Make sure that the software they use to commit election fraud is safe from hackers?
Election fraud is as likely, if not more, to come from the government (or parts thereof) organizing the elections as it is to come from outsiders. And insiders don't need to crack the electronic voting servers, they have direct access to them.
This is why electronic voting cannot be trusted. There is no way for the voter to verify the software being run on election day.
Which brings me to the part I don't get. Office? Why? When you're got Office 2004, or fantastic and well-rounded free solutions like OpenOffice... why on Earth would you want Office 2000 running on your Mac?
It's not just Microsoft Office 2000 you can run on the Mac with CrossOver. It's also Office XP and Office 2003. But to answer your question, it turns out that many users need Outlook, and especially Outlook 2003, for connecting to Exchange and using the calendar, tasklist, and other such features. Besides, CrossOver already supports Microsoft Office on Linux, so why cripple CrossOver Mac?
Why go with CrossOver rather than Parallels, VMware or Xen?
Because only CrossOver provides desktop integration.
Using the Mac as an example, try opening a Visio document just by clicking on it in the Finder. With CrossOver it just works. With Parallels and all virtual machine systems you does not. Now, try opening a PowerPoint email attachement. With CrossOver it just works. Not so with a virtual machine. With Parallels & co you will have to first save the attachement to disk, fire off your VM, start Windows Explorer, mount your Mac's filesystem, navigate to the place where you saved the PowerPoint document, and finally double-click on it.
Virtual machines are a productivity killer for standard office tasks... unless you do everything inside the virtual machine. But if you are going to use Windows all the time, why buy a Mac or use Linux rather than a Windows PC?
> What I'd like to see in Wine is a version that uses GTK for painting, > so that Wine apps would integrate nicely with GTK apps.
While Wine won't use Gtk for painting any time soon due to technical problems, over the summer a lot of progress as made on supporting theming. So with some more work on theming support plus some glue to slurp the Gtk theme you would essentially achieve the same result.
> In the past you have been able to tar the cxoffice and ".cxoffice" directory > and move the entire installation to another machine. [...]
This still works and much better than ever before. You probably remember that when you simply tarred and restored the.cxoffice directory from one machine to the other you were losing the menus and file associations. Then you had to go into CrossOver Setup and manually recreate each of them. Now all you have to do is run the following command and all the KDE / Gnome menus, file associations and browser plugins will be recreated:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --bottle win98 --install
The point of turning a bottle into an RPM is that there are tools that will automatically 'push' RPM packages to a bunch of machines. Big companies usually use such tools. So now all they have to do is generate an RPM, upload it to their server, and what you did above for one machine will happen automatically for their 200, 400 or more desktop computers.
> > Finally, CrossOver Office Professional has the ability to create an RPM > > package out of a bottle. [...] > What about.TGZs or.DEBs?
Tgz are supported too. Just click on the 'Archive' button in the bottle manager. This will create a '.cxarchive' file which you can simply rename to '.tgz' if that's what you prefer. Then to install that file, click on the 'Restore archived bottle' button, browse to select the archive and that's it!
Alternately, on the command line you would do:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --bottle mybottle --tar mybottle.tar.gz and then, possibly on another computer:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --restore mybottle.tar.gz --install
And voila, all that bottle's Windows applications are ready for use, complete with KDE / Gnome menus and file associations.
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Make sure that the software they use to commit election fraud is safe from hackers?
Election fraud is as likely, if not more, to come from the government (or parts thereof) organizing the elections as it is to come from outsiders. And insiders don't need to crack the electronic voting servers, they have direct access to them.
This is why electronic voting cannot be trusted. There is no way for the voter to verify the software being run on election day.
Flash news!
Tivo is unavailable to more than 75% of the world population.
(hint there is a world outside the US)
So for most of the world MythTV wins by default.
This little fact is too often forgotten.
Which brings me to the part I don't get. Office? Why? When you're got Office 2004, or fantastic and well-rounded free solutions like OpenOffice... why on Earth would you want Office 2000 running on your Mac?
It's not just Microsoft Office 2000 you can run on the Mac with CrossOver. It's also Office XP and Office 2003. But to answer your question, it turns out that many users need Outlook, and especially Outlook 2003, for connecting to Exchange and using the calendar, tasklist, and other such features. Besides, CrossOver already supports Microsoft Office on Linux, so why cripple CrossOver Mac?
Why go with CrossOver rather than Parallels, VMware or Xen?
Because only CrossOver provides desktop integration.
Using the Mac as an example, try opening a Visio document just by clicking on it in the Finder. With CrossOver it just works. With Parallels and all virtual machine systems you does not. Now, try opening a PowerPoint email attachement. With CrossOver it just works. Not so with a virtual machine. With Parallels & co you will have to first save the attachement to disk, fire off your VM, start Windows Explorer, mount your Mac's filesystem, navigate to the place where you saved the PowerPoint document, and finally double-click on it.
Virtual machines are a productivity killer for standard office tasks... unless you do everything inside the virtual machine. But if you are going to use Windows all the time, why buy a Mac or use Linux rather than a Windows PC?
> What I'd like to see in Wine is a version that uses GTK for painting,
> so that Wine apps would integrate nicely with GTK apps.
While Wine won't use Gtk for painting any time soon due to technical problems, over the summer a lot of progress as made on supporting theming. So with some more work on theming support plus some glue to slurp the Gtk theme you would essentially achieve the same result.
> In the past you have been able to tar the cxoffice and ".cxoffice" directory
.cxoffice directory from one machine to the other you were losing the menus and file associations. Then you had to go into CrossOver Setup and manually recreate each of them.
> and move the entire installation to another machine.
[...]
This still works and much better than ever before.
You probably remember that when you simply tarred and restored the
Now all you have to do is run the following command and all the KDE / Gnome menus, file associations and browser plugins will be recreated:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --bottle win98 --install
The point of turning a bottle into an RPM is that there are tools that will automatically 'push' RPM packages to a bunch of machines. Big companies usually use such tools. So now all they have to do is generate an RPM, upload it to their server, and what you did above for one machine will happen automatically for their 200, 400 or more desktop computers.
> > Finally, CrossOver Office Professional has the ability to create an RPM .TGZs or .DEBs?
> > package out of a bottle.
[...]
> What about
Tgz are supported too.
Just click on the 'Archive' button in the bottle manager. This will create a '.cxarchive' file which you can simply rename to '.tgz' if that's what you prefer. Then to install that file, click on the 'Restore archived bottle' button, browse to select the archive and that's it!
Alternately, on the command line you would do:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --bottle mybottle --tar mybottle.tar.gz
and then, possibly on another computer:
~/cxoffice/bin/cxbottle --restore mybottle.tar.gz --install
And voila, all that bottle's Windows applications are ready for use, complete with KDE / Gnome menus and file associations.