WINE Ubuntu

[DrChill]

I normally use windows but my brother wishes to use linux but likes playing ROBLOX an online lego like game I want to know if you can run roblox on WINE? (specifically ubuntu)

[JCED]

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=15961

It doesn't have many testers for it, so this may be innaccurate.

[chrisname]

Every program I've tried on WINE that wasn't x64 (wine seems to want to emulate x86 windows) worked... It will probably work.

$ sudo apt-get install wine just in case you didn't know.

[DrChill]

Ok I will test it I am installing ubuntu right now

[JCED]

Every program I've tried on WINE that wasn't x64 (wine seems to want to emulate x86 windows) worked... It will probably work.

I've actually had the exact opposite experience. When I stopped using Windows programs, though, then half a year later installed a Windows VM, I found that there were actually no Windows programs that I wanted to use. ("Um... why did I install this again?")

[chrisname]

Oh. Well I've had trouble with flash player and I need it to do maths homework (my stupid failure of a teacher sets us homework on a stupid failure of a website that's made ENTIRELY OF A SINGLE .swf FILE. It's ridiculous; what if I had a 56k connection? Some people still have dialup; how are they meant to download that shockwave/flash file? Besides that there is no shockwave for Linux yet. So I have firefox on wine with shockwave; that way it sort of works.

Mint owns http://i36.tinypic.com/2zox6jc.png
I don't know how/why but it installed itself on top of Ubuntu, as though it is Ubuntu. I forgot to format the partition, meaning I'm going to have to do it later...

[DrChill]

Impressive Linux ... very impressive

Mint owns

You should use the school connection to connect to the website then burn it to a disk or USB then go home and complete it :P

But I do agree with you teachers are getting lazy, "Why print out a worksheet when you can use the internet?"

Also how does he know if you completed it or not? Is the som PHP with it?

[JCED]

But I do agree with you teachers are getting lazy, "Why print out a worksheet when you can use the internet?"

I don't really consider that lazy. Everything is moving towards the Internet anyways, why not take advantage of it? Students probably spend more connected to the Internet as they do doing their homework anyways. The Internet allows for faster communication, less wasted trees, and less money towards buying paper and ink.

Plus, my fingers will hurt less.

The real problem here is that they used Shockwave.

[DrChill]

But what about the Amish?

Also I have finally gotten Ubuntu installed checking wine now ...

[JCED]

But what about the Amish?

So all should suffer for the sake of one? No, any Amish kid should get a packet to work with, different from all the other kids. It would be really easy to print out the page with the work on it if the teacher had not used Shockwave.

Don't the Amish have their own schools anyways? I don't really know, but I thought they maintained separate schools.

[chrisname]

Also how does he know if you completed it or not? Is the som PHP with it?

It's asp.FAIL and shockwave. What a stupid combo; my two least favourite companies (aside from apple) -- microsoft and adobe.

Don't the Amish have their own schools anyways? I don't really know, but I thought they maintained separate schools.

No idea, we don't have them in the UK. I would assume they do have separate schools, however. The disadvantage there is that they can never get a career in computer science... they could be some of the most logical thinkers ever and their possibly great minds will never influence us...

I don't really consider that lazy. Everything is moving towards the Internet anyways, why not take advantage of it?

I agree, the internet is a brilliant resource. The problem is that its shockwave + asp; there's no shockwave for Linux, asp is microsoft (microsoft stuff + open source stuff -> fail) AND it sucks anyway. Oh well, within 10 years we'll probably all be using GNU Hurd or something made by China anyway.

[JCED]

Oh well, within 10 years we'll probably all be using GNU Hurd or something made by China anyway.

Well, I doubt that we'll be using GNU Hurd (I have the same logic as I used when I determined Duke Nukem Forever was never going to see the light of day), it's very possible that China will be the next superpower. China is growing fast, and right now it looks like the US is going down the same road as Rome did.

[helios]

Come on. Do you seriously think anyone outside of China would use or would be able to use software made in China? If you do, you've obviously never tried to use Japanese software. Let's just say it's not the most pleasant of experiences.
As for Hurrd, let's not even go there.

I always like to quote this when I see predictions about the future of computing:

Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.

-Andrew Tanenbaum, 1992-01-30

[DrChill]

Amish hater :P also I think they have communities. And they likely have better lifes think about the world without the computer ... no not the down sides but the up-sides it would create more jobs, which many may appreciate but the cars would be a miss

[DrChill]

Also, sidetracking of of our sidetrack my code won't run :(

include <iostream>


using namespace std;

int main(){

	cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;

	return 0;
}

it says meh errors are:

me@ubuntu:~$ g++ hello_world.cpp -o test
hello_world.cpp:1: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘<’ token
hello_world.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
hello_world.cpp:7: error: ‘cout’ is not a member of ‘std’
hello_world.cpp:7: error: ‘endl’ was not declared in this scope
jacob@ubuntu:~$ g++ hello_world.cpp -o test
hello_world.cpp:1: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘<’ token
hello_world.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
hello_world.cpp:8: error: ‘cout’ is not a member of ‘std’
hello_world.cpp:8: error: ‘endl’ was not declared in this scope

[helios]

Read the damn errors. include is not the same as #include.

EDIT: And also use syntax highlighting.

[DrChill]

wow how did I miss that ... sorry helios please forgive me :(

[JCED]

Come on. Do you seriously think anyone outside of China would use or would be able to use software made in China? If you do, you've obviously never tried to use Japanese software. Let's just say it's not the most pleasant of experiences.
As for Hurrd, let's not even go there.

No, I've never tried to use Japanese software, or any non-English software, actually. But is it really that awful after localization? Am I wrong in assuming that much of the software outside of the English-speaking world is the same as the English version, just localized?

[helios]

Localization? Are you kidding? Japanese software can't be localized. At least not without doing some very distasteful things. And when I say distasteful, I mean things like "let's use '=' in place of 'ñ' and hack the fonts". And yes, this is a real life example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS
Japan is still living in the early 90s, as far as character encoding technologies go.

[JCED]

:) The new Chinese superpower will find a solution.