How stupid of dialpad to do that, that makes no sense,
they would generate revenues from Linux users as well.
I think I will harass them a few more times, lets all
do it, who is with me, hey for free long distance is
it not worth the bothering them?
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> You'd have to have a browser that lets you set the description manually
> so that it could "lie" to the server. I've heard of such a browser or a
> program that intercepted and altered such headers, but I think that was
> back when I used (should it be called suffering through instead?)
> Windows.
> But then on top of that, you have to hope that DialPad didn't write
> their Java using MS-J++. We all know how portable that PoS is.
>
> Vic wrote:
> >
> > Then is there any way to fool it into thinking
> > that the user is using windows?
> >
> > On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> > > Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :)
> > > It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com. They
> > > have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to
> > > their server and send an "appropriate" message. So they see you are
> > > using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do
> > > not support. (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.)
> > > DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port
> > > to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported". Thank Monoposoft for that
> > > one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to
> > > it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising
> > > dollar.
> > > Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do
> > > support the penguin.
> > >
> > > Vic wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this
> > > > error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it
> > > > good so here is a link so I don't post a little
> > > > gif to the list.
> > > >
> > > > http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif
> > > >
> > > > I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one
> > > > that either does not exist or is full of lies and
> > > > trash that don't work,
> > > > *************************I really must get to*********************
> > > > ************this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact***********
> > > > ************someone, the phone here won't reach that number**********
> > > > **********************pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.************
>
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> Digital Wokan
> Tribal mage of the electronics age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior
