[Preston] Re: Goodbye cruel GUI

[Stephen]

What about appending vga=791 which increase the console resolution there 
is a list of theses values on the internet somewhere.


Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:

>Wow,
>
>Thanks to everyone who's replied for all the suggestions and links.  I
>have now got a bookmarks ``folder'' in Firefox full of interesting stuff
>(shame on me, graphical browser, hehe).
>
>Due to all of the cool stuff that has been suggested, the only thing
>stopping me now is the lack of that scanning tunnelling electron
>microscope.  I would like to go completely text-based for some time, if
>only to fall back eventually to multiple terminals in X, however, due to
>the font size issue I may be forced to re-think that one.  I'll keep
>looking anyway and hopefully find something and be able to start using
>it after the impending finals.
>
>Thanks again; I can see this is going to be a positive turning point in
>my transmogrification from 'dozian (c.2002) to reasonably normal Linux
>power user (2002-2005) to ``1337 g33k'' :-).
>
>BTW, http://www.textfiles.com/ is a great site, forgot to mention that
>before.  Lots of interesting 'net history captured there.
>
>bye just now,
>
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