Re: [SLUG] Discrimination?

From: Robert Snyder (robertsnyder@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 23:18:33 EST


On 11/18/06, Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/18/06, savatage@mindspring.com <savatage@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Understand this it's not up to the Tech to change the company policy and
> there fore he is just repeating what they are told to. Next though I do
> wonder this does this also mean that MAC users can not use it??? Hence they
> no longer get to use I.E.
> >
>
> Yes the tech is just the messge bearer. I try not to holler at them, have
> been
> on that end my self, but when they really show that they are not much
> tech,
> I forget that they are just reading a script at times. But that was
> the next thing
> he told me was Mac users had IE, I told him that I understood that MS no
> longer supports IE on the OS X based machines, (I could be wrong but I
> think I saw it the other day) so that would put them in the same basket,
> and he of course told me that they did not support the regular Mac
> browser.

Yes the only place to download IE for OSX is via adbandonware sites. It is
no longer even available on Microsofts site.

I have been googling to see if I can find anything about it but see nothing
> either there are not many people trying to use non MS browersers to log
> into Sprint WiFi or I am looking in the wrong place. I see no comments
> what ever about it.

Simple solution IE6 with wine.

--
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
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> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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