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CODEWEAVERS WILL BE GIVING AWAY CROSSOVER FOR FREE FOR ONE DAY

ashokgelal — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:13:21 +0000

Codeweaver, the maker of crossover software which allows you to run Windows applications in Linux & MacOS with the help of Wine, will be giving away its award wining software for free for one day.

Tomorrow, October 28, will be a day of joy for the Linux users who are looking to run some of the Windows Applications with Wine. Don’t forget to visit Codeweaver’s home page at least once tomorrow as they will give you a deal code which will allow you to download and use Crossover for free for your whole life. This will be a full version and will come with technical support. Did you bookmarked the site?

BTW, don’t forget to thanks George Bush for this. An excerpt from their press release:

“I launched the campaign to inspire President Bush to make the most of his final days in office. Who knew that our Challenge would have this kind of impact on the country?” White said. “On the other hand, who knew that the economy would implode, causing oil demand to drop into the abyss and gas prices to plummet as well. Clearly, investigating Bear Stearns, AIG and those guys is misplaced – CodeWeavers is responsible for this mess. So it’s free software for all!”

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Switch to Linux Today! bsod Linux Flier

ashokgelal — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:50:12 +0000

There are many reasons to switch to Linux, but this is one of them – to get rid of BSOD!

Download it, print it and paste it on your college flier board if you ever need to show your Linux love, Windows hatred, and bsod anger.

bsod Linux flier

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Install MS Office 2007 in Linux

ashokgelal — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:10:44 +0000

Though there are many alternatives for MS Office, no doubt MS Office 2007 is a winner. If you want to install MS 2007 in Linux follow these steps:

Install Wine
Select Applications>Wine>Configure Wine to bring the Wine Configuration dialog box.
Select Windows Version as Windows Vista from the Applications Tab
Override two dll files rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll from Libraries tab. Override them to be Native (Windows)
Download rpcrt4.dll file. Click here and save it on your desktop.
Open the c_drive from Wine menu
Delete rpcrt4.dll and msxml3.dll files from Windows/System32 directory.
Copy the downloaded rpcrt4.dll file into Windows/System32 directory
Download msxml3.msi file from Microsoft download site (here is the direct link for your convenience).
Install msxml3.msi file from the Terminal window by issuing msiexec /i msxml3.msi
Double click on setup.exe file from your MS Office 2007 installation CD. If it doesn’t work just type wine setup.exe from the Terminal window.
Follow the normal installation procedures.

Watch the step-by-step video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

UPDATE: Before you install Office 2007 don’t forget about winetricks. It might help to resolve many issues. Just go to http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks, copy the text (codes) in a file winetrick. From the terminal window type sh winetricks. Check all the msxml stuffs and click install.

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