before their ExtraCrap card came out).
How about Mini-ITX? A VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemia with a slimline (CD-RW/)DVD-ROM drive and a 2.5" laptop HDD, when playing a DVD - which is much more CPU load than a server would have - takes less than 38 watts of power.
http://www.lex.com.tw/cv860b.htm, which is the second link in the post suggesting a lex board. Really, I'm looking at the BN860T. It's 10mm larger than a mini-itx board, but it takes any P3/Cel3/C3/Eden.