[SATLUG] Linux instead of Windows on system at 2nd home?

[Dave]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:52, Sexton, Art, ISD wrote:
> Recently we purchased a condo at the coast which we are putting into the
> rental pool there.  I will be putting a pc in the unit and, since it
> will be being used by anyone staying there, I am leaning toward
> installing linux instead of windows since I think it will be much less
> prone to getting "screwed up" by those users.  My only problem is that I
> need to be able to run a real estate web application, Paragon, that
> doesn't seem to run on alternate browsers even on windows boxes.  So,
> the questions to the group are:
> 
> What can I do to run this particular application?
> 
I've never heard of the application, but if it only runs in IE, and not
any other browsers, it might be that it's just checking the User Agent
string the browser announces and just refusing anything that doesn't
present itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET
CLR 1.1.4322)" or something similar.  I've seen some poorly configured
proxies that wouldn't run unless they saw an IE user agent string, so
maybe that's all your app is looking for.

You can find plugins for Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Konquerer and just
about any other browser to make them announce themselves as something
else.  You might get lucky and all you'll need to do is have Firefox
announce itself as IE and your app might work.  Here's a link to the
first thing I found off Google:
 http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/


Good luck with it,
   -Dave