On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:42:35 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
>> [1] e-mail
>> Personaly I prefer Arachne to outlook. She is good but not perfect.
>> When I receive attachments in Word, Exel or Adobe PDF I have to swith to
>> windows (for word I use view.exe to read the text in Arachne).
> When I get an attachment of THOSE types I either delete the entire message
> or complain strongly to the sender.
Yes, I hate Word, Exel and PDF, but I am the editor of a magazine so I am
not in the position to delete these messages... otherwise the magazine
will be empty.
The printers send me proof of the complete magazine as a PDF (large)...
they used to send it by a fax machine.
>> [1] web browsing
>> About 50% of my browsing is possible with Arachne.
>> 10% is https secured
>> 40% does not function well due to java-script
>> So for 50% of my web activities I have to use M$ (Netscape does not
>> function that good)... but I first try Arachne.
>> Why should any 'normal' person should first try Arachne if M$ gives
>> better results ALWAYS (50%)...???!!
>> Besides a 'normal' person has already M$ installed... why try Arachne or
>> any other browser?
> Define 'normal'. You mean unthinking, uncritical or just common ?
'just common'
>> [2] use and install
>> Arachne is easy to use... but not easy to install!
>> About 1 & half year ago the help of the list was very necessary to have
>> Arachne going... why should a 'normal' person go through all this
>> trouble if M$ is 'plug and play'??
>> Recently I downloaded Arachne 1.70 and all the troubles are here
>> again... so I still use 1.61
> Yes. Sometimes I think that the attempts to make Arachne 'easy' to install
> for the 'normal' (hehe) user make it much harder for the critical user.
>> [3] buy a new computer
>> <snip>
>> Recently I got a better and faster PC as a gift. Win98 installed and no
>> way to run 90% of my normal DOS-programms.
>> So it was decided to remove Win98 and install win95. !@#$%&^%$#@&
>> No Arachne, trouble with WordStar and PictureView... changing the boot
>> procedure did not solve the problem. After two weeks of trying and
>> swearing, my friend took the 'new' PC back home and i took the old one
>> back into use.
>> One must be mad (I'am) to go through all of this trouble if M$ fullfills
>> all of your wishes!
> M$ is NOT fulfilling all your wishes if 90% of your programs won't run
> and if you must give away the computer because normal programs like WS
> and Pictview won't run under M$.
Right! (but I am not normal)
But are manufacturers giving in to M$ in a way that makes it
impossible to run anything else but M$...? Even M$DOS !
Sales must go on... so one day M$ has to launch a new opperating system
and we all have to buy new hardware and software... we did saw this
happening before.
> Madness lives here !! <GG>
> - Clarence Verge
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> - The internet is infected - Windows is a VIRUS !!
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