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Monday, June 14, 2010

Icewind Dale with Crossover Games

This video is a overview of Character creation in Icewind Dale using CodeWeavers CrossOver Games in Linux Mint 9 the game also plays extremely well in other Linux distributions and Mac OS X with CXGames 9.0






Running with Crossover Games by CodeWeavers.




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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Wine 1.2-rc3 Released

The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 is now available.
Whats new in this release:
  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 1.2-rc3:
4523 Can't copy from Firefox 1.5 and paste into OpenOffice 2 under Wine [dogfood]
6594 Call of Duty install fails - can't eject first CD
6642 BabasChess v3.6 crashes quite randomly
6654 NFS Carbon cant run
7098 msi doesn't publish/install some assemblies into GAC
7807 3dmark03 crashes:denormal float operand in 32-bit code (0x0042504a)
7973 Default font unreadable
8095 PQ Teaching toy crashes
9114 MSI Uninstallers leave empty directory behind after removal
9657 Adobe Framemaker 8 setup requires setting Window version to Vista even if XP and 2000 should also work
10147 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior differs from Windows
10287 unable to install nero 8
10934 Nikon Camera Control Pro thinks trial is up immediately
11207 Problem running iRO 3.0 (recruiting application)
11267 Adobe/Macromedia Flash MX Pro 2004 can't create .fla file
11367 Flysis: Launcher resolution dropdown box lists no options.
11560 Sigmaplot 10 demo refuses to start; license manager problem?
11719 Intuit QuickBooks Simple Start 2008 install fails
11924 BabasChess crashes halfway
12020 Unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXAssembleShader
12066 Jade Empire character models are invisible
12218 word viewer 2003 - required / difference columns do not countain data
12234 EdwinXP 1.61 trial installer z-order problem
12487 FutureTax runs but postscript is invalid
12574 Using WinAMP's media Library causes crash
12696 nsis script with a gradient background window => install window not displayed
12880 Sony Ericsson software fails to install.
13516 Dynamic HTML Editor 4.2 Demo installs, crashes on startup
13895 printer setup dialog has a useless Apply button
13924 Mod4win crashes when trying to start the mixer
14284 winhelp: bad/missing support for imagemaps
14286 winhelp: window size/position changed whenever link or navigation button is clicked
14312 mdi workspace not drawn correctly when restoring child windows in winefile
14910 Errors creating PDF files using WINEPS printer using CUPS form PAF.
14957 FL Studio fails to minimize
15069 Apps won't minimize and extra caption bar shows
15094 Wine won't install FAA Safelog
15126 Pro evolution soccer 2008 demo crashes
15156 Unable to change from Direct3D to OpenGL output in WinUAE
15287 Silent Hunter IV: game crashs while loading ingame grafics (tutorial, mission, museum, etc.)
15372 palm hotsync: minimize button disappears
15433 Failure to load mp3 in popup file browser in Audiosurf.
15480 Saving files in Word/Excel 2000 creates useless .lnk files
15522 Firefox crashes on LDS.org's Move Media Player page with latest git and 1.1.5
15818 winecfg should fit on a 640x480 display
15981 Rhapsody 3 and 4 crash at end of autoupdate install
16088 Quartus II 80sp1: Opening About window crashes application
16158 Condor: Wine System Tray
16282 Quartus II 80sp1: Compiling project crashes application
16298 Finale Notepad 2009: Clicking on splash screen causes X error
16356 16 bit file dialog file filter not working
16418 Keyword corral crashes (LsaLookupNames2 returns ERROR_NONE_MAPPED)
16475 dragging the winamp window is slow
16729 font smoothing doesn't work
16753 unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.KeGetCurrentThread
16820 VCarvePro v4.6 Trial crashes on save
17026 Prince of persia warrior within: everything is upside down during gameplay
17067 Stud_PE crashes on Tools -> Plugins
17175 Crash running Quicken 2008
17242 Regedit: Exported key names containing backslashes are not escaped
17454 Toad's tool 64 doesn't work, needs msvcrt.dll.___lc_handle_func
17484 Leisure Suit Larry 7 refuses to run with Win98 settings
17603 winecfg crashes on encountering unknown (incorrect) dll overrides
17684 ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional PL: Fails to start
17705 Audiosurf: crashes at startup
