Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: burlingk@×××××××××.mil
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:30:17
Message-Id: 14178ED3A898524FB036966D696494FB139AE4@messenger.cv63.navy.mil
1 > -----Original Message-----
2 > From: news [mailto:news@×××××××××.org] On Behalf Of Regis Decamps
3 > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:03 AM
4 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
5 > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question
6 >
7 >
8 > Florian Philipp wrote:
9 > > Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 02:45 schrieb burlingk@×××××××××.mil:
10 > >> I think that once my internet access becomes functional
11 > (even then it
12 > >> will just be .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil sites), I will see
13 > how well
14 > >> the gmane page loads for me. :) I will use it to read the
15 > messages,
16 > >> and email to post.
17 > >>
18 > >
19 > >
20 > > How do they find out if you're using IE or anything else?
21 > AFAIK it is
22 > > possible to make Firefox identify as IE (or any other
23 > browser for that
24 > > matter),
25 >
26 > Yes, you can forge the User-Agent http header.
27 >
28 > But with javascript, only IE will respond positively to:
29 > window.RunningIE4 or creating an ActiveX component.
30 >
31 That still does not resolve the issues of a really crappy
32 bandwidth issue, and a firewall that blocks most sites. :P
33 Gmane is a .org site, so I can get too it, just slowly. ^_^
34
35 I have tried to figure out how to find the gentoo-user specific
36 pages in gmane, but the interface is not super-intuitive. I may
37 give it another try today. :)
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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>