--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00013Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: JACK STEIN (Read 4 times) Subj: Spell Checkers Suck... -=> Quoting Jack Stein (02-18-97 23:48) to Bill Wolff <=- -=> OldSubj: UPGRADING OS/2 3 TO 4 <=- BW> P.S. I see incorporating a spell checker must be just too BW> tough for you. Mine is built into my editor. Maybe you BW> might want to try one of these someday and see how you BW> like them. JS> They suck. What sucks Jack? JS> My spell checker is system wide. It's always loaded and ready JS> to go regardless of the application I'm in, be it OS/2, DOS or JS> WIN application. It works everywhere, including the command JS> line. Good for you Jack. What's it called? JS> I leave it loaded, but turned off most of the time as a pain in JS> the neck, If it's a pain in the neck, then it's no good Jack. JS> who gives a damn about spelling errors on Fidonet, this ain't JS> no damn high school term paper, grade school spelling contest JS> and so on. It's called improving oneself Jack. Why continue to spell like a fourth grader for? JS> I've rarely had a bit of trouble reading any post because of JS> spelling, including non-English speaking folks attempting to JS> write in Fido's "native" tongue. I don't have trouble reading them either. But it's funny to read how productive some OS/2 users like to believe they are when it appears from this side of the screen, that they have trouble operating one application, let alone dozens like they claim. JS> Does you're spell checker continue to work when you switch to a JS> DOS or a WIN3x or a WIN95 editor, or an off line reader, or JS> whatever? Yes it does Jack. But not in the way you're thinking of. JS> My spell checker works anytime I want it too, in ANY JS> application, regardless of platform. But it's a pain in the neck, remember? Thus what good is a pain in the neck spell checker? JS> Perhaps someday when you learn how to use a real OS, you will JS> find a spell checker that has some flexibility. ROTFL! That's just like you Jack. Defending a pain in the neck spell checker running under a pain in the neck OS, then believing this is a good thing. Sorry I don't bother with those kind of shenanigans. As I got serious work to get done, without the pain in the neck thing hanging over me. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00014Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: GLENN GEORGE (Read 4 times) Subj: UPGRADING OS/2 3 TO 4 -=> Quoting Glenn George (02-22-97 17:52) to Bill Wolff <=- GG> For starters; You made the incorrect statement that OS/2 GG> couldn't be installed on a system with Win95 on a single GG> partition without destroying the Win95 install. I never said it could never be. Why do you people have so much trouble comprehending what you read? GG> Your incompetance prevents you from remembering about Partition GG> Magic, despite its being mentioned to you many times over. I remember it well. You are just confused. GG> There are countless examples of your incompetance such as the GG> above but it's not worth the time to waste on you and your GG> inane comments. I know... I have 34+kb worth of your incompetence (you actually spelled it wrong), but you will never list any of mine. Sort of like Denis' claim that he can disprove 75% of everything I say, of course as long as he doesn't actually have to prove it. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00015Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: MODERATOR (Read 4 times) Subj: WIN NO OPERARTING SY -=> Quoting Moderator (02-19-97 07:45) to Bill Wolff <=- Mo> We don't talk to each other that way, in this echo. I wish... see David and Glenn as fine examples of otherwise. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00016Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: DENIS TONN (Read 4 times) Subj: WIN NO OPERARTING SYSTEM -=> Quoting Denis Tonn (02-17-97 13:05) to Scott Little <=- DT> If I "take quotes out of context and mix them up" then you DT> should be able to prove it easily. I have prove this repeatable with you. Yet you still can't comprehend. Why is that Denis? How about the 9MB thing for starters? Why did you say I lied again? And we will go from there. