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WineConf 2004 Wrapup

Posted by michael on from the red-white-and-rose dept.

IamTheRealMike writes "Well, the attendants are back home and the writeups have been written - WineConf 2004 is over, and Brian Vincent of Wine Weekly News fame has written a comprehensive account of the conference. Wine hackers the world over congregated in snow-covered Minneapolis to talk shop and try and locate the magic bullet to make Wine better, faster. Cheers!"

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  1. I got confused... by bc90021 · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...and I thought they were talking about the drink! I was thinking "wine hackers"? Shouldn't that be "sommeliers"? Man, it's still way too early in the day...

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  2. Perhaps this is an improvement? by samuel4242 · · Score: 5, Funny

    He pointed out that Microsoft Office now "just works. You can use it all day long and you won't see the difference." Then he added that wasn't 100% true because, "The Paperclip still doesn't work." Seems like Wine runs Office better than Windows.

    1. Re:Perhaps this is an improvement? by StarWreck · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... I always assumed the Paperclip was a trojan horse on diet pills.

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    2. Re:Perhaps this is an improvement? by bluGill · · Score: 2, Funny

      Codeweavers was joking that the next version of crossover would come in two version, standard for $70, and everything but Clippy for $100. Of course this assumes they manage to get all the code that Clippy uses working.

      I was at the WineConf2004, very interesting.

  3. God, francois! by dasmegabyte · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you hackers watched the Simpsons properly, you'd know that the secret to making Wine faster is to put anti-freezein it.

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  4. Did the attendees make it back home too? by cruff · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read that the attendants are back home. Are the meeting attendees geriatric geezers that needed help at the meeting? :-)

  5. Win32 port anyone? by Dreadlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    *sigh* still no signs of a Win32 port...

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    1. Re:Win32 port anyone? by wild_pointer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Here Some Bill guy is working on it. It's not yet as stable as Wine but looks promising ;)

  6. Re:Believe me, I love it as much as anybody, but. by zulux · · Score: 3, Funny



    We'll we all know that the Specious Project started on Dave Cutler's work with PDP-11's during WWII. By inventing new opcodes, like, BSH and WRG, Dave and Allan Turing were able to break the Enigam codes that the American and Germans were using at the time. That's how we got the plans for the AtomicBomb from the Germans.

    The Specious Project was also the first atempt to pring Opject-Oriented code to simple Babage style difference engines like the PDP-11.

    (How did I do... am I part of the Specious Project now???)

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