Saturday January 19, 2008 Links for 19th January 2008
This is what happens when you start off trying to do one thing, and get distracted. That first thing was read my email. Somehow I ended up on del.icio.us looking at their most popular tags.
That took me to:
- Simply Recipes: Cheesy Bread Recipe
which turned out to be our lunch. Even though we halved the ingredients we still have enough for another meal, so take that into consideration when preparing this.
We also recommend two other things. Firstly, cut down on the amount of butter. It was a tad too "greasy". Secondly, don't heap the mixture on the bread. Just a thin spread will do ya.
Whilst I was at del.icio.us, I checked out their games bookmarks and via a post to the random GNOMEs' lair on 100 excellent free games in bloom, I discovered this addictive little game.
- SubTerra
Simple controls. Lots of different challenges on lots of different levels. And time to think how to solve the puzzle without being turned into a dark stain by something large and rabid.
I setup the game on Duncan's Windows laptop but I thought I'd also like to try it on my Ferrari under Ubuntu (rather than have to boot into Windows XP to run it). So for the first time, I tried:
- Wine
Installation is trivial and just a few mouse clicks away via the Synaptic Package Manager.
For some reason I had it in the back on my mind that I was going to need to install a version of Windows on top of it, but no, all I had to do to install the SubTerra game was run:
% wine sub_inst.exeand follow the installers instructions (just like Windows).
It left an icon on my desktop that I can now double click on to start up the game. Graphics work great and so does the keyboard, mouse and sound. I was quietly impressed. I'll have to look for other things that I can now run via Wine.
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You have the best luck in WINE with software /not/ written by microsoft, I think. They know where everything is, so they're more likely to use obscure things that wine doesn't support.
Windows Media Player doesn't /quite/ work yet, Halo trial neither... most of the code is there-- it's the little things.
Posted by ethana2 on January 19, 2008 at 04:37 PM PST #
Maybe worth noting, but I'm also getting a Wine menu in my main menu, so for example I have the "Wine" menu alongside "Accessories", "System Tools" and the like, under which I have Program Files menu (iirc), then StarCraft, and then all the four menu entries from it. I got those automatically from installing the game with wine.
This is with a relatively stock gnome-menu, etc with the newest wine release (but I installed and got the menus since 0.9.50 or so). Wine makes .desktop files in the appropriate place and it just works :)
Posted by Mart Raudsepp on January 21, 2008 at 02:39 AM PST #
Thanks Mart! I'd totally missed that. It's at the
bottom of the Application menu under Ubuntu.
Nice. So much so, that I'll probably remove the
SubTerra icon from the desktop and just use
the menu when I want to run it.
Posted by Rich Burridge on January 21, 2008 at 07:29 AM PST #