Re: [SLUG] Re: Paul thank you for your response, and some thoughts.

From: patrick (patrick@llc.net)
Date: Fri May 04 2001 - 12:44:05 EDT


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On Friday 04 May 2001 12:29 pm, you wrote:
> First of all Paul, thank you for your response.
> I have learned a few things which frankly I had no idea what they were
> until today (most of them I have never heard either!).
>
> Second this brings me to a personal private point that I have been
> waiting to express to the list for a long time and I have been waiting
> for the perfect example to go into the details.
>
> As you can see from my questions I'm not the sharpest nail in the box on
> these matters.
>
> I'm very frustrated.
>
> A- I'm currently using Windblows 98
> I'm not happy with it.
> I don't like it etc. etc.
> I see what the programmers go in the Engineering Department where I work
> to try to work around the MS bugs when programming new code. It is just
> not acceptable.
>
> B- I want to use Linux
> If you recall on previous old posts I expressed my inability to install 3
> different distributions on two different machines and three different HD.
> I don't consider myself an unexperienced computer user.
> AND at the same time I consider myself a regular kind of "Dummy" computer
> OS installer, hacker etc.
>
> C- I want something that comes out of the box AND WORKS!!!!!
> Up to day, by reading all of the e-mails posted to this list I.M.H.O MOST
> of the people in this list have an extremely advanced knowledge of
> hardware, and some programming.
> Does this mean I don't know hardware, well enough to get me in trouble.
> Does this mean I don't know programming, well I have taken a couple of
> classes in C.
> AND MY POINT!
> If you and me and everyone else wants everyone to run Linux, IT HAS TO BE
> IDIOT (this is me by the way) PROOF, not tweak this download that, plug
> this etc..
>
> D- Linux will run on EVERYTHING!
> Some years ago this club made a presentation to the Tampa Bay Computer
> club and showed everyone how "easy" if was to install Linux on a simple
> 486 computer.
> I have to tell you I was inspired!
> AND MY POINT!
> On a 486 running Windblows 98, I tried to install Linux.
> AND NO VIRGINIA IT DID NOT WORK!!!!!
> And when I attempted to find out what the reasons were, frankly I could
> not understand all of the information given to me:
> The limitations of the HD size and how we can go around this etc etc.
> So they told me forget the 486 go with a Pentium.
> SAME RESULTS
>
> Now do you see my frustrations?????
>
> So I sit in the background and use my Windblows box (es) and this is the
> reason that I sent the list the URL with the flash without even realizing
> what it was or that it used it.
> I just saw the humor of the URL, nothing else crossed my mind.
>
> Does this mean I'm going to curl up go away and not continue my work with
> Linux
> NO!
> But for now I just don't have the time and or the energy to try and tweak
> a Linux distribution to make it work in any of my three boxes.
>
> Thank you for listening to me.
> Ramiro Souto
>
>
> On Thu, 3 May 2001 23:59:37 -0400 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
>
> writes:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:17:40PM -0700, ramiro souto wrote:
>
> Sorry:
> You are talking Chinese to me.
> Not Chinese. G[r]eek.
> What is flash?
> A [proprietary] way to show animations on websites.
> What is avi?
> A format for showing animations as well.
> What is lesstif?
> An Open Source version of Motif. Motif is, among other things, a software
> library that allows you to write software that looks pretty in X Windows.
> Motif is closed source, and other libraries have come along that function
> the way Motif does, but are Open Source.
> What is netscape plugins?
> Programs that sort of "link" to Netscape (or vice versa) to do things
> Netscape can't do. For instance, Netscape can't natively play animations.
> So, depending on the type of animation (AVI, Flash, etc.),
> you would need a plug-in that handles those in order to play the
> animations while browsing in Netscape. Certain other kinds of programs
> also use plug-ins for similar reasons.
> What is konqueror?
> KDE browser.
> Paul
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