Re: AutoCAD in Linux

2006-04-18 Thread Karl Lattimer
> > Installing a crack is both easy and legal. I haven't checked if there > > are any for AutoCAD, though. > > That depends on where you are and the local laws. Actually the local laws are irrelevant, it is wholly dependent on whether or not it is prohibited by the license agreement. You'll find

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 19:54 -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:17 +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > > > I seriously doubt that as far as users are concerned that dependencies > > would be an issue, the user in general just wants something that > > works,

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
> [. . .] > > I think that this discussion has really degenerated into a long advocacy > *against* everything that open source is good for. > > Alexandre's take seems to be that one should simply ignore what's out there > and program like in Win 2.x days. In the meantime, software has moved for

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 00:46 +0900, Mike McCormack wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > > > requirements around this wouldn't be a great issue. With the current > > complexity of linux desktops I believe that restricting the language and > > dependencies is silly and un

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
> Note however, that being a good C programmer > can be harder than being a good python programmer. Oh how very true ;), but doesn't this statement in itself answer the question. python == easy to write, easy to maintain, fun and featureful. > > I see many python developers get into the habit of

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
> When winecfg was originally proposed I wanted to do it in GTK, and whinged > loudly when Alexandre said it had to be done using Win32 to keep > dependencies small. I guess his reasoning hasn't changed, so, for GUIs > you'd have to do it using Win32 and C :( > > Of course if you aren't bothered

Re: Wine Front-End development

2006-04-15 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 03:02 -0400, Rich Gilson wrote: > I was wondering... > > If somebody were writing a Wine GUI front-end for uses with the hope that it > might possibly make it into the Wine distribution one day, what language(s) > and toolkit(s) would be acceptable to the Wine developers fo

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-04-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:25 -0400, Chris Morgan wrote: > Just thought that I would throw out the point that it isn't likely > that SETI at home will ever find any intelligent signals What about the wow signal? I think "isn't likely" is a bit pessimistic, but the probability that an intelligent s

Re: AppDB email address obfuscation

2006-04-03 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:29 +1030, n0dalus wrote: > Hi, > > I am concerned that the email addresses on the appdb are too easily > harvestable. Is there a reason no effort seems to be made to hide the > email addresses of users on there? > Yeah it would be nice if my email address was hidden, I g

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

2006-04-02 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 13:30 -0700, Duane Clark wrote: > Karl Lattimer wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:18 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > ... > >>> And finally, why does it take hal

Re: whats wrong with the wine devel list

2006-04-02 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:18 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:47:07AM +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having real issue with this list, I can't distinguish betweeen list > > mail, other email and spam. Why is the

whats wrong with the wine devel list

2006-04-02 Thread Karl Lattimer
Hi, I am having real issue with this list, I can't distinguish betweeen list mail, other email and spam. Why is there no prefix [wine-devel] in the subject line? Also I don't particularly like the reply-to setup here, can't it just be munged back to the list, rather than replying to an individua

Re: [OT] Re: Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all.

2006-03-29 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 12:27 +0300, Saulius Krasuckas wrote: > * On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Karl Lattimer wrote: > > And also, accusing people of having an IQ of 0 for replying to a flame > > isn't in the slightest constructive, > > Yes, he didn't write any single patch

Re: Why winetools is utterly useless, once and for all.

2006-03-28 Thread Karl Lattimer
Am Mo, Mär 27, 2006 at 09:32:29 -0500 schrieb Segin: There is one reason, inarguable (if you reply to this you have a IQ of 0) as to why WineTools is useless: Most of the WineTools 'magic' is in it's ~/.wine/config file, which Wine no longer uses/acknoleges, thefore, WineTools is utterly use

Re: Winetools -> wine doors

2006-03-26 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 14:02 -0500, Segin wrote: > Also note that most of Winetools prior usefullness was killed when we > killed ~/.wine/config Now we rely on winereg? is that correct (I should know this ;) I've been making some steady progress today, managed to get CD auto detection working (fr

Re: Winetools -> wine doors

2006-03-25 Thread Karl Lattimer
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 19:00 +, Dr J A Gow wrote: > > I've looked through the winetools code and it is a clusterf*ck of > > nonsense. It appears to be in the final stages of code rot, however > > This "clusterf*ck of nonsense" helped me to get a microcontroller > development suite running under

Winetools -> wine doors

2006-03-24 Thread Karl Lattimer
I read your story about winetools a couple weeks ago around the same time that I tried using winetools on FC5 test 3, it didn't go well with winetools and I was looking for another solution and couldn't find one that fitted well with my criteria. I started thinking of packages like RPMs and starte