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Skriven 2006-12-25 10:19:14 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 44887 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Hi folks
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WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ED HULETT wrote:
 -=>> 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...

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

Uh Wayne? You weren't the first to mention that. It has been known for decades.

 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.

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

It's entertainment, idiot. There is no "greater meaning."

 WC> I'm not entirely certain you could call it a waste of money.

It went to DVD very quickly and was a poor show in the box office.

 WC> I needed some kind of a high definition movie to test
 WC> my multimedia applications.

Good for you.

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

None of those are really high definition.

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

Good for you.

 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...

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

The P-II 466 has 64 meg.

 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.

 WC>  Yes, this has been my concern.
 WC> It's why I shall google for answers on other multimedia applications
 WC> that execute at the command line.

Do that.

 WC> I'd had HD video drivers for Mplayer but alas they were lost and are
 WC> not too commonly to be found.

Then how'd you find them in the first place?

 WC> I need to import some bookmarks or otherwise look at the
 WC> file with lynx and see if I noted their location.

You do that.

 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!

 WC> Well Ed, perhaps for those difficult days when I've an arthritis
 WC> flareup in my making using the keyboard difficult?

I do just fine with my arthritis.

 WC> See then I can use Konqueror to launch my music MP3s
 WC> and my downloaded Jon Stewart comedy political comentaries.

That's nice.

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

Good for you.

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

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

Good for you.

 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.

 WC> What is a claock?

Oh no, I guess my arthritis is acting up again and I inadvertently hit the a
when typing "clock."

 WC> How do you pronounce claock?
 WC> Is the accent on the first or second sylable of claock?
 WC> Is it pronounced _clay ock_?

And here you get all up in arms about others commenting on your typos.

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

How does one "effort" to do something?

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

Good for you.

 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!

 WC> Upon this we can agree.

Yeah... sure... Slack, like all other OSes sucks.

Ed

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and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -- Thomas Jefferson

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