Comments on: State of Florida job portal shuts out alternative browsers http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/ Random IT Stuff Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:19:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ryan http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1120 Ryan Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:31:37 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1120 Only the first page in the site refers surfers using alternative web browsers to the "reject" page. But the site is cheaply designed, and who wants to work in Florida anyway? State jobs pay fairly well, but often they are boring, monotonous and thankless desk jobs (I am in one now). a desk job is bad enough, but if you are working outdoors in Florida say hi to Satan for me. Only the first page in the site refers surfers using alternative web browsers to the “reject” page. But the site is cheaply designed, and who wants to work in Florida anyway? State jobs pay fairly well, but often they are boring, monotonous and thankless desk jobs (I am in one now). a desk job is bad enough, but if you are working outdoors in Florida say hi to Satan for me.

]]> By: Ghozt http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1119 Ghozt Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:04:24 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1119 You can go into about:config in firefox and change general.useragent.extra.firefox. You can go into about:config in firefox and change general.useragent.extra.firefox.

]]> By: Brian http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 Brian Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:14:51 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1105 Derose Technologies of Pompano Beach Florida is also concerned about the issues raised in this post. They have written an article about this, and have sent an email to the Florida State Technology Office. I am hoping that that email is better received than my email to PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com. The article is located here: http://www.derosetechnologies.com/news/state-of-florida-job-portal-discriminates-alternative-web-browsers Derose Technologies of Pompano Beach Florida is also concerned about the issues raised in this post. They have written an article about this, and have sent an email to the Florida State Technology Office. I am hoping that that email is better received than my email to PeopleFirst@dms.myflorida.com.

The article is located here:
http://www.derosetechnologies.com/news/state-of-florida-job-portal-discriminates-alternative-web-browsers

]]> By: Ray Scott http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Ray Scott Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:41:26 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1103 "I’m running Firefox on a Mac, and with the User Agent Switcher plugin (as the poster above indicated) I’m able to navigate to the site" (Chad). I agree. Make sure you have the user agent active before you open the site. Go to the link below for the Switcher Agent. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/ Ray “I’m running Firefox on a Mac, and with the User Agent Switcher plugin (as the poster above indicated) I’m able to navigate to the site” (Chad).

I agree. Make sure you have the user agent active before you open the site. Go to the link below for the Switcher Agent.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/

Ray

]]> By: Curt http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 Curt Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:56:08 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1090 I hope security is not the reason they force the use of IE. I wonder if the tourism sites are IE only???? Kinda sad in this day and age we still have people who think MS is the best solution. Guessing those who do have never used it much. Better solutions are out there and well free. Guess Gov could never use Linux and OpenOffice and get by, its not spending enough of our money. I hope security is not the reason they force the use of IE. I wonder if the tourism sites are IE only????

Kinda sad in this day and age we still have people who think MS is the best solution. Guessing those who do have never used it much.

Better solutions are out there and well free. Guess Gov could never use Linux and OpenOffice and get by, its not spending enough of our money.

]]> By: in the know http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 in the know Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:10:23 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1089 oh yeah you're correct, i'm not getting anything right..it was thinking of the peoplefirst HR system Data entry was subcontracted by a company which used offshore labor to do the DE http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,109938,00.html Despite assurances by Convergys that personal information on state employees is safely kept on computers in the United States, a once-secret lawsuit against a former subcontractor alleges that private data was sent to India, Barbados and possibly China. [... Plaintiff attorney] Newcomer said GDXdata used overseas scanning and indexing services "to save money" without telling Convergys. The suit says Convergys had billed the state at least $32 million when the case was filed, for work the company and the state thought was done domestically. so i would really be surprised if even some of the programming for that HR system wasn't offshored...state probably didn't even know it. In this day and age its to be expected. whos knows with all the beaucracy...payoffs,personal pet projects of officials,etc what goes on. I dont understand the .com, probably some people think it means more traffic ala 1996 or maybe they think its easier to remember or just is more common....or who knows, in govt no shortage of people to come up with nutty ideas. No i dont think they listen to technical people... oh yeah you’re correct, i’m not getting anything right..it was thinking of the peoplefirst HR system Data entry was subcontracted by a company which used offshore labor to do the DE

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,109938,00.html

Despite assurances by Convergys that personal information on state employees is safely kept on computers in the United States, a once-secret lawsuit against a former subcontractor alleges that private data was sent to India, Barbados and possibly China. [... Plaintiff attorney] Newcomer said GDXdata used overseas scanning and indexing services “to save money” without telling Convergys. The suit says Convergys had billed the state at least $32 million when the case was filed, for work the company and the state thought was done domestically.

