Yes most likely the fact that you were trying to run it in WINE instead of an actual Windoze environment saved you some headaches from cleaning out malware/nagware/etc. IMHO stuff that is As Seen On TV! (tm) as far as computer programs go, is next to worthless (unless you are watching an actual tech review show kind of thing, not an ad).
Besides you are already taking a good step to speed up your computer- you are running Linux instead of Windows.... ;) ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Robert Kopp <[email protected]>wrote: > I didn't expect it to work, but I was wondering what it would do, if > anything. > It just crashed. (WINE can run unprivileged, as I did in this case, so I > doubt > that running a dubious Windows application will do any harm.) > > > Robert "Tim" Kopp > http://analytic.tripod.com/ > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Nathan W <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 2:44:31 PM > Subject: Re: [PLUG] MaxMySpeed > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:02:03 -0700 Aaron Burt <[email protected]> wrote > > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:44:41PM -0700, Robert Kopp wrote: > > > This televised application doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu. I > downloaded > > > MaxMySpeed.exe and set the execute bit to make it executable under > WINE. It > > > > > > loads, runs briefly, and crashes. > > > > Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke. > > i was going to suggest that it might run faster if you set it on fire > first. > given that the author has a page like this > http://analytic.tripod.com/id20.htm > on his website, i'm guessing/hoping/praying it's a joke. > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
