On Tue, October 26, 2004 3:43 pm, David said: > > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:50, Rod Butcher wrote: >> > Sluggers, I started off having to spoof my Firefox browser as Moz 1 >> > Win98 to do St George internet banking. That stopped working so I used >> > IE 5 Mac. That now crashes and I have to use IE6 Win XP. There is as >> > pattern here .. and in the US i believe it would warrant antitrust / >> > racketeering / cartel / wirefraud investigation. >> > Anybody got any real facts on this ? >> >> Ockams Razor (paraphrased): Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be >> easily attributed to stupidity. > > occam's razor.... if there are many possible answers to a question, the > simplest one is usually correct... > > Then again.. that's probably the same thing. They have XP on their > desktop, so obviously they think everyone else must have to. Much more > likely than a conspiracy. OTOH, it suits M$ to be non-standard, so there > isn't much likelihood that they will discourage this behaviour.
Similar issue with the Department of Education and their Back to School Allowance. It is an Access Database that you import the details into then export a file to disk. SOme genius decided that it would be a good idea to allow them to be emailed back - cept the option to still save to disk comes after the automated email link, and that won't work unless you have MS OUtlook installed, so instead you get an 'Error 498398' and you can't export the file to send in! The programmers response was that all I have to do is to install Outlook as my default email client and it will work - I declined the offer. This is an example of stupid or lazy programming rather than conspiracy. I believe the higher ups have told the programmer to fix it. -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
