It will change real soon - that page hoses my wife's XP box. What
we have here is a classic case of not conforming to the W3C standards,
which makes the page inaccessible to several million users. Silly.
George
Quoting Eric <
swive@getnet.com>:
> http://cryptome.org/fcc-x-linux.htm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 29 December 2001. Thanks to JC/CP.
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:50:52 -0600
> From: Donn aka N5XWB <dwash@hal-pc.org>
> To: [List removed]
> Subject: http://www.fcc.gov and LINUX exclusion
>
> Hello Group;
>
> I would like to request you to contact your State Representative,
> Senators
> and the Federal Communication Commission Officers about a issue that
> is
> causing ALL UNIX/Linux and Apple users a problem. It seems that the FCC
> has
> chosen to exclude all NON Microshaft NT/95 users from being able to
> use
> their Internet Universal Licensing System which they have requested
> FCC
> Licenses holder to use for license renewals.
>
> The problem is that it requires a JavaScript Plug-in that is a
> Microsoft
> product only.
>
> Simply go to "http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls" and then select "ONLINE
> FILING".
> I believe this to be the complete path to the failure. Which is "This
> plug-in only runs on Windows NT/95".
>
> We need to protect the finest operating system from being excluded from
> the
> United States by our Government Officials.
>
> --
>
> 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~dwash "
> Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ MSDOS Virus
> 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / "Free Zone"
> Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ OS
> 1.281.242.3256 email:n5xwb@arrl.net Info:" http://www.hlug.org "
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
> ________________________________________________
> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't
> post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail.
>
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
(text/plain)