web design

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>You wouldn't need that large an IT staff if you weren't running
>>the Microsoft virus, Windows.
>
>So you aren't running IE7-BETA? It really doesn't suck. I like it just 
>about as good as firefox 1.5.0.1, though I like Opera 8.51 best just 
>because I will remember all my open tabs. I might not have configured the 
>others to do that as well, but each is about as good as it's gonna get.

What would I run IE7-BETA on?  It won't run on either my OS X or
my Linux desktops.  When I gave my wife a Mac Mini for her
birthday last September to replace her win98 box, it meant that I
no longer have to do anything with Windows.  Now Carolyn doesn't
have to listen to me bitch and moan every time something wierd
happened on her machine (actually something wierd would have been
for it to behave nicely :-).

>I "really" like how Apple Safari works on my OS-X box, but I hate that many 
>sites use Microsoft Core fonts and I still have not got those fonts 
>installed.
>
>On the otherhand, Dell selling quite useable boxes for $299 with monitor 
>delivered makes it seem like giving out free crack cocaine at the 
>schoolyard. Very few CFO's will approve a $1000 upcharge to be virus free.

I've installed several of Fry's $180 Linux boxes where they're used
primarily like X-terminals to run accounting programs in xterms.  We
install SuSE $CURRENT_VERSION on them, show people FireFox and Thunderbird,
and they're generally happy.  I have some very non-techie friends who have
been running Linux desktops since StarOffice 5.x was available, and are
quite happy not to have to deal with the Windows virus.  One of these
friends is very active in a political party, and deals with Word and Excell
attachments daily, using OpenOffice.org on her SuSE 9.3 Professional
system.

Bill
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