Norman Vine writes: > > > > > I have been wondering whether the Outlook autorun feature > > > could conveniently be used to assist Windows users who would > > > like to use FlightGear. They sign up for the mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual and their > > > start of subscription mail message has a PIF attachment > > > that autoinstalls FlightGear. Thereafter, whenever we > > > have a version upgrade, the announcement is copied to that > > > mailing list ... together with a PIF autorun attachment > > > that will apply the upgrade without user intervention. > > > > This is a good idea, but I think that we can take it a little further. > > What if the PIF attachment automatically uninstalled MSFS and > > installed FGFS in its place? Curt would need to upgrade his server to > > handle the load, of course, but then we could start sending out the > > attachment even to people who do not currently use FlightGear, just to > > ease their transition to Open Source. > > > > We should get in touch with Linus and Alan -- they could use this > > technique to get Linux better established on the desktop as well. > > I don't know which is worse waste of bandwith > > Worms and/or virii on Windows, > Trolls > > % move thread /dev/nul
Actually, this should be /dev/null if you misspell null you're file system will probabably fill up rather quickly. (Spoken from personal experience.) :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
