Re: spyware

[Demonen <demmydemon@gmail.com>]

On 5/11/05, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> On Tuesday May 10 2005 10:12 pm, Ernst Doubt wrote:
> 
> > Is it really a personal problem if I only really boot into windows
> > regularly to update spyware, anti-vir and windows updates (so that
> > I'll always have a working windows environment in the uncommon case
> > that an XP vmware instance isn't sufficient)?
> 
> Yeah, but honestly, how often does that happen?  Why waste the drive
> space on an OS better left to the history books and emulators anyway?
> 
> Anything that doesn't run natively I can just run in Cedega instead
> (sometimes more smoothly than the same program does running natively
> in Windows on the same hardware[1]).  What doesn't run is either 1)
> Microsoft's invention and probably shouldn't run under Windows (but
> does anyway, like PowerPoint and Outlook), 2) foolishly depends on a
> Windows-specific bug that would be a bad idea to reproduce, or (most
> rarely) 3) depends on Windows features not yet implemented in Cedega.
> 
> My only real peeve with Cedega is that Transgaming is acting
> *extremely* selfishly towards the Wine project.  Without Wine,
> Transgaming wouldn't have a leg to stand on today.  Though this is
> fairly consistent with the pompous, self-righteous
> God's-gift-to-mankind attitude the CEO has in his writings on the
> company website...
> 
> [1] The only reason I know this is because I built my machine and a
> week later my roommate came and bothered me at work at my last job to
> have a machine identical to mine put together (I ended up building
> his machine, too).
> 
> --
> Paul Johnson
> Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca
> http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
> 
> 
> 
I feel so left out!
All my friends get spyware and viruses all the time, yet my woman and
I get left out.

We should revive the linux spyware project to get The Gator to run
under Wine or Cedega!

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Fredrik "Demonen" Vold
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