digital rights management

[Chris Lemire]

try running a virtual machine windows xp in vmplayer. i dont have windows xp
anymore. i use it in a vmware when i need it.

On 7/12/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:42 +0200, Albin Blaschka wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I don't know how to activate those mp3s but maybe a short term solution
> >> would be to try wine...it is installable over universe, as far as I
> >> remember...
> >> For further information see http://www.winehq.com/
> >
> > Wine is _very_ unstable and hard to use.
>
> Actually, I'd disagree.  Wine is quite stable and easy to use - but hard
> to
> get configured correctly in the first place.  After much crying (basically
> something like 3 years, off and on) trying to get Quicken to work, I now
> have a system that works reliably on most programs I try (including
> Quicken).
>
> > Can I suggest you either use
> > wine + one of the configuration utilities or you try crossover office
>
> Well, I _did_ have to use ies4linux to get a good configuration - and even
> then there was messing about after the ies4linux install.
>
> > for free and then buy it if it works, it's not expensive and the
> > advances go back to the wine project.
>
> Which is the easy way.  I did try Crossover, and had it working well, but
> I
> didn't like not understanding _how_ Wine was working. I think I understand
> it now, but please don't ask me to explain :-)
>
> otoh, sound support seems chancy, so I'm not convinced it would work for
> converting sound files.
> --
> derek
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