17773 AutoCAD Mechanical 2005 PL: Fails to install
17800 Silent hunter 4 crashes while loading mission
18025 .NET 2.0 Regasm.exe typelib exporter needs ICreateTypeInfo2::SetCustData
18026 TopPlan 2009 crashes while opening a map
18348 Wine Crash in Baldurs Gate I when more than 1 character in team
18542 Slingplayer 2.0 unhandled exception
18575 FlashFXP installer quits: "Cannot register "C:\Program Files\FlashFXP\IEFlash.dll"
18654 Wine uses native gdiplus with Adobe Lightroom 2.3 demo by default
18723 LUAU 2.2.1 setup causes a page fault
18876 Lightroom 2.3 flipped logos
18908 Editing name in File Open dialog causes Powerpoint to hang
18942 UT2004: freeze loading a match
18973 Duplicate license entries in multiple wine programs
19000 Stronghold 2: Error at installing 1.4 game patch
19013 Oxford English Dictionary 2: freezes on startup with fatal error
19075 Problem with MCataloguer
19172 Powerpoint 2003 viewer's installs file in wrong location (appinstall)
19255 SlingPlayer 2's remote doesn't draw
19357 Crash when changing resolution in Telltale games
19440 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab button does not work
19502 Visual Studio 2005 SP1 install seems to fail
19524 War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition: game hangs on starting any scenario
19597 Sony Ericsson PC Suite 5 fails to download a required component
19642 Arx Fatalis : page fault on read access while loading
19793 Office 2007 Word has problems rotating .EMF files
19811 Visual C 2005 redistributable installers create many empty directories in WinSXS
19861 Wine should warn when ulimit -n needs raising
19947 Desktop windo fullscreen directx application focus problem
20007 Winamp 5 won't start
20059 Office 2007 SP1/SP2 looks for *.cab in C:\Windows\Installer\ instead of C:\MSOCache\
20226 builtin xcopy.exe crashes with page fault when source directory does not exist.
20279 winemenubuilder confuses Windows and Unix code pages leading to 100% CPU usage
20307 Call of Duty 4 v1.7 frame rate issue
20541 No MIDI in to Piano Teacher v3.0
20680 winecfg: no Wave Out Devices under ALSA Drivers (M-Audio Delta)
20744 Mordor - the depths of Dejenol installer puts window into background
20935 HoMM5: Hammers of Fate: game dvd not found
20939 Keyboard focus lost after switching to another app and back
21124 Text cursor and some of mouse cursors are not solid in Word 2003
21156 Add torrents in webUI with µTorrent >= 2.0 doesn't work
21511 wsmanhttpconfig.exe tool from Windows Management Framework Core (PowerShell 2.0) needs msvcrt.dll._scwprintf
21930 Free Ghost installer crashes during project building in console
22143 Lemmings game clone (Lemmix): problems running under Wine.
22346 Palm Pilot: hotsync.exe could not load 'USER.DLL' required by 'COMUT16', error=2
22470 Excel 2003 cannot launch
22532 Lemmix (Lemmings Clones) can't be played because of black screen
22610 Ragnarok Online client echoes some sounds
22656 Serif Webplus X2 trial crashes in windowscodecs
22695 Avira AntiVir doesn't install - missing msvcr90.dll._snwprintf_s
22702 Cyberboard maps, markers and units display as all black.
22816 QIP 2010 (Infium): text cursor doesn't move properly
22843 Paste of text from Word 2003 into Powerpoint 2003 stopped working
22863 Win64 compile broken on FreeBSD
22876 HTML-Kit's small icons have a white background
22888 Damaged icons in QIP
22909 Drawn text overlapps after the second character.
22911 Fonts are garbled when running apps inside a vnc4server session
22914 TheWord: cursor does not display/function correctly
22927 The Bat! v4.2.36.4 didn't show the titlebar caption in KDEs taskbar
22928 IE8 for Vista's "missing updates" message is cut off
22946 WinOmega v6.30.51 shows Icons with dark/black background instead of transparency
22988 Vectorworks 2010: Drawing area doesn't show objects
22989 Adobe FrameMaker 8 installer aborts with compressed file extraction error
23003 Compile/link error on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)
23007 GetSaveFileName incorrectly returns non-zero when Escape is pressed after a "replace this file" dialog
23010 Fonts corrupted in Civ4-based games when subpixel rendering is enabled
23021 Spider black suits fail to display
23029 closing window of IE 6 closes Lotus Notes 6.5.5
23044 Program 'convert.exe' shows menus in a strange way
23049 Shareaza crash while starting
23056 BitComet 1.21: Fails to start
23107 Unimplemented call _snprintf_s in CSPro 4.0

