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Skriven 2006-12-25 08:48:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED HULETT
Ärende: Re: Hi folks
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-=> ED HULETT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EH> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ROSS CASSELL wrote:
 -=>> ROSS CASSELL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RC>> Hello WAYNE!

 RC>> 24 Dec 06 21:13, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> Hey here is an idea, why not submit an article to Felten about
 RC>>> Linux!!

 WC>> I know the name but not his position on anything.

 RC>> Fidonews editor..

 WC> OK, now I'm informed.

 RC>>> A possible angle is to extoll its virtues to those whom are still
 RC>>> running Win9x and DOS on lesser hardware?

 RC>>> Tell them about DOSEMU..

 WC>> I don't know anything about it.
 WC>> What is it?

 RC>> You can emulate a operating environment under Linux that will allow
 WC> you
 RC>> to run DOS based applications.

 WC>  From within Linux?
 WC> Why on God's Earth would anyone want to do that?

 EH> Apparently someone with more Linux knowledge than you since they went
 EH> to the trouble of programming it.

 WC> It seems terribly inefficient but perhaps useful for gamers
 WC> and those with legacy applications?

 EH> You're catching on...

Uh, Ed?
I believe I'm the one first mentioned that and you are the one commenting
upon it.

 RC>> Conversely in X, you can run programs like WINE or CROSSOVER to run
 RC>> Windows gui apps. (if you try it, dont tell Maurice)

 WC> I don't imagine I will try it.
 WC> I cannot imagine why I would want to.
 WC> I believe you are right about Maurice ;-)
 WC> Anyways I've tossed  all my Mickeysoft.

 EH> Good for you.

 RC>> For kicks using CROSSOVER, I got MSIE5 to work.

 WC> For now I'm just awaiting a good day to finish compiling
 WC> VideoLan as it mihght have sufficiently less CPU overhead
 WC> to play the high definition movie DVD I got.

 EH> Heh heh...

 WC> Someone I know recently passed away recommended the DVD UltraViolet
 WC> so as a kind of memorium I purchased it from Amazon.

 EH> You wasted your money.

Well the style is rather unique and arty but I've not yet decyphered
greater meaning to the video.

I'm not entirely certain you could call it a waste of money.
I needed some kind of a high definition movie to test
my multimedia applications.

Others under consideration were.
The King and I with Yul Brynner.
The Man in the White Suit with Alec Guinness.
Kind Hearts and Coronets with Alec Guinness.  
Dr. Strangelove.
Kelly's Heros.
The Great Escape.

Other than that I've the one full screen release of Charley Varrick
with Walter Matthau.

 WC> Gxine plays it on a 450 MHz Pentium but with excessive frame dropping
 WC> and some loss of video - audio sync.

 EH> I have an old 466 here you can have. Heh heh...

I've no use for a 466 however a 486 with 30 Meg of RAM
might be suitable to run Linux Icop firewall.

 WC> Xine from the command line I need to setup .xine/config
 WC> to see how that does without the KDE desktop overhead

 EH> Gxine on KDE? You not only have KDE overhead, you have gdm overhead.

 Yes, this has been my concern.
It's why I shall google for answers on other multimedia applications
that execute at the command line.
I'd had HD video drivers for Mplayer but alas they were lost and are 
not too commonly to be found.
I need to import some bookmarks or otherwise look at the
file with lynx and see if I noted their location.

 RC>> (Microsoft Internet Explorer)

 WC> I've heard that's a virus - trojan trap and security risk.
 WC> I'll stick with Lynx, Konqueror and Firebird thanks.

 EH> Why would anyone want to use Konquerer? What a total kludge!

Well Ed, perhaps for those difficult days when I've an arthritis 
flareup in my making using the keyboard difficult?
See then I can use Konqueror to launch my music MP3s
and my downloaded Jon Stewart comedy political comentaries.

I like the old folk group the Kingston Trio from way back
when times were simpler.

 EH> Firefox 2.0 or, better yet Swiftfox 2.0 is much better.

I have that gui browser application in my software download archive
however am becoming more familiar with Lynx.

 RC>>> Except that the BBS you are using isnt synchro..

 WC>> BBBS?

 RC>> Bingo.

 WC> I get lucky sometimes.

 EH> Even a broken claock is correct twice a day using US time.

What is a claock?
How do you pronounce claock?
Is the accent on the first or second sylable of claock?
Is it pronounced _clay ock_?

See, my search for understanding into new things is driven by 
recent personal difficulties I've undergone and I effort
exercising my intellect to rehabilitate myself.

Well, that and I've a friendly user interface BBS again and can
employ an offline reader.

 RC>> Its telnet interface takes some getting used to, as it doesnt use
 RC>> hotkey commands as you observed.

 WC> I'm becoming a faster study now I've got some slackware experience.

 EH> Oh yeah, Slack is the bomb, dude!

Upon this we can agree.

 RC>> I am registered with a copy of it, lost my key file, but I took it
 WC> down
 RC>> way back when because the users couldnt get used to it. Its html
 RC>> interface isnt too bad.

 WC> I hated it at first but now I find myself intrigued.

 EH> Uh huh...

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