On Sunday 10 September 2006 5:36 pm, Jack Gates wrote: > On Sunday 10 September 2006 18:14, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > > On Sunday 10 September 2006 8:28 am, Jack Gates wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:07, James Knott wrote: > > > > One is there are many fundamental flaws in Windows that allow a > > > > virus to > > > > infect a system. Windows was originally created with no concept > > > > of security or process protection. Add to that some incredibly > > > > stupid decisions, such as embedding the browser in the OS mean > > > > that the system is wide open to malware. Incidentally, IE was > > > > embedded in the OS, so that MS could claim in court that they > > > > couldn't remove IE, without crippling Windows. Further many > > > > Windows users run as Admin, simply because a) they don't know > > > > better and b) they often have to, to do certain things, such as > > > > install apps. Also, some apps require the user to have admin > > > > rights. This means that when a virus runs, it has full access > > > > to the entire system. > > > > > > Actually the decisions were incredibly smart because they secured > > > their hold on the mass of people who don't know any better and > > > don't care. Those same people will just go buy all the other > > > software to try to secure the system. Microsoft has a very good > > > marketing campaign I just don't agree with their deceptive > > > procedures behind it and I don't like their software. I stopped > > > using their software 4 years ago and won't go back to it. I like > > > Linux too much! Here is my take on the MS stuff > > > http://www.jlgates.com > > > > Well, Jack, I went to your site and all I see are wingdings, and > > I'm on Kubuntu running Firefox, what's the deal? > > How do you have Firefox configured because you should be able to all > of the text in a normal font. My site is a protest to all the sites > that can only be accessed properly with MS Windows and IE. > Eventually I am going to rewrite the entire site in XHTML with > completely letter perfect specifications. IE can't read a page > written that way.
I had it configured to allow the web site to set the font, after I changed it to specify the font I could view your site. If you had really wanted to make sure NON IE browsers could view your site, you'd need to check what version of browser the visitor was using. I can't remember the HTML code, but its possible. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! http://risenbooks.com Christian bookstore --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
