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Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: The_FOO on June 25, 2004, 03:00:10 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3840101.stm

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Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: Demosthenes on June 25, 2004, 04:05:42 PM

What!?  IE isn't secure!??

GIS result for "obvious":

(http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jwyner/obvious.jpg)

(http://www.ileet.net/junk/obvious/obv5.jpg)

(http://www.ileet.net/junk/obvious/obv3.jpg)

(http://www.nil8.com/images/obvious.jpg)

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: xolik on June 25, 2004, 04:08:15 PM

Poor Raistlin. The once mighty Black Robe now reduced to nothing more than an Image Macro.  :(

By the way, I just finished installing Firefox and I don't think I'll be looking back.

Edit- I just noticed the bottom pic, Demo. O eye C is hilarious.

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: hackess on June 25, 2004, 04:09:16 PM

I just had to explain to my SO what Firefox was and how to use it.

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: Demosthenes on June 25, 2004, 04:15:18 PM

Quote from: xolik

Poor Raistlin. The once mighty Black Robe now reduced to nothing more than an Image Macro.  :(

On a somewhat related note, I just finished reading this (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786918705/ref=lpr_g_1/102-1048413-9717706?v=glance&s=books).

"Dragons Of Autumn War and Peace by Dostoyevsky" is a pile of crap... it's so poorly written, I don't know how anyone could get through it.  I never liked that book.  The other two in the Chronicles trilogy are far better... I think Weis and Hickman got a lot better as they went along.  By the time they got to the "Legends" trilogy they were pretty decent.

I'm waiting for the "Annotated Legends" to come out in paperback now.

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: xolik on June 25, 2004, 05:06:38 PM

I've read all three of them. I'll probably just pick up the hardcover version. For some reason, I really dislike paperback books.

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: The_FOO on June 25, 2004, 05:44:06 PM

Impressive topic drift!

Title: <chicken little>Don't use IE!
Post by: The_FOO on June 25, 2004, 06:15:24 PM

seems MS knew about this too...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/06/25/HNmspushesxpbeta_1.html