[sf-lug] Grrr: San Francisco State University Financial Aid prejudiced against Linux users

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Shiloh (michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com):

> I was able to submit my application to grad school just fine, but
> when it came time to apply for financial aid was hit by:
> 
> 
> [Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0]
> [BrowserDetectService:OS[LINUX_UBUNTU] browser[FIREFOX] browser
> version[UNKNOWN] AppName[FAFSA1112] detection status [BLOCKED]]
> 
> Can I ask my browser to lie for me?

Hell yeah.

http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/  
Don't leave $HOME without it.

More at:  http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#linuxbrowser
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/user-agent-string.html

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