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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: System on October 29, 2009, 02:40:04 PM
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As picked up by the news bot:
Who’s viewing PCPro.co.uk on an Amiga?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/ (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/)
But the question I want answered is: why? Why in 2009 are you still browsing our website with an Amiga? Is it pure necessity? An overwhelming affection for beige hardware? Or just because you can?
I demand answers.
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Ok, so who is up for setting up a WinUAE image that when loaded will automatically surf PCPro's site so that we can all just let it sit in the taskbar and run up the number of Amigas hitting their site?
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As picked up by the news bot:
Who’s viewing PCPro.co.uk on an Amiga?
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/ (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/28/whos-viewing-pcpro-co-uk-on-an-amiga/)
This article looks typical of Daily Mail journalism. Perhaps due to the lack of Amiga's firewall its one of the few OSs not blocking the ads and other crap that stem from the website, thus gets recorded.
You could just as well write a similar article based on Google statistics of Amiga Browser visitors and equate that into "1000s still use an Amiga OS based browser in 2009" and so forth...
Morons.
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Perhaps due to the lack of Amiga's firewall its one of the few OSs not blocking the ads and other crap that stem from the website, thus gets recorded.
What do you mean? 'Leaking' browser and OS ID is no security issue but an HTTP feature, a firewall or lack thereof has nothing to do with it.
(btw: You only require a firewall when there's no decent way to configure the network services running on your system - like in all Win NT flavors)
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Perhaps due to the lack of Amiga's firewall its one of the few OSs not blocking the ads and other crap that stem from the website, thus gets recorded.
Huh?! Firewalls blocking the HTTP user agent strings??!!
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What's the user agent string for an Amiga browser? Would be interesting to change a bunch of PCs around here to ID as Amiga....
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What's the user agent string for an Amiga browser? Would be interesting to change a bunch of PCs around here to ID as Amiga....
Great idea:
Firefox: enter about:config as URL, change general.useragent.extra.firefox to "IBrowse/2.4 (AmigaOS 3.9)" (source (http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/IBrowse/)), visit pcpro.co.uk.
PS: Oh crap - you can't change the first part, the 'extra' is just appended. :P
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 IBrowse/2.4 (AmigaOS 3.1)"
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This article looks typical of Daily Mail journalism. Perhaps due to the lack of Amiga's firewall its one of the few OSs not blocking the ads and other crap that stem from the website, thus gets recorded.
You could just as well write a similar article based on Google statistics of Amiga Browser visitors and equate that into "1000s still use an Amiga OS based browser in 2009" and so forth...
Morons.
:lol:
I take it you won't be contacting the guy then :)
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"Firewalls blocking the HTTP user agent strings??!!"
Ooooh, my bad for contextually misleading use of terminology.
That's what I get for trying to cook a sausage casserole and read forums at the same time.
Also my bad for wearing my Windows NT cap and spouting misconstrued information in an Amiga environment.
I best go sit facing the corner of the lounge wearing my dunce cap instead, eating sausage casserole and think long and hard about prioritisation in future and accept my inability to multitask effectivity without errors of submissions. heh.
"I take it you won't be contacting the guy then"
No.
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Looks like there are enough comments educating the author of the article. So no need to reply even if you wanted. Plus, ART had to post a wisecrack too... Nyuck.
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Looks like there are enough comments educating the author of the article. So no need to reply even if you wanted. Plus, ART had to post a wisecrack too... Nyuck.
It's ok mate, there were enough people on patrol; phew!! Nevermind you'll just have to be a bit quicker next time.
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In my opinion any chance to have a good rant at the non-Amiga crowd is a gift. PCPro is a good magazine overall but like most of those people trapped on the dark side, they need some education.
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Great idea:
Firefox: enter about:config as URL, change general.useragent.extra.firefox to "IBrowse/2.4 (AmigaOS 3.9)" (source (http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/IBrowse/)), visit pcpro.co.uk.
PS: Oh crap - you can't change the first part, the 'extra' is just appended. :P
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 IBrowse/2.4 (AmigaOS 3.1)"
User Agent Switcher (http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/)