MSN

jvincent jvincent@hotmail.com
Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:54:02 -0400


I have just put on Mandrake 8.1 but can't get the floppy to work with this
new version. Error blrbs state that to fix this "boot your kernal with the
"nobiospnp" option specified at the boot command line.  Could anyone tell,
step by step, how to do this?  Thanks
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From: "Jason Watson" <jaywatts@hotmail.com>
To: <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: MSN


> I tried the suggestion of using the User Agent setting in Konqueror to
> change the ID string that it sends out.  I changed it to look like IE 5.5
> and msn.com came up.  I guess non-microsoft browser users will have to
> resort to this trickery until we can comply with the Internet/Microsoft
> 'standards'.
>
> Jason Watson
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> I just tried Mozilla again, and it still doesn't work.  The register's
> (www.theregister.co.uk) stats seem to suggest that no linux browsers can
> view MSN, and several browsers for Windows (Mozilla, Opera) can't.  I
wonder
> if the word 'Linux' is keyed in on or if it's just everything but 'IE'
> Anyone want to find out?
>
> See if a browser listed as IE, but running on Linux can see the site...
> Also, see if a non-IE browser that works on Windows (?) will work if
listed
> as being run on Linux.  I'd do it, but I don't have a browser loaded that
> allows for the modification of identification strings.
>
> --tim
>
>
> >From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
> >Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu
> >To: <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
> >Subject: Re: MSN
> >Date: 26 Oct 2001 10:22:26 -0700
> >
> >"Jason Green" <greenja6@msu.edu> writes:
> >
> > > Apparently, Micorosoft has backed off on the string
> > > identification.
> >
> >This is untrue.  I just tried Lynx, w3m, and links, and all three
> >give a lame "Browser Upgrade Required" message.
> >
> >(I didn't try any other browsers.)
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