Chimera- was RE: Man...

Ronald Maggio r.v.maggio at worldnet.att.net
Sun Dec 30 08:05:24 EST 2001


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From: "S. Lawton " <green_man at bluefrognet.net>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: Chimera- was RE: Man...


> Replies to various comments:
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> >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"
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Well when I first tried Windows 95 from an upgrade disk it never worked.
Only messed up and killed my HDD.
The most common dum answer I got from the Tech's around Buffalo at the time
was that you need never go above
16megs of ram. Plus I got an insult from all of them telling me I was nutts
when I stated that if you bumped it up
with as much ram as you could afford that the OS will have enough buffer
available to work out of.
Well I'm running Windows with up to 384 mgs of ram. 98 is a memory pig. It
works fine now, but its not a reliable OS still.
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> >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.
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Ya see great minds think alike!!!

Not to knock the Oh Mighty Ones of this group.


> >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;
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>I want something that fits
> me.Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 tries to get something I really like.

That fits you? or the computer?

Just havin fun not being insulting at all!

> 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 ?
>
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Well the next meeting it not untill the 20th of January. We'll have to wait
till around a few days
before the meeting to see how the weather is acting I guess?


See you'al there:)

Ron Maggio
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> Scott
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> LINUX- Not just _A_ good idea,
>        _ALL_ the good ideas.
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