From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:01:02 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 830 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 08 April 2004 Number 830 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Choice ? : Alan Duval" 2 Re: Choice ? : bokeny at attglobal dot net 3 Re: Choice ? : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:00:23 +1000 (AEST) From: "Alan Duval" Subject: Choice ? Hi. a few weeks ago I went to the Choice magazine site using Mozilla 1.4. in eCS 1.1. In attempting to use the scroll bar at the site the Choice screen went blank. I attempted to close the screen but the close button didn't seem to work and I also couldn't seem to close Mozilla so I used Watchcat to close it. I tried the site again with the same result only this time I couldn't close the screens using Watchcat but was able to from the windows list. This took a while and I saw that there were multiple copies of the Choice site that had to be closed. When tried again I started to get problems occurring with Mozilla which had become corrupted. I had to scrub the whole system and reinstall from an image of eCS which only has Web Browser installed. I haven't bothered to reinstall Mozilla as yet. I again tried to go to the Choice site using Web Browser but the screen froze. Switching to Win 95 I was easily able to enter and use the Choice site using Internet Explorer 4. It thus seems that you have no choice when you want Choice. Has anyone else looked at this site? Regards Alan Duval ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 07:16:37 -0400 From: bokeny at attglobal dot net Subject: Re: Choice ? at 09:00 PM, "Alan Duval" said: >Hi. > a few weeks ago I went to the Choice magazine site using Mozilla 1.4. >in eCS 1.1. In attempting to use the scroll bar at the site the Choice >screen went blank. Whatever it worth, the site works well with Warp4 Mozilla 1.7b. -- Zoltan Bokeny OS/2 Warp 4 / eCS 1.1 - MR/2 ICE V2.41 #20296 FAPCUG - POSSI - SCOUG - TOUG - VOICE Fayetteville, North Carolina ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 22:46:03 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Choice ? On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:00:23 +1000 (AEST), Alan Duval wrote: >Hi. > > a few weeks ago I went to the Choice magazine site using Mozilla 1.4. in eCS 1.1. In attempting to use the >scroll bar at the site the Choice screen went blank. [chomp] fine detail of serious problems >Switching to Win 95 I was easily able to enter and use the Choice site using Internet Explorer 4. >It thus seems that you have no choice when you want Choice. >Has anyone else looked at this site? Hmm, just went there with Firefox 0.8 browsed no problems. I don't have the full Moz or IBM browsers here. However, I notice someone else has commented that your version is well back in the series. Could be time to update. After the first part above, I went to Computers --> Software --> Operating Systems and only found this: Members Report Preview 100s of product tests for only $13.75 per quarter Windows XP Windows XP is the most substantial redesign Microsoft's operating system has seen in years. So what's really changed? Online 12/01 [Next to a nifty little MS Win-XP advertising gif. Notice it isn't impartial: An 'advertising puff' statement presented as fact rather than a more independent stance, say: "Microsoft claims that Win XP is..."] ¯ Windows XP ¯ Overview ¯ What we found - changes ¯ Performance ¯ Multiple users ¯ Home vs professional You are not logged in. Do you have an online membership to access this article? YES Login above to access this article. NO You can purchase a membership to access this article. ¯ Take me back to where I was. Anyone have a Choice Membership to read the content? Anyone know a way to advise CHOICE that they are not impartial and they need to run up a serious comparison with Mac, eCS and Linux? Further under the letter O is "Open Source Software" and a reference to Linux. But not as an OpSys. And elsewhere under Buying a Computer is "the Mac question" - again unless you *already knew* that this was an alternative OpSys and platform, CHOICE wouldn't be much of a help. The Free section on the Mac has this in "In Brief" # Macs make up less than 5% of home computers, compared to the vast majority that run Windows. [I wonder what market share BMW or Rolls has in the Australian car market?] # Most major software manufacturers - including Microsoft - produce equivalent versions for Mac and PC. The context is not bad but there is no discussion of Mac leadership in multimedia, graphics and the print industry. Seems sad that the responsible consumer advocate is writing up the computer industry almost the same way as the 'general advertising make a buck out of PCs' trade trash. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... OS/2: TWICE an operating system, NOT HALF! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------