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> >
> > I forgot to mention that you can also set up a free FreeBSD account at
> > m-net.arbornet.org.  One of our list members is emailing from an account

> >
> I looked into arbornet and actually set up an account there a couple of
> months ago.  Since they only allow 500kb of mail storage, I decided to

Grex gives you 1M and I have been keeping my stored mail to 500K - most of
what I saved it not worth saving after a while anyway.  What bothered me
about m-net was the 750K limit on files in the home directory, which means
you cannot download any large files from the web.  Grex has a 1M limit but
I am way over that - it is loosely enforced and I compiled Links.


> abandon it.  The best of all the shell providers I've found is
> lonestar.org.  There, you can get a free trial shell account that actually
> gives you a decent amount of space, allows you to run the mutt mail
> client, naim and a few other Linux apps.  If, within 90 days, you send
> them a $1 donation, the account becomes permanent (for life, if I recall
> correctly), you get alot more mail storage AND web space (10MB each) and
> alot more apps become available to you.  I decided to select their highest
> membership tier (ARPA) and got, for a one-time donation of about $40, 100
> MB web space, 100 MB mail storage and 100 MB of file storage - for life.
> Steven: may I donate some of that web and/or file space to BL?
> 

Thanks for this information.  I will check them out and let grexers know
too.  We get 1M file storage including webspace, 1M mail.


> > > I suppose you and your
> > > partner know that video RAM for onboard chips is often configurable in
> > > the BIOS settings?  You may be able to increase it to 4, 6 or 8 MB there
> > > (it uses some segment of your SDRAM).  If it is, that may resolve, or at
> > > least help, your display problems.

> I was actually referring to the onboard chip.  It sounds like you're
> talking about the video card that went bad.  To set the amount of video
> RAM for the 2MB onboard video chip that you said was having a hard time
> keeping up with graphics, take a look in the computer's BIOS settings for
> video RAM options.  You may be able to increase the amount of RAM it gets
> alotted to 4, 6 or 8 MB (increasing it from 2MB), thus resolving or
> alleviating its problems in keeping up with GIMP's or the desktop's
> display.


Good idea to check this.  We certainly don't need 225MB RAM.  Is there
some way to simply get rid of all the icons in GNOME?  Would deleting them
hurt anything, or can you set things to text instead of icons?  I was able
to delete all the icons in Arachne and it still worked (faster).  There
are some unlabelled icons at the screen bottom in Gnome but the rest are
already labelled.

> 
> James
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