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WINE: A New Place for KLEZ to Play?
An anonymous submitter sends in this cautionary tale about Wine being maybe a little too good at emulating Windows. Update: 10/23 21:05 GMT by M : Better links: mirror 1, mirror 2.
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Why emulate windows... it is a piece of crap in my opinion. Microsoft will probably buy them out now.. Microsft will buy anything that opposes them in lieu of putting up a fight. Take the X-box for example, why compete with Nintendo when they can buy all of thier 2nd and 3rd party developers... fuck you Microsoft, fuck you.
Amtrak is pretty good at emulating Windows too!
Well, you better get on it bud. Because by the tone of your post it seems you espouse that if you even think about something then you should also, by definition, be able to do it - and more importantly, afford it.
Bandwidth costs money. It has more to do with economics than with vaunted technical skills like yours.
Oh please, blaming an increase on viruses and trojans on "Windows people" (what, are we like pod people?) is pathetic. The increase is directly releated to the growth of Linux as a viable alternative to Windows. The reason it is targeted more is mainlydue to things like the Russian mod and related hackers, because where the servers are is where the money is. If the bulk of web servers were *nix, then there would be tons of exploits, hacks, etc...by those who have a financial interest. The rest of virus writing crowd just have a joy for creating MASS havoc, so when a majority of desktops are Linux, guess where the majority of viruses are going to be?
NIANALU (No, I am not a Linux user), and don't plan to be one for the foreseable future. Windows works fine for me, and no, I am not unable to grow with technology, and have no fear of becoming "unemployed" by Linux. If my company decides to implement it, then by all means I will go with the flow. Until then, I don't have the urge.
ngoy
--ngoy