[NBLUG/talk] Second NBLUG.org Linux on Xbox link redirects to Microsoft.com (in FireFox)

[Kyle Rankin]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:06:21AM -0800, A.C. wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I stopped by www.nblug.org this morning and saw that my talk on putting 
> Linux on an Xbox had been posted on nblug.org/presentations and linked 
> to from the homepage, so I gave it a click.  The next thing I knew I was 
> sitting at www.microsoft.com, bewildered how I could have gotten there.  
> The first link on the nblug.com homepage page worked fine, but the link 
> below URL: was going somewhere that any good Linux users group should 
> never promote on their homepage. :)
> 
> It turns out that there's an extra http:// in the second link, and while 
> Konqueror just displays your typical "An error occurred", Firefox must 
> decide to try and be smart about it because it appears to be redirecting 
> to Google via an  "I'm feeling lucky" search which lands at 
> microsoft.com.  It was worth a laugh, but that should probably get fixed 
> soon.  :)

Whoops!

> 
> By the way, if anyone has any questions about the MythTV aspects or 
> anything else in the presentation I couldn't touch on last night due to 
> time constraints / real-time breakage, please feel free to start a 
> discussion here and I'll do what I can to reply.  As noted, the outline 
> view of my guide has a lot of extra information and links that may be 
> useful to you, so take a look if you're interested.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> A.C.
> ******
> 

Thanks again for your talk Allan.

-- 
Kyle Rankin
NBLUG President
The North Bay Linux Users Group
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