<OT> HTML mail from Zoki...

[Zoran]

*** Amazing that this should happen to me... Anyway, please accept yet
another excuse from me concerning this mailing mess which has been going
on for too long...

I am in a not to be envied position of being "forced" to use Windows OS &
applis on a IBM portable as an ongoing test procedure for equipping the
collaborators of our company.

A little history just to put you in the right context:

On one side there are IBM Thinkpads (A22e, Celeron's), on the other the
account manager which seems to own shares of Microsoft as he is been
pushing that companies products like it were his own and in the middle you
have me, big mouth, a beard, long hair and not wearing suits and a tie
when going to a board meeting... On top of it my office is full of
penguins and calendar pictures of naked Linux servers on the walls ;-).

A lot of people have been severely p***** off ever since I joined the
company as they have not been able to do what they did before: Buy NT or
W2k servers and get a raise for a job well done.

Anyway, the problem is that the Thinkpad's should be equipped to run
standard office programs like word processing, mail, agenda, palm sync's
and the like but I cannot make myself be heard when explaining this could
be just as well, if not better, done with Linux. The small extra training
of the collaborators included.

So here I am testing things which do everything except what they should. I
tried Outlook XP and showed them it was a mess (ldap queries did not work
and it kept crashing on big mailboxes), I tried Pegasus Mail and did not
like it and I am in the process of trying Eudora and I do not seem to have
any luck: It is crashing on checking 5 and upwards mail accounts, it sends
HTML mail when it is configured to mail in ASCII only, it keeps on asking
for the passwords when it should remember them... This is all very
frustrating and time consuming.

Anyway, I will be lurking on the list for as long as this testing goes on
because I cannot trust this sh** to work the way it should and I do not
want to miss any of the mails either.

The next message I send will be either after I succeed shoving Linux on
the Thinkpads through the account managers throat or after having gotten
my first unemployment cheque...

Cheers,
Zoran.
--
If you find me, please return me to my $HOME: my address is 'cd'.

P.S. This mail brought to you from my home server and Pine... ;-)