Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:37:05 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

On 27/07/2010 01:46, Bob Devries wrote:

> I know WinXP and IE6 are not the greatest,

WinXP is okay, IE6 is the problem. XP SP2 means you're effectively 
dropping out of the update cycle. Are you on always-on broadband?


 > but I absolutely loathe Windows 7,

Uhhhh... Show of hands for who likes it?

[note: "it is better than Vista" does not count as a reason for liking 
it; a French magazine summed it up nicely with "now that the awful Vista 
is behind us, Windows7 more or less brings us back to what XP is capable 
of, think of it like XP with a service pack four..."]


> and since I'm running on fairly old hardware, I at least have a
 > stable arrangement.

That's the reason I've kept Aiko and Ayleigh far away from the Internet. :-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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