Posted on 02/28/2005 5:17:34 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
I use three browsers, none of them are MS explorer. I'm to the point where I am afraid to open up My Computer because I know MS search calls home.
The Mozilla Foundation produces a browser especially for the Mac platform, called Camino. (Of course, you could just run firefox as a X application, since OS/X is really BSD Unix under the hood, but really, you should give Camino a try).
I would ditch MS in a heartbeat if
1- the wife didn't bring so much Win2K-based work home, and need "exactly what I use at work," and
2-Linux would finally reach "ready for prime time" and be at the stage where you could pop a disc in the drive, and install it without having to change hardware, join geek forums, and become conversant with Gnomes, Gnus, and other arcana so beloved by the Unix world.
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Good site- I recommend it.
Say again?
MS file search. I used to get a popup whenever I tried a file search. At one point it wouldn't even search until I turned on the spyware. Might have been an older MS version because it hasn't happened to me for a few years now.
DR Dos was sold to Novell and later to a small support company whose name I do not know.
Now you can find it at:
http://www.drdos.com/index.htm
I kept an operating system on a floppy for years and many times it got me out of a windows jam. Originally you had Windows on top of DOS, which was on top of the BIOS. The way it was designed if you didn't boot into some kind of DOS directly, operationally, you were still in windows.
Thanks for the info but I don't think that was the case as the box showed "default" user and asked for a name for that default. No other information. Will look for the bookmarks.
God forbid you should have to do your job. Sheesh.
You didn't read the next sentence, did you?
Firefox does too run on Mac!
Then why Camino?
I'm not sure, but I'm using Firefox right now on my Powerbook!
Because Firefox has a standard UI for all platforms, which makes it not "Mac-like" in certain areas. For example, Camino uses standard OS X buttons and popup menus in web forms, while Firefox uses its own set of widgets.
Do computer geeks get paid some kind of fee for installing this on their customer's computers?
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