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Re: MSIE5 security hole
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:28:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley) writes:
[...]
I like IE5 alot, and I get pretty freakin tired of all the stupid
potshots people take at it and MS without acknowledging the fact that
the major competing browser/package has a tons of problems/bugs/issues
of its own.
[...]

I'm with ya.  OK, lemme practice.

Ahem.  :']


_______________________________begin rant_________________________________

Microsoft Internet Explorer is a rickety, rotten, bug-infested, malodorous
cesspool of filth, coughed up like a steaming pus-infected hairball from the
collective bellies of ten thousand demonic gargoyles.[1]  Microsoft makes my
butt pucker.

--Todd

[1] of course, the major competing browser/package has tons of
problems/bugs/issues of its own.

________________________________end rant__________________________________


How's that?  =:*S

A friend of mine at work at my last job had a quote up on his wall from a
student who was asked in an essay to compare and contrast two or three MS
products.  The quote went something like this (unfortunately, I can't
remember whom it was attributed to):

"I would rather gnaw my left leg off at the knee, pack the bleeding stump
with salt, and run around in circles over broken glass than use a Microsoft
product on a regular basis."

Now *that's* what I'd call feeling pretty strongly anti-MS, I think.  :-)

--Todd

p.s.  MSIE's smooth scrolling fully rocks.



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  Re: MSIE5 security hole
 
(...) Which UTK PCs? If you mean the ones in the labs they most certainly do not have IE5 on them, nor will they have it anytime real soon. I like IE5 alot, and I get pretty freakin tired of all the stupid potshots people take at it and MS without (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)

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