The definition of a web site that refuses to upgrade is one that does not "understand" anything other than Internet Explorer 6 or 7. For many this is a constant source of frustration for three very good reasons:Internet Explorer 8 has been in existence for almost seven months at the time of this writing. The administrators of these "IE...

A standard argument by Linux users is that if WINE cannot run a Windows  app for whatever reason, do it virtually. Load up Windows in a virtual session with your app of choice, be it VMware, Virtualbox or the like, load up your Windows session and run your app that way. There is nothing to my knowledge that Linux cannot run virtually if WINE doesn’t...

Those who use the Ubuntu operating system understand that when you go to Add or Remove applications, there are "main" apps and then everything else. The "main" apps obviously work the best. These are the ones that are in Ubuntu’s main file repository, such as Mozilla Firefox and the OpenOffice suite. WINE is currently not in...

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