Chimera- was RE: Man...

[S. Lawton]

Replies to various comments: 

>If your using a copy from a friend, I don't quite understand. Why 
>do you think that you have to register it you can skip that part of 
>the installation and just go on to the rest of the install. 

He had an Upgrade disk set, so first I had to find a DOS 6 boot 
disk so there was some thing to upgrade from. Eventually, after I 
got a cd rom, and figured out how make it work, I purchased a Win 
95 B OEM cd. THAT'S  the software that's registered to 
Anonymous User. Ask me at the meeting and I can tell you the 
story of "You Can Build a Computer With $200 In Parts".

>I would suggest to chop the drive up a bit though. 20 gigs 
>Hmmm...Well this is what I would do.
>take 10gigs and divide it in thirds 1. for OS and utilities. 2. for 
>Programs and 3. for Storage. Leave the other 10gigs for Linux. 

Wow, that's exactly the way I have the 3 gig I'm using now set up. 
Three Logical Drives- C for OS + tools, D is where I do all my work, 
E is the "Software Vault" where I keep zip compressed copies of 
important documents and software I've installed. After starting out 
on such a small drive, I knew I wanted different things in different 
places when I got the 3 gig. 

>The drive that is coming with the system is it Maxtor or ?
Western Digital 

>Anybody else remember trying to squeak 600k free for the latest 
>games and still be able to have the CD-ROM drive available?  
>Those were the days?? (-NOT!)

Yup, I can remember doing that to try and download upgrade 
software, and I didn't even have a CD ROM. Those were also the 
days when Bill Gates said, " I cannot foresee a need to ever have a 
hard drive larger than 640 megabytes." when asked about the trend 
of software to balloon in size. 

>In general I find the do it all for you tools to be next to useless 
>aside from giving me a few good ideas here and there.
>I find they insulate users from knowledge and I think that is 
>dangerous.
>I am also a picky bugger they generally do things in ways i dont 
>like :) 

I know what you mean. That's why I poke around editing 
initialization and configuration files on this Windows box. When I 
install a piece of software, I choose Expert Install and pick what* I * 
want. "Typical" is one size fits most; I want something that fits 
me.Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 tries to get something I really like. 
That's also what's driving me to Linux- if some one has a good 
idea, everyone can benefit. [hence my sig line] Open source is like 
air, take what you need. Patent software is like gasoline, you pay 
for it every time you need more. 

Regarding email: Pine, Kmail, whatever's in the distro - plenty of 
options to check out once I get my Linux. Pegasus Mail is for 
Windows specifically. I heard of a program called WINE that's 
supposed to allow you to run software written for windows inside a 
Linux environment. Does anyone have experience with WINE ? 

Speaking of environments, specifically ours, if the JAN meeting is 
cancelled due to weather, how soon before would the 
announcement be made, and would it be posted to the nflug 
majordomo ? 







Scott 

LINUX- Not just _A_ good idea, 
       _ALL_ the good ideas.