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alt.ascii-art · 12 messages · 9 Mar 2000 - 17 Mar 2000
Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> ASCII art 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
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  My Linux box.
  Since it's my very first ASCII graph I'd like
  to hear any suggestions or corrections.
  (e.g. about the chair)


  ... YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,
  also there is only ONE button at the tower,
  the POWER button (NOT the RESET -useless as well ;).



Mike @

Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> ASCII art 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
ooooops!!!
sorry
Lets try again:
(In case you can't see properly again, I sent it
as an attachment as well)



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  My Linux box.
  Since it's my 1st ASCII graph I'd like
  to hear any suggestions or corrections.
  (e.g. about the chair)

  ... YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,
  also there is only ONE button at the tower,
  the POWER button (NOT the RESET -useless as well ;).


Mike @


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  My Linux box.
  Since it's my 1st ASCII graph I'd like
  to hear any suggestions or corrections.
  (e.g. about the chair)
  And YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,
  also there is only ONE button at the tower,
  the POWER button (NOT the RESET -useless as well ;).

mouse? i had on of those once about 6 months ago.
life is a lot less complicated now


On Thu, 09 Mar 2000 11:12:28 +0000, Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
$
$  My Linux box.
$  Since it's my 1st ASCII graph I'd like
$  to hear any suggestions or corrections.
$  (e.g. about the chair)
$
$  ... YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,
$  also there is only ONE button at the tower,
$  the POWER button (NOT the RESET -useless as well ;).

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Gerfried Fuchs <alf...@innocent.com> ASCII art 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> ooooops!!!
> sorry
> Lets try again:

 Wraped again.

> (In case you can't see properly again, I sent it
> as an attachment as well)

 That worked quite well (for me).

>   My Linux box.
       ^^^^^

 Good boy ;)

>   Since it's my 1st ASCII graph I'd like
>   to hear any suggestions or corrections.
>   (e.g. about the chair)

 O.k., let me try a little diddle. I moved the chair closer to the table
(so it won't wrap again) and added a border to the screen:

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 It looks great to me - the chair isn't bad either :)  It is really
outstanding for a first pic!

>   And YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,

 So you are using no graphical browser (aka as Netscape ;)? Netscape is
unuseable without a mouse, and Opera is far from being useable at the
moment.
 Furthermore you don't seem to be doing any graphics - for gimp is also
quite useless without the help of a mouse.

 Yes, I also don't use my mouse quite often (thanks to the easy
configuration of WindowMaker or Sawmill), but in some circumstances you
really need a mouse (e.g. within quake ;). Face the fact: If a Linux
user needs a mouse depends on the thing s/he does. Everything else is as
ignorant as MS is.

 Have fun!
P.S.: Gee, I wonder why such a proud Linux-User as you needs to use on
the one hand Netscape for posting (get a real newsreader(tm) like [1])
and on the other hand need NT for that (my excuse is beeing at work,
what is yours ;)
-- 
Gerfried Fuchs
<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>
[1] <URL:http://space.mid.edu/~davis/slrn.html>

Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>  So you are using no graphical browser (aka as Netscape ;)? Netscape is
> unuseable without a mouse, and Opera is far from being useable at the
> moment.

"lynx" is the magic word :) ... more than a simple browser :)

>  Furthermore you don't seem to be doing any graphics - for gimp is also
> quite useless without the help of a mouse.

...well, I prefer ASCII graphics!! The only thing u need is a humble
terminal :)
 
>  Yes, I also don't use my mouse quite often (thanks to the easy
> configuration of WindowMaker or Sawmill), but in some circumstances you
> really need a mouse (e.g. within quake ;). Face the fact: If a Linux

...games, games... the only game I like to play is FIFA but needs :{
MSWin.
afterall I don't like games .-

> user needs a mouse depends on the thing s/he does. Everything else is as
> ignorant as MS is.

That's right but not correct taking into account the above.
 
>  Have fun!
> P.S.: Gee, I wonder why such a proud Linux-User as you needs to use on
> the one hand Netscape for posting (get a real newsreader(tm) like [1])
> and on the other hand need NT for that (my excuse is beeing at work,
> what is yours ;)

Unfortunately the University is full of NT boxes :(

Thnx anyway
Mike @


> --
> Gerfried Fuchs
> <URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
> <URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>
> [1] <URL:http://space.mid.edu/~davis/slrn.html>

fvw <fvw...@var.cx> 9 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
In <38C...@ukc.ac.uk>, ps4...@ukc.ac.uk wrote:
>Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
>>  So you are using no graphical browser (aka as Netscape ;)? Netscape is
>> unuseable without a mouse, and Opera is far from being useable at the
>> moment.
>
>"lynx" is the magic word :) ... more than a simple browser :)

Lynx user? You should try w3m! It does colour, tables and frames as well
as everything lynx does.

