Hmmmmm …
Well there’s a weird — ish — thing.
Possibly …
Now, if you read today’s teaser, you’ll have probably noticed that a couple of things.
Firstly, that Trevor, FSG Drone and Andrea are all ready and raring to get commenting.
Bless them!
But you’ll have also noticed that I was off to an interview in Chelmsford.
Nice town, Chelmsford.
The actual job itself is one that also looks quite attractive.
Whether I’ve got it, or not, is another matter, but I think the interview went well.
I’ll hear — at the latest — by close of play, Monday.
Keep your fingers crossed for me!
•••••
At any rate, being in Chelmsford meant I could — if nothing else — pop in on Dave: a mutual friend of Tim and myself.
Bless him, do you remember me writing — a while back, now — that Tim and I had installed Ubuntu 9•10 on Dave’s PC?
Well, he’s had — for the most part — no problems with it.
Well …
Nothing a little patience can’t solve, bless him!
Until today, that is …
Dave, like many of us is currently hunting up a job.
And — like a lot of people in the building trade — every-so-often has to update his paperwork.
You know, Health and Safety certification, Hard-Hat-Unknotting, stuff like that.
To the point where he’d been sent a CD full of applications, designed to help him revise for an up-coming test on Health and Safety.
Chock full of free applications …
For Windoze ’98 and above, only.
Poo!
As you can imagine, he wasn’t especially pleased.
Not that I minded helping, actually: it gave me a chance to see Dave, as I’ve not seen him for a while, and it gave me a chance to check out a new — to me — piece of kit, called Wine.
Which, in case you didn’t it, is an emulator: a piece of software — available on many platforms — designed to ‘emulate’ another piece of software.
In the case of Wine, it allows you emulate various version’s of Windoze …
Not something I’d usually recommend, just as a matter of principle.
But, as I said to Dave, I’m kinda geeky enough to want to see if it works.
Hmmm …
I’ve gort to admit, I’m kind of glad Dave had the chance to get the book to help him revise for this test …
Because Wine certainly didn’t …
Well, no, that’s maybe putting it the wrong way.
We tinkered, chatted, gossiped, and tinkered some more with WINE, and tried out the CD Dave had, to see if it would work with the set-up on his computer.
It — seemingly — didn’t, as you can possibly tell from the screen grabs I’ve included.
The CD didn’t.
But the set of free games Dave had with a copy of the film version of Charlotte’s Web he’d got for his daughter?
That seemed to work well enough.
Even to the point of seemingly downloading and installing the relevant version of Qucktime, from Apple.
Quite what that implies?
I’m not exactly sure.
I’m assuming that what we’ve got here, is either a bad disc. Or incomplete software: after all there was something the refused to install itself as part of the process.
OR somewhere along the line we’ve made a mistake installing Wine.
Somehow, I don’t think so …
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