[plug] 'Linux' with Windows (a little OT)

[Adam Mellor]

yes, once, but i had to use my existing windows installation to do it

adam.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Nold [mailto:markn at enspace.com]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:45 PM
To: 'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
Subject: RE: [plug] 'Linux' with Windows (a little OT)



What about making linux look like Windows?

Has any body got IE5.5 working under linux with Wine or Win4Lin (are there
alternatives?)

I assume it could under VMWare but i dont really want the overhead.

mn



Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Friday, 4 May 2001 9:18, Jeremy Malcolm
[SMTP:Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au]
wrote:
> > I was wondering, I have a linux box and also a Windows comp both of
which I
> > can access the internet through the Windows machine (logic lacking I
know,
> > experimental phase) I would like to give the impression that I am using
the
> > linux machine when i am on the internet...
> > Presumably I do this with headers in IE 5.5 but how exactly??
>
> I wouldn't make that sort of presumption when we're talking about
> MSIE... the way I would do it is to run the junkbuster proxy on the
> Windoze machine (if you insist) as it allows you to specify an arbitrary
> text string to be returned as the user-agent header.  See
> http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/ijbfaq.html#agent.
>
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