From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 17:26:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD6216A41B for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-4.gradwell.net (lon-mail-4.gradwell.net [193.111.201.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21F943D5A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-4.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.130] helo=webmaker country=GB ident=dave$pop3#dgmm$net) by lon-mail-4.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.221) id 448da3aa.15c23.174 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:26:02 +0100 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:20:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <200606112224.32870.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606121820.09419.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:26:08 -0000 On Monday 12 June 2006 01:17, Garrett Cooper wrote: > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Also, MS has been playing a cat and mouse game wi= th the Wine people > =A0 for quite some time locking the Wine folks out by restricting > operating systems versions and software installations (DX9, IE, etc), =A0 > which has-for the most part-worked in MS's favor, but you may be =A0 > lucky and are able to access MSN chat on FreeBSD by some oversight by =A0 > a dev somewhere ;). After spending a couple of hours with Wine docs I'm thinking that looks lik= e a=20 daunting task. I'm now looking at a possible qemu solution thanks to anoth= er=20 poster on the list. At worst, Win98se is good enough as a dedicated box just for MSN. It's=20 already behind a dedicated firewall and I could always route through a prox= y=20 and limit it to msn.com sites only if necessary. Seeing how this thread has progressed, maybe I should have posted to the=20 emulation list in the first place ;-) =2D-=20 Dave