Tom Pamin wrote:
JeffM wrote:
Ray_Net wrote:
Who is paying you to stress people using linux ?
It's called "sharing".
As the user of a Free Software online suite,
you should be familiar with the concept.
People who mention a 12-year-old M$ OS
(which is always running as root)
often have experienced being pwned by a drive-by infection
or borking their OS by deleting system files.
There are numerous Free Software distros
which will work on gear of that vintage
and which don't have those problems.
People who run those very old M$ OSes on very old boxes
are also finding that the brand new peripherals they can buy
don't have Win98 device drivers.
Linux, OTOH, has the best hardware support of *ANY* OS.
Windoze also continues to use
the fragile, cumbersome Windoze Registry.
Linux doesn't have that either.
Windoze has always had Windoze Product Keys;
the latest M$ OSes now have Windoze Product Activation
and Windoze Genuine DISadvantage
(aka remote kill switches controlled by M$).
Linux doesn't have ANY of that nonsense.
Many people think their ONLY choice
is to buy new gear and get a new M$ OS.
Largely because of M$'s illegal anti-competitive activities,
may folks are not even *aware* that they have OTHER options.
Linux is a solution that is available at zero cost
--without the M$ gotchas.
It works on old gear and you *don't* have to install it to try it.
(Linux will **run** from the plastic disk.)
Many have found Linux to be a way to give new life to old gear.
Others cast off their old boxes
(which are then picked up for a song--or even for free--
by Linux guys who restore their usefulness for $0).
http://google.com/search?q=Helios-Project+Ken-Starks
The point is that folks have choices.
The fact that there are zero-cost solutions to problems
is also appealing to some.
...and, again, the openness of Free Software
is another factor that may be appealing.
I had the same problem with Hotmail and 1.1.19. Here's what someone
posted that worked for me:
Go to about:config. Search for useragent and find
general.useragent.extra.seamonkey. Right-click on it, choose Modify, and
add the text NOT Firefox/3.6.8
Why not install PrefBar? It allows you to change the user agent on the
fly and you can add other user agent strings from
http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php
PrefBar has other uses too. Check it out!
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