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From: AJL on 20 Dec 2009 12:35 AJL <339(a)fakeaddress.com> wrote: >"BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: > >>AJL typed on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:21:57 -0700: >>> "BillW50" <BillW50(a)aol.kom> wrote: >>Things I though was going well in the early 80's. Commodores booted in >>like 5 seconds, my Epson PX-8 booted CP/M in like 2 seconds. > >My Palms still boot instantly. After posting this I realized it was incorrect. The Palms don't boot instantly. In fact my TX takes around 30 seconds to boot from reset. I said that because they can be used instantly when turned on, but in reality they are really sleeping in PC vernacular. So cancel that observation... ;)
From: Richard Bonner on 21 Dec 2009 09:03 AJL (340(a)fakeaddress.com) wrote: > ak621(a)chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) wrote: > > PDAs are OK for a quick surf of a site for immediate-info usage but > >require a lot of side scrolling or zooming to see a typical page. It > >would help if webpage authors designed their sites to float so as to > >shrink or enlarge to fit a given browser window. > Since the advent of the smartpphone most popular websites have a > 'mobile' version that is designed for a small phone screen but also > works very well on a modern wireless PDA as well. No scrolling > required... *** True, but it means more work for a webpage author to design two versions of a website. Floating webpages are not absolutley perfect for handheld Internet devices, but do work sufficiently for handhelds, netbooks, laptops and desktop screens. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 21 Dec 2009 09:08 BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > Richard Bonner typed on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:09 +0000 (UTC): > > BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: (Snip) > >> Although it is hard to find updated applications > >> or applications in general for KDE. For example, I haven't seen > >> anything newer than Firefox 2.0 yet for it. Although I haven't > >> checked in a few months. > >> -- > >> Bill > > *** I haven't fired up Knoppix in some time, so I was unaware that > > newer applications were not available. I recommended it because it > > seems easy for Windows users to catch on to it. > Thanks Richard! Although got any recommendations to a distro that > everything actually works? The part of it being easy for Windows users > isn't important to me since I used many different kinds of systems > anyway. > -- > Bill *** I have had no problems with the Knoppix version I run sometimes on my laptop. It recognises all the hardware save for the Windows-only soundcard. This means nothing to me since I don't use sound for any of my laptop applications anyway. However, I have not used Knoppix in some time because the DR-DOS on there handles everything I need just fine. I mainly got away from Knoppix because point & click is so useless for me and I have not taken the time to learn the Linux command line very much. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 21 Dec 2009 09:17 AJL (340(a)fakeaddress.com) wrote: > I was surprised to find that most of the more common DOS commands I > use to use also work in the Linux terminal window. *** That is because DOS took a lot from Unix. Even some of the less-common DOS commands are amazingly similar in Unix/Linux, including switches. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/
From: Richard Bonner on 21 Dec 2009 09:22
felmon (nemo(a)nowhere.INVALID) wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:19:41 +0000, Richard Bonner wrote: > > BillW50 (BillW50(a)aol.kom) wrote: > >> I was just playing a WMA file under Linux and opened up the Add/Remove > >> utility and then the Music Manager player locked up. Killed the process > >> and now it says that file is gone from my flash disk. Why people put up > >> with Linux with the amateurish applications is beyond my comprehension. > > > >> -- > >> Bill > > > > *** It's not Linux - it's the amateurish applications. (-: > would only be a consolation if one could use the operating system, > or the kernel, without applications. > but I understand you are being ironical. *** I was. (-: > I do think when a person is uncomfortable with an operating system and > its apps, they have experiences like BillW50's though. *** I tend to agree, although Bill has lots of operating systems experience. Still, one has to bet used to how each operating system "thinks". Once that light comes on, things are a lot easier. > it would be nice if more Linux apps had 'spit and polish', if they > _looked_ neater and more finished. for this reason I love k3b. it is > easy enough to burn a dvd from the commandline but k3b is a pleasure > to use. > Felmon *** For the typical user, I agree. For myself, I want maximum performance without the eye candy. -- Richard Bonner http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/ |