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WineConf 2004 Wrapup
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!"
to make Wine better and faser?? I Run word 97 on my linux box and its 100 times better and faster! I think they're not looking for a bullet but a WMD :-)
Seriously though, Wine is one of the most impressive feats of software engineering I've seen, the ability to emulate a closed source platform is a real achievement.
It's hard enough to remember my opinions, never mind the reasons for them..
Of course, if the poster can show specific sections of code he feels have "fundamental flaws" and describe them satisfactorily then I'll take my words back.
From his journal....
The Specious Project
09:45 AM February 12th, 2004 [ Add Friend | #61699 ]
Hi, thanks for reading the journal.
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WineX can't just support every single game released for Windows, this is simply impossible, at least right now.
However, WineX supports the big hits pretty well, Call of Duty, Max Payne 2, Warcraft III, check out their list of supported games.
If you are a subscriber, you can vote for games to get more support, and if the game is popular enough, they'll work on it.
WineX works great with supported games, and has dramatically decreased my Windows boots.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
You notice there aren't any projects to run Mac OS apps under Linux.
Au contraire.
Actually there has been some work (its only on mailing lists, not public yet) of getting wine to run under cygwin, which is almost a win32 port.
:)
Of course wine should also run cygwin (as it's a windows program), so eventually you will be able to run wine under itself
Combination - fun iPhone puzzling
Oh, no prob. If Windows does it, should be a snap for those Linux boys. /., multiple times?
So, you wouldn't happen to have an NTFS spec handy? Maybe you could get one from MS?
So far, I consider Linux reading NTFS and writing verrrry carefully without changing number of blocks a file uses to be impressive given it is all reverse engineering.
But hey. There's a solution, maybe you remember seeing this posted on
NTFS full write
Oh, and btw, WINE does work with 95 too. Check your configs and documentation.
-- perl -e'print pack"H*","6e656d6f406d38792e6f7267"'
The Linux Kernel 2.6.x so far does not have very good NTFS writing support. With few exceptions I would suggest not using 2.6.x NTFS support until it nolonger says it is experimental. Also, I think the NTFS.SYS driver from WINE calls the Windows XP driver ntoskrnl.exe. The NTFS.SYS talked about in the article is part of WINE.
Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.
Alcohol volume in wine cannot go above 16.8% because the yeasts that attack the sugars will stop doing their thing at such concentration of alcohol.
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The world is divided in two categories:
those with a loaded gun and those who dig. You dig.
Yes it is supported. You don't have to log into a domain unless you are trying to connect to an exchange mailbox. When that happens, Outlook pops up a login window and you enter your domain, username and password and everything works fine from there.
In theory you can run windows binaries from your NTFS partition, but there are a few potential problems. First, if the program you're running writes any kind of tempory data to disk, you're screwed (not a problem for FAT partitions provided your permissions are set correctly). The other major problem is any special registry settings libraries, etc added at the time of install that your Wine installation might not be able to see.
Take a look here. Granted it's not as polished as VMWare and not as speedy but it's progressing.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws-Plato
16.8% is absolutely not a hard limit. Yes, most champagne yeasts poop out around 16%... but then, most ale yeasts give up before 12%. With a slow fermentation and a good yeast, a mead can easily hit 18%... and rice wines (which have lower initial sugar concentration, it's really a much more complex process) can hit 20%, 22% with skill.
I've had this sig for three days.
That's because you're using the wrong command:man is for when you already know what you're looking for. apropos is for when you want a man page of something, but you don't know what it should be.