On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's the USA. Canada is "let's all be nice and do what the gov't
> tells us...".
Like Americans are immune from that stupidity. "Now let's go shopping."
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On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 16:44 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making it easy
> > to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer.
>
> Whatever happened to "government by the people, for the people"? :-(
Wrong country, for that exact quote (even if it's
> Well everyone, got mail from the webmaster - they say they are
> going to take a look at the problem and say they will try to resolve
> it. In the meantime, they "suggest" I visit using Windows and Adobe:)
> I guess that's not weird software :)
I think that's a polite way of saying "Don't get
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:22:18 -0400
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky
> > to get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making
> > it easy to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer.
>
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:31:44 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hello Ron,
> That's the USA.
Well yes, there it's explicitly stated. However, it's the principle
that democracies are _supposed_ to be based on.
> Canada is "let's all be nice and do what the gov't tells us...".
Unfortunately, true for m
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Real man [1] would never do that.
Real democratic (= "ruling of the people" != "ruling of the companies")
governments would never ask for that.
Happy debianing,
Johannes
[1] and women (but Ron is a man AFAIK)
good morning johannes,
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On 2009-09-03 15:51, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-09-03 09:44, Charles wrote:
Just did that...dl'ed the user agent switcher and tried nearly
all of the combos involving IE and Windowsno luck..same message.
It looks like it's looking for an Adobe plugin which of
On 2009-09-03 10:44, Brad Rogers wrote:
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:26:46 -0400
Charles wrote:
Hello Charles,
I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky to
Good to hear that. It's all to easy to let somebody else do it.
ge
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 09:44, Charles wrote:
>> Just did that...dl'ed the user agent switcher and tried nearly
>> all of the combos involving IE and Windowsno luck..same message.
>> It looks like it's looking for an Adobe plugin which of course I
>> don't have. Just one more rea
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:48:41 -0500
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 09:44, Charles wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:03 -0400
> > Charles wrote:
> >
> >>> Try changing your browser's User-Agent string to find out.
> >>> Also, firebug might be
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:26:46 -0400
Charles wrote:
Hello Charles,
> I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky to
Good to hear that. It's all to easy to let somebody else do it.
> get a Quebec government webpage in English,
On 2009-09-03 09:44, Charles wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:03 -0400
Charles wrote:
Try changing your browser's User-Agent string to find out. Also,
firebug might be useful to debug their Javascript.
I'll give that a shot - if that doesn't work then I might just
give up and read the ma
> I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky to
> get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making it easy
> to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer.
I'm pretty sure the same brain-damage can be found on the French side of
the site. That might be taken slightly
On Thursday 03 September 2009 10:47:00 Charles wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:27:52 -0400
> Charles wrote:
> > > Can't you look in the source of the site, and see if the link to
> > > the pdf is named in some javascript function? (firebug is great
> > > for that) Of course not ideal, but it might
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:27:52 -0400
Charles wrote:
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> > Can't you look in the source of the site, and see if the link to
> > the pdf is named in some javascript function? (firebug is great
> > for that) Of course not ideal, but it might just work.
>
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:12:12 +0200
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Charles schreef:
> > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
> > Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
> >
> >>> I have run across several websites lately whic
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:50:05 +0100
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> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:44:29 -0400
> Charles wrote:
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> Hello Charles,
>
> > all of the combos involving IE and Windowsno luck..same
Charles schreef:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
installed.
To say the truth, I cannot remembe
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:44:29 -0400
Charles wrote:
Hello Charles,
> all of the combos involving IE and Windowsno luck..same message.
> It looks like it's looking for an Adobe plugin which of course I
Complain to the site owners, explaining tha
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:27:03 -0400
Charles wrote:
> >
> > Try changing your browser's User-Agent string to find out. Also,
> > firebug might be useful to debug their Javascript.
>
>
>I'll give that a shot - if that doesn't work then I might j
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:51:43 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 15:43 +0200, Charles wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
> > Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> >> On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have run across se
On 2009-09-03 15:43 +0200, Charles wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
>>
>> > I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
>> > download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
>> >
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On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
>
> > I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
> > download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
> > instal
On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote:
> I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
> download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
> installed.
To say the truth, I cannot remember having ever met such a website
myself. Everyone serves PDF files as MI
But... not having the necessary plugin, shouldn't the browser just
download the file? Or am i misinterpreting the OP's "sites downloading
to you"?
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Charles wrote:
> I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
> download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
> installed.
> I had a look in /usr/bin and there are symlinks named Acrobat,
> Acroread, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Read
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I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot
download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat
installed.
I had a look in /usr/bin and there are symlinks named Acrobat,
Acroread, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Reader 8.1.3
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