've triedMichael Sullivan wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 03:27 +0100, Jonathon Sisson wrote: >> Michael Sullivan wrote: >>> Here's the situation: My wife likes to play the game Chuzzle, found at >>> Yahoo Games. We use primarily Linux, however Chuzzle is written as an >>> ActiveX control, which only works on Windows. I have not been able to >>> get Internet Explorer to work correctly through Wine, >> This might not be a Python topic, but I figured I'd respond with what I >> know on this particular subject... >> >> ActiveX can be run in Linux using the WINDOWS version of Mozilla in Wine >> and a little bit of coaxing as per this HOWTO on the Gentoo Forums (make >> sure you install the ActiveX control in Wine...): >> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-246098-highlight-warcraft.html >> >> World of Warcraft uses ActiveX in it's patch updater, and although I've >> never personally run it I've had many people tell me this method works. >> Now if I could just figure out how to convince my wife to try Linux (as >> you apparently have done) then I'd be set...kudos to you on that. >>'ve triedi >> Jonathon > > My wife says that she actually prefers Linux over Windows. The only > thing we use Windows for is playing Civilizations II and The Sims, > although she also uses it for playing Internet games that don't work on > Linux. She's said that if I can make Linux versions of those games she > plays on Windows, she won't use Windows at home anymore. When I first > started with Linux, she was kinda iffy about it, but now she loves it. > We've only used it since fall of 2003... > >
Part of my reasoning behind learning Python is that Python used so heavily in the Gentoo Linux package management system "Portage." I love portage because of it's flexibility and configurability, and I hope someday to make a contribution back to the OS that really got me hooked on Linux. (I started out with RedHat around May of 2002, but I grew tired of it pretty quickly. I moved from there to try out SuSE, Slackware, Mandrake, Fedora (after giving RedHat a break for a few months), and a few others (haven't tried out Debian...I hear it's really nice, too), but when I saw Gentoo's optimization and configuration capabilities, I was in for life...). Therein lies the difference...I'm an efficiency nut (no I really do not mind compiling the entire OS from source, as long as I can compile it *exactly* how I want, using *only* what I want), and my wife just wants to kick people's a$$es online. She got a bad first impression of Linux from the start because I was constantly tweaking (and breaking) my Linux system, so the chances of her using Linux are rather slim, even though as I progress with my Computer Science degree, I break my Linux system less and less...hahaha. Jonathon _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
