At 05:56 PM 6/05/04 +1000, you wrote: >Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Any guru's care to tell us what else we should do? > >Stop using Microsoft products!
Thanks for the advice, I'd like to be able to take it,but: Easy to say but when 95% or so of the world uses Wintel and we have products that require PC support and specialist software like printed circuit design it isn't that easy and we still have to support the Windows standard whatever else we do. > >Advocate in all forums where computers are used for the adoption of >*public* standards for data exchange. > >Mozilla rocks and it's free. http://www.mozilla.org (Konqueror is good >too, though I prefer Mozilla) > >Use Mozilla for browsing the web, check out it's tabbed browsing, you >should download it for that feature alone. Anytime you come across a >site that only works with iexplorer or advocates it send them an e-mail >rocket. Then send the site url to the standards promotion list on the >mozilla site, you'll find it under; > > Web Development / Evangelism > "Discuss how to use and promote web standards with Mozilla" > >Mozilla also does e-mail better than outlook and has excellent Junk mail >filtering that learns what you consider to be junk and what is your >regular content "one man's spam is another mans ham". I already use Eudora light for email and have for a long time. I've never used Outlook or Outlook Express for this and I use Free Agent for a newsreader. I just don't like the interface on the MS products. However I think the interface on IE is quite good and certainly much better than Netscape which I used to use. I downloaded and installed Mozilla and tried it tonight. Seems Ok at first glance and I'll try some of the advanced features. > >Install the mozilla calendar as well if you need that. > >Firefox is the next generation of Mozilla and it also rocks. > >Chuck that USB adsl modem and buy an Ethernet Modem configured to SNAT >or "Masquerade" your PC from it's private address to the internet. I already did that and also put in a router. > >Install linux on that old PC you are about to chuck out and use iptables >to really firewall your network. AAAARgh! My last old PC died! Slowly! I've now got reasonable redundancy. Either PC on the network can get net access via the router and ethernet modem. I really don't want our business dependant on one old PC. > >And finally, > >subscribe to an appropriate mailing list to discuss this sort of stuff, >I'd recommend any Linux/Unix list. Whilst most of the material may >initally go over at FL600, you'd be surprise at how much these guys know >and how helpful they are. Given the necessity to use PC's nowadays to download loggers, program glide computers etc it seems to me that this isn't so OT. Remember when all you had to do was know how to fly gliders? Regards Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 Int'l + 61 429 355784 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.borgeltinstruments.com _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
