Re: New interview with Woz

["PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

Terry Olsen wrote:
> > My biggest complaint about PC systems is the commercial software that
> > presumes to reconfigure your system as if it were the only piece of
> > software on earth.
>
> AOL comes to mind... :)

> I use AVG Anti-virus. It's small, free and works fine. I've never had a
> virus with it installed.
>
> And for browsers, IE has been fine for my casual browsing. I don't think
> i've ever run into a bug in it.  But I also have Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox,
> Opera, Maxthon, Flock, and Browzar.  All display pages a tad differently,
> but none, including IE, has ever caused me any problems.
>
> My annoyance is so-called freeware programs that insist on installing
> browser toolbars into IE. But that's neither Windows nor IE's fault. But
> once I install the said freeware program, I can always go back and uninstall
> the toolbar.

AVG has been wonderful.  Kudos to those who put this little gem out and
continue to update it.  It keeps my PC Apple II partition safe.  (gotta
stay on topic)

I use Firefox extensively, to visit Apple II sites of course, and for
my general browsing/web use.  Now that its become more popluar, its
pretty rare to run into a page that doesn't display correctly.  I use a
script blocker extension and havn't had any nasties install themselves
on my system since.  (And I'm still running SP1 without additional
updates)

My next move will be linux - some of the distributions are starting to
look really appealing. (Then I can use gEDA for my A2 projects!)

- Paul