We may be making a bit of progress, I've been slapped down by educational users of M$ Office 2K for saying I didn't like it. Suppose M$ must be like toothache, so long as you don't realize its there, it doesn't hurt. :-) Nothing personal, but I'm not sure that M$ and all the other misspellings help our camp much, it just makes us look petty.

I've managed to get 2 other teachers to try. 1 is just about over the worst hump now, he's got his modem and display sorted out. He's using Mandrake 7.0. I'm working on converting him to SuSE ;-) And the other's gone strangely silent - guess he hasn't managed to get his modem working yet. Still, we'll get there. eventually. above is the problem in a nutshell! I was forced by my clients to use a PC as they wanted me to support theirs. Windows 2 had just come out, I build a PC, shoved in the (5 1/4") disks and it worked. Win3 and all the variants arrived, I put in the disks and they worked. I held back on WIN95 but eventually put in the CD and it worked, the same with WIN98 - The only time that I contact Microsoft is when digging down into the Help system, API etc. (when they tend to be of little help to be truthful!). One can always learn more about an OS as time goes on, no-one can know all there is to know, but it ought to work (as announced) from the box. Once, when in desperation with MS, I asked IBM for a copy of OS2/warp. It arrived on floppies, I spent a day trying to get it to install (!) once it did, it was so slow and resource hungry that I threw it in the bin. The hassle didn't out-weigh the gains.

At the time I moved to PCs I was running my business on Atari's, so-called games machines, that ran circles around PCs for quite some time.

We just have to keep plugging away. This makes it seem like a contest, do what I do, sneak bits in through the back door, and when ready and all is peaceful and running smoothly, announce your coup d'état!

Kind Regards Adrian Wells _______________________________________ Systems Manager Sidcot School Oakridge Lane, Winscombe, Somerset BS25 1PD. Please reply to adrian.wells@sidcot.org.uk admin@sidcot.org.uk for general enquiries