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I've got blackdown 1.4 installed and th main page won't let me through,
griping something about Sun's java needs to be installed or something.
Conrad Knauer wrote:
> Oh and is anyone running the Blackdown J2RE (the j2re1.4 package)
> instead of Sun's? If so it would be interesting to see if that works
> or not...
>
> CK
>
> On 5/13/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been testing the site in Ubuntu (with Sun's Java) to determine
>> what a "valid browser" is, as they haven't updated their "Computer
>> requirements and settings" page, though based on it, it would be
>> reasonable to expect Firefox and Mozilla to work.... and they do :)
>> But it seems that any Gecko-based browser will work as Epiphany (as
>> Scott noted) and Galeon also work.
>>
>> Opera can't seem to find Java on my system (even though I enabled it
>> under "Quick Preferences"; F12) so it couldn't even get far enough to
>> be rejected ;)
>>
>> Konqueror is rejected.
>>
>> Old browsers (Amaya, Chimera and Dillo) are rejected.
>>
>> Lynx is a pain to navigate and so I gave up before figuring out how to
>> press "Start" :P
>>
>> CK
>>
>> On 5/13/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://www12.statcan.ca/IRC/english/advisory_e.htm
>> >
>> > ---
>> > The census online application now accessible to Linux operating system
>> >
>> > In response to demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction
>> > for Linux. This change takes effect May 13th, 2006.
>> >
>> > This broadened access to open-source users is available to those who
>> > have a valid browser and JVM. These minimum requirements are necessary
>> > in order to maintain the same level of data encryption with Public Key
>> > Infrastructure (PKI).
>> >
>> > With the addition of this new operating system, the capacity of the
>> > Census Help Line operators to respond to technical calls from open
>> > source users may be limited. However, we expect this will not be a
>> > major obstacle for the vast majority of these users.
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Not sure what they mean exactly by the second-to-last sentence, but I
>> > tested the site and Firefox on Linux now passes with flying colors :)
>> >
>> > CK
>> >
>>
>
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