Author: Albert Silver
Date: 14:24:07 09/11/00
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On September 11, 2000 at 16:19:08, Frederic Friedel wrote:
>On September 11, 2000 at 15:34:43, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>you sure you downloaded the program, not only the jpg image of it? What is the
>>"...jpg kind..." you mention? You know, if you download only the jpg image of a
>>program, any program, it won't work :)
>>
>>Deeply interested to find out what you downloaded,
>>
>
>He grabbed a full jpg screendump and spent an hour clicking around on it.
Two hours. Remember he said 'deeply' dissatisfied and not just dissatisfied.
> I
>should have added some html links for him, so that clicking on a button would
>produce a (simulated) message saying "Sorry, dear, not today. I have a
>_splitting_ headache." You think that would have freaked him out? I think it
>would have freaked him out.
You could always try changing the standard error messages for these more
'enlivening' ones... Heck, you could also just put a whole bunch of Elmer Fudd
messages instead, though I worry that foreign users may actually model their
English on it and begin talking wike diss. :-)
Albert Silver
BTW, if you haven't done so already, you can also change the usual sounds in
Windows in the Control Panel under Sounds. I have HAL greeting me when my
computer enters Windows.
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