Simon Mason wrote:
> "Ambrose Nankivell" <
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>
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>> Simon Mason wrote:
>>> "Simon Hay" <
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>>>> Simon Mason wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It will take me that long to get to grips with this ****.. er fantastic OS2 Warp system
>>>>
>>>> Oi! Mock not OS/2... It's a wonderful operating system
Incidentally how come you're
>>>> using it?
>>>
>>> It's a joke Simon. Some Herbert thought it would be a good idea to deliberately configure his
>>> newsgroup posts so that they appeared to contain an extra file in MS Outlook. When I pointed
>>> this out to him (in case he had a virus) he told me in no uncertain terms that it was a
>>> deficiency in mine (and >90%) of the world's OS. I then joked that instead of using Windows xp
>>> (which I am doing) I would wipe my disk clean of this obviously inferior product and install
>>> OS2 Warp instead.
>>
>> Yes, you want to be using AmigaOS.
>
> I thought of a good analogy last night. It's like he got a brand new Bentley and then declared it
> rubbish because the cigar lighter wasn't wide enough for his fat cigars. It's a well known flaw
> with Bentleys and they've been doing it for years, so I've got a Lada instead but since the cigar
> lighter is wide enough for me, it's a much better car. (OK is not a perfect analogy ;-)
I don't really think that you could compare Windows XP to a Bentley. After all, what would Mac OS X
be called in that case?
Also, Linux is hardly equivalent to a Lada. More like a Land Rover (Defender): not especially
comfortable, but it'll hardly ever break down, and, if, for example, a propshaft breaks in the
middle of the Sahara desert you can get out and bolt a new one on.
That said, for my computer & preferred accessories, I've got two choices: Windows with extremely
flakey drivers, so if I leave the machine for half an hour it crashes, or Linux where I've yet to
successfully install the wireless network card, and thus can't get internet access at all.
It isn't that hard to get the hang of another newsreader than MS Internet Mail & News (aka Outlook
Express & very very little to do with Outlook, which is a weird program with two totally different
COM object models depending on which 'mode' it's in*), or simply to ignore it when people take the
****. After all, it does do the job to a reasonable extent, as does Windows, but it's important to
realise that there are alternatives which may suit you better.
I'm still using Outlook Express, because I still haven't worked out a way to make my preferred
newsreader (gnus on emacs) read messages ahead of time so I can disconnect. I'm sure it's not too
hard, though, I just CBA.
Ambrose
*Although it is promised that Outlook can use msimn.exe to read news, I never found a way to
make it work.
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