[clug] linux stgeorge bank stopped?

[James McNeill]

It's not working with my Debian/testing system with Mozilla or Firefox. 
no joy with the latest Java RE.

Yeh, Win98 & Firebird 0.7 do work though.

They have always said that the banking applet wouldn't work with linux. 
It just happened to. It seems to me that writing platform-specific Java 
code defeats the purpose of using Java in the first place. Why not just 
distribute an .exe for net banking like National does? It'd have a 
better chance of running in wine anyway.

Didn't I read somewhere (probably /.) that Linux will soon overtake Mac 
in the desktop market? It's all very well to say that they don't support 
linux because it's cheaper to get windows monkeys on the tech-support 
lines, but since it /was/ working under linux ... why then go and add 
something platform specific?

Do you think they would change it back if we threaten to write a worm 
that will DDoS their site, like we did to SCO? :-p

-- 
James McNeill
Medical Genome Centre
John Curtin School of Medical Research
Australian National University
http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/group_pages/mgc/MedGenCen.html