Comments on: The Linux Chronicles – Day 2 http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/17/the-linux-chronicles-day-2/ My little pothole on the information superhighway Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: neonjohn http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/17/the-linux-chronicles-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-242 neonjohn Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:00:41 +0000 http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/17/the-linux-chronicles-day-2/#comment-242 John, With one exception, my Agent install is finished and is running fine. That one exception is with what I mentioned above with clicking on links and firing off the browser. (is that OLE? I can't remember all of M$'s slang.) As it stands now, clicking on a link works but agent tosses up a little error box. Meanwhile the Linux version of Firefox is merrily opening the page. I think that I can fix that by creating a symbolic link named firefox.exe and point it at the executable "firefox". I just haven't gotten a round tuit. That said, I'm using Agent only for news reading and only then because of the superior killfile facility. Evolution has a MUCH nicer and more elegant user interface, especially for reading and replying. It's killfile filtering facility is so lame that I'm staying with Agent as long as necessary. Since Evolution is published by Novell, maybe they'll fix it. Evolution's spell-as-you-write feature is work changing user agents. Frankly I was stunned that Forte left this out of V5 upgrade. I feel like I got ripped on the "upgrade" which really should have been just a service pack. WINE continues to run whatever I toss at it. It's best with stand-alone programs that don't interact with others via OLE or whatever. This is important and is a lead-in to tomorrow's post. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU CAN DO after installing Ubuntu is to allow the update manager to do its thing. Most all my problems have been solved by the updates. Apparently they just shoveled whatever they had laying around onto the Live CD and are relying on the updater to make things right. Firefox was the frigging 3.0 beta, fer crying out loud! It broke about 3/4 of my extensions including critical ones like fireFTP. As a lame defense, the update took over 24 hours over dial-up. No way I'd have let my computer just sit there inert for a day! If I ever do another virgin install, it'll be connected to broadband. The time has never been more right to Boot Bill. Plenty of XP software is still available which runs fine under WINE. As Vista versions get out there, problems will arise. Meanwhile, for most of the stuff I've looked at, there are Linux versions that do just as good. There are a few exceptions and for those I'll continue under WINE while hammering on the publishers to give me a Linux version. Just Do It!!! John John,

With one exception, my Agent install is finished and is running fine. That one exception is with what I mentioned above with clicking on links and firing off the browser. (is that OLE? I can’t remember all of M$’s slang.)

As it stands now, clicking on a link works but agent tosses up a little error box. Meanwhile the Linux version of Firefox is merrily opening the page. I think that I can fix that by creating a symbolic link named firefox.exe and point it at the executable “firefox”. I just haven’t gotten a round tuit.

That said, I’m using Agent only for news reading and only then because of the superior killfile facility. Evolution has a MUCH nicer and more elegant user interface, especially for reading and replying. It’s killfile filtering facility is so lame that I’m staying with Agent as long as necessary. Since Evolution is published by Novell, maybe they’ll fix it.

Evolution’s spell-as-you-write feature is work changing user agents. Frankly I was stunned that Forte left this out of V5 upgrade. I feel like I got ripped on the “upgrade” which really should have been just a service pack.

WINE continues to run whatever I toss at it. It’s best with stand-alone programs that don’t interact with others via OLE or whatever.

This is important and is a lead-in to tomorrow’s post. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU CAN DO after installing Ubuntu is to allow the update manager to do its thing. Most all my problems have been solved by the updates. Apparently they just shoveled whatever they had laying around onto the Live CD and are relying on the updater to make things right.

Firefox was the frigging 3.0 beta, fer crying out loud! It broke about 3/4 of my extensions including critical ones like fireFTP. As a lame defense, the update took over 24 hours over dial-up. No way I’d have let my computer just sit there inert for a day! If I ever do another virgin install, it’ll be connected to broadband.

The time has never been more right to Boot Bill. Plenty of XP software is still available which runs fine under WINE. As Vista versions get out there, problems will arise. Meanwhile, for most of the stuff I’ve looked at, there are Linux versions that do just as good. There are a few exceptions and for those I’ll continue under WINE while hammering on the publishers to give me a Linux version.

Just Do It!!!

John

]]> By: John http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/17/the-linux-chronicles-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-241 John Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:48:50 +0000 http://www.johndearmond.com/2009/01/17/the-linux-chronicles-day-2/#comment-241 Im a big Agent user as well John. Its my MOST used app.... so Im watching with interest how it works under WINE for you as Im on verge of dumping Windows and going Ubuntu as well. Got to have my Agent!! Im a big Agent user as well John. Its my MOST used app…. so Im watching with interest how it works under WINE for you as Im on verge of dumping Windows and going Ubuntu as well.

Got to have my Agent!!

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