Subj : RE: Portability of Amiga
To   : NEIL WILLIAMS
From : DENNIS SMITH
Date : Thu Jun 19 2003 23:40:14

On 6/19/2003 11:04 PM, NEIL WILLIAMS wrote to DENNIS SMITH:

->  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.

 I' noticed that since using Mozilla. 
-> 
->  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 :)

 You do good work! Around issue #68 was starting to use WinUAE. A little faster
than putting them of a floppy and moveing to A2k. 

->  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.. 

 I already crashed my A1 the second. The first evening -- I skipped the Debian
login request to "Shutdown". Hey, I turned it off like my A2K. Big Oops.=:o
Won't Bootup because of 'fsck'. I too many files screwedup. So, I reinstalled
it from scratch. 
 The other night, I d/led an IBrowse2.x Demo to checkout the BSDsocket.lib.
I normally use GDM and so ran UAE and IBrowse. Oops.=:o I think the socket is
not too good. It trashed my /root/ dir. But, I wasn't going to reinstall the
system.  Ran -- fsck /dev/dha2  and answered Y to everything. Bam! I bootedup.
:)
    
->  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.

 Well, I like to know how your saying that to system. I tryed a OS 3.5 
install; didn't work. Wouldn't assign the CD.

->  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.
 
Any particular reasons why you oogle MOS? =:o

Dennis & AmigaOne & SURFboard DSL & luck. =:o 

Neil Williams, neil@zeusdev.co.uk - Uni, ug00026 at sees bangor ac uk


 
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