Wow! Thats about sums up my recent experience. I had no idea the
Linux distributions had come so far. I had been running a server
using a slackware distribution that I installed in middle of 1998, it
had run fine for years, no troubles to speak of. In any event
conditions conspired for me to create a new linux server this year
that will eventually replace the old one, so I poked my head out of
the grass and looked around.

First shock.. I can download a bootable ISO cd-r image. That was
cool enough right there, then I do the install, it looks mostly
familiar, other than not complaining about the massive drives, and
runs pretty much like it did long ago, ie, fine.

A little updating of my custom software, and we're good to go. Then I
think, I tried samba a while back, and it didn't really work right, or
at least not quite like I wanted. So I start it up, tweak it a bit,
and poof, the shares I want are exported where I want under the userid
I want. Dang! how could that be!

Then I get bold.. I blindly type startx. Crud... The dang
thing works. It just came up; though not quite at the resolution I
wanted. (20" monitor deserves 1280x1024, it kept coming up 1024x768
and 800x600, manually fixed later, not a big deal). Then I start
thumbing through the default menus (gnome/kde), it shows various
office programs and utilities, I figure they aren't any good or
whatever, then I start opening files with them, and I ask myself, ok,
why did I pay all that money for MS Office?

All I can say is, wow, awesome job, to everyone who had a hand in the
development of this thing.

All I could wish for is an rpncalc somewhere between x48 and grpn, a
simple HP15C look-a-like, which exists for windows by the way. Now,
I'm not bashing my WinNT and 2000 pro machines, they work good too,
but to be honest, I'd have a hard time coming up with a reason to use
MS Windows on a generic stand alone system.

rwwff wrote:
Just curious...what distro/version did you just install?


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Ah, have you asked Yahoo or Google?
linux hp calculator

Life can sometime be even better'er'er

chuck

rwwff wrote:
<snip>

On 28 Sep 2003 17:31:53 -0700, rwwff <rwwff@yahoo.com> wrote:
Good to hear. Thanks.

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In article <8c88725.0309281631.4cf4349f@posting.google.com> ,
rwwff <rwwff@yahoo.com> wrote:

You asked for it, you got it! Try:

xcalc -rpn

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:21:15 +0000 (UTC), Rouben Rostamian <rouben@pc18.math.umbc.edu> wrote:
If you want a calculator that puts all the others to shame, and if you have
grown up enough to live without picture books (eye-candy), try bc or dc.

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 01:51:58 GMT, flatfish@linuxmail.org <flatfish@linuxmail.org> wrote:
I think it's beautiful. You may think otherwise and I couldn't care less.

Hey! I think I hear your Mommy calling. Maybe she found your lost picture
books.

(some of us can tell the difference between a computer and a television.)

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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:51:58 -0500, flatfish wrote:


Yes, power and flexibility at the price of complexity. I'll take the
complexity and be better off for it. If you wanted to learn calculus
without understanding rate-of-change, you would be laughed out of the
class.

If I hold your hand to help you cross the street, I might leave you under
a truck just for a laugh.

--Eric

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 02:55:06 GMT, Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm@somethinglike.sbcglobalDOTnet> wrote:
:-)

I think you are wasting your breath. His Mommy brought him "Donny the
Dinosaur" and he's lost to the world.

Anyway, can you seriously see this guy doing anything but basic arithmetic?
Errr....Can you see him even doing THAT?

Mind you, *I* don't do anything but basic algebra/trig/geometry and basic
math myself. But I want a tool that will do whatever I ask of it long before
I want eye-candy and a plastic rodent interface....Wait! Oh yeah. There's
my rat (they are FAR too large to be mice) I wonder if it still works?
But not enough to check :-)

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 03:12:03 GMT, flatfish@linuxmail.org <flatfish@linuxmail.org> wrote:

You are interested in superficialities. I am interested in performance.

I see the beauty of a well-made tool.

Someone could put food-coloring in sewage and YOU would choose that
over beans and bread.

I'm healthy and you aren't.

I get things done with my computer that only it can do, while you use it to
watch movies and listen to music and play games, which is a bitter waste of the
finest communication tool ever invented.

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Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:

I use python, works great. bc and dc are fine too.


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Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote in
news:HPNdb.7463$RW4.1562@newsread4.news.pas.earthl ink.net:

8< SNIP >8

The fact that someone would choose to purchase a 3GHz PC with loads of
RAM just so they can install Windows XP on it alongside a bunch of
"lookit the bloated crap we made with our EZ-game development tools"
game titles is completely beyond comprehension.

PC gaming these days is merely a haven for a bunch of weiners who not
only want to feel like they know about things which they know nothing
about, but who also want to be able to perceive themselves as "superior"
to "lowly console gamers". The mindset of most PC gamers is just fscking
pathetic.

Keep in mind, these are the same wanks who were constantly arguing:
"What games does Linux run? None right? Therefore, it's useless."
back in the mid 1990's.
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If you can not read this post, go to http://ichimusai.org/oe/
begin "flatfish" == flatfish <flatfish@linuxmail.org> states:

Since I am always in Emacs anyway, I use the builtin eLisp interpreter
to do my calculations most of the time. That interface is beautiful,
and platform independent, looks the same in MS Windows as it does in
HP-UX.

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Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:

Well, but bc/dc aren't RPN calculators, which are great if you are used
to them. I have a HP48GX, great calculator, which lets most others look
like toys.

The OP could in addition try a search for "RPN" on freshmeat.net, there
are dozens available.


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<deletia>
Hahahahahahahahah!

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bc indeed isn't, but `man dc` shows

DC(1) DC(1)

NAME
dc - an arbitrary precision calculator

SYNOPSIS
dc

DESCRIPTION
Dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports



Eric

Sugapablo <russREMOVE@sugapablo.com> wrote in message news:<vnf03np4pq563e@corp.supernews.com>...
Slackware 9.0. Sorry I left out that detail, I thought about it an
hour or so after the initial post.

Works fine, I admit, seriously lacking eyecandy though. Sorry, I need
a little eye candy.... grpn works fine to.

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote in message news:<oqi8lb.n4u.ln@news.heiming.de>...
THANKS!! Found one. "galculator" fits the bill just right.

I can't believe there is something like freshmeat.net out there. Much
better than fishing through ftp on sunsite looking for a piece of
software.