IE7 is CRAP

Obviously not the proper way on the forum to get the sh[b][/b]it to show up.

Odd.. I don't have that problem. Takes about a second to open IE.. I have no problems with anything.

Occasionally I get a webpage crashing the whole thing though.. but I attribute that to the shoddy webpages it happens on with their flash and all that other crap showing up.

No, that would be PEBKAC handling code.

If you have to ask, you're likely a contributor. And I was referring to "the shoddy webpages," though I'm sure riser has his moments.

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.

I'll stick with what I said. If loading a page can take out the browser then the browser needs better error routines. I'm not bothered that the page should be better coded. Display a this page is bo[b][/b]locks message and have done.

I had enough sense to realise that I was not a coder back at uni. I've not written a web page in years and even then it was static. I did get the Bootle CGI routines running in my final year project but thats a long story.. I remember using a Netscape specific tag in my output and justifying it by 95% browser usage at the time.

Anyhow.. those bastages robbed you of your elementary school dream so stop defending Microsoft

Can't help myself, they just keep giving me free stuff. They're my gift horse.

Have you applied the acceleration add on?

i agree dear. ie7 is trash.

He's talking about gay modems. They were in the closet until '97 when the first one came out. I didn't know the first was 2400 baud - I just knew it was "Gayes-compatible" with "limp handshaking". They were tough to install, having just male RS232 connectors, however.

Sooooo...you started in 1st grade?

Sooooo...you started in 1st grade?

well i was introduced to the online world (AOL specifically) with a 2400bps modem. I believe that was in 1993. I remember when the 28.8 bps modem came out, my step dad dropped $200 for an external US Robotics. I also remember usually connecting at 14.4 to AOL 'cause they hadn't upgraded to 28.8. those were also the good ole days of AOL busy signals.

i still remember intel's website when it was launched. it was like 6 pages and all they had on there was info about the company. no product support or product info. they also sold those plastic keychains with CPU cores in them... but u had to send a check to buy it (no online buying yet). i think you could buy t-shirts too.

good times.

lol. i've never even used a web tv. what a flop huh?

I think the only site I frequented then was ftp.cdrom.com. Downloading Doom mods one floppy-sized zip at a time, hoping the connection didn't drop. I haven't been back to that site since Aliens Quake was killed by Fox.

What do you know, still up, and still slow.

Ah, dodgin' traffic in memory lane...

I remember a bunch of us in high school playing Doom and (later) Quake on the networks. Frag... where did that word come from?

obIE7: Used IE7 once on one of the office PCs. Disturbed everyone by going 'Oh look! Tabbed browsing! Micro$haft is finally taking tips from Opera and Firefox!', uninstalling it, and installing said Firefox again.

So once again MS looks at the rest of the industry, takes tips, improves their product to the point where it approaches being decent, and then slaps a hugely inefficient, user-obsequious and oh-so-pretty interface on it. Just like they did to XP.

5 minutes of use before it pissed me off due to being slow and inefficient. That's a new record. It annoyed me rapidly enough that I didn't have time to encounter a bug before removing it.

So yeah, I agree, IE7 really does bite the bag. Microsoft has the skill, has the knowledge and has the experience, to give their clients high-quality, reliable, stable and efficient products. Which they do after stuffing it full of paperclips, mutts, unhelp files that automatically appear when not wanted, misfeatures, addons that no sane person would ever use, padding, rewrites, overhauls, rerewrites, crap and (lately) obsessively paranoid DRM.

Sad. [/rant]

you wouldve been two y/o at the time or there abouts..

first 2400 baud modems came out around 1983 with widescale productions in '84 with full support from telenet and tymnet.


so i highly doubt you remember the very first ones introduced.

I remember my baptism at 13 months old.

When Radio Shack first started carrying 2400 baud modems, one of the first places you could buy them, my dad went in and bought it.

Our first online capable computer was an Amiga 500, which I still have to this day and it still works, minus the mouse. Keyboard controls.

I started using computers before I was in First grade at that. I was connecting to single line BBSs around the city.

When Telneting BBSs became popular, I remember during the Persian Gulf war I was chatting with a Kuwati person who was telling me all the crap that was going on in her town. What the Iraqis were doing and such.

Crazy stuff.

Web TV...Hell. What about connecting to a BBS for 4 player Doom "fragfests"

Yeah those were the day.. and then you'd b*tch because your friend had a slightly faster computer which resulted in him having a severe edge.

Looking back, Warcraft only worked on up to a 9600 baud modem. Talk about an old game but great game.

I used to play MajorMUD.. text based. Made good money off that game.. then all the graffic games came around and computers started getting powerful.

Web TV...Hell. What about connecting to a BBS for 4 player Doom "fragfests"

Yeah those were the day.. and then you'd b*tch because your friend had a slightly faster computer which resulted in him having a severe edge.

Looking back, Warcraft only worked on up to a 9600 baud modem. Talk about an old game but great game.

I used to play MajorMUD.. text based. Made good money off that game.. then all the graffic games came around and computers started getting powerful.

LOL,

or a faster modem. Always great to have your game freeze up because of a crappy connection, only to unfreeze and find youd been fragged 40 times while waiting.

Bah! Modems shmodems.

I remember...

..recording software on my tape recorder off the television in the early 80's from the BBC computing show.

..finding out that our 8th Sinclair ZX Sepctrum 48k was that one that actually worked.

..Having to wait till dusk to use my 8088 Oliveti Lugables super sexy EGA monochrome screen at uni.

All happy days..

Other members would claim different parentage. Tom & Wingy are more members of the LCD watches were way cool generation and some of the young ones would struggle to claim membership of the 8Bit club.. RC of course remembers the introduction of the mother of computers.. The abacus..

I like your Swatch!

while i don't remember as far back as riser, some of my first memories were very stupid things.

they include:

watching the price is right with my mom
playing with he-man toys at my neighbors house
some hippie talking to me on an airplane to buffalo, NY (i also remember the entire plane was filled with cigarette smoke)

All those occurred when I was about 3. So... i'm just saying that big moments in life don't necessarily burn into our heads. sometimes its the small stuff that sticks with us.

how about the commodore 64 or atari 2600?
those were the big deal when is was growing up.

Oh! And another time, when I was 6! we were in a house this time, and I had a waterbed (little one). Well my dog popped a hole in it so we let it drain and were gonna take it apart in the morning. I slept on the couch that night.

Woke up early, had breakfast and got instantly bored. Went into my room and got out mom's screwdriver set and disassembled my bed

Worked quiet as a mouse and even set up all the boards neatly along the wall. Couldn't do anything with the bladder though, that was way to heavy for me. Mom woke up and freaked checking everything for holes in the walls and such. She's amazed to this day that I didn't shove a board through the window

another time I got in shit for making grilled cheese too.. same house.. same age... I didn't know that you fried the bread too... I had bread in the toaster, and cheese slices frying in oil on the stove.. mom didn't like that one at all

i guess u weren't allowed to watch star trek? nichelle nichols

i say halle boobie is hotter

i meant halle berry.

or maybe cheezyboobie

cheezball