[Gllug] Free food and drinks at Planetarium tomorrow evening! (Thu 22 Sep)

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:11:01PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:21:11PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > > >     IBM invites you to a free launch event
> > > >     for their Linux OpenPower Project at the London Planetarium.
> > > > 
> > > >       http://www.openpowerproject.org/uk
> > 
> > I tried to sign up for the server access on IBM's site a while back but
> > couldn't get past the signup form. When I enter my details a popup
> > appears that never gets any content (just sits there blank). I've tried
> > from home (mozilla) and work (IE) and even bypassed my home proxy, but
> > no joy. I have popups enabled from www.openpowerproject.org.
> > 
> > This must be something I am doing wrong as I can't believe IBM would put
> > out an invite and be happy with zero registrations! However I'm stumped
> > as the problem exists from two locations on different browsers. Any
> > ideas?
> 
> I have just signed up using firefox (on Linux).
> 
> When you hit the 'continue' link/button you get a bar at the top of
> the window saying that the browser has stopped a popup, just click the
> middle of that bar to see the popup.

and in firefox...it works! :)

as I said, I did enable popups for the site in mozilla, and it did
open, but failed to get any content. they must have been doing something
"clever".

> Quite how anyone is able to design a very simple form that needs a popup, I
> just don't know. 0/10 for style!

agreed. I'd almost forgotten I block all popups. this is the first time
I've had to allow one.

thanks for the firefox suggestion,

ben.

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