I Think I'm Going Slightly Mad....
Thursday, May 8th, 2003 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThere's going to be a reckoning....
My Computer (as I laughingly like to call it) and I are about to have a grand falling out. More particularly, that part of my computer that is haunted by Outlook Express.
There will be harsh words hastily spoken and instantly regretted. Insults hurled back and forth. Plates may be broken.
The brute is increasingly unstable. And not in a good or entertaining way. Outlook Express (a programmer's joke if ever there was one) seems to be sulking. Indeed it is enamoured of the colour blue. So much so that it displays it to me on my screen at the first opportunity. It has got to the stage now, gentle reader, that my computer automatically asks if I wish to scan disk before I do anything else. In days gone by, the affair that the colour and application are clearly having was discreet, hidden, furtive. Occasionally they would forget themselves and I would see, but usually not.
But they have grown bold, damn them. And now I have to reboot before I have even downloaded my mail more often than not.
It taunts me.
I have told it to mend its ways. Literally. I have run the repair function and for the moment it seems tamed. Humbled, even. But it won't last, it never does. No, Outlook Express is a contrary application at iodds with the rest of my computer.
I have a one-eyed copy of XP on a disk in front of me. It ios willing me to install and consign '98 and all its works to history.
But I am a software coward, and it is near to 2am.
I dare not.
But soon. Oh yes, soon.
My patience is not finite and this box of binary bits WILL bow to my will. Yes. Oh, yes!
Hah! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha.........
My Computer (as I laughingly like to call it) and I are about to have a grand falling out. More particularly, that part of my computer that is haunted by Outlook Express.
There will be harsh words hastily spoken and instantly regretted. Insults hurled back and forth. Plates may be broken.
The brute is increasingly unstable. And not in a good or entertaining way. Outlook Express (a programmer's joke if ever there was one) seems to be sulking. Indeed it is enamoured of the colour blue. So much so that it displays it to me on my screen at the first opportunity. It has got to the stage now, gentle reader, that my computer automatically asks if I wish to scan disk before I do anything else. In days gone by, the affair that the colour and application are clearly having was discreet, hidden, furtive. Occasionally they would forget themselves and I would see, but usually not.
But they have grown bold, damn them. And now I have to reboot before I have even downloaded my mail more often than not.
It taunts me.
I have told it to mend its ways. Literally. I have run the repair function and for the moment it seems tamed. Humbled, even. But it won't last, it never does. No, Outlook Express is a contrary application at iodds with the rest of my computer.
I have a one-eyed copy of XP on a disk in front of me. It ios willing me to install and consign '98 and all its works to history.
But I am a software coward, and it is near to 2am.
I dare not.
But soon. Oh yes, soon.
My patience is not finite and this box of binary bits WILL bow to my will. Yes. Oh, yes!
Hah! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha.........
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Date: 2003-05-07 05:57 pm (UTC)XP? Madness! Why, it's a world turned topsy-turvy when someone considers XP to be an upgrade to the noble 98! Christ, I'll bring a copy of Windows 2000 to the meeting. Don't, sir, nay don't succumb to the lure of the Gates, which says new> is better...
As to OE - I was aggressively upgraded to Outlook in my absence. I can now do half the things I used to be able to do with half the efficiency and loads of crap functions I will never use. See what happens when someone dangles the word upgrade in front of you?
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Date: 2003-05-07 06:00 pm (UTC)I just cannae take much more of yon software.....
....twitch....twitch....
(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-07 06:21 pm (UTC)Now you've got me fixated on crumbs.
I really should go to bed....
Bed? What is this bed?
It will turn your computer into a primary-coloured, playschool slide-show that will delight in explaining in exacting detail such Useful Things as which way up to hold the mousie and how you can create your Very Own rescue disk!
Meanwhile, you will loose the ability to control any bit of hardware constructed before the turn of the century, and you’d better hope that you’ve the Pro version of XP there my lad, or you’ll be finding lots of things you never knew you needed just aint around any more.
On a brighter note, just finished download of Angel 4x22 for tomorrow nites viewing, and I’m off to bed before I do something silly like watch it now.
Windows FP
Date: 2003-05-08 12:28 am (UTC)If for no other reason than protected memory for applications - the chance of a system crash is much reduced - applications crash yes, but the other apps don't also die in sympathy. It's like NT - only with more application support!
As to the email client - I use Outlook Express - but have been for a while considering moving to something else.
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Date: 2003-05-08 12:30 am (UTC)Don't do it!
Stick with '98, and ditch Outlook Express. Like Jimfer I'd suggest Eudora. It's free, and in "sponsored" mode you get one small window of advertisements on the screen in exchange for the full functionality. http://www.eudora.com/
Another vote for Eudora
Date: 2003-05-08 01:57 am (UTC)Now, if I could only persuade my mother to switch to Eudora from Outlook Express...
My penneth...
Date: 2003-05-08 03:29 am (UTC)http://www.pmail.com
There I've glad I've got that down on cyber-paper....
What you really want of course is a Mac running OS X and use Mac Mail - it's amazing!
Seeya!
Re: My penneth...
Date: 2003-05-08 03:46 am (UTC)Shiny shillings.
Re: My penneth...
Date: 2003-05-08 03:50 am (UTC)Re: My penneth...
Date: 2003-05-08 05:21 am (UTC)Either work a sight better than OE, and as they are not written by the "Evil Empire" ™ have largely avoided being targetted by virus writers.
Re: My penneth...
Date: 2003-05-08 06:26 am (UTC)"And of course once we are in government we will ensure that every person in the UK over the age of eight years has individual access to an Apple Macintosh computer that is specified in line with their personal and or professional needs..."
Yeah I think it's a winner!
"Dear Mr. Kennedy,
I've had a killer policy idea...."
Seriously though, it's Pegasus Mail that's free - which is quite a cool fact, considering what a great piece of software it is....
Tata!