-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 11, 2003 07:16 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2003 10:24 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > > Honestly, maybe I don't hang out in the right places or something, > > > but my wife and I do almost everything online using Mozilla and > > > Galeon and hardly ever run into this problem. It's been at least a > > > year since the last time I had to show her how to spoof a browser > > > ID with Konqueror. > > > > It still happens. There are a couple sites (which i can't remember > > now) i need that does, and people on newbie mention it every so > > often. I always send them a letter asking to remove such a useless > > requirement... > > > > eric > > A recent experience: > During dinner a week or so back, SheThatIs decreed that the purchase and > installation of a new mailbox and post was essential to my continued > happiness. There are two major sources for such purchases in this neck of > the woods -- Lowe's and Home Depot. Wanting to eliminate schlepping between > the two stores, I decided to visit to each company's web site to compare > their offerings. Fired up Konq, went to Lowe's, and saw what they had. Next > stop, Home Depot. Oops! Some nitwit has decided that since I would not be > able to enjoy the full benefits of their site because I was not running > either Netscape 4.0 or IE 4.0; further access was denied. > > The next morning I dropped about $150 at Lowe's for the mailbox, mailbox > post, and some other stuff. > > Yes, I could reconfigure to Konq to get past Home Depot's barrier, but why > the hell should I? They are the ones trying to sell something to me. > > And yes, I thought about sending them a nastygram, but that was not in the > list of options. (Remember when every website had a Contact Webmaster > link?) Then too, would anyone who considers Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 to be > the latest and greatest understand my complaint? The idiot must still think > it's 1997. > > -- cmg
I find that rather astonishing since, according to friends that work at a local branch of Home Depot, their servers are all running HP Ux. At least it ain't W2k3 or another MS Virus Transport System. I also thought I read recently that they were converting the whole operation to GNU/Linux. Or just investigating the possibility maybe. Netcraft doesn't say anything about GNU/Linux though: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=homedepot.com They should just string up their webmasters. Please ignore the Fortune. This computer is as weird as its owner. <g> Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 21:12:56 up 21 days, 10:35, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.29, 0.47 Laughing at you is like drop kicking a wounded humming bird. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/iMmbG11CaRuZZSIRAlI9AJ9uOmHU7iKaNO6+kcKB8g954LDFngCfSu5U +keiJg6MJIAbvX8VwQNLy4k= =uuqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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