Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 07:14:09PM +0100, andy wrote: [...] > In any event, I have had a long discussion with the course tutor and he has > told me that they will be looking at this over the course of the year. > Because of the technical hitch, I have had to withdraw from this module and > wil

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread andy
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:13:43PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... Oh I

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread John W. Foster
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:22, andy wrote: > Dear Debianistas > > A wee while ago, some of you were kind and patient in helping me out in > my efforts to access a website that relied on Java (JRE). Despite your > best efforts, I am still unable to access the site in the way the > developers (and

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:13:43PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... >>> Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of

[OT] Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip lengthy discussion about university web pages that are inaccessible to iceweasel] My personal experience with sites like that (ie. those that don't work with iceweasel) is that 1) their html-code cont

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is supposed to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look sto

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:59:22PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> that doesn't mean you shouldn't try though... > Oh I will, trust me!! ;-) Just as a point of fact however, Java is supposed > to be OS independent isn't it. I'd look stoopid if I go spouting off on > som

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:15:11PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote: Dear Debianistas and it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. If it doesn't work wi

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:15:11PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >>> Dear Debianistas >>> >>> and it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. >> >> If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck d

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote: Dear Debianistas and it still doesn't work using an XP machine with IE6. If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work with? Go figure! I have no idea, but judging from the d

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:22:31PM +0100, andy wrote: > Dear Debianistas > > and it still doesn't > work using an XP machine with IE6. If it doesn't work with XP and IE6 then what the heck does it work with? > I am beginning to feel compelled to start an argument with the course admin > about