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[ILUG] state of the various Bank of Ireland online services under linux?

[ILUG] state of the various Bank of Ireland online services under linux?

David Golden david.golden at unison.ie
Tue Nov 6 16:46:09 GMT 2007


On Tuesday 06 November 2007, FRLinux wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 3:39 PM, David Golden <david.golden at unison.ie> wrote:
> > Wondering about this:  BoI 365 online has worked fine in
> > firefox+linux for years, but BoI "business on line" (BOL) seems to
> > hang (sun jvm 5 or 6, firefox 2, debian). A google search suggests
> > that it plain didn't
>
> This is a shot completely in the dark here but do they recommend
> something ancient such as sun jre 1.4 instead ? That could explain
> the unstable bit  ?

No, they *say* (see * below...) sun jvm 1.5 - but only windows is listed 
as supported, not even macs.

* Worse, the link they supply if you persuade the "PC compatibility"
https://www.boi-bol.com/features/PCCheck.jsp
test to fail (n.b. may hang firefox, I used konqueror pretending to be 
IE to get it to work to the point of test completing with failure), is 
a dead link to what was probably an archive of the ancient MS 
sort-of-Java VM: http://indigo.ie/~cebind3/msjavwu.exe

Soo... in short, not likely to work...




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