Thanks to all for answers to this thread ! Sorry for the delay, was out of town. :-(
----------------------------------------------- >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:53:54 +0530 (IST) >From: Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, newlxuser wrote: >> |When-ever I am on the move, I have to >> |use Win/Outlook combo in the local Cyber >> |Dhaba. Most of the time I forget to set >> |the "plain-text" mode in mail-reply setup >> |of 'outlook'. >Why not get a shell account with any of the shell providers ?? (free or >otherwise.. they are very functional and worth every cent) I did'nt get you. How is it going to help me to avoid Win/Outlook combo while e-mailing thru Cyber-Dhabas ? --------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:35:12 +0800 >From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Even if some providers (such as Satyam iWay) have tried to block all except >web access (likely by restricting access to the telnet binary) you can just >fire up your browser and do >telnet://m-net.arbornet.org >(say). Then enjoy life using win9x's crappy (and win2k's slightly less >crappy) telnet client. >That said, popping the mail down and typing on localhost is fairly safe >(though there are two things - don't forget to erase your settings and your >mails when you use the cybercafe comp's outlook to send mails, and two - run >a virus scan as far as possible before you try to config settings ... or >you'll find out that you are pumping out sircam to everyone in your inbox ..) Interesting ! I guess for that, I should have a shell a/c ? Or my present vsnl a/c would suffice ? But Cyber-Dhaba's PC is already connected to internet thru vsnl. So how can I use a free shell a/c to download/upload my mail, using telnet ? Or the system is just like the Yahoo's POP/SMTP service ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ************************************************** >From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:26:14 +0530 >A slighlty expensive proposition but a good one. Get a second hand laptop. From >some e-auction sites in india, 486 laptop are available at around 5K-10K. My ! And where can I find a phone line to connect to internet ? Once in A'dabad, my co-partner with a laptop could not get to connect thru the lodge's phone line even when we were ready to pay the phone charges ! They simply directed us to the near-by Cyber Cafe ! If you are in Munbai, TOI ads proclaims to sell used laptops for 25-30K *ONLY* ! **************************************************** .................................................... >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:53:22 +0530 (IST) >From: Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Laptops are definitely useful.. but you can do most of the basic stuff >like mail and telnet/ssh etc using your PDA.(it doesn't give you the feel >of a real computer though.) I have used my friend's PDA - a couple of times. But was not very comfortable with the smallish LCD with lot of emails. >http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5767.shtml >(The 3GB model should be more affordable and more sensible too I suppose) Hmm.. ! Not affordable - at least presently ! ................................................... >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:37:19 +0800 >From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hell, Nick Hill (ilug-hyd) has an app called sms-term (using net::irc I >think) which allows you to get a shell (command line apps only - stuff like >commands, and ed if you want to edit anything etc) over your cellphone. As I said above, Not very comfortable for lot of emails. Apart from LIH, I get approx. 300 emails daily. And all are not in the digest form. >From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 18:06:32 +0530 >> (The 3GB model should be more affordable and more sensible too I suppose) >Very fine. But I see a bigger hurdle..From the said page.. >We cannot ship this item outside of the U.S Not much of the problem if one desire to use it outside USA. There are ways to do this, that too legally. Any import agent would guide for it - free of cost ! ============================================================== >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 04:59:56 +0530 >From: USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:57:52PM +0530, newlxuser wrote: >> Have any-body used it ? AFAIR, Bish had done something like this, >> when he could not use his PC due to some cable-digging by local >> Telecom. Bish ? >Yep, I am developing a 3 disk travel set ... This runs from floppies I hope it would be ready before, wrist-watch email clients get popular enough to make all other email utils obsolate ! ;-) Kindly do it fast, I very badly need such an util. ( And give it a name some-thing like "nlx-linux", because I am really going to chase you and bug you to complete it as early as possible ) ;-) >and totally on a ram drive. Disk #1 has the kernel (and syslinux), >Disk #2 the initrd.gz and the third is the data disk (with personal >configs). It is working, but needs a lot of work and refinement. I >could not fit in stuff like fetchmail and sendmail etc., so using a >rather unconventional method of accessing mails directly from the >POP3 servers using scripts based on telnet and netcat. This small >thing for example, gets 12 mails at a time from my nde box. >#! /bin/bash >( echo user bish > echo pass my_password > echo stat > echo list > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12; > do > echo retr $i > done > echo quit ) | nc -v -v nde.vsnl.net.in 110 > /floppy/mymail.in >What a fetchmail ! Just 10 lines ! 'mymail.in' is my 'mbox' ! My ! Are you a full-time Linux-ian ? How can you manage all these activities ajdusting your HCL job ? >to existing things are necessary ... will put it up when I think >people will not torch me for it ! You better complete it early, other-wise also I am going to "torch" you for it ! :-) >Meanwhile, I downloaded a thing called Basic Linux from a Fresh- >meat link. It is just a 1.8 mb download. It has just two floppies >Can give this 2 disk distro (baslin16.zip) of Basic Linux a try. Will try dnloading to-night ! And will pop-up again for the settings. ============================================================== Thanks & Regards ! ~newlxuser _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
