[svlug] netscape-dynam problems...

[Javilk]

   Progress is being made, albeit slowwwly...

> Cultivate a sense of tranquility, and imagine yourself slowly becoming an 
> uncarved block.

     I am already an uncarved block of wood with respect to Linux.
Anymore and I will be sprouting branches!

> Login as root.  
> Start X.
> Get the Communicator 4.03 package.
> Un-tar it.
> Run ns-install.  Answer the kind questions, including where to install to.
> cd to the place you told it to install to.
> type "./netscape &"
> Watch the pretty Web browser open.

    Pretty???  Ugly!

    Image handling is totaly broken!  Image size is correct, but the
images are stripes of grainy garbage, much like randomly mixed grain,
sand, and ashes.  Or nothing.  Of course, that is on the desktop machine. 
The important one is the notebook. 

    So I mounted the drives via NFS, and copied the directory.  Started X,
persuaded netscape to start, and...

   it says 32442  (it's doing something, it's doing something... system
load is high...)  I accept...  Screen flashes terribley when I move the
mouse...

    It's Up!!! 

    Hitting known site.... oops! Totally screwed images!  Just like the
other one.

    Well, I am further along.  I have the ability to use tables and
background colors in the demo, which gives me a lot more than Lynx would!
But still, it would be nice if I could do some images.  Background images
are TV type snow.  Some other images load as snow, others just as blanks.
Guess it is jpeg = blank, gif = snow.  

    At least it is running... or is it?
 
    X Error failed request: BacAlloc (insufficient rsources...)

    On a 20 meg RAM 486 DX2-66?  and then:  
 
     Bus error /usr/local/netscape/netscape

What is a bus error? Does that mean a software bus, or the for real
hardware of the machine itself?

   Maybe I should try for Netscape 3.x...?

   Demo will be Really Difficult if I have to do it with Lynx!!!

> Buy _Running Linux_.  Read it.

    I have Dr. Linux, 5th edition.  I have away some other predicessor to
this, Linux Bible, I think.  I've been runing Linux for a year and a half
now.   Does not mean I understand it all... but that I am comfortable
running it when it runs... which is most of the time.

> Buy _Learning the bash Shell_.  Read it.

    I use tcsh, and script in sh. I have Unix Power Tools, does not mean I
know most of it, but I get around.  It's better than DOS, but we could
debate REXX on VM/CMS.

> Buy _Life with Unix_.  Read it.
> Buy _Linux in a Nutshell_.  Keep it on your monitor, for ready reference.

    I will look those books over.

> Simple, ja?

    Always seems that way when everything works... which isn't the way the
world seems to want to work...

    One more really stupid thing... the top of the netscape screen is off
the screen, I can gues the first word is File, the second Edit, and the 
third Go. But I can't get at any of the stuff needed to move or maximize
the netscape window... is there any convenient way to move it???

> -- 
> Cheers,                                     The Viking's Reminder:
> Rick Moen                                   Pillage first, _then_ burn.

   You sure about pillaging first?  I mean, gold melts and you can pick it
up after you burn; but if you don't burn first, you have to fight a heck
of a lot of really angry people to get at it!   It just seems so much
safer to burn first!

- javilk at mall-net.com --------------------------------------------------- 
Our nations second greatest asset (behind our minds,) is the idle time of
our computers.  Let us find a use for it that puts Linux on the map.  
(It will also show  MS Slothware as our Nation's Greatest Folly!) 


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