dive into mark

WebWord is stuck on IE, because of the Google toolbar. I use Opera on Windows, Konqueror on Linux, and iCab on MacOS. Each has a way to easily search using the search engine of your choice. In Opera, for instance, I can type “g microsoft is trying to control the internet” and hit return, and I am redirected to Google’s results page immediately. Different letters go to different search engines. Most other browsers have something similar. The only reason Google needed to develop the Google Toolbar for IE in the first place is that Microsoft does not provide such basic functionality.

I use Internet Explorer for 2 things:

• my company’s web-based time tracking system, which is foolishly designed and only supports IE by accident
• Windows Update, which is well-designed and only supports IE on purpose

I can’t do anything about the first, except change jobs, which, God willing, won’t happen anytime soon. The second will go away once I convert entirely to Linux. (we’ve already converted Dora’s old desktop into a kickass RedHat workstation/server hybrid. It’s running KDE 2.2, Apache, Samba, and ssh server. My old PowerMac 8500 is next; I hear Mandrake 8.0 PPC is out.)

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