My TF2 team uses a tool called TCAdmin to manage its server installs. Recently, we’ve had an issue where updates take a very long time to load so I contacted TCAdmin’s technical support. After a bit of back and forth, their final recommendation was “Try using Opera”. Really? This is the best you can come up with? Tell a vegetarian to try chicken or a Hasidim to try pork to solve indigestion I get but telling a self-respecting Internet Neckbeard to try Opera? This injustice will receive a blog post, forum post, and a tweet, sir. Many IRC channels will be hopping mad within the day.
Tag: opera
Browser Explosion
My company requires IE6 on its computers and bars upgrading. One can install another browser as long as you import the network settings and I’ve used both Firefox and Chrome without incident since September. Today, I had a conversation with my boss about it.
Boss: So, the people that do the web app we use for doc management has recommended I try “The Firefox”. What is it?
Me: It’s a web browser, like Internet Explorer but without the suck.
Boss: I thought IE was the only browser after the loss of Netscape Navigator. Is it expensive?
Me: It’s free, and has a plugin architecture that’s quite keen.
Boss: I don’t know. I’ve always been skeptical of anyone who’d give their software away.
Anyway, he gave it a try and is now going through some sort of browser experimentation phase. I think I saw him run Firefox, IE, Safari and Konquerer simultaneously. I was worried at first that he’d gone overboard but he’s a sharp fellow. Although I may have to intervene if I see him using Flock, Opera or Ice Weasel.
Parting Bandwidth
My brother’s moving out soonish and will migrate from my fat fiber pipe to “borrowing” his neighbor’s DSL connection through flaws in WEP encryption. He’s been torrenting like crazy so my daily ritual has been: come home, feed animals, turn on computer, play TF2, die because I have a ping of 300, turn off brother’s pr()n downloads, die because I suck despite having a ping of 47. I decided to peek at what I was turning off. Was it Dirty Nurses 17 or San Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon? No. Adobe Creative Suite 4? No. Victory at Sea for my dad? No. It was the special features from the Thundercats DVD. Really? He’s officially gone from “I should be safe and download all the optional updates for Windows XP” to “I must save Internet so man may have it after Ragnarok”.
If he starts downloading either back seasons of Doctor Who or Norton Internet Security 2007, I think I could get a Cease and Desist order for him abusing the Internet when coupled with his unabashed usage of Opera.