Two Things
Mar. 20th, 2009 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaisson1. In which we preplan our autumn Sundays
Okay, so we just dropped $360 for a subscription to the 2009-10 season of the San Francisco Opera. Six weekends in a row (and three weekends in June) we're going to see such things as Il Trovatore, Daughter of the Regiment (I'm REALLY looking forward to that one), Salome, and Die Walkure. Yes, I will be squirming in my seat for four hours as I try not to succumb to the temptation to sing "Kill the Wabbit". Partly an early birthday present for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon, partly to prove the disturbing fact that I actually enjoy operas. Go figure.
2. In which I start getting frustrated at the Internets
Does anyone else get a frustrating pop-up to the effect of "res://iframe.dll" or something when they go to Amazon.com or some other secure sites? Is there a way to get rid of the damn thing? I'm pretty certain it has to do with going to secure sites (the ones that start with https rather than http), and I haven't quite figured out how to turn the damn thing off, even when going to the Internet Options/Security/Sites menu.
Of course, my browser has been going all wiggy the last few weeks, and I'm almost convinced that Microsoft is doing it on purpose to get people to upgrade to IE8 (funny that it just got released yesterday...good timing, eh?). I'd switch to Firefox or Google Chrome, but I'm not exactly happy with the set up on those, especially Chrome. That, and I'm just wondering how safe they are with spyware and whatnot. Anyone have any suggestions/recommendations?
Okay, so we just dropped $360 for a subscription to the 2009-10 season of the San Francisco Opera. Six weekends in a row (and three weekends in June) we're going to see such things as Il Trovatore, Daughter of the Regiment (I'm REALLY looking forward to that one), Salome, and Die Walkure. Yes, I will be squirming in my seat for four hours as I try not to succumb to the temptation to sing "Kill the Wabbit". Partly an early birthday present for
emmalyon, partly to prove the disturbing fact that I actually enjoy operas. Go figure.2. In which I start getting frustrated at the Internets
Does anyone else get a frustrating pop-up to the effect of "res://iframe.dll" or something when they go to Amazon.com or some other secure sites? Is there a way to get rid of the damn thing? I'm pretty certain it has to do with going to secure sites (the ones that start with https rather than http), and I haven't quite figured out how to turn the damn thing off, even when going to the Internet Options/Security/Sites menu.
Of course, my browser has been going all wiggy the last few weeks, and I'm almost convinced that Microsoft is doing it on purpose to get people to upgrade to IE8 (funny that it just got released yesterday...good timing, eh?). I'd switch to Firefox or Google Chrome, but I'm not exactly happy with the set up on those, especially Chrome. That, and I'm just wondering how safe they are with spyware and whatnot. Anyone have any suggestions/recommendations?
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Date: 2009-03-21 01:31 am (UTC)Suggestion #2: FLEE FROM IE! RUN! RUN! RUN!
IE has more holes in its security than my ex-wife's logic! Which is really saying something, BTW. Firefox is all I use. Chrome is still buggy and just came out of Beta. Firefox is small, stable and far less prone to Security breach than is IE.
Did I mention you should RUN FOR THE HILLS as fast as you can from IE? It's horrible.
The other option is to buy a Mac and use Safari. Even though I own a Mac, I use Firefox. They do make Safari for Windoze, and I use it on my laptop on occasion, but I prefer Firefox. Why? Because you should RUN FROM IE!!!
Not that I have strong opinions on this or anything.
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Date: 2009-03-21 03:34 am (UTC)Dude, that's just cold! :p
Yeah, I've been wondering about IE lately myself...it hasn't been working great for the past year for various reasons (right now I'm scrubbing my system because I think I got YET ANOTHER TROJAN through no fault of my own. *razzafrazzablanketyblank*). I tried Firefox once in the past and liked it, but was nervous about the OMGSOFAST upload speed.
I'm thinking if this keeps up and IE8 sucks ass, I'll switch to Firefox.
As for Macs...I like them, but not the biggest fan...yeah, I'm an old-school PC fan, compatability issues, etc...I have way too much stuff that would need to be changed over. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-21 05:22 am (UTC)Our IT guys at work all swear by Firefox and at IE. For some things, IE is better. Overall, the choice is Firefox. It doesn't get exploited nearly as much on Windows boxes as IE does. When I used a Windows unit regularly, I used Firefox. I have a Vista laptop that I run Firefox on.
Besides, my Firefox looks like this!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3941
whilst IE just looks bored. ;-)
I have a program called Parallels that allows me to install Windows inside it (it's a virtual machine program) and since this here iMac has an Intel processor, I'm good to go with a couple of Windoze only programs that I've got. It was what allowed me to convert so easily.
If you like your Windoze box, and cleaning your HD and Trojan horses and all that jazz, enjoy! I haven't had any of those problems and my iMac is going on 2 years old. Good for another 3 years at least! :o)
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Date: 2009-03-21 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-21 03:36 am (UTC)BTW, I think I need your physical address so I can mail those books out to you! :p
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Date: 2009-03-21 03:45 am (UTC)