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maus
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response 157 of 203:
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Feb 18 17:55 UTC 2007 |
P.S: Dan or dan ?
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cross
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response 158 of 203:
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Feb 18 18:36 UTC 2007 |
That's all right; I prefer Dan, but will respond to either. I'm just curious
why people choose one over the other, and of course, I realize that no insult
was intended.
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keesan
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response 159 of 203:
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Feb 18 19:47 UTC 2007 |
If you read closely, you will see that I put Win98 on for wordprocessing and
linux/opera (run as user from now on, not root) for internet. I ran a
chkrootkit program which did not detect any linux viruses after 4 years of
my running as root. I have no daemons running (no open ports) except Xvesa.
I am offering Abiword for wordprocessing but people want Windows. Some people
also insist on Windows for browsing and that is what I gave them. I told them
to get a virus checking program and not do anything high security. They do
email. They do not have the money to purchase a new computer with new
Windows.
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cross
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response 160 of 203:
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Feb 18 19:48 UTC 2007 |
...and what we're saying is that those people would be better off with Linux,
even if they want to run Windows software, it would be better to run it under
emulation than on native Windows.
Where do you get all these Windows licenses, anyway?
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keesan
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response 161 of 203:
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Feb 18 20:17 UTC 2007 |
We get Win98 on lots of used hard drives and remove junk from it.
I am not going to spend time learning to run Windows emulated under linux just
for people who don't want to use linux. I tried dosemu and it works badly
with the programs I wanted it for. Does okay with a CAD program in xdosemu.
Would you like to put some minimal linux with Windows emulation on 500MB
drives for me to give away?
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keesan
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response 162 of 203:
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Feb 18 20:23 UTC 2007 |
How much space would linux with WINE require? wineHQ has a Slackware 10.2
binary that should run on a 386 that is 10MB tgz - maybe it would fit but I
don't have Slackware 10.2 or want it. Upgrading the glibc to use this binary
would require also changing the kernel and modules. Not impossible and this
certainly takes less space than 150MB of Windows 98 itself. I have 150MB free
space in the linux partition for the friend who wants WORD and linux/opera.
And only 50MB free in the Windows partition. Thanks for the idea.
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keesan
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response 163 of 203:
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Feb 18 21:16 UTC 2007 |
I can't find a binary for anything older than Slackware 10.2. Source is 11MB
bz2. A list of supported applications includes WORD97 and 2000.
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cross
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response 164 of 203:
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Feb 18 21:37 UTC 2007 |
Regarding #161; Err, that's kind of illegal.
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maus
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response 165 of 203:
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Feb 18 23:48 UTC 2007 |
Can you give me a bit more information about the boxes besides the max
drive size? Are the PCI-based? What brand of NIC do they use? I may be
able to throw together a nice image that you can toast onto a bunch of
CF cards or small drives, and be done. I will probably base it off of a
standard version of Slack 11 or something else "normal" and
well-known/well-supported.
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twenex
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response 166 of 203:
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Feb 19 00:33 UTC 2007 |
Now Jeff understands that Sindi needs to install Windows for some users, but
agrees at least provisionally with Dan that the way Sindi is "procuring" Win98
at least MAY be illegal.
Jeff hopes Dan notices that Jeff has now started calling Dan "Dan," and is
pleased.
I am going to stop the irritating parodic third-person nonsense now.
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cross
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response 167 of 203:
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Feb 19 00:59 UTC 2007 |
Dan notices and Dan appreciates. And now I will also knock off all the 3rd
Party nonsense.
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nharmon
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response 168 of 203:
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Feb 19 01:30 UTC 2007 |
Sindi might not think she is doing any harm pirating Windows for people
but the fact is Microsoft regularly goes after people who do so. How
they do it is offer free copies of properly licensed Windows in exchange
for the names and addresses of the people who install the pirated software.
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edina
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response 169 of 203:
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Feb 19 01:47 UTC 2007 |
re 167 Brooke would like it better if Dan started referring to
himself as "The Dan".
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cross
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response 170 of 203:
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Feb 19 02:06 UTC 2007 |
Sort of like, ``The Donald''?
``Rosie's a slob!''
