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tahir

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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:07 pm Post subject:
Yes, Outlook is indeed a much more fully featured programme than Outlook express and Thunderbird. How come you don't use a Linux client for your mail?

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:12 pm Post subject:
We have Outlook at work but it is rubbish for filtering (as far as I can make it work), and I wouldn't want to have it at home because I'd (a) have to pay a fair bit and (b) don't have the same virus and spam protection at home as at work so anything that's a bit less common is surely better. I don't like Turnpike but admit I've not used it much.

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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:19 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Yes, Outlook is indeed a much more fully featured programme than Outlook express and Thunderbird. How come you don't use a Linux client for your mail?

My "job" is technically based on windoze software development.

Even the shareware I have written is based on windoze.

So it has been natural to stick with windoze as my main platform.

But not having touched coding very much for several months, I am getting really itchy feet to make the switch to Linux. Maybe building another up to date Linux box and getting the site mirror operational on it, as well as making it the main platform.

I use winvnc a lot, so I can view/operate the Linux box from windoze, making the switch would simply mean reversing this.

I guess the one issue would be games, as I do play the odd PC game.

jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:21 pm Post subject:
Have we got VNC in the free software sticky? That's an excellent little app.

jema
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:29 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Have we got VNC in the free software sticky? That's an excellent little app.

We have one of them, it does seem to have become confusing

winvnc
tightvnc
realvnc

I use tightvnc for no reason I have ready to hand.

jema

tahir

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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 04 3:33 pm Post subject:
I use realVNC, I think that's why it's up there.

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:18 pm Post subject:
Well a quick update. I've installed Firefox and Thunderbird on my new PC and they both seem ok. Firefox seems slower to load pages compared to IE but I think it's loading other stuff that I may be able stop. Very easy to download and setup so far.

tahir

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:43 pm Post subject:
If you download the calendar too you need to get it to start up at the same time as Thunderbird, I posted about that in another thread. V handy

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:55 pm Post subject:
Is it easy to enable to separate email accounts on the same PC?

sean
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 9:31 pm Post subject:
Dunno about that, but NeilK posted some tweaks to make firefox work faster. I've been using them on both our laptops (one XP one 9 without any probs, so give them a go. My eight key just produced a smiley.8

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 9:39 pm Post subject:
They're in the thread about firefox search plug-ins.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 05 9:57 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Is it easy to enable to separate email accounts on the same PC?

Very easy, if you get stuck with anything go to www.mozillazine.org

bagpuss

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 05 10:05 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I use realVNC, I think that's why it's up there.

on a completely random note I know one of the guys who writes that

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 05 10:08 am Post subject:
You'd better tell him we're plugging his software then

monkey1973

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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 05 4:25 pm Post subject:

I've used Openoffice for about two years now and whilst at first it took a bit of getting used to now it is second nature. My favourite feature is being able to convert documents and spreadsheets into PDF files which MS Office couldn't do (although it may do now, i don't know)

I've just started using the firefox browser and it seems pretty good. The extensions are good. I have only just started using Thunderbird again as my mail software as I have managed to get it to work with AVG Free edition (thanks to Jema for that). It seems to do everything OE does. The only other free software I have downloaded is Zonealarm firewall which (touch wood) hasn't let me down yet. I am considering installing Ad-aware and Spybot though as extra protection but I may just be being a bit to paranoid. Don't surf all that often from home.

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