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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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Only the things you don't use or want work well with Wine.
Haha, WINE must be very scary for bill if it even runs the virii that prosper on his software....
Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see by infra-red, How I hate the night.
I know alot of software developers are anal retentive perfectionists, but this is going a little too far. What's next? EULA emulation?
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After seven posts!!?? Criminy people? how am I supposed to learn how windows sucks if you keep making IIS explode!?
The server is apparently running IIS under Wine.
Hi folks!
The new version of WINE is available! It costs a mere $450 per seat, and after an extensive rewrite of the Windows ABI emulation exports NO functionality whatsoever!
BTW for optimum emulation, we recommend running WINE at nice -20.
COMING SOON - WINE SP1.
The all-new WINE Service Pack removes the ability to run MS-DOS programs, and stops you viewing any digital broadcast medium. This is to enhance your computing experience.
Way to go WINE!!!!
So, the question now is; Does WINE run Norton AV, McAfee, or InoculateIT?
All of the advantages, none of the . . . oops.
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Putting too much M$ in Linux makes bitter WINE.
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Understand some people don't have enough bandwidth to handle a thorough /.'ing. Sooner or later, the site is goign to stop responding simply because you run out of effective bandwidth. Also understand not everyone can afford what they talk about.
Why is it when a Linux related site gets slashdotted its a bandwidth issue and when its a Miscrosoft site...its Microsoft?
Well, I haven't seen the article, cause it's been slashdotted, but to all that talk about wine virii execution - look at this (the author of the screenshot is C-Pro).
Besides, I mean, just as with any other tool, you need caution. If you run wine as root with the whole tree as e: then sooner or later you're gonna regret it. The level achieved by wine emulation is amazing, so there are going to be security flaws if you don't know what you are doing, just as with any product with functionality as extensive as wine's
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Enjoy it while it lasts. Afterall, at this point, what are you gonna do?
Just hope and pray that they don't repost the same story tomorrow. It's been happening a fair bit lately.
Run IIS next time so we can blame Microsoft. We dont like to see Linux servers go down for the same reason.
"Clearly they are in this to turn a profit."
My god no! The bastards!! A profit???
Oh what the heck, all of Windows software.
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- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
I've got a 5-gallon carboy in the closet with 12-day old merlot in secondary fermenation. It took me two bloody hours to santize all of my siphoning gear just to make sure i wouldn't skunk on me . . . and now you're saying I have to worry about KLEZ in my wine??
Christ, this homebrew thing just isn't worth it.
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looks like John was running linux for everyday tasks as his root account.... should we feel sorry? Hey, just as an example, i'll give you all my root account password so you can rape my computer all you want. sound good?
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What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
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Actually, I would be very pleased if I were the Klez developer.
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nice calculations, to bad your logic was wrong, because you would be an idiot to do that in php, you would do it with mod_rewrite.
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