Akami Download Manager -
Mark LaPierre
marklapier at aol.com
Sun Mar 20 15:43:40 UTC 2011
On 03/20/2011 11:39 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
> 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.
>
Or, you could use the default KVM visualization built into F-14.
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