Akami Download Manager -
Steven Stern
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Sun Mar 20 15:39:51 UTC 2011
On 03/20/2011 10:00 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> More in my continuing struggle with "The Teaching Company" and
> my attempt to download the files they sold me.
>
> After installing "user-agent-switcher" in Firefox their system
> offered me what appears to be a Windows app., "Akami Download
> Manager.":
>
> [bobg at box9 Downloads]$ ll -ant *.exe*
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 500 500 363080 Mar 19 12:11 installer.exe
>
> The problem is I can log into their site and do everything up to
> the point of clicking on the download button at which point
> nothing happens, the "hand" just stays there, it doesn't
> recognize my action. Before they implemented this Akami stuff I
> had not problem.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to deal with this other than
> installing Windows? Actually this computer came with Windows XP
> but it refuses to run since I installed F-14 but that's another
> problem.
>
> Bob
>
>
Bob:
Install VirtualBox, then install XP as a virtual machine. You can grab
a repo that installs it for Fedora at
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. I'm very impressed at
how easy it's made it for me when I have to deal with Windows.
--
-- Steve
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