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Originally posted by Cyrax9
AOL 7.0 in the USA no longer uses the IE6 Plug-in, it's a seperate browser, I found that out after I switched to 7.0 from 6.0
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Yeah, true... AOL came to the end of the cntract where they'd tie into IE, and now AOL 7 uses Netscape (they do own netscape, after all). Not that I don't like netscape (it's a damn siight better than IE), I just prefer Opera.
Doesn't AOL let you use any browser though? I have a friend on AOL, and on my advice she just dials in with AOL and browses with Opera. Once the connection is there, anything can use it, including your "non AOL" browser. I would just hate to be tied down to that interface... ugh...
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Originally posted by Cyrax9
50 million pop-ups at sign off,
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Two words: Opera/Mozilla
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which I'm able to block with ZA PRO, oh, and did I mention I got MacCaffe VirusSacn for a Discount from AOL? VirusScan was a program I needed anyway so that was good for me
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Persoanlly, you'd never catch me using McAffee. As far as virus scanners go, it's good, but it's not the best. My virus scanner cost me £2 (student license - full version costs £80) for the Datafellows/F-Secure AV suite, which I love bacuse th emost out-of-date the patches have been is oooh 12 hours. It's the same virus protections our college uses (hence why it was so cheap), and frankly, along with Mailsafe and all the rest of it, Windows is now almost virus proof. Of course, not using Outlook, IE or messenger helps considerably.
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Originally posted by Cyrax9
I've gotten so much stuff from AOL it ain't fuuny
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Of course you have; if the UK branch are anything to go by, you're paying for it very nicely indeed.
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and it's actually worht the coasters they send in the mail, Pika I'm still waiting for thse book-ends.
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We've got about 50 CD's now, we need a stack of about 80 before we can glue them together and chop 'em in twain.
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Also AOL owns WinAMP, which is my MP3 player of choice, so I'll be keeping AOL for awhile
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True, Winamp rocks, but no way will you catch me supporting AOL just cos of one good program that one of their affilites makes. Besides, rumours are afoot that Winamp's days of being free are numbered...
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at leasr until the make another deal with the evil empire and decide to use IE again, since I'm already stuck with IE, AOL is actually a safer alternitave, espeically for e-mail instead of Cablevision's Outlook Express e-mail which is a crapy pain in the @$$ to begin with.
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No way would you ever catch me dealing with a company who tie you down to specific software. Sure, I rent my service from you. But to say that service can only work with a certain program is either:
a) laziness on their part (like the "IE only" websites which are a result of Microsofts ignoring of web standards and lazy designers)
b) downright shifty. Why the hell do you need a specific application, eh? Why won't this other one that does exactly the same thing do, eh? That kinda stuff just makes me totally paranoid.
It's MY computer and I'll run on it what I choose. I like to know what its doing, and if I ever found any company who tried to foist slightly dodgy software or services on anyone, I would run a mile. Case in point: a friend of mine was firstly told that only Windows or Mac machines could access the web via their ISP Since he was dual booting, he just grabbed the dialup info and plugged it into Linux Then one day he gets an email saying they've detected him using a Linux machine (they got it from the server logs when he went to pick up their shi**y webmail, and then said that this violated his contract and they were cutting him off. C***s.
An ISP provides an internet service, nothing more, nothing less. All I require is a phone number and a domain name entry, and I'm happy, and if I have to pay extra for it then fine.
Damnit, principles can be such an expensive thing to have.
I also find it odd that this ended up in the screenshots thread. : goes looks up "digression" in the dictionary :