It's not working

Hotmail, Live and Outlook Express are all Microsoft product. The great M$ has made them different and incompatiable. I wonder if there is a war inside M$... Anyway, users can no longer access Hotmail using OE. What's a great improvment!?

Anyway, those using Hotmail in OE would like to try this out:

http://www.freepops.org/en/

Glad someone made this up. Glad someone made this free. Thanks!

Why not working? (part 2)

First of all, may you have a look at "First Impressions of Thunderbird 2.0" by the houstonmacbro. Recently I found a HTTP mail plug-in for Mail (the e-mail client come with Mac OS). After couple of hours playing with it, the Mail get wierd. It no longer able to download e-mail. So I've removed it.

One day, my boss asked me to help him on "a urgent matter" - his Mail is not working. He know there is some new messages from server but the Mail just stay in the "downloading" status. Unlike Outlook or Outlook Express, it does not have a pop-up window when downloading e-mails. There is nothing an end-user would able to do when it is not working. Since all his business e-mails are there, he is very frustrated. Since I've read something about the Thunderbird 2.0, I recommended him NOT to upgrade to Thunderbird. After couple of tries, quits and restarts, we believe the problem was the plugin and so we disabled it. Da-da, it's working again!

So, seems that plug-ins for Mail does not work at all. That's it.

Why not working?

Using Mac should be enjoyable and relaxing. The OS has take care of quite a lot of troublesome things which needs a lot of care for a Windows user. So, Mac users should always take-it-for-granted for anything. This is what I believed, until the day has come.

With the green envelope I visited the IRD website. Oh, it's not working! Firefox doesn't work, Safari doesn't work, even Netscape does not too. Netscape for Mac was the one on the support list from the site. But it doesn't help at all. The FAQ just said "yes, it doesn't work always" and then nothing else. It seems that the ESDLife doesn't have any intention to fix this problem. Why? Why would a government website limiting visitors to use Windows? Does it get commission for every Windows access? Can I sue the website owner for against anti-monopoly?

Luckily or not, I still own an Windows-based laptop (and several Windows licneses) and a virtual desktop. But I would be happier to file my tax return on a Mac.

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