"I've Had It With Windows" rant

[Robert Dege]

I don't understand completely, I run Win98 at home without ANY outlook
programs, I don't run into any of these mapi errors.  What exactly are you
trying to do?

-Rob

Should this be a wug now???

>
> Definitely worth ranting about, but i think you have to install...(you'll
> love this)..Outlook.  There is a mapi.dll and a mapi32.dll, however, we all
> know how straightforward windows is with it's installs, it won't be just
> copying these dll's into the \windows\system directory to get them to work.
> They have to be registered in the registry, and who knows what else.
>
> You won't have to _use_ Outlook, so virus problems should be minimized, but
> you will have to install it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
> Gregory J.Neumann
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: "I've Had It With Windows" rant
>
>
> At work, I'm forced to run Win98.  I have the network server running
> Slackware Linux / Samba, but this workstation is Win98.  And I've had
> it!!  I run a lean machine.  I uninstall all the Win98 "enhancements" and
> every option that supposedly makes it "user friendly" but slows the
> machine 10-15% just to save a few keystrokes or minor brain usage. Bonus
> is that the less of the "incestuous intertwining" I have enabled, the
> longer I go between BSOD's!  Now I have a little program that wants
> "MAPI" services to do it's upload thingie.  Well, M$ support show NOTHING
> when searching for it, except the name mentioned in a couple of articles,
> "Windows Help" is (no surprise!) clueless on it, and even the 1400+ pages
> of the "Windows 98 Resource Kit" book only gives you the name!  The
> "best" advice I've gotten so far is "All you need is a MAPI enabled
> e-mail client."  Well, between StarOffice and Netscape, that's 2, and
> neither one of them help!!!
>
> My rant is this:  In Linux, there's HOWTO's , man pages and great places
> like this.  I could be totally clueless about MAPI this morning and by
> afternoon know exactly what processes on my Linux box need it, how to start
> it, stop it and even what it does!  So, where in the <expletives deleted>
> is the vaunted M$ tech support that's so superior to Linux???  :-P
>
> Guess I have to buy a new computer so I can get equivalent performance
> and have the problem "fixed" by XP? ;-)
>
> Thanks for the rant time.
> Greg
>
> "The network is down!  But I feel better" -Dogbert
>
>



Dege

Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.