On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:05, Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee wrote:
>> The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
>> might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
>
> Using {$HOME} would be more portable.
And using
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee wrote:
> The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
> might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Using {$HOME} would be more portable. The Bourne shell (/bin/sh) on
Solaris (9/10 - OpenSolaris defaulted to ksh) doesn't support ~
(al
Correction:
${HOME}
For the forum it might be useful to find / write a phpbb extension
that disallows URL shortening services (and known spam domains) and
forces a captha check on users posting ANY link to a non-whitelisted
domain... (pastebin, a decent image hosting service, winehq,
microsoft, codeweavers, google, LM
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 19:26, Max TenEyck Woodbury
wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 01:04 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>
>> There seem to be several interfaces to retreive MSDN articles... Some
>> of those interface might be more stable / provide a way to retrieve a
>> current li
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 18:16, Max TenEyck Woodbury
wrote:
> There should be links to the Microsoft documentation in each article,
> but Microsoft has been known to move their documentation around without
> maintaining redirects. To avoid being at Microsoft's mercy in this, a
> summary (*not* a dup
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:27, David Gerard wrote:
> You are going to get noise. Stopping people reporting bugs is probably
> not the answer. It's hard enough to get bug reports out of people
> already.
A "Where do I" (of "What do I do when...") section in the FAQ
might help in some cases? (w
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie
wrote:
> Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to four
> lines. You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space. Anything
> more, and it becomes an attachement.
4 lines is horribly short... Especially for po
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:55, Francois Gouget wrote:
> OOP:
>
> A lot of the Windows API is exported through DLL entry points and these
> are not object oriented. Where the Windows API is object oriented is:
OOP in C is not impossible wither... It is harder than it could be,
but it is possible...
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 22:58, Christopher Selph wrote:
>>Porting a codebase the size
>>
>> >of Wine will probably take years...
>>
>> Actually I'm working on a program to convert C code to D code. You can
>> find/replace most instances of code, like unsigned int (C) with uint (D).
>> The import/i
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 20:48, Stephen Eilert wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Christopher Selph wrote:
>> Well, being a garbage collected language, it would help with the memory
>> leaks in Wine. Being OOP it could extend the design of the code to make it
>> cleaner and reusable.
>
> Th
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 22:50, Dan Kegel wrote:
> It might be interesting to know which countries use Wine the most.
> I have no idea how to measure that, but the top three countries in
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=winetricks,+playonlinux
> are Russia, Czech, and Ukraine!
Some other interesti
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 21:49, Austin English wrote:
> How is this different from dotnet20/mfc42/etc.?
MS Java used to be bundled with (some versions of) Windows? (If an
application was released requireing XP SP1 before the release of SP1a,
its developer might have assumed that Windows will includ
Correct from address...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Gert van den Berg
Date: Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 22:34
Subject: Re: Is there something we can do about Java?
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 21:49, Austin English wrote:
> How is this different from dotnet20/mfc42/etc.?
MS Java used to
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:57, Steven Edwards wrote:
> Do you really want to run the Windows version of VLC on OS X? I
> believe there is a better case to be made with Safari/Quicktime/iTunes
> as I believe they also install Bonjour services on Windows. If you
> wanted to validate/compare how the
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:37, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "C.W. Betts" wrote:
>
>> What do you guys think? it's a wrapper for multicast DNS, aka Bonjour®.
>
> Looks like this is not a part of Windows or PSDK
Neither is OpenAL
It might provide functionality as part of Wine that might be hard
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 22:47, David Gerard wrote:
> No idea, sorry. Xsun is on extended (life-)support with Sun moving to
> Xorg (and Alan Coopersmith from Sun being one of the main Xorg
> developers). Xming is Xorg compiled for mingw
Xming: An ancient version of Xorg (at least for the free versi
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 21:40, David Gerard wrote:
> On 7 February 2010 15:40, Reece Dunn wrote:
>
>> 1/ Does this mean that OpenGL is required for all GDI calls, not
>> just D3D? If so, it will exclude people who don't have OpenGL support
>> (e.g. are using the vesa, nv, or nouveau drivers).
>
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:58, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig
wrote:
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
> documentation?
> I want to complete the cabinet.dll archive creation compression,
> if I get the require
correct from address
-- Forwarded message --
From: Gert van den Berg
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 15:58, Gerold Jens Wucherpfennig
wrote:
> BTW I've done some cabinet.dll stuff some years ago.
