[svlug] netscape-dynam problems...

[Rafael]

Javilk wrote:
> 
>    Progress is being made, albeit slowwwly...
> 
Haleluyah.

> > Cultivate a sense of tranquility, and imagine yourself slowly becoming an
> > uncarved block.
> 
Go to Tibet, use abacus with 2 sets of beads, i.e. windows.

>      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!
> 
It's nice.

>     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...
> 
Copy is a troublesome program. Permissions are not always correct. Try:

(cd directory; tar cvf - .)|(cd newdir;tar xvf -)

It preserves permissions, dates.

>    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...)
> 
Color palette messed up. Not enough colors. Seen it before on Sun
machines. What's the video board? Memory on video board counts.

>     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?
> 

Greyhound on strike.

>    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.
> 
VMS yes, other things no.


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

Prayer (*) a last resort, helps.

>     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???
> 
Grab window (app) on the side and drag it down to see the top of it. Can
you resize it from the bottom and pull it down?

Size issue. A virtual screen in X config should help.

> > --
> > 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!
> 

Just send IRS after the hard working people. IRS don't burn, just
pillage. Gold is cheap, i.e. not worth pillaging these days. Bank
accounts, soon to be all digital. All your transactions will soon be
monitored (oops, pillaged).

Rafael
Advanced civilization doesn't need leaders.

(*) Meditate, visualize Bill G. with X-windows on his desk in 3 years.

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