[sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Mozilla (currently 1.0.0) is another excellent option.  It gives far better
control over popups and animated GIFs than either IE or Netscape.

Mozilla is open source and free.  I've used it exclusively since I found it
at version 0.9.9


"Stephen Begin" <trypannon at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I guess I'm just a lazy man, Id rather put up with all the crap that the
>internet can dish out as opposed to disabling everything and running into
>all sorts of sites everywhere that won't work right anymore.  I tried it for
>a while but it drove me crazy.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Batz Goodfortune" <batzman at all-electric.com>
>To: "Machinerygod" <machinerygod at prism.net>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:59 AM
>Subject: Re[2]: [sdiy] Did someone Hack Google?
>
>
>> Y-ellow Chris 'n' all.
>>
>> At 08:53 PM 9/3/02 -0400, Machinerygod wrote:
>> >Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 6:42:32 PM, you wrote:
>> >
>> >RB> Also, not that you'd do such a thing, going anywhere near the adult
>sites
>> >RB> might set your default page to some redirector without asking!
>> >
>> >I'm not positive, but I think a lot of that can be solved by not using
>> >IE. I'm always on Opera myself unless I find something that just won't
>> >display properly unless it's in IE.
>>
>> I don't run IE period. Just having it on your machine is a liability since
>> windows programs can call it as a resource. Which means that almost
>> anything can call it to a net-resource, download shit and run it. And you
>> wouldn't even know. P2P software such as Kazza and iMESH do this all the
>> time. To disable it, simply delete it. As with outlook and all the other
>> viruses Microsoft pre-infect your computer with. As the saying goes... If
>I
>> wanted a pig I'd rattle a bucket.
>>
>> And just out of interest. I use Opera and NetBastard on this box and
>> neither have a default home page set. Not even my own web site. Nothing.
>> Nada. zip. Java and Java script are usually turned off and cookies blocked
>> until I specifically allow them.
>>
>> Recently, Maxim asked me to help beta test some new software/website
>> features they were implementing. (Along with possibly thousands of
>others.)
>> Unfortunately this little applett only runs on IE. Sadly I had to inform
>> them that unless the pulled their heads out their asses I couldn't help
>> them. What about the Mac users? What about the Linux users? And since M$
>> products are rapidly becoming endangered species round here, the rule of
>> thum is. "If you can't support it, I don't want it." And if more people
>> took that attitude, then companies like Maxim would think twice about
>being
>> proxy enforcers of the microsoft tax.
>>
>> But then you all know this I guess.
>>
>> Be absolutely Icebox.
>>
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>>

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