[CTS] Re: Ubantu

  • From: joe <cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:37:01 -0700

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:26 -0500, Russ Blakeman wrote:


They've cleaned it up some or maybe it's the video card. The old 1MB
Trident left a little to be desired but this looks great now. As a
matter of fact there must be a bunch of screensavers on here somewhere
because every time I looked up there was something different rolling
around.
I gotta catch up with John. He said Ubuntu logs on automatically to
upgrade but this hasn't attempted anything like that and I have no idea
where to start to do what ???
We'll see what happens..........



> ï 
> 
> After Dark - dang I thought I was one of the few idiots that still had
> that enabled on a machine - came on an old Win 3.11 setup on an NEC
> 386 based portable (not a laptop, a portable lunchbox sized machine).
>  
>  
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of joe
>         Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:15 PM
>         To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>         Subject: [CTS] Re: Ubantu
>         
>         
>         
>         Hey Murray....... how in hell did you get on here ?
>         Have you got Ubuntu up and running or using an old operating
>         system of some kind ?
>         I'll tell ya they have come a long ways so give it a shot. If
>         this system will support things that Win98 won't it may be an
>         alternative to upgrading to XP and the PITA that seems to
>         cause.
>         Yeah, and the $150 or so for XP is something else I don't care
>         for.
>         
>         When I got this booted up and it sat here until the
>         screensaver came on I was surprised to see the old Flying
>         Toasters come on. An old After Dark issue from about 1985 I
>         think.
>         
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 18:56 -0400, Murray Reid wrote:
>         
>         > ï 
>         > every time 
>         > 
>         >         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         >         From: joe 
>         >         To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>         >         Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:45 PM 
>         >         Subject: [CTS] Ubantu 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         Is the mail working now ???
>         >         
>         >         

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