>Mea culpa - sorry, sorry, Per and Bernie: I *did* mix up not only
>author names but even content.
Well, the debate seemed to race out of controll that was the reason I
"intervined".
>What I am puzzled about is that in highly a "consumer empowered"
>country like Sweden such basic information is not given by ISP - and
>how comes that the web "public" isn't in uproar about it.
Yes, I find this very strange myself. As a side note several investigations
have found out that much of the time beeing spent on computers doesn't
generate anything since the computers tend to hang. Mine has never hanged
in DOS. So I would think the problems lies on the Windows level and
therefor more protest should be raised against it. But noone complains
about it (other than my friends, classmates and teachers but that's just
around 100 people.) Noone in charge of anything big ever points out the
problem with it.
As for instance the Melissa "virus", it only affects people that are:
1. not concerned about safety (running Word-Macros)
2. using Word 97 AND Outlook
Wouldn't the easy solution to stop this virus simply be to stop using
Outlook? So I think someone (important) would go out and tell people this
(ex. on TV).
>Or alternatively: if the level of computer literacy has come down to
>a state where "everybody" (well, almost) accepts a condition where you
>plug a Microsoft Inc. gadget into the wall socket of phone company
>that doesn't even let you know your and their calling number, and just
>pray forever after, then I must have missed some (sad) development. It
>used to be a highly "how to"-aware environment, a really developed
>industrial culture (not as us clumsy Germans).
Yes, most people have a computer with W95/98 on it here in Sweden now :(
No alternatives are made on most of the PCs hired. (I would guess a rather
unusual form for most people here. For less than 30$ a mounth someone can
hire a brand new computer for three years.)
Almost none of these new PC owners actually know anything at all about a
computer - and few seem eager to learn anything!
BTW: I heard that IE 3.0 couldn't download files bigger than 12.4 MB from
the net, suckers!
//Bernie
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