And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Wed Mar 7 22:50:21 2001

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_at_xenosoft.com>
> To: "Classic Computers" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:59 PM
> Subject: Re: And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!
>
>
> > 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?
> >
> >
>
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
              
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