NT4 SP3 still not v. stable
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I use SP3 on my work laptop and it hasn't blue-screened, but it does screw up every few days and require a reboot, and apps frequently lock up and require re-installing (e.g. Outlook yesterday). Even as a workstation OS, NT still has a long way to go - I don't subscribe to the view that it blue-screens all the time, though that can happen on some hardware, but it is not really stable yet.
Needless to say, my home systems, running Linux, have yet to crash, except when a disk controller blew up...
Hope you are reporting this as a bug to Red Hat - it's good to see the workarounds for installing semi-manually, but it's better if the install program just works.
Actually I find Freeserve is very easy to connect to - very rarely get the engaged tone. The net-caching is a bit of a pain (it's transparent and hence mandatory) but I can understand why they do it.
I now use Freeserve as my main ISP - I do have another free account as backup, plus a work account if necessary, but I wouldn't mind using just Freeserve and the free account.
The key thing with free ISPs is to always use something like www.bigfoot.com or www.pobox.com to redirect from a stable email address to the free address - that way if Freeserve does go down the toilet you can just redirect your mail somewhere else.
In fact, given how crap many paid-for ISPs are, a bigfoot-style (or domain) address is not a bad idea anyway...
Since you were running NTFS on that size of file system, why do a chkdsk? NTFS is a journalled filesystem, so there is really no need - and of course journalling is designed to avoid long fsck's.
NT may have its faults, but NTFS is not bad in this respect - Linux does not yet have a widely used journalling filesystem that I'm aware of.
It would be good to support other protocols such as SMB and NFS, as well as Appleshare and of course ftp. Though a web-based interface is also useful if you are at a friend's and want to just download a file without the hassle of doing some setup.
You must have had a bad one - 3com will replace it for free if it is. Or maybe there was some ill-behaved software installed - worth trying apps first on xcopilot, which emulates the Palm and catches some errors.
My Pilot has a pretty good uptime, and any resets I have had don't lose data, so they are pretty uneventful.
As for using ssh - there are keyboards available for the Pilot, e.g. GoType - you can just plug in the keyboard when ssh'ing, maybe from a hotel room, but carry just the Pilot the rest of the time. And it's nearer a full-size keyboard than (say) a Psion or CE box.
I know you want PGP, but Secret! is a MemoPad-like application that encrypts its data using IDEA with 128 bit keys (actually the longest passphrase allowed means a 105 bit key). It is not open source, but it does have binaries for Linux and Solaris that will decrypt its database file to stdout.
The 2.0 version was freeware, 2.1 and later are shareware. Very useful for PINs and passwords, etc.
I have one of these, admittedly second hand and quite old and battle scarred, and it (a) slips around a lot and (b) seems to give far too much friction with my mouse. YMMV of course, but this may be what happens if you don't treat it carefully.
In fact, CE is a complete re-implementation of Windows as far as I can tell - it implements a scaled down version of the Win32 API used by NT and Win95, but it doesn't share any code.
Microsoft is separately talking about an embedded version of NT, really designed for routers, thin servers, etc - no spec or dates on this yet, of course.
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I use SP3 on my work laptop and it hasn't blue-screened, but it does screw up every few days and require a reboot, and apps frequently lock up and require re-installing (e.g. Outlook yesterday). Even as a workstation OS, NT still has a long way to go - I don't subscribe to the view that it blue-screens all the time, though that can happen on some hardware, but it is not really stable yet.
Needless to say, my home systems, running Linux, have yet to crash, except when a disk controller blew up...
Hope you are reporting this as a bug to Red Hat - it's good to see the workarounds for installing semi-manually, but it's better if the install program just works.
Actually I find Freeserve is very easy to connect to - very rarely get the engaged tone. The net-caching is a bit of a pain (it's transparent and hence mandatory) but I can understand why they do it.
I now use Freeserve as my main ISP - I do have another free account as backup, plus a work account if necessary, but I wouldn't mind using just Freeserve and the free account.
The key thing with free ISPs is to always use something like www.bigfoot.com or www.pobox.com to redirect from a stable email address to the free address - that way if Freeserve does go down the toilet you can just redirect your mail somewhere else.
In fact, given how crap many paid-for ISPs are, a bigfoot-style (or domain) address is not a bad idea anyway...
Since you were running NTFS on that size of file system, why do a chkdsk? NTFS is a journalled filesystem, so there is really no need - and of course journalling is designed to avoid long fsck's.
NT may have its faults, but NTFS is not bad in this respect - Linux does not yet have a widely used journalling filesystem that I'm aware of.
It would be good to support other protocols such as SMB and NFS, as well as Appleshare and of course ftp. Though a web-based interface is also useful if you are at a friend's and want to just download a file without the hassle of doing some setup.
You must have had a bad one - 3com will replace it for free if it is. Or maybe there was some ill-behaved software installed - worth trying apps first on xcopilot, which emulates the Palm and catches some errors.
My Pilot has a pretty good uptime, and any resets I have had don't lose data, so they are pretty uneventful.
As for using ssh - there are keyboards available for the Pilot, e.g. GoType - you can just plug in the keyboard when ssh'ing, maybe from a hotel room, but carry just the Pilot the rest of the time. And it's nearer a full-size keyboard than (say) a Psion or CE box.
Each to their own...
I know you want PGP, but Secret! is a MemoPad-like application that encrypts its data using IDEA with 128 bit keys (actually the longest passphrase allowed means a 105 bit key). It is not open source, but it does have binaries for Linux and Solaris that will decrypt its database file to stdout.
The 2.0 version was freeware, 2.1 and later are shareware. Very useful for PINs and passwords, etc.
I have one of these, admittedly second hand and quite old and battle scarred, and it (a) slips around a lot and (b) seems to give far too much friction with my mouse. YMMV of course, but this may be what happens if you don't treat it carefully.
In fact, CE is a complete re-implementation of Windows as far as I can tell - it implements a scaled down version of the Win32 API used by NT and Win95, but it doesn't share any code.
Microsoft is separately talking about an embedded version of NT, really designed for routers, thin servers, etc - no spec or dates on this yet, of course.