I use the "alternative operating system," Windows, only on rare occasions, like when I *have to* access a site that uses javascript or when a secure connection is necessary. However, I never know if it will boot, or I will get an error message, one of which is, "Explorer has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." <CTRL-ALT-DEL> will give a list of "open" files that have to be "ended." Highlight one, and click on "End Task," and another dialog box pops up saying that the program had not ended and asks again if you want to "end task." This has to be done for each of the files in the "open files" list, which requires <CTRL-ALT-DEL> each time until all of the files have been "ended" and "Explorer" is the only file left.
Another error message is that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@" has performed an illegal operation and the machine has to be restarted. I guess that Windoze users finally accept these things as "normal," just like we Arachne users accept javascript and secure connection problems as being "normal" with Arachne. BTW, I saw in the paper this morning that M$ announced a major security hole in their Windows 2003 OS. Roger Turk Tucson, Aridzona Sam Heywood lamented: . > I have tried using "outside DNS's" too, but only as an experiment . > to see if I can. Yes, I can. I don't know why I can. I don't know . > why an "outside DNS" would even allow let my use of it since I am not . > a paid or a signed up subscriber for its services. I don't know why [big snip] . > designed for facilitating back door entry and for very cleverly masking . > the symptoms of an attack and for providing very deep cover for spies. . > In Windows unexplainable hard drive activity is considered "normal". . > Professional spies are very well trained in noting what is considered . > normal. They take advantage of their knowledge of what is considered . > normal activity to employ in a ruse to get in and to copy a document, . > or to plant a bomb, and and then to get out without anyone ever . > noticing that something that is not normal has ocurred. When one . > leaves the Windows open all the bugs fly in. Some of the most pesky . > bugs of all are the "no-see-ums" because they are so small that . > they can easily pass through some very fine screens. After a while . > some of the very small stuff can easily become a major annoyance. . > Sam Heywood
