[plug] windows

[Quintin Lette]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 08:10 pm, garry wrote:
> I had to go back to win2k today to get some images from Landonline.com.au.
> It is a IE only site. gggrrrrr. It uses a plugin, suppose it is to extract
> $20 per image from you.
>
> What a trauma. IE crashed many times.. And there doesn't seem to be a built
> in screen capture thing like Gimp.. And having to restart to reconfigure
> networking? Pfft.

You'd think they would have figured that out by now wouldn't you (I remember 
needing to do about 3 reboots when last changing an IP on an AD server)
>
> A shareware capture thing later, I got my images.. I don't feel guilty
> about doing that seeing they inflicted IE on me!

In future try pressing print screen button and pasting into word/wordpad/paint 
:-) (just memories from my windows admin days)

>
> I guess you dont realise how stable linux is until you have to use IE
> again.. And my normal distro is Debian _unstable_ !!!

5 minutely reboots was a common occurence while using windows I too am glad 
I'm over it :-P

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> 8^)==
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> Garry