On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:17, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Jerome,

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:04, Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

I'm not up on the intricacies of on-line banking, but I know that Opera will masquerade as other browsers, and that's usually enough to get these lame-ass sites to play along.

To switch which browser Opera identifies itself as, open the Preferences dialog and select the Network category. Choose the browser you want Opera to emulate (MSIE 6.0, in this case) from the "Browser identification" pop-up.

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Thanks, Jerome

Randall Schulz

Randell, Opera is set to emulate MSIE 6.0 and it gets closest to being able to use the server. There are three or four layers and Opera gets to the last one but not past it. Jerome

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:41, Gil Weber wrote:

I have had the same problem with my bank and with my previous health insurer. Neither site worked with Konqi or Mozilla. Their tech support told me I had to use IE. When I told them I don't have Windows or IE on my system they said that I was out of luck. ;o(

I tried to change the way Konqi identified itself (configure Konqi settings), but no matter what I tried nothing worked. Very disappointing. Hoping someone has an answer.

Gil, I disagree with you. *you* are not the one out of luck but they are. Changer if possible and let them know. It happened to me and I changed banks, AAMOF because of that most of the island here is now with that bank! -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

Gil Weber wrote:

Jim, I must be overlooking a configuration screen somewhere. How do I configure Firefox to identify itself as IE?

about:config in your urlbar will let you do it manually, or use http://uabar.mozdev.org/ Changing your UA is far from a guarantee of success. Plus, spoofing will provide misleading page hit statistics that prevent the host site operators from knowing who they get their visits from. -- "The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

ok I have justinstalled suse 9.1, I had 9.0 and it was fine. Some questions. 1. why does yast in 9.1 does not have any option for automatically start servers. on 9.0 there was an option which could be used to configure how you wanted the servers to start, I used to use that to start automatically mysql, zope, http etc, this yast does not have that option. 2. is there any public fto site that I can use in order to install new programs? I installed suse over the network (my private one), so now that I do not have the local server I can not install new packages. for that server, if exists, which would be the user name and passw? and the path? cheers.

The Thursday 2005-01-13 at 02:16 +1000, a.garcia@imb.uq.edu.au wrote: 1) Correct your date, you live one day ahead. 2) Don't hijack threads.

1. why does yast in 9.1 does not have any option for automatically start servers. on 9.0 there was an option which could be used to configure how you wanted the servers to start, I used to use that to start automatically mysql, zope, http etc, this yast does not have that option.

It does, look carefully. System --> Runlevel Editor.

2. is there any public fto site that I can use in order to install new programs? I installed suse over the network (my private one), so now that I do not have the local server I can not install new packages. for that server, if exists, which would be the user name and passw? and the path? cheers.

YOU will get the security patches you need from a list of servers. Those same servers can be used as well to install packages with yast. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:18, Jim Sabatke wrote:

Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services? Thanks, Jerome

It's hard to answer that. You could try firefox and have it identify itself as IE. Some sites are written to be IE specific and Linux browsers just won't work.

Jim There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with Firefox. Jerome

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:34:31 -1000 Susemail wrote:

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:18, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services? Thanks, Jerome

It's hard to answer that. You could try firefox and have it identify itself as IE. Some sites are written to be IE specific and Linux browsers just won't work.

Jim There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with Firefox. Jerome

-- I use the "User Agent Switcher" extension from the Firefox extensions page - I assume it's still available for >=1.0.

-- evangelinux GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere."

You could also e-mail your bank systems administrator to get it working as it should (it should be compatible at least with the most uses browsers available). I had a similar problem a year ago, I sent an e-mail to my bank and they solved the issue in one or two weeks. Hugo On Friday 14 January 2005 20:02, Don Parris wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:34:31 -1000

Susemail wrote:

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On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:18, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services? Thanks, Jerome

It's hard to answer that. You could try firefox and have it identify itself as IE. Some sites are written to be IE specific and Linux browsers just won't work.

Jim

There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with Firefox. Jerome

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I use the "User Agent Switcher" extension from the Firefox extensions page - I assume it's still available for >=1.0.

-- evangelinux GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere."

On Friday 14 January 2005 10:02, Don Parris wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:34:31 -1000

Susemail wrote:

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On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:18, Jim Sabatke wrote:

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Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services? Thanks, Jerome

It's hard to answer that. You could try firefox and have it identify itself as IE. Some sites are written to be IE specific and Linux browsers just won't work.

Jim

There doesn't seem to be a way to do that with Firefox. Jerome

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I use the "User Agent Switcher" extension from the Firefox extensions page - I assume it's still available for >=1.0.

-- evangelinux GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere."

It is, I'm using it now. Jerome

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 04:01, Lester Caine wrote:

WOW and I thought snail-mail was slow. Or maybe you need to reset your
clock/date.

> Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:04 pm, Susemail wrote:
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> >>I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows 
> >>browser.  How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to 
> >>access my online services?
> > 
> > Most banks seem to be willing to swallow Firefox or Mozilla, both of which 
> > work under Linux.
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> Rather than MOST I would say I LOT.
> Many ARE now realizing that they need to take care, I've just switched 
> all my business and personal banking because I simply could not work 
> with the business Internet interface of my old bank - yet the personal 
> one worked fine. With the new bank the same problem. TWO different 
> interfaces with different ways of working, but at least both work on 
> Mozilla - why can't we have some standardisation WITHIN suppliers ;)
> 
> -- 
> Lester Caine
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> L.S.Caine Electronic Services
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Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:04 pm, Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

Most banks seem to be willing to swallow Firefox or Mozilla, both of which work under Linux.

