Dual booting may be a necessary evil, or perhaps a good thing?

[Travis Roy]

It requires ActiveX, I know about user agent switcher and it usually 
works very well.



>>My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,
>>our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup
>>shares, we have opened this as a "bug" trouble ticket with the company)
> 
> 
> If the people who wrote your backup software show
> such poor judgement that they designed the system
> to use ActiveX you're basically stuck with IE (and
> possibly vulnerable to various exploits...)
> 
> But a lot of otherwise useful http-enabled stuff
> works perfectly well with Mozilla/Firefox and other
> civilized browsers, if only you can get past the
> dainbramaged part where they mindlessly require
> that the User-Agent string in the HTTP header be the
> string from IE.  I am happy to report that the VERY
> cool hack available at:
> 
>    http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/useragentswitcher/download/
> 
> ...has enabled me to successfully lie my way past %99
> of such dainbramaged systems.  Worth a try...
>  
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