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As far as I remember, WINE supports shockwave, but you may have to use a browser running in WINE to access it. Regards, Ross Bearman On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adam Latham wrote: >> No, I had AVG 8 running on the Windoze machine. However, clever >> children like to play on MSN messenger and despite the '..for gods sake, >> scan stuff before you open it.' pleas, I'm just the old dude who knows >> nothing! >> > > LOL I've had something similar from my step daughter who's 14. > >> The move completely from Linux is down to daughters fixation with Habbo >> (Shockwave Flash Thingy) and very old habits that are hard to eradicate >> started at school which are... >> >> Windoze is your master... if it ain't Windoze it ain't no good! > > Ahh yeah, from what I understand there isn't a Shockwave plugin for > Linux. Hmmm, does Wine support Shockwave? > > >> We will win in the end, and That silly new windoze OS is certainly >> helping! My Kids hate it! > > Is that Vista? > >> The big problem is I don't use the windows box, but seem to spend half >> my time fixing the darned thing... when .dll's attack (or get updated by >> M$ and blow up your OS) >> >> Ho, hum! Keep up the great work M$! >> > > If it was me I'd install Windows on VMWare, install everything the kids > want and then copy the disk image. If it screws up, simply copy the > files back over. > > I've done a quick Google search and it seems that Habbo Hotel works on > Ubuntu via Firefox on Wine. Not tried it myself but I'm going to have a > play now. > > May be a good solution. > > Rob > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html