On 03/20/2011 11:39 AM, Steven Stern wrote: > 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. > Or, you could use the default KVM visualization built into F-14. -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004 www.counter.li.org **** In a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today. ** To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it. To mess up an MS Windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -- Signature shamelessly copied from: Jatin Khatri& geleem -- 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
