From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 2 22:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B574F37B401; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (adsl-66-123-232-98.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.123.232.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2566743E4A; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FF1785; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:51:08 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug Barton Cc: Marc Schneiders , Tenebrae , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opera for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message from Doug Barton of "Sat, 02 Nov 2002 18:56:31 PST." <3DC4905F.27D1E3AA@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1787390972P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 22:51:08 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20021103065108.87FF1785@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_1787390972P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I am glad that my visit to websites is no longer recorded as > > being from a Linux machine. > > In /etc/sysctl.conf: > > compat.linux.osname=FreeBSD > compat.linux.osrelease=4.7-RELEASE Heh. Yes, I was very impressed by this idea a long time ago. And immediately set it, so that the target websites would get the correct user agent information[0] I left it that way right up until I cranked up a VMWare session for manipulating Turd/Visio docs for Real Work, and discovered that VMWare gets all upset and refuses to run... Cheers, AS [0] And I don't know what gives anyone the impression that this data is actually being extracted/examined, much less analysed, in this day, age & economic climate? Rather, a substantial %-age of websites I visit show all the tell-tale signs of no longer having a competant web master working there... --==_Exmh_1787390972P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE9xMdcPHh895bDXeQRAiNMAKDHaULdb0FF8HJ4OgMDvRlgi7mq8gCffLUl 3HFXfEFdmbxwGU/n7doqzVg= =gWl+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1787390972P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message