On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Louis Sabet wrote:

> Windowmanager is now qvwm - I found this to be excellent. It looks like 
> win95, does ALT-TAB perfectly, taskbar works a treat, all the window 
> behaviour is identical to MS, and everything is nicely configurable. Icons 
> are a pain since you have to manually associate them to applications, but 
> we're talking about a small amount of apps here, so it's not too much of a 
> pain.

        Must try that, home work I guess give how far we are behind.

> 
> I changed browsers from konqueror (which I used to think was great) to 
> Opera - the $30 cost per license is well worth it IMO, since it offers the 
> best combination of useability (something I don't think mozilla ever fully 
> achieved), and an ability to look at 90% of web-pages without getting 
> totally confused. After a while of using konqueror I realised that it 
> really isn't that stable yet (even in kde3), and its interpretation of some 
> web-pages (including our own) is far from acceptable.

        For anyone not wanting to spend money on Opera try Pheonix, its a 
cut down version of Mozilla. I've got it working at home and it works 
better than Mozilla. (Mozilla with the Junk removed!)


> 
> I've stuck with OpenOffice for the time being as it seems relatively 
fast 
> (I had doubts about its speed, since I always found staroffice to be a bit 
> of a snail), and I'm using mulberry for mail (www.cyrusoft.com) - for those 
> of you that don't know it I urge you to give it a go.

        Must try that.

> Strangely, my LTSP setup seems faster than windows on the local machine - 
> not complaining though!

        I'm not supprized. `

Peter Childs



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