Finally online again

My new employer pays for an ADSL line for me. A second line, adding a ADSL connection on another copper pair I was told. Perfect I though, let's order it. Little did I know what problems I would get into.

Two days ago our ADSL went dead. No messages, no calls, no nothing. I call the provider (mobistar) who tell me we cancelled the contract and then hang up on me! The day after I contacted the company that does the ADSL stuff for $employer, asking them if this was their doing. Their reply: "search, search... no we have no documents on you, it must be something internal to $employer, we know nothing". Two hours later I get an email from them asking for dates for the installation of the ADSL modem. On the 21st at the earliest.

Coincidence, right? I send an "un-fuck this right now!" email shortly after. 24h later I still have no reply.

No looking forward to 2 weeks without internet we started searching. So after some hacking and a good idea from my wife it turns out skynet "just" re-enabled my account of 2 years ago, same userid, same password. As if I never left.

Not good...

to iceweasel or not?

At $employer I have to use meetingplace a lot, so it was rather irritating that it did not work.

After a bit of digging I hear that it works with firefox 2.0 and java 1.6. But only the original firefox, if you use iceweasel (or any renamed version I think) the 'browser test' works, but then it will tell you that you have no java installed. Clearly the application searches for firefox, does not find it and decides to give a bogus error message.

Now. Is this a iceweasel bug? I think not, but having browser detecting and adapting pages will always exist I fear so changing them all seems difficult. So let's call it a safety feature :-)