Re: [AMC-list] No Computer Savvy??

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I, don't have ton of savvy, don't get into all the "stuff".
Tried, just gave me headaches :(

What I see when not wanting to buy new computers is that
when you are working on an old PC based machine you
see a need for three things on the web now.
RAM
Video RAM
NO dialup!

Of, course some good virus protection helps, but if you use good judgement
on websites, don't pop off your email, just leave it on the web. 
Everything seems to work pretty much ok.
  In my workshop is an old Emachine, with a new Motherboard, old 1.7 or 1.8 Processor.
1 Gig of ram, 32 mb of video ram and the things runs fine with XP on board. IIRC I bought the thing
around 2001. 

  All my old machines that lack room for video expansion are dogs, woof, woof.
Websites all want the flash a bling, that just slows the crap out of everything.

  Linux looks interesting, but, The machines I now have will all handle what I throw at them.
I don't see a need to experiment. I got enough trouble keeping the fleet running and TWO houses in repair...

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- "Frank Swygert" <farna@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "Frank Swygert" <farna@xxxxxxx>
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:29:44 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [AMC-list] No Computer Savvy??
>
> If you don't do a lot on your computer but e-mail and Internet, maybe
> some of the simple games and photo viewing/touching up, try Linux. I'm
> going to switch everything over to Linux in the next year or so since
> I found Mint. Linux has several distributions, all with distinct
> differences. Mint strives to be a "just-works-out-of-the-box" 
> solution. Most others are so adamant about open-source software that
> they don't include free but copyrighted codecs and such required to do
> certain things -- no Flash player, for instance (unless htere is an
> open source equivalent I don't know about). Mint includes all that
> stuff as long as it's freely distributable. It's the best of several
> I've tried, and I wanted something my wife could easily use (TOTAL
> user, no sense of how/why it works at all, and no desire to
> know/learn!). That way her computer gets to be the guinea pig/acid
> test machine! Only had on glitch, and that was my fault. Everything
> just works with minimal user input, and no tw
>  eaking is required. The start menu an just about everything is easier
> to use, once you get used to the filing conventions anyway (what
> folders are where). You can try it without installing or messing up
> your computer. Download the "Live-CD" image and burn it to a CD, then
> re-boot the computer (make sure "boot from CD" is active -- usually in
> the BIOS). Mint will load and run from the CD, creating a temp file on
> your hard drive, but deleting it when you shut down. It will be a bit
> slow, but you can use Firefox to get on the Internet and check things
> out. Can't set up your e-mail, but you can take a look at Firefox's
> e-mail companion, Thunderbird. Everything is less hassle, and no
> viruses! E-mail and networking works so much better and easier in
> Linux than Windows. I just plugged it into one of my network switches
> and started it -- lo and behold all computers on the network showed
> up, and all the others are running XP (well, dad runs Vista). Can get
> to the shared folders easil
>  y. Doing that on any of the XP machines requires running the network
> wizard, and we won't discuss that aberration dad has on his...
> 
> The only applications Linux seems to be lacking are the high end
> games, but there are quite a few first person shooters (think Doom)
> and arcade type games, and a bunch of Nintendo/Atari/etc. emulators to
> play those games. And then there is Wine, which isn't and emulator,
> but allows many PC games and high-end applications to run under Linux.
> The way it works is by re-writing the APIs and such that Windows
> programs talk to the OS through to work in a similar fashion under
> Linux. A few calls are almost emulation, but most are re-writes (or
> written from scratch) of the system calls/APIs. It works on a LOT of
> the big name games. A complete list is available at www.winehq.org. 
> 
> ----------
> Date: 18 Nov 2009 08:29:43 -0000
> From: das24rules@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> i think thats exactly what it is. i only view/reply by amcyclopedia as
> the
> list wont work on my computer since the big crash last spring. (tells
> me it
> is nonexistant) and i have issues with my email always wanting to
> reply the
> ENTIRE digest, even after i get it how i want it, it wants to send the
> entire
> thing somehow. (not real computer savy here) so, i found what works
> for me, so
> thats how i do it. 
> 
> -- 
> Frank Swygert
> Publisher, "American Motors Cars" 
> Magazine (AMC)
> For all AMC enthusiasts
> http://farna.home.att.net/AMC.html
> (free download available!)
> 
> 
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