Re: RE Avoiding Exploiter

[Emery Snyder emerylist@xxxxxxxx]

well, firebird is a variant of mozilla, so if the site won't recognize
mozilla-netscape, it probably won't recognize mozilla firebird.



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Monday, July 21, 2003, 5:52:17 PM, Patricia wrote:

> Thanks, Emery, for the tip about Firebird, which I hadn't even heard of.
> I was using Mozilla (after my Netscape connectoid got garbled--right
> after the one time in my whole computing life that I actually went to
> MicroSquelch's site, seeking a mouse driver; yeah, post hoc ergo propter
> hoc is a fallacy, but with Redmond, I'd believe anything). Then Juno on
> the new machine wouldn't recognize Mozilla, so I tried downloading the
> latest Netscape, and it wouldn't acknowledge the existence of that
> either.
>     Jordan, that's exactly what I mean. Back in Win 3.1 days, I was trying
> to install the disks I got from my then ISP (its was later sold to Cable
> and Wireless, then to Prodigy, and is now owned by SBC Yahoo; talk about
> selling people down the river). The system kept rebooting while reading
> from the floppies. I was running Novel DOS 7 (successor to DR-DOS) under
> Win, and after a long stretch on the phone with tech support (so-called),
> I was told that their software "must be incompatible" with Novel DOS (of
> which no one there had ever heard). Well, it shortly turned out that
> there was a short (ouch; not intended) in the hard/floppy controller. One
> of the traces had cracked, and it worked all right with DOS or Windows
> reads. But the install routine was bypassing DOS and the BIOS and reading
> directly from the hardware, and that was overstressing the failing
> circuits. Once I got a new PC with a new controller, the thing installed
> like clockwork. Incompatible, my foot.
> Patricia