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

A new Bordeaux implementation of Wine will install IrfanView AND IrfanView plugins

By Steven Rosenberg :

One of the hiccups in Bordeaux, a for-profit, costs-$20 implementation of Wine that allows for easy installation of a variety of Windows applications in Unix/Linux environments, is that while installing the IrfanView image editor is clickably easy, users are on their own when it comes to the IrfanView plugins.
In my workflow, the IrfanView plugins are an essential part of the IrfanView experience. That's a fancy way of saying I need the plugins.
I managed to get those plugins installed the last time I installed Bordeaux (and for the record, Im a paying customer), and along with some incompatibility between the newer Wine base supplied by Bordeaux and the older environment of Debian Lenny, the experience wasn't as smooth as it should be.
In distributions built with newer packages, such as Ubuntu, the Wine supplied with Bordeaux should work well (in Debian all I had to do was use the distros own, older Wine and all began working).
And with support for easy installation of the IrfanView plugins, Bordeaux should make the installation of Windows applications under Wine even easier than before.




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Monday, June 7, 2010

A Comparative Performance Analysis of Longene VS Wine

Test methods:
  1. Get a computer with Linux installed.
  2. Install Wine and then test it with our test programs. Finally get the test result.
  3. Uninstall wine
  4. Get Longene installed, test it with our test programs and then get the final test result.

Test environment:
model name: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU
E5300 @ 2.60GHz
cpu MHz: 2600.000
cache size: 2048 KB
MemTotal: 1032748 kB

MemFree: 857724 kB Buffers: 7872 kB
Cached: 116800 kB
Overwiew of test programs:
TestApi program mainly operates on file, registry and windows message. TestAll program integrates all the above operations tested.Tests program are coded in MFC [source code download: http://www.longene.org/download/TestCase.rar ].

Test programs flow:
  1. According to the number of files, registries and messages required to test, reader/writer processes are created.
  2. File tests: Thread1 first creates a file and waitsThread2 to read. Then repeat it. After Thread1 created the file, Thread2 is in charge of read and delete the file. Then repeat it. Thread1 and Thread2 synchronize with each other by Event.
  3. Registry tests: Thread3 first creates an registry key, and waits Thread4 to read. Then repeat it. After Thread3 created the registry, Thread4 is in charge of read and delete the registry key. Then repeat it. Thread3 and Thread4 synchronize with each other by Semaphore.
  4. Message test: Thread5 is responsible for send an message, then waits the main thread to receive. Then repeat it. After Thread5 sent the message, the main thread is in charge of receive the message. Then repeat it. Thread5 and the main thread synchronize with each other by Mutex.
  5. Test API list:
CreateFile
WriteFile
DeleteFile
CloseFile
RegCreateKeyEx

RegSetValueEx
RegOpenKeyEx
RegCloseKey
RegQueryValueEx
RegDeleteKey
PostMessage
GetMessage
CreateEvent
SetEvent
CreateSemaphore
ReleaseSemaphore
CreateMutex
ReleaseMutex
CreateThread
CloseHandle
WaitForSingleObject
WaitForMultipleObjects
Test result: The following datas use ms as the unit. The test consists of 10 groups and each group tests 100 times. Longene0.3: TestApi:

WriteFile________ReadFile________WriteReg________ReadReg___________MsgTest ____34_______________7_______________1_______________1_______________149 ____23_______________6_______________1_______________1_______________157 ____34_______________6_______________1_______________1_______________177 ____44_______________6_______________1_______________0_______________197 ____56_______________6_______________1_______________0_______________216 ____65_______________6_______________1_______________0_______________253 ____73_______________7_______________1_______________0_______________274 ____86_______________6_______________1_______________0_______________297 ____95_______________6_______________1_______________0_______________307 ____91_______________6_______________0_______________0_______________313 ____60.10____________6.20____________0.90____________0.30____________234.00

