Weather is awesome. Lows in the high 50s/low 60s. Highs in the 70s. Haven't run the AC in a month! And it's gonna' be this way all week, according to internet weather. The hammock will see use this week.
Frank from Alabama wants to know about Mozilla. Do I use it? Is it better than IE6? Will it work with Outlook Express? First, let me tell you don't try to uninstall IE6. If you are using an older version of Internet Explorer go to Windows Update and get IE6. Also, do all the pertinent updates. Now, with IE6 done let me answer the questions. Mozilla is an alternative browser. It is a reincarnation of the last version of Netscape with some neat changes. One nice thing - it doesn't belong to AOL (Netscape did or does or whatever) which is beyond any doubt the WORST internet provider on the planet. If that offends you take your 'training wheels' browser and go elsewhere. If you like AOL so much you really don't need to be here. AOL sucks, not quite as much as the RIAA but they are really bad. Ahem! Distracted there for a moment...let me return to the subject. Mozilla is an open source browser that has gone through several states of improvement. It is the resident browser in most flavors of Linux. I use it on my Linux Red Hat machine and love it. It reacts in different ways than IE6 reacts, can kill most pop ups, and KMail (a part of the KDE shell) is an email browser that bascially eliminates virus infection. I am sure this will change as Linux becomes mainstream in the home arena. Is it better than IE6? Well, it's different. I still use IE6 on my 'big' windows machine, but love to go to the Linux box and surf the web too. It will work with Outlook Express. You can switch back and forth between both browsers. Remember, if you download this and fubar you system, don't whine around here. It's your machine, not mine and I didn't install any application on your PC. You did. So here's the Link: MOZILLA . Hope this helps Frank. Thanks for the nice email.
Have to get ready to work today. You know, sometimes I have trouble saying prayers of gratitude for Sunday work, but we aren't supposed to understand all are we? BTW, Nazereth is the name of a rock band that did a song titled 'Godzilla' and one of the repetitive lines in it was 'hey hey Godzilla' - and that's the rest of the story.
"Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese"
-Stephen Wright
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