[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where has Demon been hiding your email for the last month? It seems you > need a new ISP!
Nothing wrong with Demon, I've been using them for years and years and years. I suspect Malcolm's clock is wrong as a number of his posts have ended up in the 'ages ago' category. I had a similar problem myself when my laptop's clock was running about two years slow. I think it was Geoff who pointed out the problem to me. > I use the Fedora distribution of Linux. My business runs on SUSE 10.2 - the datbase server (Oracle and Firebird), version control system and so on live on 'the big box' upstairs in the office. We do our main work on laptops (if we can't be bothered to climb the stairs!) in the living room. That way, we can be easily distracted by something interesting on TV. (Or, in my wife's case, by coronation street aka mindless tedium !) I did try Fedora 4 for a bit, but never really liked it much. I started with a demo SUSE years ago - it was a 'live' CD before they were as popul;ar as they are now. I triued to get UQLX to run on it, but the development tools were not included on the CD so I couldn't compile it. It was trying to get UQLX working that made me buy a bigger hard disc, install Mandrake to dual boot with Windows 98 (at the time) and get UQLX working - I never suceeded. It compiled etc, and ran, but the colours wouldn't change or anything. I was seriously disapointed. I was also very pleased with Linux - how on earth, I thought, can the give away so much software for free. > I buy a new version every year I upgrade as and when I need to. For security more than anything. > on DVD at about £8 including postage: this contains about 9GB of > software. You could check out the newsagenct for Linux Format (or Linux Magazine or Linux Developer & User) as they regularly carry the latest releases from all the big (and smaller) distros - at around £5.00 per copy, it's slightly cheaper. ((Stereo-)Typical Scot !) > On top of that, I've downloaded a specialised HTML editor, > Basic, and a couple of utilities. The big programs come in a package > which installs automatically and compiling the utilities is done in a > couple of minutes. I think the 'fear' that Windows users have of compiling software is overblown. Installing is easy. Sure there are times when something won't work because some other library is required (aka DLL Hell from Windows - so it's nothing new) but in the main, there's very few problems. > I've never bought a Linux magazine, but I have bought > two books (less than I bought for the QL). I call that a bargain. I'm afraid that I buy everything going :o) I also contribute to the Firebird Database project, when I can, as does a certain Fred Toussi of Text 87 fame. Cheers, Norm.
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