On why I hate IE...

[CiberTHuG]

Okay... maybe there is a way to do this, but I can't find it. If you know how, please let me know.

I hate IE because I can't unistall it!

I have W2K Pro with IE5. I need to step back to IE4.

Any ideas?

[parksie]

It's impossible.

[chrisjk]

"Nothing's impossible if you put your mind to it"

Of course, I think otherwise.

[CiberTHuG]

I was afraid of that. And thus... I hate IE, I hate MS. There is no reason on this Earth, under this sun, in this universe for someone to make an OS, and then make a seperate software package, and make it so the two are unable to be seperated.

This is the exact kind of narrow-minded, ego-centric bull**** that firmly establishes MicroSoft as the worst thing to have ever happened to computing.

No, wait... there is one thing worse. There are people on this planet who actually think all of this is a good thing. They actually think there was some stroke of genius behind shoving a peice of software this far up the computer's back orifice, though they can't name a single advantage in doing this.

...

And Bill Gates is laughing somewhere.

[Kzin]

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
There is no reason on this Earth, under this sun, in this universe for someone to make an OS, and then make a seperate software package, and make it so the two are unable to be seperated.


Yes there is - its called stomping Netscape:eek: and the subsequent anti-trust case. If you could uninstall IE5 he could have lost his case - you gotta think of the shareholders you know ;)

I keep separate, clean legacy machines for Win 2000, NT4 98, Win 95, 3.11 etc for just the reasons that you have just hit.

[CiberTHuG]

Yeap, Kzin. Thanks for mention more reasons why MS is anti-computing.

I have got to get another job. I'm sicking of working with this ****. Problem is, I don't know enough to get a real job working with real technologies like Java, Apache, Linux, Solaris. Instead I'm working with VB and ASP because no one cares about C++. And I feel so stupid, so below par.

The funny thing is, there are so many people who are so into VB. They think it is the bomb. They think they are hacking gods. Little do they know, they are the king of the hill... in the kiddie pool.

Why my client wants to make a comercial grade product in VB/ASP/Access is beyond me.

Unless they just feel good about selling candy bars to kids.

[alex_read]

Not at the moment ... give it a little while longer though.

I have a CD of windows 98 SE - WITHOUT IE4 so it is possible, a few registry settings, but I reckon soon they'll be an add-on to take this away (an add-off then I guess) :D

[Kzin]

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Yeap, Kzin. Thanks for mention more reasons why MS is anti-computing.

I have got to get another job. I'm sicking of working with this ****. Problem is, I don't know enough to get a real job working with real technologies like Java, Apache, Linux, Solaris. Instead I'm working with VB and ASP because no one cares about C++. And I feel so stupid, so below par.


It gets worse CiberTHuG. The other companies are even less 'uplifting' than MS! I've got a couple of personal computers in front of me made by a company called IBM. Could they have crafted a beautiful, robust bespoke Linux distro and put them on the machines as a start up option? Yup. Could they have even shown faith and put a crazy little thing called OS/2 on them - just as an option right - just in case you might want to dual (or triple) boot? Maybe? Did they? Of course not. And if IBM don't believe in OS/2 should we?

As for Java - After nearly half a decade have you ever seen a decent client side Java app? I don't see SUN Microsystems offering StarOffice in Java. Client side Java seems good for having banners with your name stream across the screen and that's about it (OK this is an exaggeration but you get my drift).

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
The funny thing is, there are so many people who are so into VB
<SNIP>Why my client wants to make a comercial grade product in VB/ASP/Access is beyond me.

BTW I was using UNIX and C++ long before VB or Windows. I'm using VB and Windows because they are the best tools for what I want to do right now :p (no comments please;)) . Its just "horses for courses" as they say.

(I taught microcode to avionics undergraduates at one time - but I'm not about to write a high level app entirely with 0's and 1's ;) )

[sail3005]

Have any of you tried a program called 98Lite? it can install windows 98 without internet explorer! The problem is that you have to do it when you are installing windows 98, and you are using win2k. I don't think they have a version for that yet.