# Curiosity not necessity (do not Need Answer Fast): vBullet, KDE Konqueror, FreeBSD, VirtualPC issue

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curiosity-not-necessity-do-not-need-answer-fast-vbullet-kde-konqueror-freebsd-virtualpc-issue/525434 "2010-01-18T16:35:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curiosity-not-necessity-do-not-need-answer-fast-vbullet-kde-konqueror-freebsd-virtualpc-issue/525434/1 "2010-01-18T16:35:22Z")

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I can’t load this site or any other vB-based message board site with Konqueror which is the browser installed as part of KDE on my BSD-7 environment which, in turn, is running within VirtualPC 6 on my PowerPC Mac. And I don’t mean “it loads slow” or “it sometimes times out”, I mean I can’t ever get a screen to load.

Now why would that be? I have a [FileMaker-based web site](http://fmcalico.no-ip.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=FmPHPBoard&-startsession) hosted on a laptop with asynchronous DSL for internet hookup (i.e., not particularly robust) but I can load _that_ just fine. And while the SDMB is notoriously sludgy at times, the pattern seems to hold for other vB-based message boards where I’ve never had a “hamster problem” in my regular browser.

Any reason vB would be turning up its nose at any of the following, as far as you know?

•FreeBSD  
• Konqueror  
• VirtualPC

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**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curiosity-not-necessity-do-not-need-answer-fast-vbullet-kde-konqueror-freebsd-virtualpc-issue/525434/2 "2010-01-18T16:58:48Z")

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Perform a quick test by using either a text-based browser from within BSD, curl, or even just from the command line do a “telnet \<host\> 80”, then type (blindly) GET / HTTP/1.1 \<hit enter 2x\> and see if you get a normal html response. If you do, it has nothing to do with BSD KDE, or VirtualPC, it’s just the browser.

I suspect it’s just the browser. (Is Konqueror the only one you have available on that platform?)