Backup, backup!

Your friend just flunked because he/she is dead wrong.

Nonsense

If it stops working it is not because you upgraded IE. And as I said, there are other browsers.

That's what the colleges miss. They are so intent on producing 'computer scientists' they spend more time on the theoretical underpinnings than how to get things done. I got an alumni newsletter where the school announced a new degree course in games and simulations. My first reaction was 'basketweaving!' but after thinking for a moment I realized they were actually trying to teach a specific skill set that might get the graduates a paying job.

Back when I was taking ComSci classes, the emphasis was on "What do you need to know, and how to find it out." It was about Computer Science - as a theoretical discipline. Programming with a #2 pencil" as my girlfriend put it. And it ranges from hardware I/O, resource allocation in the OS, what makes a "good" program, error trapping/correction ("Do not test for an error condition you don't know what to do about."), S/W testing, etc. Modeling - what it is, what it can't do "yet". And so forth. Applications have their own set of meta issues. In any given year, you have about five or six people who really are there for that stuff. "Algorithms+Data Structures = Programs" The other people there mostly want to write the code for the program, and let someone else think about the algorithm and the data-structure. They're needed too..

OE is a component of Internet Explorer. It can be enabled in IE6 and

1. If you upgrade to IE8 with OE uninstalled, you can not re-install OE without first downgrading IE back to IE7 or IE6 first., because OE is not part of IE8. In XP you cannot go to IE9. In Win 7 you cannot go below IE 8, so no OE in Win7.

You've got a better chance to default on the second coming. Banks give up, credit card companies give up, student load holders will screw with you until the day you die.

I've usually worked for smaller companies. There's none of that gradation of software engineers, analysts, grunt level programmers and so forth.

But Stomin' has a virgin install of XP and therefore IE6. He should have no problem upgrading to 7 or 8. Yet he says he can't. (Unless he is just listening to his friend again.) I'm sure he could do it if he just got on with it.

And google apps has dropped support of IE8. Billie Boy is trying to force OS upgrade and google is trying to push Chrome.

At which point, you do want someone who understands the theory of the subject. As well as how to write tight code which compiles first time, sans bugs.

Why don't you throw in the Fountain of Youth too?

Naw, just someone who doesn't understand this thing called "Life".

... Or accuse you of having been nasty to him, yet when asked to provide a message reference cite, fails to do so and can't even remember what was said that was so offensive...

Not to mention Thunderbird is far easier to use than OE, and more user configurable to boot.

Not to mention there are other options preferable to Outhouse Express:

If he doesn't like Thunderbird (why I'll never understand), he could also use SeaMonkey browser/email application (which is closer to the old Netscape 4.7x), or Gravity for his newsreader, or Xananews. Any of those are better than lame Outhouse Express, and free as well...

They've probably experienced a BORING life which is why they don't grok how interesting life can be. ^_^

TDD

The answer is 42.

. Christ> rbowman on Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:00:44 -0600 typed

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So dump it and use OE

Sigh. I guess you havn't read the earlier messages?

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The Daring Dufas on Thu, 01 Aug

You might consider it boring. They don't. I didn't.