Tim May wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2001, at 11:05 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ish! I'm getting bummed with NS, but wouldn't use IE on a bet. Why use a virus magnet?
The virii are typically executables for x86/Windows machines, not Macs. You said you were using a Mac, so why do you think IE for the Mac exposes you to virii?
I used to have a web page with a simple dos command that would immediately crash any windoze machine running IE. While I realize that all the viri and such are aimed at windoze boxes, not Macs, given the general insecurity of IE in particular, and M$ products overall (for instance, Word and others ID'ing you secretly in the documents) who knows what all it does? I'm amazed, in fact, that someone like you, Tim, would use it. Do you know for sure what it sends back to M$ central, or perhaps, gasp, even to the fedz?
But then, I don't use any other M$ product either, it's all third rate.
Religious nonsense. I tend to avoid MS products because I can get good alternatives for very little money, but few would call Microsoft Office "third rate." I've seen the version for OS X and it looks very good. Maybe "1.5" rate, but not second rate and surely not third rate.
StarOffice is a lot better. Opensource, for one thing (although I know the Mac version was dropped and the OS X version not quite ready yet, but the linux version rocks), and doesn't get macroviri in any version. Again, why would you use something that ID's everything you write? But if you really want a great word processor, try XyWrite. Too bad the law firm that bought it dropped the ball on development, but the Notabene version is going strong, and is the ultimate wp AFAIC. http://www.notabene.com/ No mac version, or linux version, but I run Xywrite under VirtualPC on the Mac, and under VMware on linux. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 hseaver@cybershamanix.com http://www.cybershamanix.com/resume.html