On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:52:00PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. > > Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and > certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- > administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. > M$ Office, M$IE, Lotus Notes 6 (soon to be migrated to Outlook Express). > > I've never really used Windows before and thought of it as just another > system -- I like Debian, you like Windows, no sweat. > > Boy, what a piece of crap. It boggles the mind. This is how the world's > office workers get their work done? Or do they? > > I managed to install Opera in a directory owned by myself, but whenever I > try to open any page it keeps asking me for usernames and passwords, > which IE somehow seems to inherently know about. That thing doesn't even > have tabs or a decent bookmark handler. That's the #1 browser in the > world! WTF? Am I missing something here? > > OK, this rant really doesn't belong in this group, but I need some > sympathy right now.
Understood. That is how I feel every time I have to use my wife's university-supplied laptop. Or try to help her untangle some horrors from m$word. with much sympathy, -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]