Re: The Census now *officially* works with Linux! ;)

From: Conrad Knauer <atheoi_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 20:49:07 CST

Thank you for testing that (and sorry that it doesn't work for you ):

CK

On 5/13/06, Nels Nielson <nels.nielson@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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> > in it."
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