deedee E wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the
only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writ
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the
> > only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does
>
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On Monday 03 Jan 2005 00:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on
> > practicalities ;-)
> >
> > Anne
>
> Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticatin
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On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I hope they don't do this -- at least not using VBS. If they can
> convert the VBS to something else, that might work. MS groupies
> make a big deal
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From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:31 AM
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> On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> > Only a matter of time,
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote:
>
> > I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than
> > MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely
> > to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manne
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities
> ;-)
>
> Anne
Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws?
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote:
> > I wish my mother in law used linux :)
>
> Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let
> her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful.
> ;-)
> For m
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On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 20:11, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote:
> > I wish my mother in law used linux :)
>
> I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon
> with! :-)
Only a matter of ti
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote:
> I wish my mother in law used linux :)
I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon
with! :-)
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On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote:
> > I wish my mother in law used linux :)
>
> Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let
> her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful.
> ;-)
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On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 16:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> snip
> >
> > My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely
> > adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> snip
> My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely
> adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$
> offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days.
> It's hard to find something
On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote:
> > I wish my mother in law used linux :)
>
> Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let
> her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful.
> ;-)
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On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote:
> I wish my mother in law used linux :)
Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let
her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-)
Just be sure th
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On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:45, Martin Hardie wrote:
> On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > When my sin-in-law
>
> Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-)
>
Oops... - well.
> Martin
> a son in law himself
Actually,
On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote:
> > I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than
> > MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely
> > to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner
On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote:
> When my sin-in-law
Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-)
Martin
a son in law himself
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"the riddle which ma
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On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote:
> I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than
> MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely
> to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other
> thi
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:04:23 +0100, Martin wrote:
>
> a first question on Wine -
>
> do i just install the windows programs i want into a folder in eg my home
> directory and then when starting wine in my shell point it there?
If you're using the fake Windows installation, just install your
appli
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From: "Rodolfo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
> Deedee wrote:
>
> >I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable th
Deedee wrote:
>I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than
>MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely
>to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other
>things). The only real issue concerns VBS -- OO cannot convert it.
>If you need V
deedee E wrote:
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:31:53 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible,
i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files,
especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses.
And apart from that, I don't much
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:31:53 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible,
> i.e. if OO Writer can really work fine onto .doc files,
> especially now that you pointed out the problem of viruses.
> And apart from that, I don't much like the id
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:59:03 -0500, JoeHill wrote:
> IIANM, Windows malware (is there any other kind...?), even run
> under Wine, would
> have very little if no effect on a Linux system. Firstly, it's going to be
> looking for files/folders/directories that do not exist (c:Windows, System32,
> Doc
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On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:08, deedee E wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> Simply having Wine available on your system is not a problem. I use
> XWine to run Windows applications and cannot start Wine by clicking
> on a l
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote:
>
> > Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
> > worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you
> > won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will
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On Sunday 26 Dec 2004 16:27, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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> This is easy. Set the group ownership of the directory to wine, and set
> the SGID bit on the directory. I usualy do this in Midnight Commander
> (mc), and there is a check box for it. Whe
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +
>
> Anne Wilson disseminated the following:
>
>>> Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
>>> worms. Don't run Wine as root af
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Anne,
It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be
possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target
Wine, I don't see that happe
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> From: "Rodolfo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
>
> > However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible,
> > i.e. if OO W
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:59, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +
>
> Anne Wilson disseminated the following:
> > > Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
> > > worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installe
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 23:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Anne,
> It is mainly vulnerable when running windows programs. It should be
> possible to create something that runs under Linux that would target
> Wine, I don't see that happening. The p
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From: "Rodolfo Medina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
>
> However, now I'm quite oriented to avoid Wine installation if possible,
> i.e
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:51:04 +
Anne Wilson disseminated the following:
> > Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
> > worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you
> > won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be
> > able to really me
Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote:
Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you
won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will sti
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On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 18:52, deedee E wrote:
> Wine is fully capable of executing Win32 viruses, Trojans, and
> worms. Don't run Wine as root after it is installed. Then, you
> won't hurt the overall Linux system, although you will still be
> able t
Thanks to all who replied: Noel, SnapafunFrank, Mike, Deedee.
The matter looks not to be a simple one,
so I'll have to do further trials with Wine installation.
But, Deedee, after I read you say:
>I've had excellent results working with MSWord documents on
>Linux systems with OpenOffice.org Write
A couple of things I forgot, but feel I should mention.
Although one installs Wine as root and does some minimal global
configuration, each user must do their own configuration. Windows
software needs to be installed as user, not as root. If there is
more than one user on the system, the installat
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:49:46 +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> >> Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
> >> make it work?
I'm not an expert because I've never really had any problems using
wine. However, I did notice a couple of things in
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo wrote:
>
>
>>Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
>>make it work?
>>I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
>>list didn't manage to solve them.
>>I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo wrote:
Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
make it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
list didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfort
Rodolfo wrote:
>Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
>make it work?
>I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing
>list didn't manage to solve them.
>I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
>since *unfortunately* in job ap
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To: "newbie"
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:37 AM
Subject: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?
Hi.
Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to
make it work?
I've had p
Hi.
Does anybody have any experience about Wine, how to install it and how to make
it work?
I've had problems with it, and the help I got from the wine-users mailing list
didn't manage to solve them.
I installed Wine in order to run MS Word with it,
since *unfortunately* in job applications it i
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