"I've Had It With Windows" rant

[Gregory J.Neumann]

Sorry, it was just a rant.  The troublesome program is an automated bug 
reporting thing, and it wants MAPI, and despite installing "LOOK-OUT! 
Here comes another virus! Express", and having two other mail programs 
that are "MAPI aware", i STILL get "MAPI services not available ..."!  I 
went to another workstation, installed the program and it worked fine! 
I've looked at the registry ... (man!  I think M$ wants to record EVERY 
keystroke you ever make!!) and I >think< I found the problem, but at this 
point I'm too disgusted to care. So OE is gone again! :-) and I'm using 
SO 5.2 for email again, happily back to ... "normal"?  Can't wait to get 
home and try the 2.4.16 Linux kernel set up again! :-D

I really appreciate all the WINDOZE help I'm getting on the LINUX list!!! 
8-D  Is this great or what! :-)

-Greg


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 12/7/01, 15:13:18, Robert Dege <rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU> wrote regarding 
RE: "I've Had It With Windows" rant:


> 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.