Re: Hey Matt, did you freeze today?
TheChris wrote:
> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org: > >> TheChris wrote: >> >>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating, or >>> an >>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has for >>>> me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's a >>> different >>>> smell!" :) >>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my USB >>> stick though :) >> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews, you >> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are >> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I run >> both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days a week >> w/o a hitch. >> >> Google portable apps. >> > > Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick' :) > > Which are you using as a NewsReader? currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya pull the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-) i'm using T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and laptop. i've played with just about all of the newsreader apps over the years. for solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may stem back to my beta testing days of netscape navigator and communicator ;) i haven't looked but there may even be a sea monkey portable app out there also. i currently use Pan also. like x-news (IIRC) it handles multi-part binaries where as T-bird doesn't. |
Re: Hey Matt, did you freeze today?
SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glv4rr$7g7$1@news.motzarella.org:
> TheChris wrote: >> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org: >> >>> TheChris wrote: >>> >>>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating, >>>>> or >>>> an >>>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has >>>>> for me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's >>>>> a >>>> different >>>>> smell!" :) >>>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my >>>> USB stick though :) >>> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews, >>> you >>> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are >>> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I >>> run both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days >>> a week w/o a hitch. >>> >>> Google portable apps. >>> >> >> Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick' :) >> >> Which are you using as a NewsReader? > > currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya > pull the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-) > i'm using T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and > laptop. i've played with just about all of the newsreader apps over > the years. for solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may > stem back to my beta testing days of netscape navigator and > communicator ;) i haven't looked but there may even be a sea monkey > portable app out there also. i currently use Pan also. like x-news > (IIRC) it handles multi-part binaries where as T-bird doesn't. > Me too... I take Newsreaders VERY personally :) I only thought Thunderbird did mail.. Doesn't the mail portion of it bloat up the app? I grew up with all the Unix apps... vi, edlin - so, I like thing that look like xnews...I'll look into Pan... Thanks. |
Re: Hey Matt, did you freeze today?
The Chris wrote:
> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glv4rr$7g7$1@news.motzarella.org: > >> TheChris wrote: >>> SB <sb@timelife.org> wrote in news:glt3vm$vsj$1@news.motzarella.org: >>> >>>> TheChris wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Well, it's more like when you're in a room with baseboard heating, >>>>>> or >>>>> an >>>>>> iron or a hair dryer on...There's a certain smell that hot air has >>>>>> for me... It didn't smell like AF, it just was like, 'Hey, that's >>>>>> a >>>>> different >>>>>> smell!" :) >>>>> Yeah, I've been noticing that... I like that I can run it from my >>>>> USB stick though :) >>>> If you're somehow attempting to reply to my comment about Xnews, >>>> you >>>> should know that Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as Firefox both are >>>> available as portable apps that will run off of a thumb drive. I >>>> run both on a 2GB thumb drive on the work box 10 hours a day, 4 days >>>> a week w/o a hitch. >>>> >>>> Google portable apps. >>>> >>> Yeah, I use ALL the Portable Apps - even 'Mac on a Stick' :) >>> >>> Which are you using as a NewsReader? >> currently using Thunderbird on this 2 gig stick. nice for work, ya >> pull the thign out and no residual left behind for prying eyes :-) >> i'm using T-bird also on a linux box as well as the xp boxes and >> laptop. i've played with just about all of the newsreader apps over >> the years. for solid dependable service T-bird does it for me. may >> stem back to my beta testing days of netscape navigator and >> communicator ;) i haven't looked but there may even be a sea monkey >> portable app out there also. i currently use Pan also. like x-news >> (IIRC) it handles multi-part binaries where as T-bird doesn't. >> > > Me too... I take Newsreaders VERY personally :) I only thought > Thunderbird did mail.. Doesn't the mail portion of it bloat up the app? Some. Price of convenience I suppose. It's certainly not a cpu hog in any manner. > > I grew up with all the Unix apps... vi, edlin - so, I like thing that > look like xnews...I'll look into Pan... Thanks. Ever mess around w/ Tin? http://www.tin.org/ here's a 'few' others. http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/utilities.html |
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