While taking a break from performing an interpretive dance of 'Flight of
the Bumble Bee', Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:45:09 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> IE7 users: beware! Microsoft telling their staff not to touch it...
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>>| My mum's friend, who's been working for Microsoft for quite a while,
>>| just told my mum that Microsoft have started telling their employees
>>| not to use IE7 as it crashes a lot.
>> `----
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>> http://forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=36928.0
>
> Yeah, and my best friends dog's girlfriend's owners cousin twice removed is
> a kernel developer and says Linux sux, use Windows.
>
> Mine sounds just as credible.
Well here's on for you.
At work we've got HP desktops, running Windows XP with Internet Explorer
6.
As they are set up primarily for work the IT staff had never installed
options like Flash Player. Having used Linux for quite some time and
having encountered web pages where plugins were required to view specific
types of media, I'm used to seeing Firefox's jig saw puzzle piece and the
missing plugin reuired text. Well it would seem that in Internet Explorer
6 just opening YouTube without Flash Player installed is enough to crash
IE6.
And one neat work around I found for not having administrator privileges
to install software on Win XP is to install your software to a folder on
the desktop. I downloaded Firefox for WinXP. And as I started to install
the installer stopped with an error and said that I didn't have permission
to write to C:/program files/firefox. Well, just as a lark I re-ran the
installer but this time pointed to a new folder on the desktop. Firefox
then installed and ran.
Neat-o
I was then able to go to YouTube and entertain myself over coffee break.
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Bobbie the Triple Killer
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email Bobbie @ bobbie4R3MOV3TH1S@xxxxxxx
remember to 'remove this'
Bobbie recently switched to Ubuntu 6.
Why? Cause he can, that's why.
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