Comments on: Ubuntu at Toyota

By: phentermine

phentermine — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:14:33 +0000

Hello, this my first post. Good Luck!

By: Tony P

Tony P — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:51:38 +0000

Old Gateway computers at a former place of employment got re-used for LDAP, SquidProxy, and even Ubuntu on public machines.

By: Sven Heinicke

Sven Heinicke — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:03:39 +0000

I agree with Jordon, but while linux in a kiosks isn’t that strange, actually expecting people to use it in a non-tech environment was. They even had the most recent security patches.

By: Jordon Mears

Jordon Mears — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:54:46 +0000

I was in Lowes this week and they too were using Linux at their kiosks. I couldn’t tell the distro, but it was an old version of KDE with a terminal open to their CRM software.

I don’t think seeing Linux around is nearly as uncommon as it used to be.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:57:59 +0000

Regarding the comments about the TFS site not working with Linux…that’s weird! It’s been a while since I paid off my latest RAV4, but I routinely accessed my account info at TFS prior to paying it off and never had problems. I know I accessed the site at least a couple of times after paying off the loan, too, and no trouble then either. I’ve used Ubuntu since 2005 and numerous other Linux distros prior to that; I can’t even recall which distro I was using during my prior 2 most recent Toyota car loans, but I know I never had trouble accessing my account at TFS. I’ve been using SeaMonkey since before its name change (it used to be known as “Mozilla Suite”), and various other Mozilla-based browsers prior to that. I can’t honestly recall if I ever tried using Firefox to access TFS, but probably didn’t as I rarely use FF.

(NOTE: I hope this doesn’t end up posted a zillion times! I keep trying again because a database error occurs.)

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:40:57 +0000

I too have the issues with Toyota Financial’s website using FF in Linux. I found the solution is to install the FlashBlock add-on. It will get rid of that nasty flash element that gets pasted on top of the entire page and then the entire page actually becomes usable!

I also e-mailed them and they showed the same disregard for Linux users.

By: Chip Bennett

Chip Bennett — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:37:30 +0000

Interesting – though it only adds to the irony that Toyota Financial’s website is entirely unusable with Linux. I even emailed tech support, and received a response stating that the Toyota Financial web site does not support Linux – really helpful, eh?

It is one of the reasons that I’ll be re-financing and giving my car loan to a company that doesn’t discriminate on such a pointless basis.

Somebody ought to try to use the TFS website from one of those Ubuntu machines there at Thompson, just to see what they say.