Monday, November 01, 1999
Hello Paula,
Monday, Monday, November 01, 1999, you wrote:
Paula> tracer, you are way too literal. :)
sorry, bad habbit, normally when I get complaints its something they
want solved.. (g)
Paula> All the problems were solved one way or another. They were just examples
Hi there!
On 31 Oct 99, at 1:30, Paula Ford wrote about "Re:
Message list comments.":
> > Does View / Split Mode / Vertical Split not do what you want?
>
> No. The display option would be have the message list pane run the full width
> across the top of the window with the account folder
Hi there!
On 31 Oct 99, at 13:35, Thomas Fernandez wrote about
"Re[3]: OT: Computer Philosophy (was":
> MDP> Completely and utterly true. It *is* a just small percentage of the
> MDP> millions of computer owners and users that have actually put any
> MDP> effort or time into trai
Hi, boys and girls.
If I can give an opinion, let me say that people wants to say "Computer, write a
letter to Mr. brown saying he's fired", and expects the computer to do that.
Maybe is a myth feeded by movies and popular imagination. Some time ago, I read
an article that said "... if you wan
Saturday, October 30, 1999, 6:03:50 AM, Ali wrote:
> stumbled upon it at www.winfiles.com in search of a decent e-mail
> client. I guess that's what happened to most of use here?
Yes, that is how I found it.
> However, not even linux is escaping the market influence. Distro makers who
> wish
Saturday, October 30, 1999, 9:35:22 PM, Thomas wrote:
> A niche market is still a market, but I agree with you in principle.
A niche market, when the target isn't the lowest common denominator, does
not much resemble the "bad" influences the general market exudes on products.
> I'm thinking
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 9:55:31 AM, Paula wrote:
[Mucho snippage]
> All these examples are from real life. Want more? I could fill a volume.
> How are any of these problems the result of the ineptitude of the users?
Yet for each of those stories there are thousands, literally thousands
wher
Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
> a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to
> interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather
> like men.
Rather like women, actually. Most of the men I know will state flat out
what the probl
Hi all,
On Monday, November 01, 1999, 12:12:57 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
>> The Desktop environments KDE and Gnome are significantly driven by this open
>> market. This is where most of the funding is coming from isn't it?
> What funding? Both projects were started and are heavily deve
Hi,
> Sunday, October 31, 1999, 10:09:38 AM, Paula wrote:
>> a computer with a problem, which wants to waste my time trying to
>> interpret its pouting silence or irritatingly cryptic outbursts. Rather
>> like men.
> Rather like women, actually. Most of the men I know will state flat out
>
Hi all,
On Monday, November 01, 1999, 1:45:35 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
>> All these examples are from real life. Want more? I could fill a
>> volume. How are any of these problems the result of the ineptitude
>> of the users?
> Yet for each of those stories there are thousands, literal
Monday, November 01, 1999, 11:38:33 AM, Ali wrote:
> Hi all,
> On Monday, November 01, 1999, 1:45:35 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
>>> All these examples are from real life. Want more? I could fill a
>>> volume. How are any of these problems the result of the ineptitude
>>> of the users?
>>
Hi all,
On Monday, November 01, 1999, 2:42:37 PM (-5 GMT), Steve scribbled:
>> That's irrelevant. Remember that her scenarios were put forward to
>> refute the sweeping statement made by Marck.
MDPVery true! Computers are not the source of frustration.
MDPIt is an
Monday, November 01, 1999, 11:54:15 AM, Ali wrote:
> Oho, *now* I understanding the reasoning. In an effort to deal with
> the users ineptitude, faulty OS's are developed that do silly things
> which frustrate the clue-full and further frustrate the inept as well.
> It's a snowball effect which w
Monday, November 01, 1999, 12:05:36 PM, Steve wrote:
>> It's a snowball effect which will eventually lead to
>> the computer exploding against our will.
> Yes, you're finally getting it. For example, some schmuck in a tie
I also forgot to mention that most people now use not what does
Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
On Thursday, October 28, 1999, 9:03:52 AM, Florian wrote:
> Hello Mailinglist,
> I try to print out messages from TB with my Epson 660, but this fails
> whenever I try it. The Epson replacement of the standard spooler pops
> up, but no printing jobs are displayed. The s
On Monday, November 01, 1999, tracer wrote:
Paula>> Thanks for your offer of help, though.
> No problem, just intrigued, were they running NT4 or NT5???
> It has some very lousy driver support for some printers...
The printer is HP's top of the line network laser, the 8000. The network
runs on
Keith,
Monday, Monday, November 01, 1999, Keith wrote:
KR> Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
KR> On Thursday, October 28, 1999, 9:03:52 AM, Florian wrote:
>> Hello Mailinglist,
>> I try to print out messages from TB with my Epson 660, but this fails
>> whenever I try it. The Epson replacement of the s
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