[TriLUG] DO-DO Time warner

[Glenn Starling]

Well, you could use the phone and let their tech people worry with why you
couldn't chat with them in their preferred way.  They probably won't come up
with an answer, but if enough did it perhaps they would eventually stop some
of the proprietary stuff.  But I wouldn't hold my breath.

I know I was pleasantly surprised with something similar when we lived in a
Charter Cable area.  The tech said, "Oh.  You really don't need to run
Charter Cable setup program.  It is really just a ..."  He wasn't a Linux
user, but very reasonable and helpful.  Sometimes one is pleasantly
surprised!

-- Glenn


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net>wrote:

> 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/<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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