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Fix your newsreader; it's reporting all your mesages have 1 line when
they obviously have more than that. And include more context--context
and attributions restored.
That I know is not true. You can buy a serial modem for Linux.
....the whole paragraph I wrote in Message-ID
(e-mail address removed)202.dyndns.org was:
If you're stuck with dialup, you're kind of out of luck period. Once
you try cable/DSL, you won't want to go back. If you have a
LoseModem, you may be out of luck. Some LoseModems work with Linux
[...] Note that 9-pin external modems *always* work with any OS,
....look at the last line, eh? I suppose I should have clarified "out of
luck, period"--dialup is so slow that using it is a real PITA when
you're used to a faster speed. Reading 7 pages with a cablemodem takes
me ~3 minutes, most of that reading the content. Reading the same 7
pages with dialup takes me ~10 minutes, most of it waiting for the
content to download at 3K/sec. YMMV of course--if you turn off images,
and/or use Firefox AdBlock, things could be faster.
I have a disability that give me headaches if I play games or use 3d
graphics for a long time. First thing I did is add my own theme.
Turn down the brightness and contrast . I don't like huge Monitors.
I would like a 17 Inch monitor.
17" isn't huge in these days of 50" plasma wall-TVs. Disability, check,
you really should've mentioned any unusual conditions in your first
message since that can prevent people from making dumb recommendations.
You can change brightness, contrast, colors, and all that junk for
window manager themes in KDE, and you may be able to do the same thing
in Litestep if there isn't an already-existing low-contrast
low-brightness theme. Have you tried Litestep yet? Do that.
For example when you install red hat. It starts out with the default
kde Desktop. That what I would like windows xp to look like.
Check for a Litestep theme that mimics the default KDE theme, maybe
"Plastik" widgets, "Plastik" colors and "Plastik" style. Later versions
of Redhat may have used a theme called "Bluecurve", so look for
that might be useful to Google as well.
Plus you can not get the same program for Linux as you can for
windows.
Firefox (web browser), Gimp (image editor), ImageMagick (image
utilities), OpenOffice (MS Office replacement, reads/writes MS Office
file formats), openssh (secure remote access to machines running an SSH
server), Perl (scripting language), gvim (text editor), bash (shell),
and a whole bunch of other things are available for both Linux and Win32
platforms. They are all free as in speech and free as in beer. The
ones I mentioned behave similarly on both platforms (well, not really
Perl). You should follow my advice that I posted upthread and quoted
here: Describe the 5 or 6 Windows programs that you use the most, and
someone will be able to tell you what the Free equivalents are.
Yes, there are starting to make some more. Plus, I don't want to
start over.
? You said in your first message that you'd run Linux if your LoseModem
worked with it. Now you say you won't. Indecision, or did you
misspeak?
