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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: bill.rea AT canterbury.ac.nz
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] question about Song of the Sea
  • Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:23:13 -0800

On 30/03/2004 13:18, Bill Rea wrote:

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Peter Kirk wrote:


Easy: Mozilla 1.6, with the contributed builds listed at
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.6. I'm not sure about the last
requirement, but that's an internal matter for the Solaris system.


This just tells me you don't understand what you're talking about.


Bill, I am not now a computer professional. I used to be, 15 years ago, and I worked with a similar setup with terminal emulators to a (local) Unix system. But we didn't do e-mail. So I don't understand the details of what your problem is. I am aware that there are GUIs available for Unix systems but it seems you choose not to use them. While I accept that I don't understand the details, I don't like the tone of your ad hominem remark "you don't understand what you're talking about".

I've looked at Mozilla and Netscape several times, most recently as
yesterday, there are problems with them. ...


Perhaps you would care to elaborate. Are you talking about small matters which might be fixed rather easily, or are you talking about the overall architecture?

... I haven't tried Gnus, that many
be a possibility.

I think we need to distinquish between people with a professional interest
in Hebrew whom you could expect to customize their computer systems around
their professional needs and people who are merely Hebrew amateurs and
whose systems will be customized around some other personal or
professional need. If this list is to be for professionals only, then I
guess I should shut up and go away. But that's not a direction I would
like to see it take as I don't know anyone else who has any knowledge of
Hebrew. In the approximately 12 years I've been on the list it has been
invaluable in keeping my interest in Hebrew alive.


This list is not only for professionals in any field. It seems that you are using a specialised computer system for your own professional requirements and expecting it to work well for your personal interests, including Hebrew. You would do much better to get a cheap general purpose computer and use that for e-mail unrelated to your professional specialisation. Go into any store, buy their oldest and cheapest Windows PC (as long as it has a modem), and you are there immediately - or use Linux if you prefer. (Well, you need Mozilla or Outlook rather than the default Outlook Express if you want to use IMAP.) Or ask the administration section of your university if they have any old PCs to give away (minimum Windows 98). Or probably you already have some kind of PC, as your VT-100 emulation must be on some platform. Would Mozilla or something similar run on that same platform?

You are a bit like the driver of a large truck who wants to use that same large truck for all his personal uses. He can't take his wife out to her favourite places because there is nowhere to park his large truck. His large truck may be just what he needs for his work, but maybe he needs a small family car as well.

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Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/





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