7 Mar
2001
7 Mar
'01
2:50 p.m.
I'm afraid you're right about that. What bothers me about Microslop is
that it interferes rather than assists me in what I want to do. I spend
nearly as much time playing with windows as I do accomplishing real
work. I figure productivity takes a 30-35% shot. Can you imagine what
that could mean in terms of office productivity. I've used a number of
really good applications, - all word processors that facilitated my writing.
TimeWorks' WordWriter 128 comes to mind as an excellent tool. Excellence!
for the Amiga is another good programme, although I wish it had
WordStar's Ctl-B reformatting command. WordStar, another great tool.
Programmes that I hated: Perfect Writer, perfectly horrid; Word - lack
the words to adequately express my contempt. WordPerfect - adeqaute, but
no prize, Works - it does, but it has a great number of annoying
defaults. Why can't I set the file types it displays, and why can't it
remember the directory I'm working in?
I definitely have to look into Linux.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
It's not Microsoft ... nor is it any other
software house ... it's the dummies
who prefer the glitz and glamour, taking appearance over substance every time.
If it weren't for them, Detroit would have been a wasteland decades ago.
They're what the US economy survives on.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: "Classic Computers" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, ajp166 wrote:
Dont need no speghetti code to fix it. Just
remove the dumb user.
Seriously, there are a bunch of things that users should to to elimintate
most
of the insanity.
-Disable VBS scripting, that stops a raft of buggies right there.
- disable open after preview for 5sec .
- disable auto display of pictures
- enable empty deleted folder on close (delete really does then).
Thats just a few of the simpler things that really do help.
- and default to TEXT
for e-mail
If those were the DEFAULTS, what percentage of the problems would be
solved, and how much of the anti-MICROS~1 hostility would be eliminated?