[lug] Ubuntu users: request for topics for articles

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:28 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote:
> How about Windows support in Ubuntu?  Can you put your Turbo Tax CD in 
> the drive and double-click on Install?  Can you put World of Warcraft on 
> it? (I know you can but I never did it myself).  I am thinking about 
> Wine for these questions, not using a virtual machine.

That would require expending cash on commercial software to test it.
Magazines (at least the ones I write for) don't usually offer expenses
on top of the commission.  And since they pay so little, it's not really
worth my cost, especially since I'll never use those titles again.

> How about cross-platform document synchronization, including to other 
> desktops, laptops, PDAs, phones, iPods.  I know about Unison but it's 
> pretty ugly, slow and difficult to configure and automate, especially on 
> Windows.  This can't be answered by using network storage either, 
> because plenty of documents need to be available when networks are not.

I was researching Ubuntu yesterday and noticed they have something
related to this.  I think its called Ubuntu One.  I know nothing about
it, but did find that some in the community don't like its commercial
aspect.  There appear to be some alternatives.

That will make for a good article.  I'll put that on my list.

Thanks Zan.
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Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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