> Can anybody give me a hint to some easy-to-understand data compression
>
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 22:52, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Gert van den Berg wrote:
>> As far as I can figure out, no LC_* variable, except LC_ALL specific
>> the actual locale? They only determine individual settings, which
>> overwrites the default for
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 18:05, Ken Thomases wrote:
> Are you using Terminal.app or some other terminal application? If
> Terminal.app, have you turned off the "Set LANG environment variable on
> startup" setting in preferences? (That's the name on Leopard. If I recall,
> that setting is slightly
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 06:12, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:34 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> The idea behind most of the MacIntosh 'magic' is that the user is
>> deliberately oblivous to this.
>
> I agree that Wine (well, anything) should meet the user's expectations
> without the
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 22:01, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:35 AM,
> wrote:
>> What's the relationship between LC_xyz and LANG? The official answer for
>> programs using glibc is: "the library will
>> test the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG in that order"
>> But
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 03:55, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:40 PM, James McKenzie
> wrote:
>> You really underestimate the stupidity of people.
>
> I expect that people will do utterly stupid things,
> there's no two ways around that, it's human nature.
> That being the case, I thin
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:48, wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>1. generate a PCM sine wave tone (like winmm/tests/wave.c);
> Actually any repetitive signal may not be good enough for general purpose,
> sine or square. Perhaps add some change in volume?
>
> For instance, there currently is a bug somewhere that c
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:32, Dan Kegel wrote:
> (What's missing is the ability to add howto's and notes at the
> application level, i.e. one level higher than the version level where
> they all go right now, but that's not usually a dealbreaker.)
The usefulness of app-level howo's depend a lot o
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 17:10, Susan Cragin wrote:
> With regard to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I have the following comments.
>
...
> Version 9 should be entirely deleted. That refers to the early 9.0 Preferred
> release, which is not available any more. 9.0 Preferred has been replaced by
> 9.5 Pref
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:51, Pauli Nieminen wrote:
> Then also add automatic system that removes points from comments based
> on how old they are. I don't have any good number for this now but
> feeling is that for high traffic applications something like a point
> per week might work while low t
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 18:33, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> One problem of such a logo is that Wine changes constantly, and apps may break
> any time. So if we wanted to make such a logo official, that would be a
> two-party contract
>
> *) The app developer tests his app with wine
> *) The Wine commun
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 04:01, Austin English wrote:
> The 'patch file' listed in the README should be
> deleted, since it's no longer provided.
>
It seem to be sent to wine-releases.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:00, James McKenzie
wrote:
> The question is: Were there any programs written for WindowsNT for the
> PPC? I don't know of any, off hand.
>
A few seem to exist... Probably nothing without a x86 versions though.
Compatibility with PowerPC NT applications might at least
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:44, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> The main trouble is that Windows apps are x86, so in order to run anything but
> builtin notepad you'll need a CPU emulator. In that case, just compile wine
> as x86 binary and run it in the emulator as well.
>
Just a random question: Any cha
If it is mostly automated spam, it might help to try and confuse the
scripts by inserting traps for them that users can't see (fields
hidden via CSS, etc...)
http://jkroon.blogs.uls.co.za/it/spam/ahead-of-the-spammers-for-once
Human spammers are a totally different issue... And most solutions
that
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Herve wrote:
>> http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8526/wines2.jpg
>
> Not bad!
>
> Now for text... something like
>
> "Linux + Wine
> Dissolve Windows headaches fast!"
>
> :-)
>
"Wine cures your Windows hangover!" :)
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Ben Klein wrote:
> 2009/2/26 King InuYasha :
>> Also, NTFS DOES have a concept of execute bits, but Windows itself does not
>> use them. An implementation of this is the "trusted" app scheme in the
>> properties in Windows Vista and above (I don't remember if XPSP2
Not sure exactly where in the thread this fits in, but here goes
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Zachary Goldberg wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Dan Kegel :
>> Ben Klein wrote:
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/running-windows-malware-in-linux/
"Do not set the f
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> I can also see what you mean about
> spyware, but other apps retrieve stuff from the web if there is a
> connection (CDDB, and album covers are two examples).
>
Wine transmitting every application I run to someone else would be
rather worryin
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Austin English wrote:
> Of course, Wine is open source, so if someone wants to edit it for
> that purpose, by all means, do so. I'm not sure that Wine _should_ do
> so though, at least, not now. Networking on a per app basis I can see
> an argument for, since Windo
39 matches
Mail list logo