TestAll:
FileTest Write Number 100 Read Number 100 Time 20ms RegTest Write Number 100 Read Number 100 Time 8ms MesTest Send Number 10000 Recieve Number 10000 Time 184ms All Time 207ms Wine 1.0: TestApi:

WriteFile________ReadFile________WriteReg________ReadReg___________MsgTest ____44_______________21______________7_______________6_______________900 ____35_______________20______________8_______________7_______________1147 ____45_______________21______________7_______________6_______________1455 ____59_______________19______________7_______________6_______________1731 ____69_______________22______________6_______________6_______________2007 ____75_______________20______________7_______________6_______________2286 ____85_______________21______________7_______________6_______________2467 ____97_______________22______________8_______________7_______________2447 ____112______________23______________7_______________6_______________2434 ____106______________20______________7_______________8_______________2478 ____72.70____________20.90___________7.10____________6.40____________1935.20

TestAll:
FileTest Write Number 100 Read Number 100 Time 73ms RegTest Write Number 100 Read Number 100 Time 95ms MegTest Send Number 10000 Recieve Number 10000 Time 1222ms All Time 1270ms Performance improvement: WriteFile: 17.33% ReadFile: 70.33% WriteReg: 87.32% ReadReg: 95.31% MsgTest: 87.91% Summation: 83.70%

Test analysis:
Now we take file write operation as an illustration.Wine at least executes the following operations:
  1. Client process sends the get_handle_fd request to wineserver process. Note that there should be two system calls, one is the write system call to pipe by send_request function, and the other is the read system call to pipe by wait_reply function.
  2. Wineserver is scheduled and runs.
  3. Wineserver find the opened file descriptor of target file in the client process in terms of the handle, and sends it to the client. There must be at least 3 system calls involved. One is the write syscall to pipe by send_reply function, next is the poll syscall alike select syscall and the read syscall to pipe by read_request function.
  4. Client process is scheduled to run.
  5. Client process makes use of dup syscall to duplicate a new temporary file descriptor.
  6. Client process calls write syscall to write the file by the duplicated file descriptor.
  7. Client process calls close syscall to close the duplicated file descriptor.

In contrast, Longene don't have the mentioned schedule operations in 2 and 4 above because of wineserver's removal. Longene has fixed the send_reply and read_request's implementation from inter-process communication to system call. So it decreases the time spent in inter-process communication.




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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Google gives Windows the boot and opts for Mac and Linux

With Apples market share growth increasing you really dont see a lot of companies moving from Windows-based computers to Macs. Sure, you will find mixed environments, with Macs predominantly in the creative departments. But, you dont typically see a complete departure from Windows. Well, Google is making the move from Windows based computers to Macs and Linux based computers.

Google is tired of security issues with Windows, and this is what they are doing about it:

Were not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort, said one Google employee. Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks, said another. New hires are now given the option of using Apples Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. Linux is open source and we feel good about it, said one employee. Microsoft we dont feel so good about.


More companies need to look at what Google is doing, and really look at what the costs are for security prevention versus switching to a more secure platform. Yes, at first the costs will be high, because not only are you replacing the hardware, you will be replacing software as well. One way to look at software replacement costs is this way: when you have to upgrade your company from one version of Office to another, a large cost is incurred. Well, instead of upgrading from one version of Office to another, you take that cost and apply it to the Mac version of Office.

Inevitably you will run into some software that is only made for Windows and not for Macs or Linux. When this happens you, can always look into Crossover for Mac or Linux. These are emulators that allow you to run Windows based applications in OS X or Linux. The application acts as a translation layer between the Windows application and the non-Windows operating system.

I like how Google is giving their employees a choice of which computer they would like to use – a Mac or a Linux-based computer. This is definitely a bold move on Google’s part. They are taking the status quo and turning it on its side by doing this. My only question is when Googles Chrome Operating System is ready for prime time, will they be making the same kind of move, or will they still give their employees a choice? Only time will tell.


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