[Sussex] OFF-TOPIC a quick rant

[Desmond Armstrong]

>With all (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2153) the
>security problems with IE these days it should be fairly trivial to
>write a page to send some code to auto-download firefox on a user's
>machine and erase all trace of IE.
>  
>
Good Idea,
I generally, in the process of sorting out Windows, and setting up dual 
boot, install Firefox and Thunderbird and delete the visble icons for IE 
and OE and encourage the users to use those (Firefox and Thunderbird).

Unfortunately IE is required for updates, which are very frequent, and 
for on-line scan with www.pandasoftware.com and housecall.trendmicro.com 
which are my tools for cleaning that awfull system. Both these functions 
are dependent on activex.

But I am having great success at getting users over to the better system 
and am actually beginning to disable the bad system. Users DO appreciate 
the stability and reliability of the better system.