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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> When you run Xvesa with icewm, 8-bit color is light 
> turquoise and 16-bit color is dark blue.  Which color 
> do you get with startx -- Xvesa when using icewm?

Blue.  I get blue with 800x600x12 and up.
I get olive with 800x600x11 and down.

> I think you must be referring to the 'new' Windows, 
> which we have never seen in operation.  We just 
> started to upgrade people to Win98.

I like your attitude.  Over on the Survivor PC list,
people keep discussing Windows XP stuff (and I get
in trouble for telling them that XP is not suitable
for survivor PCs).  

> It is another Compaq that was doing frequent resets 
> with Linux so maybe they are optimized for Windows 
> instead.  

Compaqs are well-known for causing problems (unusual
BIOS, non-standard components).  I've had several
Compaq-specific problems myself and I've seen lots
of comments from Linux users complaining about Compaqs.

> We have not found much use for laptop computers.  

The most useful thing I do with my laptop is presentations.
I occasionally lobby the local Council or address public
meetings where a powerpoint projector is available.  I just
plug in my $20 laptop, which autoexec.bats straight to the
first page.  I do my pages in HTML and display them with 
Arachne in fullscreen mode (with an invisible link to the 
next page in the bottom right corner).  Works great (Arachne 
even has a built-in editor to design/modify the pages).

Environmental/community groups speaking at public meetings
often find themselves up against a flashy corporate/goverment 
powerpoint presentation.  All it takes to level the playing 
field is an old (throwaway) laptop.

If the laptop is powerful enough to run X at reasonable speed, 
there are powerpoint-like programs for Linux.  However, for 
less powerful laptops (like mine), HTML on Arachne works well.


Cheers,
Steven