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Ross Bearman wrote: > 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 >> >> > > Why do you need wine to fun flash, when there are flash players for Linux? -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format Software Freedom day 21st September 2008 Paignton rugby club sponsorship and advertising opportunities, please visit http://www.paigntonrugby.net and click sponsorship. DCLUG visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- 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