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01.04.2007, 17:54 quote

kebabman
kebabman Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 931 Location: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire
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Greystone wrote:
By the way while on the subject of open source software has anyone tried using Linux instead of Windows. I have used computers with it on and it is much better, it never crashes for instance and has got far better virus protection because most viruses cannot attack the Linux system as most are written for windows.


I only use Linux or BSD now, haven't touched windows for ages, but then again all my work can't be done for windows unless I sign a Microsoft NDA which i refuse to do at the moment. *nix is a lot more configurable than windows in the general case (if you know what you're doing) but even a bog standard install of a distribution such as ubuntu with the gnome desktop environment is dead easy to use, much more robust and secure than windows and even has all the fancy desktop tricks that Microsoft thin are so great about vista. *nic can be a bit of a pain if you come across a problem and don't know what you're doing but it is getting better every day...
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02.04.2007, 10:10 quote

tesh
tesh Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 2 Location: United Kingdom, England, London
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i use firefox,but i'm starting to get tired of it,2 many pages load with errors,and it seems to crash now and again.Might get IE when they put tabs in it.

 
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02.04.2007, 16:41 quote

kebabman
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tesh wrote:
i use firefox,but i'm starting to get tired of it,2 many pages load with errors,and it seems to crash now and again.Might get IE when they put tabs in it.


IE already has tabs on it I believe, as does opera, another good open source browser alternative. Of course if IE was written correctly to specifications in the first place that would not have mad web developers write bad scripts and get into bad habits that force browsers like firefox that stick to the standards a lot closer display these pages wrongly. Another microsoft idiosyncrocy that causes others a lot of grief...
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10.04.2007, 19:53 quote

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forsakensoul Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 27 Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
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does any1 kno how to get msn messenger to open up your mail in ff? as i prefer using ff but have 2 check ma mail in ie as im to lazy 2 sign in twice lol

 
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10.04.2007, 19:54 quote

kebabman
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You should be able to set your default browser somehow, maybe an environment variable somewhere that will tell windows to use firefox over ie for everything, but no doubt it will be hidden away in the depths somewhere Sad
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10.04.2007, 19:57 quote

kebabman
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http://forums.techguy.org/tech-tips-tricks/338976-msn-messenger-firefox.html

Haven't read it all but that might be able to help you out.
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10.04.2007, 19:59 quote

forsakensoul
forsakensoul Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 27 Location: United Kingdom, Scotland, Edinburgh
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i have ff set as my defualt broswer but it still opens ie for my hotmail.

 
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10.04.2007, 20:00 quote

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forsakensoul wrote:
i have ff set as my defualt broswer but it still opens ie for my hotmail.

dont use hotmail as its shit anyway

 
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10.04.2007, 20:03 quote

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What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused
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10.04.2007, 20:06 quote

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What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own

 
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10.04.2007, 20:09 quote

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NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own


Not really, the servers are generally quite well maintained and the software os good. What i mean is that it's bloody microsoft yet they were running their servers on Unix, if they wouldn't even use their own operating system on their servers that doesn't really fill others with confidence about it.
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10.04.2007, 20:13 quote

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kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own


Not really, the servers are generally quite well maintained and the software os good. What i mean is that it's bloody microsoft yet they were running their servers on Unix, if they wouldn't even use their own operating system on their servers that doesn't really fill others with confidence about it.

fook knows i set mine up ages dont get no spam at all lol,but thats on me own server lol

 
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10.04.2007, 20:38 quote

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NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own


Not really, the servers are generally quite well maintained and the software os good. What i mean is that it's bloody microsoft yet they were running their servers on Unix, if they wouldn't even use their own operating system on their servers that doesn't really fill others with confidence about it.

fook knows i set mine up ages dont get no spam at all lol,but thats on me own server lol


What server software do you use ?
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10.04.2007, 20:41 quote

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kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own


Not really, the servers are generally quite well maintained and the software os good. What i mean is that it's bloody microsoft yet they were running their servers on Unix, if they wouldn't even use their own operating system on their servers that doesn't really fill others with confidence about it.

fook knows i set mine up ages dont get no spam at all lol,but thats on me own server lol


What server software do you use ?

none lol

 
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10.04.2007, 21:02 quote

kebabman
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NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
NIGHTWAVE wrote:
kebabman wrote:
What NIGHTWAVE said Smile Plus it never filled me with confidence about their products, the fact that up until about 18 months again they still ran all of their hotmail servers on Unix Confused

everyother other isp email server is shite to unless u set up your own


Not really, the servers are generally quite well maintained and the software os good. What i mean is that it's bloody microsoft yet they were running their servers on Unix, if they wouldn't even use their own operating system on their servers that doesn't really fill others with confidence about it.

fook knows i set mine up ages dont get no spam at all lol,but thats on me own server lol


What server software do you use ?

none lol


So how do you run an email server with no software, I'm intrigued Smile
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