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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:58:02PM +0000, Day Brown wrote:
> Neo Sze Wee wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:38:05PM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Day Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > > When you do run dosemu, will it let you have the 50x80 screen? I see
> > > > that you havta be root to change the terminal font in Linux.
> > > >
> > > I think various settings like that are possible in the config file -
> > > dosemu.conf, IIRC.  Since I've made those remarks about dosemu and 
> > > gotten
> > > some feedback, I've actually managed to try it out.  It's much simpler 
> > > to
> > > set up than I had thought.  However, it seems to be really still in a 
> > > sort
> > > of beta state (my version is 0.99 something, btw).  I had been meaning 
> > > to
> > > ask onlist if anyone had managed to do anything useful with it: I 
> > > suppose
> >
> > I heard the latest version allow you to get online.
> 
> But why would you want too? none of the dos browsers can handle all the 
> flash
> JS schitt anymore. There are lots of win xp servers out there with MS-CHAP, 
> and
> there is *no* dos PPP driver that will get you online with them.
> 
> I am beginning to see a kind of hybrid desktop, with a small dos
> partition/drive that it boots from to the file manager with scrollbar color
> pull downs that tend to be *more* useful than the GUI variety because
> programmers get distracted with eye candy issues rather than real
> functionality. But then- to launch loadlin to a slimmed down Linux so that 
> it

I am doing that.

> comes up quickly with xwindows and your browser. Surf for ever, but- the
> sabotage software will never think to look for your dos drive, whose boot 
> could
> be off a FD with the write tab shut.  Let them try to figure out how to 
> write
> to a locked floppy. There are dos tools that will copy your CMOS, and warn 
> you
> of any trouble. Which is most likely a change caused by a weak battery 
> rather
> than software sniping.  Anyone wanna take bets?
> 
> Back up your personal data on the dos drive. Or even move it so that 
> sabotage
> software cannot *find* your address list or whatever. And whatever you do, 
> keep
> your postings quiet on the issue, let the windoz or linux fanatics rave 
> about
> how great their OS is, and how it deserves all the masses of the faithful. 
> Let
> them go on about how theirs is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and 
> let
> them be the hacker targets for toasting.
> 
> With DOS LTOOLS, you'll *never* be told you dont have 'permission', and if 
> you
> can get back to the dos prompt, it'll *never* tell you cant shutdown.  With
> drive DTRs of 10-100megs/*second*, the wait for a dos boot is 
> insignificant. I
> spoze you could use Lilo, but then, I've seen lotsa posts about problems 
> with
> that, and seen some myself when I swap a drive, and forget to adjust Lilo
> properly. Or failed trying, but moved on to other issues.
> 
> I spoze there's a lotta shadetree system integrators out there who have 
> several
> systems running several different OSes, and more drives on the shelf with 
> even
> more distros. Stick one in a case, and it will likely ask you during the 
> boot
> process about installing the drivers for what it found. Which might, or 
> might
> not, work. I've seen dos boot systems that nothing else would, and so, if 
> dos
> wont boot, I'll quit trying to fix a Linux 'driver' problem.
> 
> So, when one is confronted with a much flakey hardware as I see, being able 
> to
> boot from dos and then load Linux seems real useful. Kinda like having thr
> Linux 'rescue disk' on a hard drive.
> I spoze at some point all these inconveniences for the single user will be
> hammered out as the distro programmers get hip to the consensus of the 
> threads.
> 
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