HAHAHA! My Tech Savvy got a problem Fixed today on the Linux Side of the equation.
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<Kythra> Ah, just here to report dead links. https://wiki.winehq.org/Importance_Of_Wine "Threat to national security" has been moved by whomever was maintaining that article, would suggest changing to https://web.archive.org/web/20050516194259/https://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/security/003535.html
<Kythra> I don't know if that's high priority enough to submit to bugzilla, as it's not really a code bug just a problem with the basic HTML that anyone who understands markup language could easily fix.
<zf> thanks, I just changed it
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<Kythra> NP, it's a pleasure to assist. Largely started reading it because wine was covered in discussions setoff by phoronix which linked to a Crossover article from Codeweavers which linked to the wine project, which, Initially I started filing with codeweavers only to realize oh wait I'm on Wine's webpage so that's their domain to resolve.
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All I could say about that is Ordinary folk would blame Wine for the Link being dead, whereas I'm more understanding and get that it's not wine's fault or responsibility that Network world reorganized it site from its state in 2005.
But, The fact that things often don't "just work" on Linux contributes to a negative perception of the operating system since, again, as stated, most people are tech illiterate rubes who would inappropriately blame wine, for a problem the publication NetworkWorld caused.
Especially as NetworkWorld would feel like a safe website to them, whereas wine would as a Dangerous, risky alternative to Microsoft Windows. Even though, as we all know, those of us tech-savvy 1337s, it's the other way around.
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<Kythra> Ah, just here to report dead links. https://wiki.winehq.org/Importance_Of_Wine "Threat to national security" has been moved by whomever was maintaining that article, would suggest changing to https://web.archive.org/web/20050516194259/https://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/security/003535.html
<Kythra> I don't know if that's high priority enough to submit to bugzilla, as it's not really a code bug just a problem with the basic HTML that anyone who understands markup language could easily fix.
<zf> thanks, I just changed it
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<Kythra> NP, it's a pleasure to assist. Largely started reading it because wine was covered in discussions setoff by phoronix which linked to a Crossover article from Codeweavers which linked to the wine project, which, Initially I started filing with codeweavers only to realize oh wait I'm on Wine's webpage so that's their domain to resolve.
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All I could say about that is Ordinary folk would blame Wine for the Link being dead, whereas I'm more understanding and get that it's not wine's fault or responsibility that Network world reorganized it site from its state in 2005.
But, The fact that things often don't "just work" on Linux contributes to a negative perception of the operating system since, again, as stated, most people are tech illiterate rubes who would inappropriately blame wine, for a problem the publication NetworkWorld caused.
Especially as NetworkWorld would feel like a safe website to them, whereas wine would as a Dangerous, risky alternative to Microsoft Windows. Even though, as we all know, those of us tech-savvy 1337s, it's the other way around.
