   Active Users OS name
  In the active users page, is it GDNet that works out the name of the browser and/or OS, or are they just text echoed by whatever the client wants to say?Just wondering because I'm currently listed as being "Windows NT 4" - which I thought died some years ago [smile]Jack   
Quote:Original post by jollyjeffersJust wondering because I'm currently listed as being "Windows NT 4" - which I thought died some years ago [smile]JackNot for Jollyjeffers!  You are too hardcore man, to the EXTREME!  What OS are you using?  Really what it does is tries to make a best guess at your OS using the provided browser information.  WinNT may be what it breaks down to if isn't able to guess correctly what your OS is but it knows it is at least windows-based.---Michael Tanczos;  Haha! I suppose using NT4 could probably be considered an extreme sport... definitely not fun from what I remember [smile]I was using Windows Vista when I made this thread, back on XP again now..Wanted to check whether it was Vista/IE7 that was reporting it's name incorrectly (would file that as a bug) or whether it was GDNet just not knowing what Vista is.Jack   ;  I noticed that the site often seems to take the OS of the server your gateway is running, if you're on a LAN.For example, I was using a thin-client machine in school earlier this year.  The machine ran a skeleton Win95, using a Windows 2000 based thin client system.  GDNet detected it as Win2K.But you can change your browser's identity (on Konqueror, at least).  It would be nice though if it would tell you what distro of Linux people were using instead of just saying "Linux" for everybody.   ;  Just thought you should know I'm running Windows XP x64 edition, which is incorrectly detected as "Windows 2003". Here's my user agent string in Firefox:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5There's nothing there to differentiate from Windows Server 2003. However here's my string in 64-bit IE:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; Win64; x64; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)Clearly IE provides enough information to show that it's XP x64. This page looks useful.   