I trying to listen to some music on a website but when i click the link to play the music it pops up a page that says:

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Unsupported Operating System
The operating system you are running has not been detected.

It maybe that the page didn't fully load before you tried to launch the radio player
If your Operating System is supported, revisit the launch page, hit 'refresh' and try again.

We currently supports the following operating systems:

- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT4.0
- Apple Mac Operating System 8 and superior

We apologise for any inconvenience.
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is there anyway i can get around this? I don't get why a website would be operating system dependent.

I'm running Vidalinux, firefox, mplayer, and a Netgear FVS318 between me and the net. and going back to windows for one website is out of the question.

You can modify Konqueror to display IE as your browser and possible alter the OS. I don't recall, since I just ignore sites that ignore me.

Yeah really, me too. Send them a message pointing out that linux users like music too.

And anyway the web site is wrong:

Everyone knows Linux is superior

where in the settings would i go to make that modifications, i realize that the browser sends a header that says what browser and OS you're running but, where does the browser keep that information

What is the web site?

in konqueror, try Tools > Change Browser Identification

the website is www.xfm.co.uk

can the same thing be with firefox

This article may help.

Mad.

i was able to find an extention on mozillas website for switching the UA but it still didn't work, I guess the website is right when they say they only support windows. Thats very annoying, i will have to do what chefmark suggested and write them

If you happened to be using firefox, there is an extension,
IEView. this supposely helps firefox to read IE-specific webpage.
[IE does not use W3C (sp?) standard.]

Sheng-Chieh

Anyway to get Firefox to identify itself as running in Windows? I tried typing about:config but I couldn't find the right setting.

i ran a google for ieview and it came up with an ieview, don't know if its the one you're talking about but it says it just loads that webpage in IE, so of course it only works with windows, i did find User Agent Switcher on mozillas website, so it fooled turbotaxes website and seems to work, but xfm still won't play even though it doesn't complain anymore, i wrote them and as soon as i get a reply back i'll let you know what they say