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Own up, whoever you are :)
« on: October 29, 2009, 02:40:04 PM »
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/

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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.
« Last Edit: October 29, 2009, 03:56:04 PM by Karlos »
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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 03:45:23 PM »
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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 05:58:14 PM »
Quote from: System;527680
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/


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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 07:12:05 PM »
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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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2009, 07:46:49 PM »
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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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2009, 08:07:18 PM »
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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2009, 08:20:37 PM »
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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), 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)"
« Last Edit: October 29, 2009, 08:23:40 PM by Zac67 »
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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 08:46:20 PM »
Quote from: Skippy;527703
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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 09:42:05 PM »
"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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2009, 02:26:38 AM »
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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2009, 06:55:38 AM »
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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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2009, 02:20:24 PM »
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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Re: Own up, whoever you are :)
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2009, 03:06:12 PM »
Quote from: Zac67;527730
Great idea:
Firefox: enter about:config as URL, change general.useragent.extra.firefox to "IBrowse/2.4 (AmigaOS 3.9)" (source), 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
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