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Jon "Hannibal" Stokes from Ars has posted the draft of Chapter 5 of his new book, Understanding the Computer. Chapter 5 is all about the PPC 970 G5 and summarizes his articles on Ars Technica.

The thread is here.

[reader50]

Most of the material appears to be from his existing PPC970 article, parts 1 and 2. Hopefully with a few updates and clarifications, I'm still reading it. For those who have not yet read Hannibal's articles on the 970, dive in. It's well worth the read.

The forum link does not work in most browsers unless you first adjust your browser ID strings. Good thing they call it the Ars OpenForum.

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Originally posted by reader50:
The forum link does not work in most browsers unless you first adjust your browser ID strings.

What do you mean?

[reader50]

Four browsers supported. By my count, that leaves out:

1. iCab all versions (this is my browser)
2. IE 4 or under
3. Netscape 6 or under
4. Opera 6 or under
5. OmniWeb all versions
6. Safari not officially supported (but it usually pretends to be Mozilla)
7. Chimera all versions
8. Firebird all versions
9. lynx all versions
10. Konqueror all versions

Change your browser ID strings, and it lets you in. I believe that using the browser ID as an access code is a W3C standards violation - that field is intended for gathering statistics, not for controlling (denying) access.

Banks routinely do this to Mac browsers, I'm rather unhappy to see the Ars OpenForum doing it too. I'm not going to change to a 'major' browser because someone's forum tells me to. The same way I won't switch to Windows because a bank website recommends it.

Those using IE 5/6 probably won't see anything wrong here. For everyone else, switch your browser ID string before entering - you can switch it back after getting in. If you forget and try to switch after hitting the error page, you will need to restart your browser to get a new session cookie (or delete your Ars cookie) before it will let you in.

Ars is trying out the new uBB forum engine 'eve', this looks like a standard feature that came from Infopop. If it stays that way, we may see this on a lot more forums - at least, those of us non-team players who do not use IE 5/6.

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FWIW, both Safari and Camino work (which makes sense, considering Camino uses the Mozilla engine and you say Safari pretends to be Mozilla).

I use Safari, Camino, and IE exclusively.

[angelmb]

iCab is also my browser, so I just download the pdf and bye bye ars forum

[benb]

Originally posted by reader50:
lynx all versions

OpenForum with lynx would suck so bad.