Re: Banking with OpenBSD (OT)

2006-01-12 Thread Fred Crowson
Dr Dominique Jacquel wrote: For those who think I made no sens earlier I must explain that somewhere along the wire between me and the list ... all my euro signs vanished and all my pound sterling signs turn into hash signs! I got to be more careful next time. so the story was: UK bank wante

Re: Banking with OpenBSD (OT)

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Dominique Jacquel
For those who think I made no sens earlier I must explain that somewhere along the wire between me and the list ... all my euro signs vanished and all my pound sterling signs turn into hash signs! I got to be more careful next time. so the story was: UK bank wanted to charge me 18 pounds ster

Re: Banking with OpenBSD (OT)

2006-01-12 Thread Dr Dominique Jacquel
Sorry for the off-topic posting but: Although true in theory ... in practice banking with the euro zone from the UK is expensive. You either have to pay a premium to get a multi-currency account or be "raped" for every transaction requiring exchanging pounds <--> euros. An example comes to m

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 1/12/06, Craig Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > Austin was asking for a euro zone bank. > > Last time I looked, the UK was on a map of Europe. > > Many UK banks are multi-currency. According to the EC regulation 2560/200

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/01/12 13:18, Craig Skinner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > Austin was asking for a euro zone bank. > > Last time I looked, the UK was on a map of Europe. euro zone != europe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Craig Skinner
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:54AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > Austin was asking for a euro zone bank. Last time I looked, the UK was on a map of Europe. Many UK banks are multi-currency.

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Craig Skinner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:29:58PM -0700, Austin Hook wrote: > > Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can > > recommend a Euro zone bank with Internet banking service which does a good > > job with OpenBSD and Mozilla-Firefox? >

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Edd Barrett
> Hopefully, also, it would be a bank that communicates well in either > > English or French, and is not the worst in the extra little charges and > > fees problem. Nationwide works great for me. Only need a javascript enabled web browser. Java is not required.. Regards Edd

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread tony sarendal
On 12/01/06, Austin Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can > recommend a Euro zone bank with Internet banking service which does a good > job with OpenBSD and Mozilla-Firefox? > > North American banks generally work fine with Firefox a

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-12 Thread Craig Skinner
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:29:58PM -0700, Austin Hook wrote: > Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can > recommend a Euro zone bank with Internet banking service which does a good > job with OpenBSD and Mozilla-Firefox? > > North American banks generally work fine with F

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Börnert
Hi, in german is a small good bank www.martinbank.de. They have really no costs per month and per booking. it's the cheapest bank in german that i know. and they have firewalls with a very secure operating system. They will also support client certificates in the next weeks for a much securer inte

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-11 Thread Ted Walther
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:23:43PM +1100, Ioan Nemes wrote: My suggestion to you is to CHANGE banks - urgently, as I did! And tell them that you are NOT willing to use that `security hole` to compromise your own systems! Yes, that is right. If you read his email a bit closer, you'll see he is

Re: Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-11 Thread Ioan Nemes
My suggestion to you is to CHANGE banks - urgently, as I did! And tell them that you are NOT willing to use that `security hole` to compromise your own systems! Ioan >>> Austin Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/01/2006 01:29:58 pm >>> Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can

Banking with OpenBSD

2006-01-11 Thread Austin Hook
Here's a different kind of technical question -- who out there can recommend a Euro zone bank with Internet banking service which does a good job with OpenBSD and Mozilla-Firefox? North American banks generally work fine with Firefox and OpenBSD, but our current account with Bank of Ireland really