Re: wine (Was: Re: [SLUG] Opinions, please.)
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:22, Andre Pang wrote: heard of Win4Lin. It runs Windows 9x (95/98/ME) very well, and there are extremely few hiccups with it. Compatibility is extremely high since you're running Windows inside a virtual machine -- but the VM is _much_ faster than VMware. What apps are you running? I see on their page that you can run Palm Desktop which interests me. Evolution support for Palm is not bad but I would be interested in running the guaranteed compatible one (okay, if I ever get good enough I could work on gpilotd/evolution etc). Have you/anyone tried running something similar that needs to talk to com/Ir ports? Office-ish stuff and Windows applications, it's by far the best thing out there. It's fast, it's stable, and it just works. Sounds useful. I bought a copy, I'm going to buy another one soon, and I have no idea how I'd live without it. www.win4lin.com for details. They've mentioned that version 4 is going to be released quite soon, too (within the next few weeks). Is there any way to get an evaluation version? It seems you have top patch your kernel as well which seems extreme. Was it easy? -- * * Simon Wong* * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[SLUG] Re: More on WINE
At Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:36:01 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I use Codeweaver WINE successfully to run a proprietary legal research CD and (seldom now since installing OpenOffice.org) M$ Office. However, I have never been able to install these in a Windoze-free system since the setup programs fall over. Is there some trick to getting the setup programs to work? the windows installer requires some funky COM stuff which wine doesn't currently implement. there has been several mentions of people working on it over the last 6 months, and what with the new coverage that crossover is giving wine - i'm sure it won't be too far away. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney
Excellent idea Mary. I think I will start a LinuxDudes chapter and we can get together for social functions. What an excellent way of meeting women with a view to a relationship. I want a woman who really knows how to fsck :~( D On 0, Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi SLUG, A LinuxChix chapter is about to form in Sydney, interested women might want to go to http://ps.pageseeder.com/ps/jg/linuxchix/default/2002/2002.html and sign up so that you can receive details of meetings and so on. People who don't know anything about LinuxChix might want to look here first: http://www.linuxchix.org/content/docs/faqs/ -Mary. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Modem hijacking
I have just been reading the Optus stuff on 'Internet dumping' or 'modem hijacking': http://www1.optusnet.com.au/helpdesk/tutorials/dumping.html According to the gumph you can be disconnected, then reconnected using premium rate phone numbers. How can that be? (I'm not sure if this is a Linux question or not -- does it depend on a windoze security flaw or is it something entirely different?) Thanks, Alan -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Modem hijacking
quote who=Alan L Tyree How can that be? (I'm not sure if this is a Linux question or not -- does it depend on a windoze security flaw or is it something entirely different?) It's usually a binary that you download, that disconnects you, and dials an international number or something of the sort. NOTE: This is far more appropriate for slug-chat, as it has very little to do with Linux help, development or discussion. Please remember that we have slug-chat so that more casual readers of SLUG aren't scared away by ridiculous amounts of off-topic email. Thanks, - Jeff (he's baaack!) -- Lego is the plural of Lego. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Newbie list [Was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney]
quote who=Ken Foskey I read up on this stuff, this sounds really great, not only for women. I really think we need a newbies list in Slug with similar policies to the linuxchics list. The problem with a newbie list is that the newbies stay, and the non-newbies go. It's better to have a general and on-topic list (like this one) so that everyone can share knowledge in the one place. - Jeff -- For a list of reasons why technology has failed to improve our lives, please press 3. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Modem hijacking
From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Reply-By: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 08:55:04 +1100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.17-xfs-win4lin i686 X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead! X-Uptime: 08:55:04 up 1 day, 15:40, 6 users, load average: 0.44, 0.19, 0.09 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: General Discussions slug.slug.org.au List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/ X-Original-Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:56:57 +1000 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 08:56:57 +1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-UIDL: 7(J!!(GC!!@03!aoX!! quote who=Alan L Tyree How can that be? (I'm not sure if this is a Linux question or not -- does it depend on a windoze security flaw or is it something entirely different?) It's usually a binary that you download, that disconnects you, and dials an international number or something of the sort. NOTE: This is far more appropriate for slug-chat, as it has very little to do with Linux help, development or discussion. Please remember that we have slug-chat so that more casual readers of SLUG aren't scared away by ridiculous amounts of off-topic email. I suppose so, although if your explanation is right then I guess surfing from a user account that does not have dial permissions would stop it. That at least seems like a Linux set-up issue. -- -- Alan L Tyree[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 419 638 170 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] LinuxChix chapter in Sydney
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:15:29AM +1000, Dane wrote: Excellent idea Mary. I think I will start a LinuxDudes chapter and we can get together for social functions. What an excellent way of meeting women with a view to a relationship. I want a woman who really knows how to fsck :~( LinuxChix isn't about women who know how to fuck, it's about a social group where Linux-oriented women can socialize and do Linux stuff without drooling guys like yourself. -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KDE: It's the new black! http://www.kde.org Kopete developer http://kopete.sf.net msg22489/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Modem hijacking
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:56:57AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: - Jeff (he's baaack!) Pants off! -- Daniel Stone[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KDE: It's the new black! http://www.kde.org Kopete developer http://kopete.sf.net msg22490/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
