Re: Statistics for comp.databases.oracle.server - WE 26/1/2003

"Galen Boyer" <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message news:ulm15iuil.fsf_at_hotpop.com...
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au wrote:
> >
> >> Lots of newsreaders warn you of more than one newsgroup, either on
> >> crafting the post or when you send. I'm surprised OE doesn't allow
> >> you to ask for this feature. It is a default in mine.
> >
> > OK, fess up: what newsreader do you use.
>
> In OE, right-click the message and then choose properties. Choose the
> details tab. If you did this, you'd find the header, X-Newsreader, or
> something else like it and for my posts, this header would contain Gnus.
> You need to know Emacs, so I won't recommend it for you.

No, no... I know how to check if I *remember* to check. I want something that sounds the trumpet of Ezekiel if I hit the send button *without* remembering!
>
> Pablo recommended XNews. Many people love that one, its free and it
> runs on windows.
>
> But, if you were to decide to learn Emacs maybe for using Gnus, then you
> would have it for your sqlplus work as well (which has the same
> keystrokes/history/interface as for shell command prompts in Emacs which
> would be the same for srvmgrl command prompts within Emacs ...). It
> starts to become an extremely useful environment once you learn how use
> it for multiple tasks. Learning it for the first task isn't all that
> easy though. I find it quite easy to use it for many things now that I
> got passed the initial frustration.

Uh huh. ('Scuse my Windows-centric scepticism).

>
> > I've just been dabbling with *cough! splutter*!?%$# Linux's Mozilla
> > Newsreader. Seems OK, but even that doesn't warn you (and I thought
> > all Linux users had these sorts of things worked out already!!).
>
> Well, if you are going to work on Linux, Emacs is great thing to get
> familiar with. Then, when on windows, use the ntemacs port and the same
> environment is available on both platforms. (See, no matter where you
> turn, the religion envelopes you :-))

You know, I always get *that* close to Linux, then give up. Time was when it took me a week to set up a printer, and I don't think I ever got the modem working. Now, Mandrake 9.0, and everything works pretty much straight out of the CD. But then I discover my new, expensive 5.1 surround sound system only produces 2.0 sound, and Mozilla looks distinctly flakey.... so I've given up again. 4 years ago, I got to 60% of where I needed to be. The latest dabblings have taken me 95% of the way. But it still isn't 100%, and it still isn't as easy as Windows.

I'm only doing it at all, I've decided, because I committed sins in a previous life that need expurgating.

So now, I'm committed to a Linux Oracle server, and that's it. For desktop stuff, Windows still (I'm afraid) knocks it into a cocked hat.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 00:11:50 CST