Just got a suggestion that if you want to volunteer as a general tech geek for the relief effort to provide your contact info at http://www.geauxlibrary.org/Volunteer.php.
Thanks, John Hebert On 9/8/05, Jeremy Beckham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My company is going to be donating some hardware for this as well. > > John Hebert wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > The Baton Rouge Red Cross River Center shelter needs PC and LAN techs > > to volunteer to setup equipment. If you would like to help, go to the > > River Center downtown and ask for Paul Solomon. The entrance is on the > > River Rd side. > > > > Thanks, > > John Hebert > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >General mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050908/cc06204c/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 8 18:20:16 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hebert) Date: Thu Sep 8 18:19:15 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Re: Linux Help for Hurrican Katrina Response In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Discussion happening right now about FEMA requiring IE6 on Slashdot: http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/09/08/1212237.shtml?tid=113&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219 Most of the discussion is political, but here is an interesting comment: "It's using some retarded f**king captcha implementation using IE XML data islands instead of using one of the 40 million scripts that don't require brower support. F**kers." and here is another: " the best part is that using IE7 gets you the same errorpage. Those guys just know everything about browsers, don't they..." Like Scott said, lowest bidder wins the govt contracts. John Hebert On 9/8/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm, so does it work or not? I'm not about to believe what MSNBC has to > say > about software. Scott, you are not usually on crack. Do you even have IE 6 > set up where you can use it? Do you use it often? > > It's outrageous if true. According to this: > > http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp > > Only 7 in 10 people have IE6. Others report only 5 in 10: > > http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html > > Slow uptake will make it low here and lower still for those who need aid > most. > It also puts a big bite into plans to provide computing to people in > centers. > Charity, Joe reports, have problems using Microsoft junk. > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 09:03 am, Brad Bendily wrote: > > > Not to say it can't be done, but I ran across this article on another > > forum: > > > > Want to file for aid online? Better run Windows > > FEMA site requires assistance seekers to use Internet Explorer 6 > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231271/ > > > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Harney wrote: > > > > > You can definitely spoof the user agent. maybe I'm on crack but I could > > swear I filled out that thing on firefox. Though I'v filled out lots of > > forms lately. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050908/32c54421/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 9 05:36:53 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hebert) Date: Fri Sep 9 05:36:35 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Re: Linux Help for Hurrican Katrina Response In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can anyone check to see if Internet Explorer 6 can run under Wine on a Linux box? I am hoping to use that configuration on some public Linux kiosks in area shelters. John On 9/8/05, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Discussion happening right now about FEMA requiring IE6 on Slashdot: > > http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/05/09/08/1212237.shtml?tid=113&tid=95&tid=103&tid=219 > > > Most of the discussion is political, but here is an interesting comment: > > "It's using some retarded f**king captcha implementation using IE XML data > islands instead of using one of the 40 million scripts that don't require > brower support. F**kers." > > and here is another: > > " the best part is that using IE7 gets you the same errorpage. Those guys > just know everything about browsers, don't they..." > > Like Scott said, lowest bidder wins the govt contracts. > > John Hebert > > On 9/8/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hmmm, so does it work or not? I'm not about to believe what MSNBC has to > > say > > about software. Scott, you are not usually on crack. Do you even have IE > > 6 > > set up where you can use it? Do you use it often? > > > > It's outrageous if true. According to this: > > > > http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp > > > > Only 7 in 10 people have IE6. Others report only 5 in 10: > > > > http://www.webreference.com/stats/browser.html > > > > Slow uptake will make it low here and lower still for those who need aid > > most. > > It also puts a big bite into plans to provide computing to people in > > centers. > > Charity, Joe reports, have problems using Microsoft junk. > > > > On Thursday 08 September 2005 09:03 am, Brad Bendily wrote: > > > > > Not to say it can't be done, but I ran across this article on another > > > forum: > > > > > > Want to file for aid online? Better run Windows > > > FEMA site requires assistance seekers to use Internet Explorer 6 > > > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231271/ > > > > > > On Wednesday 07 September 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Harney wrote: > > > > > > > > You can definitely spoof the user agent. maybe I'm on crack but I > > could > > > swear I filled out that thing on firefox. Though I'v filled out lots > > of > > > forms lately. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050909/38e0b5f7/attachment-0001.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 9 06:55:35 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EdsLinuxBox) Date: Fri Sep 9 06:55:16 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Re: Linux Help for Hurrican Katrina Response In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 09/09/2005 05:36 am, John Hebert wrote: > Can anyone check to see if Internet Explorer 6 can run under Wine on a > Linux box? > > I am hoping to use that configuration on some public Linux kiosks in area > shelters. > > John > Yes, according to winehq. I do know that it works fine, well at least for IE, under CrossOver Office. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1455 Ed Richards
