On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 07:01:51PM +0530, N S SRIKANTH wrote: > > Today I wanted to check my hotmail a/c. After entering username and > password (running in Konqueror on PCQ Linux7.1) the page displayed > warning messages about leaving secure mode ... and then... IT COMP- > LETELY FROZE the m/c. > > Nothing worked. ctrl +esc, ctrl+alt+f2 (to get console mode), ctrl+ > alt + bkspc nothing worked.Mouse also froze.I could not even close > the other open windows. No other go, hard reboot, I pressed reset > button. >
This has nothing to do with MSN Hotmail.There is something wrong with your X and KDE set up. Total freeze is due to corruption of kernel portions in memory. > > Just to ensure that it was not Konqueror freezing on me (it has > crashed on many sites, but never froze up), I logged into hot mail > this time using opera, but the result is same. But this time ctrl+ > alt + del worked and reset button was not required. > IIRC, Opera is not java enabled. For several sites, java is necessary for the web pages to work. For msn you need SSL support as well. Dont know about konquerer, never used it. > > Then I logged in to hotmail thru windows, this time it is smooth as > silk. > This has nothing to do with Windows. Both IE and netscape have java and SSL support under Win. > > Is it another episode of M$ blocking linux user or am I getting pa- > ranoid? > Most likely the latter situation. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Lesser known commands (ps2pdf) LOST #210 The GNU ghostscript supports native conversion of postscript files to pdf format. Since ver 5.x, a bash script is included with the original ghostscript tarball called "ps2pdf". Invoke as 'ps2pdf infile.ps outfile.pdf' ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
