Adventures in Operating Systems

[mikailborg]

Well, I finally took the plunge - this is being posted from the new installation of OS 10.1 on my machine. I'm still getting used to a lot of it - it takes me longer to find stuff at the moment; some of my favorite applications haven't been "carbonized" to run under the new OS yet, while at least one game will run but insists on setting my monitor to a size it can't handle (cheap monitor's fault, not the OS), and there are other teething troubles. On the other hand, text looks really good and very readable on here; once I install X Windows, I can find a nice mailreader and read my mail directly off Elfie, bypassing Adelphia's bogus servers; and, the best part about this installtion, is that it's not Windows ME or XP. I fought with ME for hours this afternoon just trying to get it to acknowldge a LAN connection to the Internet; and I'm hearing so many bad things about XP right now that I'm glad I own some Apple stock. Wonder what RedHat stock's going for right now? :)

It's a weird Thursday night. I *still* don't have the hang of Thursdays.

Comments

[vond.livejournal.com]

Hmm, something's wrong if you're having trouble finding a mail reader that reads mail "directly off elfie". Elfie supports POP and IMAP - most mail readers support at least one of those standards. Not sure what else you might be referring to other than maybe NFS mounting your home directory and reading stuff that way - I guess that would be more "direct" than POP/IMAP.

Crossed wires somewhere

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn that, less than 2 months ago, Franklin told me that I couldn't read off of Elfie, and that I had to either A) forward my mail to another mailbox with the .forward file and read it there, or B) Telnet in (SSH in, now), mount the directory, and read it with pine (or the equivalent).

If I could just set Eudora's POP and SMTP to the correct hosts on elfie.org, I'd be much happier. Do you know them?