-- 

                        Frank v Waveren
                        fv...@var.cx
                        ICQ# 10074100

Faux_Pseudo <roo...@localhost.localdomain> ASCII art 10 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
On 9 Mar 2000 13:15:55 GMT, Gerfried Fuchs <alf...@innocent.com> wrote:
$outstanding for a first pic!
$
$>   And YES a Linux user does NOT need a mouse,
$
$ So you are using no graphical browser (aka as Netscape ;)? Netscape is
i use lynx for my browsing and hate netscrape's memory leaks and
inablity to have a cache in the news groups
$
$configuration of WindowMaker or Sawmill), but in some circumstances you
$really need a mouse (e.g. within quake ;). Face the fact: If a Linux

quake one is the only game on my box and i do just fine with the
keybord

as far as graphics go if i need to look at graphics i use a program
called fbi that can veiw graphics with out a X inviroment
and i have all the keyboard shortcuts down so if i 'need' to use
kde i can but i never do after all there is even a app to turn pdf
files into html so a mouse is realy unnessasary for anything other
than cut and past

$user needs a mouse depends on the thing s/he does. Everything else is as
$ignorant as MS is.
$
$ Have fun!
$P.S.: Gee, I wonder why such a proud Linux-User as you needs to use on
$the one hand Netscape for posting (get a real newsreader(tm) like [1])
$and on the other hand need NT for that (my excuse is beeing at work,
$what is yours ;)
$-- 
$Gerfried Fuchs
$<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
$<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>
$[1] <URL:http://space.mid.edu/~davis/slrn.html>


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Gerfried Fuchs <alf...@innocent.com> ASCII art 10 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Today, Mike wrote:
>: "lynx" is the magic word :) ... more than a simple browser :)

 "simple" is the real word >;-))

>Another useful browser is 'w3m'...not as powerful as lynx, but it does

 One question, Ben: In which case isn't w3m as powerful as lynx? In
browser-context I ask. I know that lynx can read newsgroups - but that
isn't the point. If I'd like a thing that would do everything in one,
I'd rather use the EMACS-OS than Linux ;-P

>score highly on i) allowing simple colour usage in xterms, ii) having a

 This first point is also able in lynx, lately :)

ObAscii:

 .-----.
 |=====|  Some kind of .. uh.. microwave ofen? *scratches*
 `-----'

 Have fun!
-- 
You want it in one line?  Does it have to fit in 80 columns?   :-)
             -- Larry Wall in <734...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>

Gerfried Fuchs <ger...@siemens.at> ASCII art 13 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
Mike <ps4...@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
> Unfortunately the University is full of NT boxes :(

 Well, try the same we achieved over her: We now have a dual-boot of
Win95 and Linux and the user can choose which one to take *smirks*  I'm
not joking - this _is_ possible (take a look at [1], or at [2] which
will be the new version of our websites. Unfortunately they are mainly
just in german, so it will be hard to understand for you). You just need
some people that assist can assist you. But I think that will be the
least problem....
 It is fully a student-project, and I'm quite proud to be part of that. 

 But, this isn't really ontopic anymore, so [F'up2: poster].

 obASCII:
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 |   |
 |   |  tin-can of some energy drink
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[1] <URL:http://mars.tuwien.ac.at/>
[2] <URL:http://pluto.zserv.tuwien.ac.at/new/>
-- 
Gerfried Fuchs
<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>

Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
> I mentioned that mainly because the author claims it isn't as powerful
> as lynx...

 Yes, I've read about that - but it seems that it is more that he wants
to be moderate I think  ;)

> (oh btw how do you tell it where you want your bookmark file to be?)

 w3m -bookmark <file>  *smirks*

> I know colour is available in the Win32 port, but I haven't yet seen
> colour available in any of my Slowaris x86 compiles...

 Well, I have it in my linux-port. Maybe you haven't enabled it on
compile time? Maybe broken terminfo/termcap? I've noticed that it can't
be changed in the ~/.lynxrc file but must be set in the systemwide
rc-file....

 HTH!
-- 
Gerfried Fuchs
<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>

Faux_Pseudo <roo...@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> quake one is the only game on my box and i do just fine with the
> keybord

 I also did quite fine with keyboard - but it's nothing compared to
playing with a mouse. You can react _much_ faster by turning and aiming
with the mouse more precisely and faster.

> as far as graphics go if i need to look at graphics i use a program
> called fbi that can veiw graphics with out a X inviroment

 I also have the following entry within my ~/.mailcap:

image/*; asciiview %s; needsterminal

 But this is only for _displaying_, not for _producing_ graphics :)
Although you can do a lot with scripting in gimp, too. But to do real
drawing you need a mouse, face the fact. You can't write a script for
every single stroke you make, and try it each time....

> and i have all the keyboard shortcuts down so if i 'need' to use
> kde i can but i never do after all there is even a app to turn pdf
> files into html so a mouse is realy unnessasary for anything other
> than cut and past

 So, again, for _you_ a mouse is unnessasary for you don't do much with
your linux box. Fine for you - but don't be so short minded that
everyone can go _completely_ without.

 Let me quote again my sentence:

> $user needs a mouse depends on the thing s/he does. Everything else is as
> $ignorant as MS is.

 Have fun!  [F'up2: poster]
-- 
Gerfried Fuchs
<URL:mailto:alf...@innocent.com>
<URL:http://alfie.ist.org/alfie/>

Charles A. Lieberman <yvr...@voicenet.com> ASCII art 17 Mar 2000 00:00 · permalink · report
10 Mar 2000 12:53:45 GMT
Gerfried Fuchs
>ObAscii:
>
> .-----.
> |=====|  Some kind of .. uh.. microwave oven? *scratches*
> `-----'

A MetroCard?

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