Locked out using Linux/Opera

Brett Worth brettw at cray.com.au
Fri Feb 8 13:04:12 EST 2002


On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Peter Watson wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am a student at CIT in my last year. I was "surprised" to discover
> that I am now no longer able to access my academic records.
> This is apparently (according to their IT person) because the software
> used to (ahem) implement their "BANNER" is only aware of M$ and IE or
> nutscrape. I have chosen to go open source this year and CHOOSE Linux
> and Opera as my OS/Browser.
> Needless to say I"ll take issue to IT policymakers at CIT...
> Comments?
> suggestions
>
> Peter Watson.

What happens if you tell Opera to pretend its really MSIE 5.0?  Does it
need the real McCoy?

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Brett

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