There are some special sites dedicated to linux on laptops, which you
may have seen, which is helpful since laptop configuration is often a
lot more frustrating, since you usually have to make do with what's
hardwired in the box, and cannot choose your graphics card or sound
card, etc...
When I mentioned that you could run a server, I meant that you can set
one up for your own needs, like linux using samba (smbd file server) to
create a windows file-share that you can use across platforms without
the hassle of FTP or web-uploads... there are lots of fun reasons to run
apache locally, which could range from testing those web pages you make
before you put them up on your hosted site, and also managing your
information -- some of us run personal wiki's to manage our interests
and links, some use a web-based calendaring/scheduling package; these
sorts of options allow you to access the info from another machine...
using the web-browser as an application frontend has many advantages.
For instance, when I was setting up my photo gallery website, I set it
up locally before allowing the outside world to see it... Also, running
a web proxy with a cache (like squid) is a fabulous way to speed up your
web-browsing experience, no matter whether you're on a T3 (!!!) or a
modem, it will cache content so if other servers (or your connection) is
slow, you do not need to keep waiting for your HTTP request to be
responded to. Another thing you might like running a local webserver
for is to browse content while off-line. If you wanted to copy a site
you could use a tool like wget, even burn a lot of stuff to CD and
sneaker-net it home, keeping it online for you while you are "offline",
very handy for documentation like howto's and faq's, or even just
queueing up the news in the morning, and letting you read articles at
your leisure.
BTW, most of the software we mentioned is for playing, not creating,
multimedia. Gosh, I'm ranting -- sorry. Just trying to help you find
the appropriate solutions!
(ps - don't know if you were replying to the public thread, or the
private message I sent you, Ben...)
cheerio and best of luck,
benb
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 15:26, Ben Huot wrote:
> When I was talking about DVDs, Real, and Quicktime I meant playing them, not
> making them. I can't think of anything to do videos of.
>
> Maybe cows out in the pasture, but I wouldn't want to get anthrax :-)
>
> As far as networking, the only kind of networking that I do is with the
> Internet as a client. I don't do servers because I don't want to spend the
> money for a dedicated dsl connection for the server and because I is not the
> kind of creativity that I am good at. It is so much depth that it stresses me
> out too much - I try to get it all done in a day. And I don't enjoy
> troubleshooting.
>
> I can't think of any videos now that I want to play, but I would like the
> capability, especially if I am to recommend Linux to anyone.
>
> Why I didn't mention video card and all that - I expect that if it works on
> Linux then it will work on common hardware. Toshiba is a common laptop.
>
> Ben
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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