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On the other hand, my 14 year old daughter uses Ubuntu 8.04 at home, and transfers homework files to and from windoze machines at school.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
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