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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> > 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.

That is just the encouragement I need to test out my own S3 video with 
Xvesa.  It gives blue with accel.

> 
> > 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).  

We try to talk people out of Windows in general.  But we are making a 
computer for someone who needs it if she is going to do AOL (shudder) and 
play games.  I think we will give her the 200MHz Compaq.  She needs 166MHz 
for AOL and 48MB RAM and the computer has just that much.  Compaq does not 
take normal RAM.  Good riddance to it.  We were thinking of putting on 
linux.  I disovered that a large 166MHz computer given to us has a 233MHz 
cpu in it - CMOS was set wrong.  I was going to give her that one and it 
will be our next linux computer instead.   The compaq does not let you 
plug a monitor power cord into it and this person always forgets to turn 
off her monitor, which we have replaced twice already. Do the 'new' (circa 
1998) computers when used with Win98 turn off monitors whose power is not 
plugged through the computer?

We were just given a dead 750MHz computer.  Our 4th Compaq given to us 
with problems.  And three Gateways (one of which actually works!).  
Is there some easy way to test a DVD drive with linux?  The latest Compaq 
has one.  The library has DVD movies.  


> 
> > 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.

Your comment is just what was needed to persuade Jim to give up the Compaq 
(sacrifice it to Windows).  Thanks.  We put Win98 on the working Gateway.


> > 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).
> 

I have used Arachne to view html with tables.  Is there some way to print
text from Arachne from an html file?  I downloaded a motherboard manual
with lots of tables and ended up using Save Formatted Text with links.  
Since I forgot exactly how to print linux text I then saved it to the DOS
drive, ran a program (view) to remove the linux characters at the end of
each line, and put in page breaks with a DOS text editor and printed it.  
Now we can change the cpu in one of our computers.  What would be a more
efficient way to do this with just linux, other than using a liuux text
editor and printing with wp?  Can you print html files directly from links
in text mode?  If not, would it be hard to write a script to do this that 
does not need lpd?



> 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.

What were you speaking about?  I am having an unsucessful campaign to get 
the city to enforce its littering laws against the local news 
conglomerate, which is distributing trash to everyone's property (96% 
advertising - the limit for newspapers is 85%).  Three of us went to speak 
to city council and the mayor fell asleep while we were putting in our 5 
minutes each.  Maybe some flashy photos would have helped - the sort with 
25 old bags of newsprint on a lawn.

> 
> 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
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