Hello tracer & all fellow TBUDL members,
Friday, March 10, 2000, 6:39:25 PM, tracer wrote in response to my saying:
>> Tracer kindly and unselfishly helped me retrieve a good part of my
>> email out of Calypso. Also, since the fools at Calypso blamed my
>> windows and insisted that I install each and every upgrade ever
>> devised, many of which undo or conflict with previous upgrades (and no
>> effort was made on their part to distinguish), that issue was
>> discussed in some depth also. I consider him to be both knowledgeable
>> and a friend.
t> Douglas, I know but I think its all based on misunderstanding and
t> different circumstances.
t> You like me sit in a remote place where if things go wrong the nearest
t> civilised technical place is 800km or more away...
Often it seems that the nearest civilized technical place is a lot
more than 800km away.
t> Or it takes weeks to get something replaced.
t> The result is one tends to keep things simple, use things which are
t> KNOWN to work especially if all the system owners can do whatever they
t> want to plant problems in their various systems.
t> If I upgrade them and it goes wrong... I end up fixing it free of
t> charge.
t> And I have seen quite a few systems messed up by the MS updates.
t> So if they arent urgently needed I donot use them.
I use MS products only when absolutely necessary. I do not use Office
and have a Word 6 using Widen that will convert Word 97 and 2000
files, as well as handle log names, for the inevitable word
attachments people send me. I also have the Word viewer.
While IE is a good browser (mine is Opera, however), I've found that
installing or uninstalling MS apps in general can be far from problem
free. MS developers seem to assume things that don't generally fit my
work habits or goals.
I use Lotus Apps for the basic office suite things and specialized
programs for the rest (Ecco, not Organizer, a few fax apps, Corel
Draw, utilities, security stuff). Lotus was the firm that supported
OS/2 before IBM bought it (CA also, and Sybase).
t> Zone Alarm is good but not for the way I access the internet.
t> And yes, I likely will use it for customers systems in the near
t> future, if it helps them and not causes me any problems in support...
t> I am testing it at present for the last week or so.
It's always interesting to hear different points of view. It's
usually a matter of differences in criteria, and either, both or
neither may be closet to mine.
This system has been running night and day since 1994 with a few
hardware, bios and software upgrades. It swallowed Y2K while I slept.
The misunderstanding was related to whether @tGuard can cause problems
while constantly disabled - no one has run that down for me.
Douglas
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