Persnickety Scots
October 20th, 2002 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison | 2 viewsThe Register reports that Scottish Power has locked out Linux and Opera users from taking advantage of it’s online payment feature. Linux users get this error message:
We have detected certain aspects of your system that will prevent you experiencing this site fully.
These are: You are not running a Windows or Apple Macintosh operating system.
After repeated requests by The Register, Scottish Power responded only that they were “looking into this matter.”
2 Responses to “Persnickety Scots”
By Neil Turner on Oct 21, 2002 | Reply
NTL, who are one of the UK’s two cable providers, have the same policy but they don’t make it so obvious. When you register your NIC with them, if done in Linux you get a bizarre error message on the lines of ‘Invalid password’ (when the password is actually perfectly valid), yet using the same computer under Windows yields no problems. Of course, it took me 45 minutes of waiting in a telephone queue on their support line for them to tell me that Linux wasn’t supported. Bleh.
By Ian Christie on Oct 21, 2002 | Reply
Interestingly, in Windows, Opera identified as Opera, gets the error message, identified as Ie 5 Opera gets a blank page, and finally, identified as Mozilla 5 Opera works fine.
Go figure.