-=> On 08-19-08 10:19, Roy Witt wrote to Roger Nelson <=-

 RW> 17 Aug 08 07:52, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> I think I'm too old to learn how to use OS/2...

 RN> It's not as hard as you might think and if you haven't used OS/2
 RN> before, the learning curve is very short.

 RW> I ran Warp 2 a few years ago. Maybe I've got a mental block,

i won't get into that ;) but i will say that there's a hugedifference
between Warp 2 and Warp 3... then there's the intervenening years
between Warp 3 and Warp 4... a /lot/ of things changed between them...

 RW> but nothing else I've played with was as easy as DOS was. I

nothing will ever be as "easy" as DOS ever was... that's a memory and
one that many will never forget ;)

 RW> also don't like the GUI interfaces of any Linux I've seen. The
 RW> icons and graphics look like something Mattel would have made.

see? that's one of the great things about *nix systems and their
X-Windows GUI interface... there are many different GUI interfaces that
one can run on any *nix system that it isn't even funny... changing the
theme is "easy squeezy" and changing the GUI is even easier... and there
are so many GUIs to choose from, too!

 RW>> You can type a partial address into the address window of Firefox
 RW>> and it will do that too. If you google it, then you have to find it
 RW>> in a list.

 RN> I've noticed that sometimes when "www" is omitted, some
very unusual
 RN> results are displayed.

this has to do with today's browsers trying to guess what the actual URL
is that you are looking for... it is a side effect of m$'s "dumb it
down" program...

 RN> Anyway, when the Warp machine is up and
 RN> running I'll be using the OS/2 versions of mail clients and web
 RN> browsers.

i've tried that on my stuff and, sadly, Warp 3 has been left behind just
as everything else has been :(

 RW> I've never run into anything like that. When an ad on TV
 RW> displays a web site link, I never use the www and always end up
 RW> on their site.

again, that's due to the browser thinking for you... again, a side
effect of m$'s shennanigans...

)\/(ark

... If I were President, we'd take off "Just Because Day" twice a year.