Re: {S"toonHenHouse} Census Fun

Scott Walde wrote:
>>
> Thanks for that. The last message when I got there (there's more now)
> described a workaround. Install User Agent Switcher in Firefox, then
> set your User Agent, App Name, and App Version strings to something
> resembling:
>
> Description: Mozilla FF 1.5 Windows - It's a lie!
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Debian Linux 3.1 Sarge; en-US;
> rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.1
> App Name: Netscape
> App Version: 5.0 (Windows; en-US; Windows NT 5.0 Debian 3.1 Sarge lying
> about being Windows)
> Platform: Debian Linux 3.1 (Sarge)
>
> I p!55ed around a fair bit... it seems to only really care about the App
> Version string.
>
> I hope someone there is reading the log files!
>
> ttyl
> srw

For interested parties, this is the code responsible:

...
// The OS is not MacOS (and not Microsoft Windows)
     else {
   // The OS is not supported
   return false;
  }

CanadianCynic at
http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/2006/05/linux-firefox-and-why-i-hate-stats.html
did the digging.

The techno-blogs have begun a phone campaign. StatsCan now knows about
linux. Fragging gov't programmers, serious 'my brothers-son, the
computer guy' crap.

Cheers,
lance

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