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Gosh, I just found a site that really lays waste to Mozilla. Click on any link, you get a f.cking File/Save box for an image or .html file. Navigation nearly impossible. Care to guess? Yep, good old www.microsoft.com! Who'd a thunk it? Guess that takes care of my automatic Windows Update for XP featurette. Those f.cking bastards. They all need to get out of the sand box and grow the f.ck up. MC > Guess that takes care of my automatic Windows Update for XP > featurette. "Automatic"?! No way!. My one and only use for IE is _manual_ windoze update on a W2K machine at work to get the patch of the week from our local proxies. And don't get me started on Media Player 9. After seeing the "features" in MP9 (enter credit card number), I refuse to run windoze anywhere it has direct access to the Internet (without tightly controlled proxy servers blocking the random data spew). Putting data in a windoze machine is about as secure as posting it on Usenet. It's frightening how many machines _inside_ our firewalled enterprise network keep picking up viruses, despite out perimeter controls. We've been spending so much time trying to track down infected machines that there's been talk of dumping windoze from the whole enterprise. I haven't used windoze at home since 3.11, when I noticed that my P120 under WfW couldn't keep up with the 486 running Linux. But M$ has had a major influence on the computer industry: There ain't no setch animule as real standards, anymore. Case in point: digital video. Actually, there _are_ standards. Dozens of them. Everybody has one of their own. Or several of their own. WMV alone must cover about nine or ten different formats, by now. M$ code has to be able to read the billyuns and billyuns of file formats that came before this weeks' version of the constantly mutating form. No wonder M$ code is such a resource hog. At this point, I think M$ is just hurting themselves, in the long run. It will be a while coming, but it's going to be a helluva crash. -- Speaker for the D00d  Signature{:-) Happy Holidays http://LNGIFTS.home.insightbb.com http://www.QuickInfo247.com/8306069 http://www.GiftWorldNet.com/LNGIFTS http://www.MalakYAH.FreeStoreClub.com http://www.MalakYAH.WebStoreClub.com http://www.Hop.ClickBank.net/?MalakYAH/Surveys2 https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=YESQNAXYEGZGE On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:06:34 -0800 MC <betterman@pj.com> wrote: > Guess that takes care of my automatic Windows Update for XP > featurette. "Automatic"?! No way!. My one and only use for IE is _manual_ windoze update on a W2K machine at work to get the patch of the week from our local proxies. And don't get me started on Media Player 9. After seeing the "features" in MP9 (enter credit card number), I refuse to run windoze anywhere it has direct access to the Internet (without tightly controlled proxy servers blocking the random data spew). Putting data in a windoze machine is about as secure as posting it on Usenet. It's frightening how many machines _inside_ our firewalled enterprise network keep picking up viruses, despite out perimeter controls. We've been spending so much time trying to track down infected machines that there's been talk of dumping windoze from the whole enterprise. I haven't used windoze at home since 3.11, when I noticed that my P120 under WfW couldn't keep up with the 486 running Linux. But M$ has had a major influence on the computer industry: There ain't no setch animule as real standards, anymore. Case in point: digital video. Actually, there _are_ standards. Dozens of them. Everybody has one of their own. Or several of their own. WMV alone must cover about nine or ten different formats, by now. M$ code has to be able to read the billyuns and billyuns of file formats that came before this weeks' version of the constantly mutating form. No wonder M$ code is such a resource hog. At this point, I think M$ is just hurting themselves, in the long run. It will be a while coming, but it's going to be a helluva crash. -- Speaker for the D00d > Gosh, I just found a site that really lays waste to Mozilla. Click on > any link, you get a f.cking File/Save box for an image or .html file. > Navigation nearly impossible. Care to guess? > > Yep, good old www.microsoft.com! Who'd a thunk it? Odd, I have no such issues at that site, with Mozilla 1.5. Perhaps there's a bugzilla entry for it? (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) Ciao Zak -- ======================================================================== http://www.carfolio.com/ Searchable database of 10 000+ car specs Auctioning motoring-related items at eBay? http://www.carfolio.com/ebay/ ======================================================================== >>Gosh, I just found a site that really lays waste to Mozilla. Click on >>any link, you get a f.cking File/Save box for an image or .html file. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Odd, I have no such issues at that site, with Mozilla 1.5. Perhaps > there's a bugzilla entry for it? (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) Well, there might be, but the fact is, after reading the Speaker's comments and again contemplating how deep the divides are among computer companies, users, etc., I've decided that computers in general suck eggs and if I didn't need one for various things I'd chuck it and every other one I could lay my hands on out the window. f.ck computers. That said, I'm going to stick with Mozilla for the duration. It felt good to stop using a couple MS products, and I like it when I feel good. So that's it. MC |
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