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Post by pgweston on Jan 31, 2009 15:19:46 GMT
I read a letter in Computer Active saying how the writer downloaded this Wine program that runs Windows Tools in Linux.Typed the name in Google and all of the sites quoted gives the following warning. This site may harm your computer.Seems a bit strange to me, Whats it  all about?? Westy |
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Post by mikkh on Jan 31, 2009 21:14:18 GMT
This is the offical 'Wine' site www.winehq.org/and it's definitely not harmful to your computer in Windows or Linux Wine is pre-installed in a lot of distros already, but if it isn't, just type 'wine' in the search part of the package manager and install it that way. It's not the easiest of programs to use in it's default state and you may find these third party applications are needed to run it successfully wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications'Wine Doors' in particular is very good as is 'crossover' but that's a commercial program, with it's main focus being on running MSOffice inside Linux - which it does very well if you can't get on with OpenOffice. |
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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 1, 2009 0:09:32 GMT
Elvis, see this for an explanation on why you were getting that message[/size][/font]
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Post by elvisuk on Feb 1, 2009 2:20:11 GMT
H! LynnRose,  I can't remember which one you mean but thanks anyway ;D
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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 1, 2009 9:44:26 GMT
Didn't you click on the link?........the message you were getting "This site may harm your computer" was because...
Millions of internet users around the world have been affected by a major technical fault in popular search engine Google today.
The glitch meant that all search results were incorrectly flagged as potentially dangerous to the user's computer.
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Post by elvisuk on Feb 1, 2009 18:38:02 GMT
H! LynnRose, Yes i did click on the link i still don't understand what i was Googleing for? when i have all you wonderful folk at CIT to help me?
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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 1, 2009 20:39:29 GMT
OMG sorry...it wasn't you, it was PGweston!!!!
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Post by nocky2 on Feb 1, 2009 20:53:36 GMT
You been at the cooking sherry again LR?  |
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Post by Lynnrose on Feb 1, 2009 21:19:40 GMT
Lol, I must have been, but can't remember whether I have either!
I must have Elvis on the brain x[/size][/font]
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Post by pgweston on Feb 1, 2009 21:40:30 GMT
What a turn around! After reading mikkh's comments I went ahead, and now have 'wine' and one or two more add-ons installed. This was made easy by reading from the Linux Guide (Comp/Active), you don't even have to download anything, the program takes care of that and it's all installed without switching off and restarting. Amazing,  Westy |
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Post by mikkh on Feb 1, 2009 22:44:38 GMT
It's a decent program with a bit limited scope though, as would be expected from a software emulator. But it can do some pretty neat tricks. If you want more functionality, running a 'virtual' copy of Windows inside Linux is your next option www.virtualbox.org/You can also do it the opposite way round i.e run a virtual Linux system inside Windows, but I prefer the Linux way, as it's faster and more secure. The advantage of doing it the 'virtual' way, is that it's a real full install of Windows you're running, so everything works |
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Post by elvisuk on Feb 2, 2009 11:50:05 GMT
H! LynnRose, I did post about MSN closing but we will put it down to the wine OK
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all about??
Westy
