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 ??? > > > >