Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:20:08 +0100 From: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access Message-ID: <200606121820.09419.freebsd01@dgmm.net> In-Reply-To: <CBDF192A-B7A5-45E9-8109-A93011299202@u.washington.edu> References: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <200606112224.32870.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <CBDF192A-B7A5-45E9-8109-A93011299202@u.washington.edu>
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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
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