From: Strata Rose Chalup (strata@virtual.net)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 00:16:08 PDT
Dave--
That's very cool, and I very much appreciate it, but I would feel like I
was taking advantage of you. My hubby and I could afford a Windows box,
but we're saving for our first house. It's pretty unfair to ask you to
prioritize something with your money that I'm not willing to prioritize
with mine! I should be careful what outrageous requests I make on this
list. :-)
I'll see if I can revive this endlessly lame "remanufactured" (f*d up
right from the vendor) ThinkPad 770 enough to get the PCMCIA drivers
working and get it on the net via some method other than Ricochet. Then
I can play too.
I'd do a complete reinstall on the thing if I knew how to do it without
toasting all my apps and having to reinstall them! Some of them I
bought online and installed, without saving the original install.zips
(steempy! you eediot!) so I'm not sure how to separate the app wheat
from the OS chaff.
Any FoRKers in the Seattle metro area who have something less lame than
a Zip drive and wouldn't mind helping rebrain an ancient wheezing 233Mhz
laptop (half-smiley, it seems fast to me!), I'll buy the beer and pizza
and the blank tapes for the CYA backup. Backing up several gig onto Zip
drive via their backup tools has been an unfulfilling experience, which,
when completed, doesn't leave me with real faith that I could get
anything other than misc data files back, and that painfully...
Cheers,
_Strata
Dave Winer wrote:
>
> OK, I'll buy you a Windows box.
>
> If you want to work on porting it to Linux, that would be cool too.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Strata Rose Chalup" <strata@virtual.net>
> To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
> Cc: "S. Mike Dierken" <mike@KnowNow.com>; "DaveNet email"
> <dave@scripting.com>; <FoRK@xent.ICS.UCI.EDU>; <michelle@opensales.com>;
> <chris@lynch.com>; "Kate Adams" <brdbrain@best.com>; "Avron Barr"
> <avron@aldo.com>; "Matt Ocko" <matt@archcap.com>; "Peter Burrows -- Business
> Week" <pburrows@aol.com>; <wsk@greylock.com>; "Kevin Fong -- Mayfield Fund"
> <kfong@mayfield.com>; "Sheldon Laube" <slaube@centerbeam.com>; "Dave
> Carlick" <carlick@vpvp.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: The P in P2P
>
> >
> > I'll answer that one-- it would be great if it were open source enough
> > that the folks for whom Unix usage (Linux, BSD, whatever) IS a priority
> > could go out and try to do some porting in parallel.
> >
> > I keep hearing about how great this stuff is, but y'know, I can't run
> > it. It's like those postcards you get from slackers on vacation saying
> > "man, you won't believe this, it's so awesome here! whoops, gotta go, I
> > met these college volleyball chicks and they just showed up with a
> > bottle of tequila and the key to the hot-tub! see you back at the
> > office!"
> >
> > C'mon, Dave, I'd *love* to play with Radio UserLand. I bet it *is*
> > great fun. But unless somebody buys me a Windows box or a Mac, I can't
> > play.
> >
> > OK, I could back up my Linux box, repartition it, make it dual-boot to
> > some flavor of Windows (if my components are supported), and then boot
> > to Windows anytime I wanted to play with Radio UserLand. But then I
> > can't get work done at the same time, so that's not really a solution.
> >
> > Too bad I can't work on a port!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > _Strata
> >
> > Dave Winer wrote:
> > >
> > > How open source does it have to be? And why?
> > >
> > > We have the software you describe, it's called Radio UserLand. It's far
> more
> > > than you're expecting, actually. Mac and Windows. Easy to use. High
> powered.
> > > Highly programmable. Lots of source, but not open source.
> > >
> > > I'm working on the marketing site this week.
> > >
> > > It's a lot of fun!
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "S. Mike Dierken" <mike@KnowNow.com>
> > > To: "DaveNet email" <dave@scripting.com>; <FoRK@xent.ICS.UCI.EDU>;
> > > <michelle@opensales.com>; <chris@lynch.com>; "Kate Adams"
> > > <brdbrain@best.com>; "Avron Barr" <avron@aldo.com>; "Matt Ocko"
> > > <matt@archcap.com>; "Peter Burrows -- Business Week" <pburrows@aol.com>;
> > > <wsk@greylock.com>; "Kevin Fong -- Mayfield Fund" <kfong@mayfield.com>;
> > > "Sheldon Laube" <slaube@centerbeam.com>; "Dave Carlick"
> <carlick@vpvp.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:36 AM
> > > Subject: RE: The P in P2P
> > >
> > > > > Networking is going to get easy. Napster already showed us how.
> > > > > Don't just put a client on the desktop, put a server there too.
> > > >
> > > > If only we had some sort of OpenSource project with a cross platform,
> > > > standards compliant, install in 5 minutes, extensible kind of server.
> > > Dang,
> > > > that would be popular! Wouldn't it?
> > > > Or maybe some techno-company will go to the extreme of usability and
> > > embrace
> > > > and extend a common GUI operating system to let you right click a
> folder
> > > and
> > > > say 'share this folder'. Dang, that would be easy to use! Wouldn't it?
> > > >
> > > > MikeD
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Strata Rose Chalup [strata@knownow.com] | strata@virtual.net, KF6NBZ
> > Director of Network Operations | VirtualNet Consulting
> > KnowNow, Inc [http://www.knownow.com] | http://www.virtual.net/
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