Greetings Again,
> Hey,
>
> > All Metalweb does for me is crash.
>
> Hey, I had this problem in the first two versions (the CD version and
> the first update), but it doesn't crash on me anymore since I
> installed the latest version. Although it is painfully slow (On a 060
> processor). By the time it's started, loaded the interface, I have two
> pages of html code handwritten in GoldED :(
I've gotten it to run a grand total of twice now, but it was crashing
my system all together. I can do quite well with GoldEd too; in fact,
I'm wondering if MetalWeb would be worth the trouble to learn. At some
point somebody's got to realize that there is only so much extra
goodies that you need for such a program. Why have the tear off class
on the gui?
>
> When does it crash exactly? Does it take down the entire system, or
> does only the program hang, leaving your system ready for use? Which
> operating system are you using? Any patches/hacks at startup?
>
OS3.5, 040/25, AGA, MCP (very little used here), FBlit
> > Also, when NC� is first installed it wants to set all the programs
> it
> > calls as if from the cli, instead of as workbench icon. Was it
> > supposed to be that way, or should they all be changed?
>
> I found leaving the settings to cli the safest. Changing them could
> lead to undesired results (such as your programs being whiped from the
> harddisk).
Duly Noted! Leave them as CLI
>
> But, like you, I'm not complaining. There's room for improvement, but
> there always is room for improvement in software market. Today I
> finally got this webvision thingy to run. To make it safe for my kids
> I ticked the "filter out adult sites". Gee, I had a whale of a time
> watching the Western Wall of the Jerusalem Temple!
>
I don't mind some of the trouble, but on the other hand it was too
much of a rush job. After installing all of the programs from
download, I find myself wondering how to set up ContactManager and the
Mimi prefs. Really, they put mimi/cm in nearly all of the individual
archives that just override the NC� version... so where does it go?
I think most of us are leftover NC� users and can handle things
together, but what about the person who's never used the Internet? I
found mFTP not to be as straight foreward as AmFTP was, and without
X-Arc the novice is a little left out. However, I don't mind the extra
work; just, I wish some consideration was paid to the novice.
Final thought: have you tried the Ticker from www.amigacentral.com? If
you download it and it doesn't work, email amigacentral and ask for
the one that works with Genisis (he might have put the right one up by
now). It's really a neat little program, if you mostly IRC and Email
instead of browse all the time :)
Dave
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Regards,
David Crawford
Editor UGN-Times
