[Gllug] Online banking

[Jim Cheetham]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:16:38PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> I wrote them a nice letter asking why they wouldn't let me use Opera or
> Mozilla with their online banking (they checked for them using javascript
> and denied them explicitly). 
But what happens if you use file/quick prefs/identify as msie5 ?
That's my saviour for sites that think checking capabilities is the same
as checking browser ID strings ... just change your ID string ...

Actually, that may not have been in Opera5 ... But Opera6 is now out for
linux ... http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/05/20020515.html

> bank.  I've since decided to leave my account open and to take out the
> maximum 700gbp graduate (intrest free) overdraft and put it into my savings
> :-)

:-) Now _that's_ the right way to treat them. Never close an account,
just empty it.
I was surprised to discover that my wife's bank in NZ decided to close
her account because no transactions had gone through it in 6 months.
Luckily we didn't try transferring any money into it before finding out!

-jim


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