[K12OSN] Management--in regards to IE requirement

[Patrick Mohr]

Les Bell wrote:

>"Terrell Prude', Jr." <microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
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> So far, Netscape 7 has worked just
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>dandily in this scenario, and I don't see why either "classic" Mozilla
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>With roaming profiles, Terrell? We used to use Netscape 7.1, but when I
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>introduced roaming profiles, the problems with NS started, and I couldn't
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I would be the first to say that I have has problems with Netscape 7.x 
under NT based OSs' i.e. 2k, XP, but I haven't had problems with 
Firefox.  I have had problems with Phonex.  Remember, Phonex is older 
then Firefox.

> The Mozilla website certainly states that Moz doesn't
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In reference to "Roaming profiles", before 2k NS had a feature called 
roaming profiles that allowed you to store your settings on a webserver 
or an LDAP server Note:(This was in NS 4.7).  This is very old.  These 
"Roaming profiles" allowed you to keep your setting between computers, 
but with Windoze's ability to let you have the same /home equiv between 
each computer this feture is obseleat.  Firefox works fine with 
Windoze's Roaming profiles system, but not Netscape's "Roaming profiles".

>However, I'm hopeful that Firefox might be
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>better, as IE has been troublesome: it keeps losing the proxy settings,
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>requiring them to be reset by a registry patch (.reg) file, and it
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>periodically decides to abandon our intranet site as the home page and
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>phone home to Microsoft (lots of people suffer from that problem). Then
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>there's the times it decides it wants you to dial before it will connect,
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>even though you're sitting on a LAN with 10 Mbps connection to the
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>Internet.
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>Trust me, I wouldn't use IE if I didn't feel we were forced to. . .
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>Best,
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>--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
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>[http://www.lesbell.com.au]
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