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edina
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response 171 of 203:
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Feb 19 02:12 UTC 2007 |
Exactly!! Please Jesus let your hair be better.....
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cross
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response 172 of 203:
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Feb 19 02:12 UTC 2007 |
Oh yes; don't worry, my hair is better than The Donald's comb-over.
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keesan
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response 173 of 203:
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Feb 19 03:40 UTC 2007 |
Re 165 (?) from maus Are you offering to put together some small linux that
I can transfer via some external drive (I have a USB external drive and a 1GB
USB flash drive) that will run Opera and also WORD under WINE? That fits in
500MB? This particular computer has 2 PCI slots and I put a video card into
one of them (rather than dealing with an odd driver that I might have to
compile). No network card. Eventually an external modem. I was told not
to put any more work into it right now. It was supposed to be for the
to-be-ex-wife of a friend and we will see if she even wants to use the linux
part of it for the internet. He says she is rarely satisfied with anything
he gives her. He is delighted with the linux/opera I put on his computer.
By great good fortune he already has a Lucent modem in there which worked with
ltmodem.o driver. My two lucent modems did not.
If she does not like linux, I will let him put Win98 and WORD on the drive
after removing linux and enlarging the Win98 partition.
I installed Slackware 10.1 or 10.2 on one computer and it immediately filled
up at least 1GB in a minimal installation, and wasted 64MB of RAM on running
unneeded daemons. It had several pages of config file for X. I am using
a generic Xvesa driver with no config file.
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cross
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response 174 of 203:
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Feb 19 03:45 UTC 2007 |
(Her not being satisfied with things he gives her might have more to do with
the fact that she is a soon-to-be-ex-wife than that she is not satisfied with
those things. And perhaps, vice versa.)
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keesan
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response 175 of 203:
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Feb 19 16:04 UTC 2007 |
Vice versa. Today someone brought us 9 64MB and 4 128MB SIMMs so we could
actually put together computers with 128MB RAM and Ubuntu (if we had lots of
large hard disks - it demands 2GB) but Ubuntu is slower. He also brought four
SIMMS (two labelled 64MB) that have two little slots very close to each other
just off of center, with no chips on two (just greenboard) and some metal
cased thing on the other two. ??? And a no-name motherboard with onboard
i810 video sound and only three slots to replace them with. No ISA and we
are out of extra external modems. Anyone have 28.8K or 33.6K they don't want?
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maus
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response 176 of 203:
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Feb 19 19:32 UTC 2007 |
I will look into creating an image for this. In my past experience, the
basic load of Slackware was pretty small and light. If it has grown over
the years, you would be better off using a decently sized drive to
accomodate a reasonable distribution of Linux.
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keesan
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response 177 of 203:
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Feb 19 20:13 UTC 2007 |
I am putting linux on the hardware that we have and do not want a distribution
of linux, just enough files to dial and run Opera. The standard Slackware
puts on all sorts of unwanted things. Wait on this project to see if the
person getting the latest computer really wants linux. Why an image file
rather than a .tgz? What kernel does the Slackware 11 glibc require? The
glibc from Slackware 9.1 insisted on a kernel 2.4, which I have compiled.
A lot of the reason why the later kernels are larger is they support newer
hardware, and I am using Slackware 4 or earlier age hardware.
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cross
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response 178 of 203:
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Feb 19 20:27 UTC 2007 |
The Linux pundits will tell you until they are blue in the face that the
kernel is actually very small and that all the support for newer hardware is
done via kernel modules; so supporting older systems in a small amount of
space is trivial: just delete the modules you don't need.
The reason you may want to do this is because giving someone Windows 98 and
Office 98 is illegal.
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jep
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response 179 of 203:
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Feb 19 21:27 UTC 2007 |
Dan: I refer to people by loginid because it is unique. There are other
people here called "Dan" but no others called "cross".
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cross
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response 180 of 203:
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Feb 19 21:32 UTC 2007 |
That's fine, I guess.
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keesan
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response 181 of 203:
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Feb 20 00:07 UTC 2007 |
The kernel that comes with my linux is about 400K. The standard Slackware
2.2.16 kernel is about 1GB. How big is 2.6?
The person getting the latest computer has their own OEM copies of 98 and
OFFICE.
The later libraries are a lot bigger.
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