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Futurama: Can it be True!?
foolinator writes "Wired News has reported that Futurama could be making a comeback! From the article: "Last year, Futurama and Family Guy reruns did so well that it's likely both shows (which Fox killed in prime time) will produce new episodes." " Now if only I could get more Firefly, TV might be worth watching again. -
No Linux at Fox.com
synthetic writes "If you go to Fox's website Fox.com, with Netscape in Linux, you get a page saying you are not running a PC or a Mac..." Very disappointing to see such a major website disregard a whole OS...the odd part is that apparently this is over Flash plugins (which actually work). Read on for more.Additional info by roblimo: Okay, in the spirit of fairness we tried to contact Fox and ask what was going on before we ran this. The media relations department had no idea what I was talking about, almost to the point of "You mean we have a Web site?" but since it involved the word "computer" they referred me to Fox's internal tech support desk, where a courteous rep named Brian told me, "That's the way the Javascript on the site was written. That's the breaks."
Since Brian was an internal tech support guy, he had no idea who was responsible for the company's external Web site. He promised to find out who was and to have them get back to me. No one has.
I'm assuming this "Can't see our Web site with Linux or Unix" thing is a corporate oversight, not some sort of evil conspiracy. Don't forget: Fox brings you The Simpsons, so "Doh!" has got to be a word heard commonly around their offices and studios.
Perhaps if a whole bunch of Slashdot readers call and e-mail Fox politely requesting changes to their Web site so that we Linux and Unix users can view it, someone at Fox will utter a big "Doh!" and a change will be made. Let's try it, anyway.
Please start by reading at least this section of the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO. Then call the following phone numbers and/or write to the following e-mail addresses. Politely.
1) Fox Network main phone = 310-369-1000
2) News Corp. (parent company) = 212-852-7017
3) e-mail publicity@foxinc.com 4) e-mail askfox@foxinc.comPerhaps none of this will do any good, but it's worth a try. And if anyone else has useful contact info for Fox, please post it below. The more the merrier!
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No Linux at Fox.com
synthetic writes "If you go to Fox's website Fox.com, with Netscape in Linux, you get a page saying you are not running a PC or a Mac..." Very disappointing to see such a major website disregard a whole OS...the odd part is that apparently this is over Flash plugins (which actually work). Read on for more.Additional info by roblimo: Okay, in the spirit of fairness we tried to contact Fox and ask what was going on before we ran this. The media relations department had no idea what I was talking about, almost to the point of "You mean we have a Web site?" but since it involved the word "computer" they referred me to Fox's internal tech support desk, where a courteous rep named Brian told me, "That's the way the Javascript on the site was written. That's the breaks."
Since Brian was an internal tech support guy, he had no idea who was responsible for the company's external Web site. He promised to find out who was and to have them get back to me. No one has.
I'm assuming this "Can't see our Web site with Linux or Unix" thing is a corporate oversight, not some sort of evil conspiracy. Don't forget: Fox brings you The Simpsons, so "Doh!" has got to be a word heard commonly around their offices and studios.
Perhaps if a whole bunch of Slashdot readers call and e-mail Fox politely requesting changes to their Web site so that we Linux and Unix users can view it, someone at Fox will utter a big "Doh!" and a change will be made. Let's try it, anyway.
Please start by reading at least this section of the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO. Then call the following phone numbers and/or write to the following e-mail addresses. Politely.
1) Fox Network main phone = 310-369-1000
2) News Corp. (parent company) = 212-852-7017
3) e-mail publicity@foxinc.com 4) e-mail askfox@foxinc.comPerhaps none of this will do any good, but it's worth a try. And if anyone else has useful contact info for Fox, please post it below. The more the merrier!