OT: Firefox4 is not available

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 12:47:42 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:


It's amazing how cheap the stuff is now. I got a Lenovo G560 for
$399. My last one was from Costco and was 1800. I got 7 years out of
it but it was nothing like this one.

Lou
 
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:34:44 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:


Windows explorer took me a few days to understand the moves but I'm
pretty damn happy with 7 overall. Louise has Vista and it sucks. The
poor thing has terrible luck when it comes time that she needs a new
machine. She got stuck with windows 2000 also.

Lou
 
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:25:42 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:


The only other Windows OS I bought was Windows ME. I was rich, drunk,
and hadn't done my research.

-sw
 
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 19:06:43 -0500, Sqwertz
wrote:


I'm not sure of the differences between 2000 and ME but they were both
shit. I worked at a place that had ME on one machine and nobody
wanted to use it.

Lou
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:54:41 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:


I was one of the beta testers for Win95, and ME had almost as many bugs. They
got ME running and shipped it, then sent out thousands of patches over the next
year trying to fix all the bugs. They never did actually fix it, the most
annoying thing was the screen of death crashes which were almost a daily
occurrence.
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:54:41 -0500, Lou Decruss wrote:


Windows 2000 was OK. I used it for many years. It was based on NT
server whereas Windows ME was the last of the Windows 95/98 line of
OS's.

-sw
 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:14:10 -0500, Stu wrote:

The only two Windows OS I've owned are 3.11 and XP. I've been happy
with both. My problems are hardware related, not software. I finally
had to "upgrade" 3.11 even though I was perfectly happy with it
because the hard drive died after 8-10 years. Then the hard drive
crashed and burned (died) on this XP machine after less than a year.
Fortunately it was still under warranty, so I just replaced the hard
drive. The "new" 80 GIG hard drive is 6 years old and RAM is only
512, so I'm going to treat myself to a new computer this summer
*before* this one dies.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 2011-03-23, Christine Dabney wrote:


No doubt I'll try it when the newer version of slackware comes out in
a couple mos. It has FF4. I have to use FF for one or two websites,
though it's not my regular browser. I prefer Seamonkey, which is also
by mozilla and is more like the original Netscape than FF.

FF is a good browser, but they've been making more and more settings
default and reducing user control/choice. More or less dumbing it
down. Otherwise, a fine browser. As long as they provide the control
options, I'll use it.

nb
 
On 3/25/2011 12:58 PM, Steve Pope wrote:

What rights is that? Can I specify that only the servers of my choice
carry my post? How would that be possible? Can I delete my posts? Would
I be able to stop someone from reprinting this? What rights do I have
over this message once I press that send button?


I don't think you've been paying attention to what's going on in these
newsgroups. Plagiarism runs rampant. Personally, I wouldn't have much
problem with cutting a pasting material that's out there on the net but
it's important to me that I give proper attribution to the person who
created the material. Most people just reprint without giving proper
credit. That's the breaks and Google Groups ain't responsible for the
actions of Usenet posters - no matter what you believe.


The whole idea of Usenet is many different servers relaying and
archiving the same the messages to many different servers. I place a
post on Usenet-news.net and somehow it magically appears simultaneously
on GG and eternal-september.org. How does the idea of no copying and not
re-posting make any sense in this context? Inquiring minds want to know!
 
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