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From: Hadron 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Internet
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:24:42 +0100
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SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid> writes:

> * Hadron wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>> Blue  writes:
>
>
>>> BTW the router is running Open Source software in all probability.
>
>> Not necessarily good - 
>
> Why not? Bugs dont exist in closed source software? At least with open
> source, if you can fix it, YOU can fix it.

maybe. And of course there bugs in closed source. But in the case we are
talking about, IE works fine and firefox & opera dont under ubuntu. I
just know it will be poxy java related.

>
>> my open source router, a d-link, can not be
>> configured from Firefox under ubuntu :( The changed settings dont stick.
>
> Does it work with any other browser or in firefox from a different OS?

Works fine with both browsers under NT.

Drives me nuts having to reboot to NT to change my routers firewall
setup.

I'm just making the point that "blind advocacy" isnt always productive
:-;

And for the record, I doubt I'd be much good at "fixing it myself" since
I would have no idea how to fix the dlink firmware and package it and
upload it to the HW.
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