so i would really be surprised if even some of the programming for that HR system wasn’t offshored…state probably didn’t even know it. In this day and age its to be expected.

whos knows with all the beaucracy…payoffs,personal pet projects of officials,etc what goes on. I dont understand the .com, probably some people think it means more traffic ala 1996 or maybe they think its easier to remember or just is more common….or who knows, in govt no shortage of people to come up with nutty ideas. No i dont think they listen to technical people…

]]> By: itsme http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 itsme Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:45:57 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1079 in the know, state of florida has policy on outsourcing. even if a project is outsourced the work should be done in state premises, that would be one of the state buildings in tallahassee. projects are NEVER offshored. i would really blame the IT management team there, because they set the rules and programmers just have to do what they say. interesting example: advertising myflorida.com in every license place is one of those arrogant and uninformed things the state does. why not a .gov name? its a govt .......not a commercial business...Do you think they'll listen to any technical person there? in the know,
state of florida has policy on outsourcing.
even if a project is outsourced the work should be done in state premises, that would be one of the state buildings in tallahassee. projects are NEVER offshored.

i would really blame the IT management team there, because they set the rules and programmers just have to do what they say. interesting example: advertising myflorida.com in every license place is one of those arrogant and uninformed things the state does. why not a .gov name? its a govt …….not a commercial business…Do you think they’ll listen to any technical person there?

]]> By: in the know http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1077 in the know Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:24:20 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1077 itsme is right, im wrong...the job portal seems to be in php, coldfusion. that probably is not done internally and is farmed out is my guess to a local company. internally everything is .net i believe. externally alot of stuff is normally contracted out. but i could be wrong as i was here itsme is right, im wrong…the job portal seems to be in php, coldfusion. that probably is not done internally and is farmed out is my guess to a local company. internally everything is .net i believe. externally alot of stuff is normally contracted out. but i could be wrong as i was here

]]> By: itsme http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1076 itsme Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:54:38 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1076 the website is designed using php....not .net some are designed using coldfusion... the website is designed using php….not .net
some are designed using coldfusion…

]]> By: Elias http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Elias Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:37:34 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1074 I guess it all boils down to: "Noone ever got fired for buying Microsoft." I guess it all boils down to: “Noone ever got fired for buying Microsoft.”

]]> By: Nico http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1063 Nico Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:09:02 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1063 Serverside UA check, try to set your UA to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; The State of Florida's People First Job Portal webmaster ARE STUPID)" Nobody to run this bash script ? while /bin/true ; do wget "https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/" -d --user-agent="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; The State of Florida's People First Job Portal webmaster ARE STUPID)" --delete-after -o /dev/null; done Serverside UA check, try to set your UA to “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; The State of Florida’s People First Job Portal webmaster ARE STUPID)”

Nobody to run this bash script ?
while /bin/true ; do wget “https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/” -d –user-agent=”Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; The State of Florida’s People First Job Portal webmaster ARE STUPID)” –delete-after -o /dev/null; done

]]> By: shafiu http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 shafiu Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:46:53 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1061 want to change your useragent real easily in Firefox, its as easy as this 1) type in address bar about:config 2) create a new string right-click and select New ~ String 3) As preference name enter general.useragent.override 4) As for value write which ever useragent you want to spoof There you go. As simple as that. And you can reset this string and you have it all back to normal. As for the webmasters doing these kind of unprofessional shit, its not new since we have so much Micro$oft lovers around. want to change your useragent real easily in Firefox,
its as easy as this

1) type in address bar about:config
2) create a new string
right-click and select New ~ String
3) As preference name enter
general.useragent.override
4) As for value write which ever useragent you want to spoof

There you go. As simple as that. And you can reset this string and you have it all back to normal.

As for the webmasters doing these kind of unprofessional shit, its not new since we have so much Micro$oft lovers around.

]]> By: John http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 John Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:47:04 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1058 And I'd never, ever work at such a backward operation. And I’d never, ever work at such a backward operation.

]]> By: Marc Driftmeyer http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Marc Driftmeyer Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:35:08 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1057 There is a `defaults write' option to expose the User Agent identification that will fake what browser you happen to be. This exposes the Debug menu for developers using Safari: Open Terminal and at the shell prompt: $ defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 Source: http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor14 There is a `defaults write’ option to expose the User Agent identification that will fake what browser you happen to be.

This exposes the Debug menu for developers using Safari:

Open Terminal and at the shell prompt:

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Source: http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor14

]]> By: Udo http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Udo Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:30:15 +0000 http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/25/state-of-florida-job-portal-shuts-out-alternative-browsers/#comment-1056 IE7 does not work. In a few months this site will have problems ;-) IE7 does not work. In a few months this site will have problems ;-)

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