[H-GEN] Mozilla, style sheets, and Microsoft's knowledge base

[David Seikel]

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 --- David Jericho <david.jericho at bytecomm.com.au> wrote: 
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 11:04:53AM +1100, David Seikel wrote:
> > My experience with Windows is that a reinstall once a month is
> mandatory. 
> 
> Just to make it clear I'm not leaping to Windows defence, Windows
> _can_ be stable if you understand the broken nature of its various
> elements. 
> 
> There are a few easy steps to making windows stable.
> 
> 1) Don't use IE. At all.

As I said, I'm doing this for a browser test box, so running IE is
mandatory.

> Seriously look at VMware. It runs fast enough if you're only doing
> browser testing, and keeping system images as backups is a truely
> trivial task. It's cheaper than a second machine as well.

I need a network to test the network software that I am writing.  My chat
client for instance, works fine running on the same machine the server is
running on, but put a real network in between and it falls over.  I need a
real network to do real network testing.  It's not just a second machine to
run another OS on, it's a second machine so that I have enough to run a
network.  Since I already have half a second machine, VMware would cost
about the same.

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