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Run IE6 On Vista

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Internet Explorer is the biggest torn in my butt since the dawn of age when there was a lonely torn from a lonely plant – which was the only plant available to poke my butt. The one thing i hate as a webdesigner is that you have to cater your site for a number of browsers. More often than not you have to cater it for Internet Explorer because that is the default web browser on all computers. Mister G did ask me why can’t i just cater for Firefox the one that doesn’t give problems. While I would love to do that but it’s not possible and here is why.
  1. You have people who have no brains when it comes to using the internet,
  2. you have people who have no idea what is Firefox,
  3. you have people who are too lazy to install Firefox,
  4. You have people who are too lazy to want to KNOW about Firefox
  5. You have people who will just use whatever is default on a computer – which is usually windows – hence it will be IE.
  6. Vista is still new, and even though IE7 is out, people do not know how to upgrade because of reason 1 and 4.
So it is tough to cater for just Firefox which is my most beloved web browser at the moment. Worse still is that despite IE7 fixing a number of bugs that IE6 had.. not everyone uses IE6 yet. What can one do? I went all over the place to search for a program to help me run IE on my Vista. Vista as you know doesn’t allow IE6 since it already comes with an IE7. But that doesn’t mean i can’t find ways to go round it. After much googling and trials, I came across one very helpful article that teaches you “How to run IE6 on Windows Vista using Virtual PC.” You can view the full article there, in the mean time I’ll shorten it for you on how to go about installing IE6 on your Vista Platform. Quite straightforward actually. Requirements: Here is what it should look like on your Vista screen. Click on the images to get a clearer view.

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That’s the Mircrosoft Virtual PC at work on your Vista. Pretty neat.

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And that is the Internet Explorer 6 on Vista. Ta Dahhhhh!! No more pain.

You’re Right Next To Me!

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I am all for socialising on a face to face level. I am also all for socialising be it on a virtual level. Meaning I am not directly interacting with the person face to face but via some online or some sort of techie  medium. Be it facebook-ing, sms-ing, msn messeng-ing, email-ing, friendster-ing, linkedin-ing, blogg-ing, vlogging and so on so forth. **Wow that is a lot if “ing”s!! Can there be more??** I’m all for that. But i do find it terribly funny, how sometimes we are either just too lazy to open our mouths, get up from our chairs, move away from our computers and actually communicate with our naturally born with voice box. Why i say this? Just today in the office, my colleague was sitting behind me. Emphasis on the word JUST BEHIND me. Meaning she can hit me, whack me, tickle me, nudge me and poke me all within an arms length. I am that closely seated to her. But what did she choose to do?

msnchatfar.jpg Yeah… exactly….MSN! Harloooo!!! Hahaha I’m right here!! I couldn’t help laughing… on MSN..and neither could she. This is how close we are.

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It’s so interesting. How while communication has gone beyond less than difficult with the another person with the latest technology, and yet we are separated by it in a way. This is how my sister calls me down for dinner (recall the Blarf?) Scenario: Dinner time. This is all on MSN. She is downstairs on the computer Sis: Dinner is ready. Come down to eat!  I am upstairs on the computer Me: Ok coming.. What’s for dinner first… ***type type type** Sis: Umm.. fish…rice… veggie…? **type type type** Me: Hmmmm ok… Down in 5 minutes.. Well that never happened.. took me another 10 -15 minutes before I went down. But you see what I mean. We are brought closer and yet separated by technology. As for my friend.. I was just a turn around from the chair for her to ask me something.. and she chose msn..Wonder if this is a good thing or  a bad thing. Hahahahahha