[arachne] Re: Arachne 1.87 crashes when reaching the end of the 'sent mail' list
- From: Jason Dodd <jasorn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:58:47 -0600
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I have similar experiences with linux and windows. I'll complain about
how something is annoying in linux(the system I use for all my personal
use). Then I'll have the occasion to do the same kind of thing in
winxp. Most often than not I end up thinking, "Maybe it wasn't so bad
in linux after all." :)
To be fair, the blame is shared between windows itself and software
developers.
Having said that, I think it's fair to point out specific parts of a
good program that you'd like to see improved.
Can't afford to buy logic type games? Have you tried fish fillets and
enigma? They're both free for the downloading and pretty good.
L.D. Best wrote:
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I've been major sickly so pretty much DWR the list, but something told
me to read this ... and I have to admit I am grinning.
I find it almost too humorous for words that someone thinks that
Arachne is failing in the "user friendly" arena.
Anyone wanting an example of "under UNfriendly" need only play with
this XP system of mine. Because of weather and limited mobility, I
have a tendency to enjoy playing video games that require pattern
recognition and/or logic. I can't afford to buy any, but found about
3 over on the MSN site that I can enjoy playing. That is the only
time, other than when forced to by Update, that I use IE ...
Well, I downloaded a trial on one of those games the other day so I
could see how different it was from the online tiny-icons-hard-to-see
version. It was a great improvement, but I'd soon worn out the demo
restriction and it was time to uninstall it. As part of a 'doze
uninstall, one needs to do a bunch of stuff by hand ... like emptying
directories that aren't empty, and deleting said directories once they
are. As I set about to start *that* final phase of the uninstall, low
and behold I found a program folder (i.e. directory) for something
that made no sense ... I went to the yechhhy control panel to see if
there was anything officially installed by that name. There wasn't.
Oh, it was installed alright, but not so that control panel could
remove it.
Since it was some sort of proprietary setup for MSN Gaming, I decided
that a lot of the stuff in there -- for games I don't, or won't play
on line -- needed to be cleaned out. I started deleting and was told
I wasn't allowed to because "other application(s) are using the files"
... NOT!! So down to CLI I went, located the directory, did a del *.*
on the files, and cd .. up to rd. I couldn't rd cuz directory wasn't
empty! HUH????? Went back into directory and damned if every file
wasn't back there again! WTF?!?!? Tried again a couple of times and
it was a wash ... couldn't delete snit.
Fun and games ... yeah, kiss my grits MSN!! Back to desktop and grab
the Norton Commander equivalent for 'doze, go in using it and delete
all the files, go up a level to delete the directory and it is 'not
empty.' All the deleted files are back.
OK, be that way ... I'll beat you yet! uh huh ... Went to My
Computer, went to the directory, hit Edit, Select All, DEL ... all the
files disappeared. And then less than 5 seconds later all the files
were BACK!! Something somewhere is pulling the deleted files out of
trash and putting them back ... that was obvious. So I set out to
defeat that, since I run Norton with its protected trash can, I can
delete everything in the 'recycle bin' if I'm quick enough, thus
removing the files beyond the reach of the malevolent hidden "neeener
neener program" which insists I am to have no control over my own
computer when it comes to MSN games. So I once again Select All, once
again DEL all, and quickly empty the recycle bin so the files are not
there to be retrieved. Finally, I've beaten M$N at its crooked game
.... NOT!!!!!!!!!! mutter mutter muttter curse cuss fume
Nowhere did I see anything on MSN terms of use which said I'd be
forced to keep their software on my HDD. Today/tonight I will look
again, and read everything VERY carefully. If it's not there, this
invasion and removal of user control will be blogged and flogged as
far across the nets as I can manage. And if any of you know an
attorney with the tech knowledge to fight this type of "system
invasion and takeover" case, please write me private to let me know
... OK?
And now you might have some idea of why I damn near laughed out loud
to see someone bitching about Arachne not being user friendly.
l.d.
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