[TriLUG] DO-DO Time warner

[Peter Neilson]

Tried making Opera on Ubuntu pretend to be IE, and that made TW's  
officious request that I download IE or FF or Safari go away, but when I  
asked for a chat (silly me, I'm not even a TW subscriber!) it gave me that  
minimum rq message. Yet another reason to avoid them.

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:12:15 -0400, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com>  
wrote:

> Thanks to all.
>
> I will try both items.
>
> jcj
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jack Hill <jackhill at jackhill.us> wrote:
>> I have been got it working in the past on Lucid using Konqueror  
>> advertising
>> itself as (if I remember correctly) Safari.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Igor Partola wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't tested this method, but try this:
>>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/
>>>
>>> Usually this detection will be done using the User-Agent header. I  
>>> doubt
>>> they are doing something more sophisticated than this, like detecting  
>>> what
>>> JavaScript features you have, etc.
>>>
>>> Igor
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:01 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I was attempting to find out some details of my time-warner cable tv
>>>> account and clicked on chat!
>>>>
>>>> Got the message below:
>>>> " Minimum Requirements Not Met
>>>> The Minimum requirements to use the Technical Chat services are:
>>>>
>>>>   Windows 98 or higher, with Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape 6.0+
>>>>   Macintosh OS 10 or higher, with IE 5.0+, Netscape 6.0+ or Safari  
>>>> 1.0+"
>>>>
>>>> Any way to access the chat from firefox 5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04???
>>>>
>>>> I certainly don't want to start up Windows 98, or ME ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> jcj
>>>>
>>>>
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