Subj : RE: Portability of Amiga
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Neil Williams
Date : Thu Jun 12 2003 12:42:12

 On Wednesday June 11 2003, Dennis Smith said to NEIL WILLIAMS:

 >> Using AOL isn't a problem; any huge amount of junk attached to any
 >> message is though...

 DS>  It that ads thing. =:o Is no such thing a free Mail List. The HTML

Maybe the adverts trigger HTML in the AOL software, but that's not what I mean.

 DS>  attachments by the YaYhoos are their group sponsor. I even see them
 DS>  in plain text! People with dial-up don't care for this crap.

The plain text ads are about 4 lines big, the HTML versions of text messages are usually several kilobytes.


 DS>  Sorry you lost your AIO job. :-\ I always looked forward to AIO for
 DS>  the latest gossip and news. I hope things will evolve into something
 DS>  better. :)

I had to give up 'editing' the news in AIO back in 2000.. That's when I started uni so I was a) too busy and b) my Amiga was connected to the internet only by a GSM mobile phone. 9600bps is unpleasant!

I did fix some bugs in the software though, and added background images to the pages (although that was buggy :)

 DS>  I finally got my A1 to do internet. Another case of bad setup by
 DS>  the Debian distro. There's a DSL/PPPoE selection on the KDE Desktop

Unixes were never designed for normal users, that's why they have such a steep learning curve. Often, nothing is automatic even when it would be trivial to automate it..

 DS>  I created a OS 3.9 Emergency-Disk in UAE. So, that looks really good.
 DS>  Another snag revealed: the OS CD uses CacheCDFS which is SCSI. The

CacheCDFS works on IDE. I use it here like that.

 DS>  Will you run OS4 on your A4000? BlizzardPPC go on tour next month.

Possibly. Either that or MorphOS. Depends which gets here first. Currently I have no funds to buy a Pegasos for MorphOS. 


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