[techtalk] Progeny Debian

[Michelle Murrain]

At 9:37 AM +0100 6/1/01, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:23:52AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
>>  On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:26:35PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
>>  Michelle Murrain thought:
>>  >
>>  > both of the servers I get my mail on (my home server and work) can do
>>  > IMAP. Problem is, Netscape/Mozilla is the only client that does IMAP
>>  > on Linux that I can find (others?).
>>
>>  MUTT!!!!!
>
>Echoed :)

Well, I appreciate the info on mutt, and it sounds great. These days, 
I do spend most of my time (not in e-mail) either in a console 
session or on the web. I occasionally use elm to read my mail 
remotely (I should perhaps look at mutt for that purpose). Looong 
time ago (10-15 years ago) I used text-based mail tools (VMS based 
and UNIX based) for e-mail. But I also have been a long time Mac user 
(since 1986), and got started using Eudora 1.0 way back when. So I'm 
really, really, really, really used to Eudora, and GUI based e-mail 
clients in general. I moved to IMAP so I could read mail that I had 
accumulated over time wherever I was, instead of having it all stuck 
on one desktop machine. But it's gonna be hard to wean myself from 
GUI based mail. It probably won't happen. And I send and receive lots 
and lots of cross-platform attachments, and the ways that GUI-based 
mail clients allow me to deal with them is quite helpful.

<snip>
>I am now shopping around and wondering whether to buy the bits to
>build a new computer. Trouble is, I already have three, and I feel
>sure that should be enough for anyone. Four seems... very consumerist,
>or materialistic or something :)

What??? Consumerist and materialistic??? Nah! Never. As far as I'm 
concerned, it's never possible to have too many computers. I mean, 
how else are you going to: try new distros, learn about new hardware, 
set up firewalls and DNS servers to test, track debian testing or 
unstable, try a BSD, set up networked games... and...  (a project 
I've been wanting to try for 6 months now, but haven't had near 
enough time...)try to put together a BEOWULF CLUSTER to run 
setiathome????

For those of you in California, however, I imagine that the cost of 
running all the computers you have might outstrip the cost of buying 
them in the first place... I'm hoping against hope that future isn't 
coming eastward...

Michelle

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