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Tuesday 10 February, 2004
# Mozilla Firefoxbird 0.8 is out. Go and download it now, Mum.
Nick [e] [w] said You mean you don't even set up your own Mum's browser? Cruel, cruel man. Ahoy Jez's Mum, don't forget Thunderbird as well. [added 10th Feb 2004]
Jez said Nick! You still live! Unfortunately, your website doesn't -

ping www.nedrichards.com

Unknown host www.nedrichards.com [added 10th Feb 2004]

And no, I don't. First off, my Mum's more than capable of sorting it out herself. Second, providing tech-support for relatives is just asking for trouble :) [added 10th Feb 2004]
Pete Ashton said Tell me about it... [added 10th Feb 2004]
wunderwoman said Well, should manage it when I can actually get the download - keeps timing out coz of heavy traffic. I'm already a very happy Thunderbird user - prefer it to Jez's favourite Pegasus. Have just spent the best part of 3 very stressful working days getting "support" for the machine that crashed at work (with all our accounts stuff on it) first they said it was software but now an engineer is coming (allegedly) tomorrow to replace the hard drive. I did manage to retrieve all data. The Dell software support line had over an hours wait time for support today - after you'd already waited 15 mins to even speak to someone - all charged at premium rate of course, you just have to sit there waiting on the line - because of heavy call volumes about the latest viruses they said - i rang off......but its no wonder that we sometimes call those closer to us for help in our hour of need! [added 10th Feb 2004]
planetcutie said Christ, *my* mother (age 49) thinks that the PC will blow up if she presses a key... [added 10th Feb 2004]
wunderwoman said Browsing on Firefox now.... [added 10th Feb 2004]
Ronan said Give me Safari anyday! :-) [added 11th Feb 2004]
... instead of AvantGo? [added 11th Feb 2004]
Ronan said Not allowed Internet access at work. Notthat iy matters, it's all peecees here anyway. [added 11th Feb 2004]
You're not allowed Internet access, but yet you can sync via AvantGo several times a day? So Internet access is sort of allowed, or you're sneakily dialling up via your mobile? [added 11th Feb 2004]
Ronan said AvantGo is allowed as, apparently, PocketPC users have little control as to when Syncs happen. So AvantGo accesses are not counted in Internet access logs if these are checked. Slight loophole in the policy, methink. Still, not complaining! [added 12th Feb 2004]

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