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 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)