Being reliant on IE6 as one’s sole gateway to the Internet, rather than Firefox 3 and a panoply of Net-enabled applications, is like borrowing your deadbeat cousin’s old junker while your car is in the shop — it’s slow, noisy, and there’s a distinct odor of cat urine wafting up from the back seat.<\/p>\n
“Do you mind if I delete these browser profiles while trying to diagnose your machine?” Not at all. Do you mind if I dump all the contents of your desktop and drawers into a box while I try to clean your windows?\u00a0 I’ll give you the box back afterwards, I promise.<\/p>\n
Hey, is Joe-Bob in the office today?\u00a0 I don’t know, because I use YIM to see if they’re online AND THAT DOESN’T WORK RIGHT NOW.<\/p>\n
Hey, I wonder how that particular function in Excel works?\u00a0 I don’t know because EXCEL’S INTERNAL HELP SYSTEM CAN’T ACCESS THE BLOODY INTERNET, EITHER.<\/p>\n
Repeat after me:\u00a0 If it’s affecting Excel, IT PROBABLY DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY FIREFOX SETTINGS.\u00a0 Ditto for Word, YIM, and GTalk.<\/p>\n
Okay, problem seems (based on Security group’s puzzlement) to not be policy based.\u00a0 They are going to run a scanner on my machine to see what the difficulty is.\u00a0 Though … there may be some indication that it’s due to my having previously been running the Symantic Firewall — which I turned off and uninstalled a few months back because it kept blocking stuff it shouldn’t.\u00a0 Why would there be a sudden change?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tune in next time …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"