On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:05, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > There are many sites (yahoo notably) that I just cannot > reach with my Linux machine, that I can when I boot into Windows. > I don't know why. It's not ECN.
I actually chat on Yahoo all the time and look at web pages one thing Ive noticed yahoo asks for these really high port number responses 33XXX etc and if your firewall doesn't allow it through the page won't load. > > You cannot say categorically that is not Linux that is at > fault. > > (BTW, I wouldn't have told them what OS I was running. > Or at least just lied to them.) > > I do believe that banks should support Linux, or rather > they should write their web sites somewhat portably, but .. > > I think people here profoundly underestimate the cost and time > it takes to do IT support in a large organisation. > > It's difficult to believe until you've been there. > > > Matt > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ******************************************************************** * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * ******************************************************************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
