[K12OSN] Wine, IE6 and Java

[Rob Owens]

http://www.frankscorner.org/

This website has some decent instructions for setting up various programs to work with wine.

-Rob



 --- On Mon 02/07, richard ingalls < aslansreturn at yahoo.com > wrote:
From: richard ingalls [mailto: aslansreturn at yahoo.com]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:50:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Wine, IE6 and Java

<br>--- Brian Beck <Linux_Man at comcast.net> wrote:<br><br>> Mark Cockrell wrote:<br>> > Hello all,<br>> >    I recently managed to get Internet Explorer 6<br>> working using WINE and<br>> > WineTools, but I can't seem to get Java working<br>> with it.  I'm getting a <br>> > message saying that there's not enough memory to<br>> install the Java <br>> > Virtual Machine.  We need to use this for some<br>> online testing, and I'm <br>> > hoping to be able to use our thin-client labs. <br>> Any (constructive) <br>> > thoughts are welcome. (No "Microsoft is evil"<br>> stuff, please.)<br>> > <br>> <br>> Why, in the name of God, would you ever run that<br>> insecure POS on a Linux <br>> system?  Seriously.  Just get Firefox working before<br>> someone hacks your <br>> system.<br>> <br><br>I'll tell you why... At least in Missouri, where I'm<br>an educator, the State Department of Education, and<br>their "genius" web-programmers, in their infinte<br>wisdom have chosen to use propietar!
y (M$) formats for<br>their web-apps and file formats, etc...  So when you<br>try to access certain pages from Mozilla you will get<br>error messages and NOT be able to accomplish your<br>tasks.  They ONLY work in IE!  So we are forced to<br>have IE on our systems.<br><br>I'd like to know all the details as to how you got IE<br>working on your server.  It would sure come in handy<br>when we try to access those pages from our Linux labs.<br> At this point, I tell the teachers they will have to<br>access that from our Windows lab instead.<br><br>Anyone know how to get Macromedia Shockwave/Director<br>working on Linux boxes?<br><br><br>		<br>__________________________________ <br>Do you Yahoo!? <br>Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search.<br>http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12o!
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