Paul

Some not only look at your browser, they look at your operating system as well and in some cases if you configure your browser say IE6 on W2K, it'll accept it, it still may not display or allow you to input certain fields. When all else fails, I dive in and out quickly using IE under crossover office -- dangerous!, however my bank accepts non-IE browsers. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 13:41, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Tuesday 2005-01-11 at 22:30 -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:

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Most banks seem to be willing to swallow Firefox or Mozilla, both of which work under Linux.

Others are happier with Netscape 6 o 7, but a few require Netscape 4.x

It used to be that my Credit Union would complain if you loaded their site with Netscape 6.*, too insecure they said. I'm not sure what they say about IE now. :)

Andreas Philipp wrote:

El Mar 11 Ene 2005 22:04, Susemail escribió:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

Only today I had this happen to me. While a European bank I hold an account with has no problems at all with supporting any browser, my Colombian bank will currently support IE on Windows only.

I placed a call with the support helpdesk and wrote a letter to the responsible manager. If they insist in not changing their policy regarding supported technology for online banking, I will consider switching the bank and I will make sure they get to know why..

And also remind them, that IE is the most unsecure brower available. This means more potential security problems for them. They must *LOVE* those keystroke captures, when someone enters their bank ID and password.

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:03, DogWalker wrote:

"Susemail" said:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

I am using Konqueror 3.1.4 and can now access my banks online, no problem. Under the Konqueror version with SuSE 7.2 I could not. I suppose the reason may be that the older Konqueror (and Mozilla,too) may have been using a less secure encryption method than the bankers now want. Update Konqueror.

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Thanks, Jerome

I have problems with one of my banks here in Sweden. My personal bank is OK, but my company one is not Thankfully it works in Firefox. As far as i have been able to find out, its mostly because its IE specific Java applets. The programmers are so lame that they cant write clean code. And as IE itself is happy with broken code (at time REQUIRES broken code) its a-OK with most webarchitects. Not until we get at true crossplatform standard which ALL conform to, we will keep having these problems.. Too many sites are "anti anythingelse than IE" Hotmail for instance. It changed something on their pages, and now o cant get to them neither in Firefox nor Konqueror. It sux! --          /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels          email   : rikjoh@norweb.se                         Web     : http://www.rikjoh.com                         Mob     : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:03, DogWalker wrote:

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"Susemail" said:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

I am using Konqueror 3.1.4 and can now access my banks online, no problem. Under the Konqueror version with SuSE 7.2 I could not. I suppose the reason may be that the older Konqueror (and Mozilla,too) may have been using a less secure encryption method than the bankers now want. Update Konqueror.

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Thanks, Jerome

I have problems with one of my banks here in Sweden. My personal bank is OK, but my company one is not Thankfully it works in Firefox. As far as i have been able to find out, its mostly because its IE specific Java applets. The programmers are so lame that they cant write clean code. And as IE itself is happy with broken code (at time REQUIRES broken code) its a-OK with most webarchitects.

Not until we get at true crossplatform standard which ALL conform to, we will keep having these problems..

Too many sites are "anti anythingelse than IE" Hotmail for instance. It changed something on their pages, and now o cant get to them neither in Firefox nor Konqueror. It sux!

Agreed. Another Linux-unfriendly site is eBay. I wanted to sell a camera, so I went to the site and started to set up a description of the item. Midway through the process there is supposed to be a screen where they have an HTML editor so that you can format your listing using such "tweaks" as bold, italics, centering, change the color of the letters, etc. etc. Well, the tabs and buttons for the HTML editor don't show up unless you're using IE. Konqi doesn't work, neither do Mozilla or Firefox. I had several communications with eBay tech support and the answer was always the same -- you have to use IE. Unfortunately I don't know HTML coding to do it manually -- I need that HTML editor. But no luck. They're just a "Windows shop" and seem oblivious to the fact that there are some folks who don't/can't/won't use IE. Oh, well... ;o( Gil

Susemail wrote:

I'm running Suse 9.1 and 9.2. How do I tell what version of Konqueror I'm using? Thanks, Jerome

You can almost always find the version of GUI software by clicking on "help" "about <program>"

On Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:16, Mike McMullin wrote:

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 22:04, Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser. How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

I have used both Opera, and Netscape for on line banking. You will probably need to have Java installed.

Java and Javascript is installed and enabled. Jerome

Hi all... On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:04 pm, Susemail wrote:

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I have online banking and I'm only able to access services with a Windows browser.  How can I use Konqueror or Opera or lynx or any linux browser to access my online services?

Personally for € I use the German Postbank. I've never had a problem with it under Linux. In fact, I've never used anything but Linux for it. For US$ I use the Fed. Serv. Credit Union (Credit Union for old soldiers <G>). I've never had a problem using their homepage, but I will admit that its not a full service site. I still have to call or go there to move money. But I can check my accounts. JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------          WartHog Bulletin           Info about new German Stamps    http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin/index.php             Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr'       Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection   http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection/index.php