From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 22 4:27:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F26F37B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 04:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-117.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.117]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8MBR9700762; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:27:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA22168; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:27:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200009221127.GAA22168@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Trevor Johnson Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, webmaster@www.al.com Subject: Re: Microsoft Quality Control (lack of:) In-Reply-To: Message from Trevor Johnson of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 03:53:44 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:27:08 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trevor Johnson writes: > > > http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Sep2000/20-e2919.html > > > > Can you read that? I get a thin blue bar on the left of the screen, > > then a text par about a third of the width, with the text overlapping > > the blue bar. > > It looks okay to me (bsdi-netscape-navigator-4.75, no images nor > Javascript, and "always use my colors, overriding document" not checked > (it's buggy)). I tried loading a couple of images and there was indeed a > thin, blue bar toward the bottom. The little blue bar is supposed to have a "Back" button on the far left. > > There's obviously something missing too: > > > > > > Davis doesn't know Gates, the chairman of > > Microsoft Corp., but she and her husband > > gave his company their checking account > > number while purchasing a computer in > > March. The Huntsville cou"Don't do any > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > automatic withdrawals out of your checking > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > account with a debit card." Ken Davis of > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Huntsville, the victim of a Microsoft billing > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > error ple received a $400 rebate on their > ^^^^^^ > > Elide the part I've underlined (with "he said" it becomes the penultimate > paragraph), and the word "couple" will appear. The remainder makes sense > to me. That site does this kind of crap in most every article. Maybe a little public embarrassment from out of town will help them get their ducks in order. Then again, they might be full of ex-microsofties and not understand. Come to think of it, the above messed up text is exactly the kind of thing that could happen when one uses a 3rd party MS-Word reader on a file that has been "quick saved". -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message