On 03/20/2011 10:00 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > More in my continuing struggle with "The Teaching Company" and > my attempt to download the files they sold me. > > After installing "user-agent-switcher" in Firefox their system > offered me what appears to be a Windows app., "Akami Download > Manager.": > > [bobg@box9 Downloads]$ ll -ant *.exe* > -rw-rw-r--. 1 500 500 363080 Mar 19 12:11 installer.exe > > The problem is I can log into their site and do everything up to > the point of clicking on the download button at which point > nothing happens, the "hand" just stays there, it doesn't > recognize my action. Before they implemented this Akami stuff I > had not problem. > > Does anyone know of a way to deal with this other than > installing Windows? Actually this computer came with Windows XP > but it refuses to run since I installed F-14 but that's another > problem. > > Bob > > Bob: Install VirtualBox, then install XP as a virtual machine. You can grab a repo that installs it for Fedora at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. I'm very impressed at how easy it's made it for me when I have to deal with Windows. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
