On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Khepri wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
>
> > | When you choose, keep in mind the following rule of thumb:
> > |
> > | 1. "Logitech" protocol is for old serial mouse models from
> > | Logitech. Modern Logitech mice use either "MouseMan" or
> > | "Microsoft" protocol.
> > |
> > | 2. Most 2-button serial mice support the "Microsoft" protocol.
>
>
> Now *that * is going to come into play at some
> point I'm sure! Thanbks for looking that up!
For future reference, I did this:
find /usr/X11R6/ -type f | xargs grep -l Logitech
and picked the most likely-looking candidate.
> Actually that wasn't even from the man pages was it? X11 docs?
Yeah.
> >>I'm thinking if I can learn to do just about
> >>anything and everything from cammndline..the GUI
> >>is an after thought almost..
> >
> >
> > I can _do_ pretty much everything from CLI (for some things I prefer
> > it), but text-based web browsers that can easily access web sites are
> > few and far between. links is better than lynx in this regard. Haven't
> > tried w3m.
> I have a P166 over there...sitting....maybe I can slap one ofthose
> micro-linux's on there..I saw one had Links for a browser and another had
> w3m...Puppy or Monkey or something...muLinux?
I went through a bunch of distros (Puppy was one of them), trying to find
something which would boot my laptop from a USB thumb drive (yes, its BIOS
is OK with that). I eventually said "screw it" and resized the NTFS
partition to make room to install SuSE 9.1.
> Anyway, I tend tobe a bit nostalgic about the old PCs...I guess they're
> calling it atticware now...LOL..I saw someone had actually gotten Damn
> Small to run on a 486/33sx! Sounds like fun..
I started with a 386/16, so 10+ years ago it was possible. For a long
time, I ran Mandrake 7.2 on a 486dx2/66 as my router.
> They actually had a atticware install-a-thon where they would hget the sys
> upand running and online nd email people from there....sounds likeone
> ofthose things that might be fun ONCE.:)
It would be fun for the challenge of shoehorning Linux onto some of those
machines.
-- "Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland." - Unknown from Nov. 1998 issue of Infosystems Executive.
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