Sorry about the flash thing, I didn't mean to talk down to you or be mean to
anyone, least of all a newbie who may not yet realize what I was complaining
about. It really wasn't you at all, it was me and all the compiling I did
building my system from scratch and still forgetting to install a library I
need to use netscape's plugin modules to view the flash animation in the
first place.
I apologize, this was my bad.
Tell you what -- to make it up to you, if you can come to the next Dunedin
meeting (I can't make any others), I'll help you install and answer any
questions you might have to the best of my ability about whatever doesn't
seem to make sense to you. I was in your shoes 2 1/2 years ago when I first
started, and there was no user's group in my area to answer any of the
multitudes of questions I had. I was coming off of a Win98 install that would
bluescreen everytime I tried to use my LS-120 (120meg floppy drive), when I
installed RedHat 5.1. Linux recognized and could use it without errors on the
first try -- and I was blown away. I hated the command line since I hadn't
used one since DOS 3.2, but I got used to it and eventually got to where I
was more comfortable with a Unix system than a Windows system. I still have
to use Windows at work, but I haven't touched it at home in almost a year
except to fix the girlfriend's computer.
Glen
On Friday 04 May 2001 12:29, you wrote:
> First of all Paul, thank you for your response.
> I have learned a few things which frankly I had no idea what they were
> until today (most of them I have never heard either!).
>
> Second this brings me to a personal private point that I have been
> waiting to express to the list for a long time and I have been waiting
> for the perfect example to go into the details.
>
> As you can see from my questions I'm not the sharpest nail in the box on
> these matters.
>
> I'm very frustrated.
>
> A- I'm currently using Windblows 98
> I'm not happy with it.
> I don't like it etc. etc.
> I see what the programmers go in the Engineering Department where I work
> to try to work around the MS bugs when programming new code. It is just
> not acceptable.
>
> B- I want to use Linux
> If you recall on previous old posts I expressed my inability to install 3
> different distributions on two different machines and three different HD.
> I don't consider myself an unexperienced computer user.
> AND at the same time I consider myself a regular kind of "Dummy" computer
> OS installer, hacker etc.
>
> C- I want something that comes out of the box AND WORKS!!!!!
> Up to day, by reading all of the e-mails posted to this list I.M.H.O MOST
> of the people in this list have an extremely advanced knowledge of
> hardware, and some programming.
> Does this mean I don't know hardware, well enough to get me in trouble.
> Does this mean I don't know programming, well I have taken a couple of
> classes in C.
> AND MY POINT!
> If you and me and everyone else wants everyone to run Linux, IT HAS TO BE
> IDIOT (this is me by the way) PROOF, not tweak this download that, plug
> this etc..
>
> D- Linux will run on EVERYTHING!
> Some years ago this club made a presentation to the Tampa Bay Computer
> club and showed everyone how "easy" if was to install Linux on a simple
> 486 computer.
> I have to tell you I was inspired!
> AND MY POINT!
> On a 486 running Windblows 98, I tried to install Linux.
> AND NO VIRGINIA IT DID NOT WORK!!!!!
> And when I attempted to find out what the reasons were, frankly I could
> not understand all of the information given to me:
> The limitations of the HD size and how we can go around this etc etc.
> So they told me forget the 486 go with a Pentium.
> SAME RESULTS
>
> Now do you see my frustrations?????
>
> So I sit in the background and use my Windblows box (es) and this is the
> reason that I sent the list the URL with the flash without even realizing
> what it was or that it used it.
> I just saw the humor of the URL, nothing else crossed my mind.
>
> Does this mean I'm going to curl up go away and not continue my work with
> Linux
> NO!
> But for now I just don't have the time and or the energy to try and tweak
> a Linux distribution to make it work in any of my three boxes.
>
> Thank you for listening to me.
> Ramiro Souto
>
>
> On Thu, 3 May 2001 23:59:37 -0400 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
>
> writes:
> > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:17:40PM -0700, ramiro souto wrote:
>
> Sorry:
> You are talking Chinese to me.
> Not Chinese. G[r]eek.
> What is flash?
> A [proprietary] way to show animations on websites.
> What is avi?
> A format for showing animations as well.
> What is lesstif?
> An Open Source version of Motif. Motif is, among other things, a software
> library that allows you to write software that looks pretty in X Windows.
> Motif is closed source, and other libraries have come along that function
> the way Motif does, but are Open Source.
> What is netscape plugins?
> Programs that sort of "link" to Netscape (or vice versa) to do things
> Netscape can't do. For instance, Netscape can't natively play animations.
> So, depending on the type of animation (AVI, Flash, etc.),
> you would need a plug-in that handles those in order to play the
> animations while browsing in Netscape. Certain other kinds of programs
> also use plug-ins for similar reasons.
> What is konqueror?
> KDE browser.
> Paul
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