At 12:42 AM 8/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>When I went to work for my current employer they asked me what I
>would need. When I thought about I told them to just give me a
>monitor. I would bring my computer to work. Duplicating what I had at
>home would be just too much work. I much prefer owning my own
>computer and doing with it what I want.
Nearly all my clients have zip drives on their systems, as do I. It really
simplifies things to just save all the data for a client onto a 100 meg zip
disk and use it at their place or mine. Backups are a cinch and the
street price for internal IDE/ASPI drives is down to $69 locally. I've used
them so long now, I can't imagine working without them.
>
>So that's me.
>
>I created an intranet application and a co-worker could not get it to
>work. When I tried to duplicate the error on her computer I saw that
>she was using IE 3.0. I thought that very odd. N3.0 I could
>understand but not IE 3.0. It turned out that I had an html syntax
>error in the code that stopped IE3.0, but N4.0 and IE4.0 were not
>bothered by it. Okay, fixed that. When I expressed my dismay at her
>using such an old browser she asked if I would load the better one on
>her computer. Oh no..
I loaded IE4.0 on my laptop just to have it to view websites with. I still
use IE3.02 and NSG3.01 on my main workhorse desktop and after
seeing firsthand, experiences of some of my clients with IE4.0, you
couldn't pay me enough to put that monster on my desktop! Two of
them experienced physical (at least electronically physical) hard drive
crashes within several weeks after installing it. Coincidence? Maybe.
But several others have had nightmarish experiences with the way
their computers acted afterwards. And Outlook Express -- I wouldn't
touch that abomination with a ten foot mouse cable! Message files
that you can't delete, crazy "open port" errors that are nearly impossible
to track down -- just one thing after another.
Anyone know how to "un-install" IE4.0 without having to re-format the
hard disk and starting over from scratch, I'd really appreciate knowing
how!
>
>I am talking about people who USE computers as part of their job. I
>take the position that such people should understand their computers
>and do such upgrades themselves. I mean I could just see the future
>whenever some little problem occurred .....IE 4.0 has created more
>than a few problems on my computer but I would not use Windows
>without it. It introduces little features that I really like not to
>mention improved browser performance. Using IE3.0 is like taking
>driving an old clunker and the only excuse is ignorance.
Or just plain good sense! Grabbing the "lates and greatest" is for the
hackers that don't mind the arrows in their back. I know -- I've still got
the scars! I Believe 3.0 is the one on the Win95 OR2 CD. It should be
upgraded to at least 3.02 -- corrected a lot of bugs in 3.0.
>
>I wonder how other companies handle this. Learning to drive a
>computer is much more than just how to turn it on and run a few
>programs. If it were my company I would do what someone else
>mentioned: give a new employee their computer in a box, software on
>diskettes or cd's and then let them put it all together.
Idealistically, that would be great, but at many of the companies I've
done work for, those using the computers only know how to turn it on
and run one or two programs. They end up taking up a lot of your time
with "How do I..." questions and have no idea what a "help" menu is.
>
>Peter
Off my soapbox,
Tom Fosson
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