Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:42:43 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: FreeBSD Question List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I'm a 'tard - I don't know what a Subject line is (Was well, no subject) Message-ID: <0FC23518-13E2-11D9-A30F-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20041001152420.2647dae9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <200410011804.i91I4umd006422@hermes.hyperhosting.gr> <415DA053.5000100@makeworld.com> <20041001152420.2647dae9.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Oct 1, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> wrote: > >> Nicx wrote: >>> Hello Guy's! >>> >>> Is there any emulator that i can run win32 apllications on=20 >>> freeBSD? >>> ... Nicx >>> ---- www.ebox.gr - Dwrea'n E-mail =B5e 15MB mailbox=20 >>> www.hyperhosting.gr >>> Apokty%ste to diko' sa*s web site =B5e dw%ro to domain name! >> >> I would be sooo much nicer it 'tards would learn to use the subject=20= >> line > > Those kind of comments are not welcome on this list. Maybe he was having a bad day and took one too many irritations like=20 that to heart; I sometimes don't bother replying to top posters anymore=20= in my emails or to lists just because it's irritating to me to keep=20 going through jumbled headers and sorting crap out to get an actual=20 idea of what is going on in an email. Eventually I just pop it into=20 the bit bucket...if it's important, they'll email again with hopefully=20= a new email that's clean and free of crap. Same with people that use reply-to to post their new message=20 topics...so it gets threaded under a different subject that has NOTHING=20= to do with the actual topic at hand. So they screw up the threading. AAARGH then again, I break the 72-character wrapping. Other people are really=20= miffed at that in this list. I wish someone would fix the Unix mailers=20= to see this properly, because I'm using Mail.app and it's stupid after=20= being drilled so often not to hit "enter" periodically for word=20 processing. Mail.app does put in wrapping, but it's using a type of=20 word wrapping that is configurable...something from qualcomm, I want to=20= say?...where messages would be dynamically wrapped to be more readable=20= on variable display sizes. Something about messages showing up=20 properly in email editors on PCs to small displays like those on PDA's=20= and cellphones. If the mailer interprets this properly, every=20 quotation is properly indented regardless of the size of the window. =20 So I irritate people in that regard. When everyone who emails me stops top posting and screwing up the=20 threading or doing anything else to irritate my wonderful online=20 experience, I'll manually wrap lines at 72 characters. Anyway, yeah, it was wrong to be so harsh...but maybe he had *some*=20 justification in mind at the time. > If you want to be rude to people, please don't associate yourself with > FreeBSD when you do it. Yeah...take it to an advocacy forum! :-) > As to the OP's question, look at wine (http://www.winehq.com) ...=20 > although > I've never had much success with it, that's what it's supposed to do. Try using vmware, or QEMU. Or Plex86, or whatever they're calling that=20= project now. VM's tended to work much better for running Windows=20 software than WINE has worked for me, but that's just my experience.
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