Hi Dilwyn,
No! Should I be? I'm only ironing, nothing dangerous! ;-)
Ironing, or smoothing out the bugs?
Well, both! Ironing to smooth out the bugs in my shirts for next week.
:-)
Anyway, how can you be reading your email while ironing ???
Iron a shirt, read a mail, iron a shirt ... My office is where I do the
ironing!
But you are an IT pro...I only take weekely backups because not enough
changes (normally) get done in one week on any of the small-time stuff I
do.
I may be an IT pro but I don't often backup my laptop, so last week I
decided that "just in case" I had better write myself an "rsync" script
to backup certain folders to my USB drive.
While it all worked under testing, I noticed that my "Documents" folder
was full of backups of my on-line library (ie, about 500 assorted
manuals that I use for work) and all my documents were gone.
I know *how* it happened - the rsync script was written to remove from
the backup area anything no longer in the library area. I don't know
*why* it happened as I had not written the script in my Documents folder
and neither had I run it from there - so how it managed to backup the
library and wipe my files from the wrong folder, I have no idea!
You only stand up just before you throw another PC running Windows out
the window! ;-)
Yup! As the caption competition picture my son sent to me for the March
issue of the magazine shows ;-)
Your son seems to do a lot of that sort of thing!
At long last! Seems that forcing M$ to allow Windows user to select
other browsers might be having an influence.
I'm not sure. I have a feeling that the Firefox browser got so many good
write-ups, even in Windows magazines - that the vast majority of Web
sites that used to say "not using IE, tough!" decided that that was no
longer the way to go.
People started seeing "Not using a standards compliant browser? Tough"
messages instead and, as Firefox is fast, secure and free, people
started using it, showed their friends and it spread.
> That article is not 100%
clear on it, though, because the direct comparison was with IE7.0
specifically and mentions that the figure might be different if you base
it on users using all versions of IE. Still that was 2009, so it must be
even truer today. Thank goodness.
Yes, and one thing the article didn't mention was the fact that a lot of
browsers have a setting that allows them to pretend to be IE - and the
figures for IE may include lots of numbers for browsers that are not IE!
At the very best you'd have to admit that you are denying a big group
the joys of accessing your website if it won't work on IE! Then you'd
say (probably) thank goodness
I *may* be denying some people, but no-one has complained so far. And,
the content is there and visible even with IE, you just have to scroll
down a little bit.
Yes, that's the difficult part. Give an average emailer the choice of
pretty colours, fonts, pictures etc under their control against simple
plain text, you probably know which they'd choose. Probably not the same
as you and I would.
Yes, that's my point. M$ decide to "adopt" a new "standard" simply by
dint of numbers. You buy a PC, you pay the Windows tax and, in most
cases, you use the software provided in its default settings. Hence,
suddenly, HTML becomes frequently used.
And a jolly good rant it was too. I enjoyed it. Cheers!
Drat, failed in my efforts to annoy Norman :o(
:-)
Cheers,
Norman.
--
Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
Thorpe House
61 Richardshaw Lane
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7EL
Company Number: 05132767
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