[Leaplist] Newest SERIOUS problems Dated 4/01/07

[Jim Hartley]

Yeah! I agree with Fred. Any time I run into anything, no matter how 
trivial, that tries to make me use Windoze or Internet Exploder, I send 
them a nastygram. Very often I can escalate this into a whole slew of 
questions and stuff that they have to answer, very time-consuming for them.

I can't believe there isn't another financial vendor out there that you 
could switch to. If it's just a little thing it wouldn't be much work to 
switch. And if it's a significant size, well, I think I'd go to the 
FINANCIAL people and tell them how big an account they are just about to 
lose because their techies and website people are being unreasonable ...

When I got my new computer, I didn't completely wipe Windoze, just 
crushed it down to a teeny weeny partition. It's there, but I'd rather 
fight than reboot!

Jim Hartley

Fred Moore wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 31 March 2007 15:04, Homer Whittaker wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Sure would like a comment by the knowledgeable ones!!!  Please don't say
>>> try to work around it, the results of this is in terms of real money and
>>> if I can not make all of the required adjustments then I will have to
>>> change over to Windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>> Homer Whittaker
>>>     
>>>       
>> Hi Homer,
>>
>> If you needed to change over to Windows, it would probably be only for the 
>> purpose of browsing to these financial websites. From there, via VNC, you 
>> could copy and paste retrieved information into your Linux box's financial 
>> system of choice. I have a headless Win98 box in the corner just for 
>> occasions when outsiders try to dictate my software of choice.
>>
>> You might also want mention to Yahoo that you use Linux and intend to keep 
>> using Linux. Of course they won't listen, but if yours is added to many 
>> voices, it might make a difference.
>>
>> Last but not least, perhaps you could investigate going with a different set 
>> of financial websites. Yes, I know this is difficult, time consuming, and to 
>> an extent risky, but when your vendors start telling YOU what OS to use, 
>> they're not very good vendors and things will only get worse.
>>
>> To summarize, it's always good to have one Windows box for the Windows-only 
>> troglodytes who you can't afford to walk away from.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> SteveT
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> Hate to disagree with you Steve..
>
> tell them to kiss off and find someone else.  I have changed banks two
> different times when they think they are going to dictate my browser. 
> Now I just run Opera and let them think I am running IE.. Of course I
> constantly file problems with their help desk just to take up some of
> their time...  When they tell me I need to be running IE I ask them how
> I install it.  This usually keeps them busy for a while..  I also always
> tell them "I don't remember anything about your requiring I run a
> certain operating system in my banking agreement" if everyone did this
> they would just use standard stuff in their html stream..  you can also
> run ies4linux if you need to.. that works just fine..  don't need no dam
> windows.. freedom is not cheep you need to work at it.. Fred
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