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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I also found the email with Jean-Phillipe's URL for binaries for
> ratpoison, ion and pwm (same IP number /download/xwindow/xap1.tgz)  but I
> could not find the links people posted for flwriter and ted binaries for
> BL2.  Please repost and maybe Steven or else JP could be persuaded to put

Last time I'm posting the url for Ted: http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ .  If you
ever want to find it subsequent to this, go to google and type "ted."  It
will be on the first page of results.  Again, Xwindows is required to run
this nice little wordprocessor.  It installed on BL2 for me with no
dependency problems.  Ted is not a binary, btw.  It comes as a tar.gz
file, but has its own installation script that unpacks and installs it
(installTed.sh or something like that).

James
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> Diego wrote about Opera 5.05:
>
> Is it "add supported"?

To which I replied:
>
> I'm not sure.  There is an Opera banner at the top right of
> the screen, but it is not as big as the advertising banner
> in version 6.11.  I saw no ads while I was online, but I
> only spent a few minutes online 

Well now I'm sure.  Yes, 5.05 has advertising.  I was just
online for ten minutes and I got two different ads.  One
flashing one that was *very* distracting and an animated
one that slowed the CPU noticeably.  Ugly, ugly.

I also used Opera on a page that I often visit with Netscape.
Opera 5.05 rendered that page *much* slower than Netscape.
Add to this the fact that when images are turned off, 5.05 
still downloads all the images (it just doesn't display them).  
What's the point?

I'm very annoyed with Opera.  So I tried links2.  It has
improved quite a bit since I looked at it last year.  It
certainly has possibilities, particularly for 486s.  Links2
handled most of the sites I normally visit, *except* for
secure sites.  The version I downloaded from JP was unable
to use them.  There also was a problem (or is it a feature?) 
with the screen.  When I moved the mouse off the links2 
window (in X), it reversed the field.  This sudden flashing 
of the screen was quite nasty.  Anybody know how to get rid 
of it?

I'm not very happy about how this is going.  All these
browsers (links2, browseX, dillo, two versions of Opera) 
are taking valuable space on my HD (I now have just 6mb 
of free space).  I'd like to delete them but, until I'm
sure which browser is the right one, I need to keep them
(some of them needed nearly an hour to download).
 
Cheers,
Steven