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00017Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: JACK STEIN (Read 4 times) Subj: WINDOWS 95 DEFICIENCI -=> Quoting Jack Stein (02-20-97 08:24) to David Bowerman <=- JS> David Bowerman wrote in a message to Bill Wolff: DB> -----------------------8<-cut-here------------------------ BW> P.S. My spell checker has a fit with your spelling of BW> comuting. Do you know why? DB> -----------------------8<-cut-here------------------------ DB> For someone who complains so much about spelling, you really DB> should invest a few minutes in installing a grammar/usage DB> checker. JS> He really should use a spell checker that only checks what HE types, JS> not what everyone else already typed... Why? How does one learn without examples? BW> P.S. I see incorporating a spell checker must be just too BW> tough for you. Mine is built into my editor. JS> Must be a difficult task for Bill to "install" a spell checker that is JS> "built in" to his editor. Oh... you mean that spell checking that you have already admitted to be a pain in the neck, so you turn it off anyway. No thanks, I don't use pain in the neck software and then believe I'm using the greatest. Nope, not at all, I got better things to do Jack. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00018Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: KEITH DOUGLAS (Read 4 times) Subj: I thought we were adults? -=> Quoting Keith Douglas (02-18-97 21:20) to Bill Wolff <=- -=> OldSubj: UPGRADING OS/2 3 TO 4 <=- BW> I have already. The problem with many is that they only read BW> what they want to read and thus skip the rest. KD> Bill, I sent you a netmail telling you not to post in this KD> echo. You did? How come I never got it? KD> I'm getting your feed cut. You are? For what? No warnings, no appeals, no nothing. Just bring out the big guns and nuke them. Is this what you do to people you don't like Keith? Btw, nobody said anything to me about having my feed cut. And it's been, what 3 weeks now? You know, I always had very deep respect for moderators who treated others as fellow human beings. Those moderators who would first try reasonable methods to make a point, thus hoping that the so called problem user could be reasonable like an adult. But I see you're not of this breed, are you Keith? Very well then Keith, if you don't hear from me again, that's because I have decided that I will no longer entertain adults that refuses to grow up. As I got better things to do. Btw, David, Glenn and Denis are far worse than me IMHO. And yet, who do you nuke Keith? Later... well maybe. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00019Date: 03/06/97 From: BILL WOLFF Time: 02:41am \/To: TRAVIS DAVIES (Read 4 times) Subj: WONDERING ABOUT OS/2 -=> Quoting Travis Davies (02-19-97 15:11) to Jack Stein <=- Hi Travis... TD> I have just got into the message base and from what i have seen TD> you seem to know os/2 in and out. Personally, I think your making a big mistake turning to Jack for advice. I thought the same thing back in 94, and I allowed myself to get sucked into misinformation. What I later learned was that Jack's opinion differs from most other folks. For example, Jack is happy running OS/2 in 4MB of RAM. While most (if not about 99.9999%) will not. Jack also won't in all likelihood, tell you anything bad about OS/2. Also Jack will also tell you things wrong with Windows, that most others never have had those problems. Need examples? JS> Windows does nothing better, just another one of your JS> fantasy's, it is lame by design, you can't change that in your JS> dreams, and so far, MS has not changed it in reality. - (08 Jun JS> 95 20:40:36) ***** On (18 Sep 95) Moderator wrote to Jack Stein... >>> Originating Area: DR_DEBUG JS> ... might be coming from your video card or its driver... Sure JS> seems to give poor old Bill Wolff a mouth full of diarrhea. MOD> I've been tolerant, but your attitude sucks. If you can't MOD> manage to keep your keep it under control while here, you'll MOD> have to find another place to play. - Terry Carmen, Dr. Debug MOD> Moderator ***** Well now I've told you, you're on your own now. And I hope I don't see you 3 years down the line telling you that I told you so. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: 20/20 TBBS * Chicago * 312-769-2020 (1:115/769) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 129 OP. SYS DEBATE Ref: E3B00020Date: 03/05/97 From: JERRY LAPHAM Time: 09:53pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Don't bet on it The PC Week News Digest (Mar 3, 1997, p. 126) says "Don't bet your business on NT just yet. "...A recent Forrester Research, Inc. report says Fortune 1000 users are staying away from NT for departmental applications, large data bases and transaction processing systems. "Senior IT managers surveyed ... have reservations about NT's scalability and about Microsoft Corp.'s ability to provide top-shelf service and support. The survey results do show that NT has a rightful place -- traditional LAN applications such as E-mail and printing." -Jerry --- KWQ/2 1.2i Words have gender, people have sex. --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0676 * Origin: * Modem Zone BBS * Middletown, Ohio * 513-424-7794 (1:110/970)