On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, John pdx wrote:

> You could watch logging in realtime and see where the proggie tries to
> "reachout"?

Run wireshark and see what packets go across the net. Sounds pretty bogus.

> On Apr 26, 2011 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.
>>
>>
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