Census 2006

[Christopher Browne]

On 5/3/06, J. Schaap <jschaap-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I tried to complete the censes2006 form online and I was refused entry.
> I get this message: "Your browser does not meet the minimum requirements
> to access this site". I'm using the latest FF and java. Same with
> Konqeror. Are they blocking Linux?
> Perhaps I'm missing something. Any thoughts?
> I called the help line and was told to use the paper form.

What seems even more dumb about this is that the application is one
that IN NO WAY requires "sophisticated" components such as client-side
Java.

I imagine I only got the short form (it asks little more than name,
date of birth, and "mother tongue"), which represents a simple sort of
CGI that could be done without any "minimum requirements."

I don't think the problem is merely a "blocking Linux" one; it would
appear that they are making generally incompetent technology choices.
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and
`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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