On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:11:14PM -0700, James Nickerson wrote: > Has anyone successfully gotten personal ancestral file to run through > wine? I've tinkered with it to the point where everyone seems to work > for the most part, except when you try to click the third tab to work on > an individual, it freezes cold. The only reason I go into windows is to > use PAF, and it's getting old. Especially since my roommate is a PAF > maniac who likes to work on my pc, so every time I turn around he's > rebooted the sucker into windoze. I could risk divine punishment and > make it so tricky to exit linux that he'd never pull it off and his > ancestors would suffer.. unless he just pulled the plug. Which he > probably would, being somewhat obtuse when it comes to computers But > then I'd have to thrash him, which won't earn me points up above > either. So for the sake of my eternal well-being, I would love any sort > of advice or morale-building tales of wine-PAF success. Cheers,
Install a journaling filesystem and make your screensaver lock the computer, so you need a password. The journaling filesystem will make it less likely that you lose anything when/if your roomate unplugs the cpu. You could also change the lilo/grub bootloader menu to make it look like you have removed windows, by naming all the entries like they are linux. Maybe it is just me, but I would be a little upset at the whole idea of a roomate rebooting my machine, ever. I would politely inform the offending party that they are more than welcome to use my cpu, using their *own* account, and if they ever rebooted again they would no longer be welcome using the computer. That is just my take, you are probably a nicer person than I am, but it would irk me to have someone else reboot my computer. As for PAF, I have never used it in either windows or wine. :) -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963
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