Hello:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 18:07:03 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> Now I want to
>> know why I would need MSIE 5.5 just to perform a simple routine that any
>> old DOS 386 can easily handle by running a program small enough to fit on a
>> single floppy. The correct answer of course is that Bill Gates is trying
>> to pull the wool over the eyes of the ignorant consumers.
> Hi Sam;
> I'm just providing moral support before someone else comes up with a detailed
> technical answer.
> All the bad news you got is true, except I think IE4.5 will do it (or was it
> NS 4.5) ? This time it isn't Billygoat, it's the system.
> All the old security certificates expired at the end of the last century.
> NS and IE both use security certificates supplied by an independant company
> (RSA Data Security) that isn't interested in our problems.
<snip>
It isn't the system. It's just Ol' Billygoat at it again. The system is
based on the adage that the customer is always right.
Most businessmen have enough sense to realize that the customer is always
right. When a businessman starts telling his customers that they are always
wrong, then he will eventually lose his customers. When he loses enough
customers as a result of his high-handed attitudes, then he will eventually
lose his business and the offended public will rejoice.
Michael is certainly interested in our problems. The developers of Lynx386
for DOS are interested in our problems. The developers of Linux are
interested in our problems. All of these software developers know that the
customer is always right when he requests a scaled down version of their most
highly featured browsers. These software developers will gladly go out of
their way just to please a small minority of customers requesting scaled -
down versions of their browsers. If I want to continue to operate an
antiquated machine, none of the above software developers are going to
attempt to orchestrate an attitude against me. They are the kind of folks
that would just encourage me to do my own thing and they even go out their
way to help me and many others to just go ahead and do our very own things.
Since Ol' Billygoat isn't interested in helping us to solve our problems,
I am going to ask if there are any Linux users out there who can advise me
on what I would need as minimum hardware requirements and what might I
need as a minimum Linux OS and as a minimum browser for the purpose of doing
online banking at a website requiring 128 bit encryption? I know nothing
about the capabilities of the Linux versions of Arachne. Would Arachne for
Linux work?
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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