On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:08:56PM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> > [/me grumbles because I got a virus on the windows partition of my
> > personal laptop whilst browsing the web (a non-porn site, if you must
> > know) using IE, because one particular site (that of my healthcare
> > provider) I was using wouldn't work without it.  Somehow managed to
> > get it despite running up-to-date anti-virus software with the virus
> > guard service running...  And now I have to reinstall BOTH Windows AND
> > Linux, since my OEM only ships restore disks...  yay fun.]
> 
> Doesn't this give you the energy to complain to your health care
> provider who could not be arsed to follow _standard_ W3C HTML/CSS, ECMA
> scripting? 

Almost... in the past it would have, but I'm getting kind of tired of
tilting at windmills.

> I have nothing but contempt for any development process that outputs
> IE only website code.

I have to agree, but I've found complaining does very little, unless
a large percentage of the users of a site are nerds.  Because the
"normal" types all use IE anyway, which makes the devs too apt to say
"just use IE," in my experience.

It's more likely to get me to install Linux on a different laptop
that's been sitting around my apartment for quite a while, and use
different laptops for different purposes (though, I admit, it's much
less convenient than to have both OSes on one, so I can use whichever
is more handy).  If I decide to do that, I'll be able to use that
machine strictly for playing games, which is about all I do in Windows
anyway... were it not for that, I would NEVER run Windows, EVER.  Of
course, then I'd have to actually call my health care provider... or
get printed materials, as the case may be.

-- 
Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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