Ok I am not usually the biggest MS basher, but....

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Rub it in or what?? :-(

I love a good rant!! Let me help!! ;-)

After 3 weeks of having Outlook 2002 reset and ignore all the mail 
filtering rules I would set up, I moved back to PegasusMail at work.  
That's just an awesome program.  Despite having Office XP, I use 
OpenOffice.org, because it's so much easier to use.  As far as 
"Lookout, another 2002 viruses!", even though it is an overwhelmingly 
(and painfully!) established fact that at least 90% of email viruses 
spread by having the preview pane in Outlook open, guess what the 
default in Outlook 2002 is for EVERY NEW mail folder you make 
is???  Now, given that this is a program that everybody and their dog 
gets for email on they're new system, and given the so-called 
commitment to security M$ has, you'd think they would change that 
one thing to protect all the "Joe Bubba's and Aunt Minnies" out there!  
Plus make life just a little easier on e-mail admins who have to deal w/ 
all this worthless S*** clogging the mail servers.  So, based on M$'s 
actions in simple things like that, I think the security commitment is a 
scam, another thing to get people to shut up and buy M$.  I've 
removed the email accounts entirely from Outlook.  The scheduler is 
nice, but very bulky.  I think StarOffice has the very best e-mail rules 
setup going, but OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to include that mail 
client.  Pegasus rules just plain work, besides, it's the cheapest e-mail 
virus protection going!  

I use Mozilla 1.1-alpha.  That's as nice a browser as I've ever seen.  
Even removes the popup ads w/o you ever noticing it, plus a fair 
amount of the more obnoxious stuff on the pages!  

As far as IM's, we needed one for work, and I set up a local Jabber 
server.  NO connecting to any of the big brothers out there.  They tell 
you how to avoid it!  It, again, just works.  I don't know if it's 
compatible w/ AO(hel)L, but for our internal purposes, who cares?  
Besides, it'd be easy to get the people you *really* want to chat with to 
download a Jabber client and join a Jabber server.  It's at least as 
easy as AOL.   

/end rant

-Greg
 
> > 
> > 
> The best part is, people paid them for the privilege of corrupting 
> and/or disabling their systems ! 
> 
> It's all part of the grand Master Plan to hopelessly commingle your 
> web browser/emailer/news reader/instant messenger into the math 
> co-processor/video controller/graphics accelerator/ sound 
> controller/signal interpreter/webcam on your all in one, slot-less, 
> port-less mother board. They want it to eventually be like MOTHER 
> on the Sulako.
> 
> ISA- Industry Standard Architecture; DROPPED [the standard, that 
> is] in favor of 
> 
> PCI- Peripheral Control Interface; DROPPED in favor of ONBOARD 
> architecture, 
> 
> so that ultimately you can't use your mouse, keyboard, monitor, 
> modem, speakers, camera, et cetera, unless you have their drivers 
> for them, because no one else has access to the "secret code" in 
> order to write one ! Soon system BIOS will be history. 
> 
> [Sorry, I had to vent, after reading that article] 
> 
> Anyway, that's why ...... 
> 
> I don't have Outlook, I have Pegasus Mail. 
> I don't have Outlook, I have Opera. 
> I don't have Outlook, I have Agent. 
> I don't have Outlook, I have XNews. 
> I don't have Outlook, I have ... er ... I don't have ANY instant 
> messaging. 
> 
> And more and more, as I figure out how to do what I want and need 
> to do, I can say, "I don't have Outlook, I have LINUX !" 
> 
> I actually told my brother on the phone the other day to "mount 
> fd0." He said, "WHAT !!" I said, "I mean, put a disk in your A drive, 
> then open it." :-) 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott 
> Registered Linux User 261118