On 08/20/2012 01:28 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Maybe I missed it, but why not use wine here?
Wine is unlikely to work. Remember this is a machine that controls hardware. With a few exceptions wine doesn't do anything with hardware (drivers, etc). Getting Windows re-installed is going to be Gabe's easy job. Getting the control software up and running... that will be a bigger trick. <RANT>Working with instrumentation and control hardware and software companies is really like going back in time to the bad old days of the 80s. Copy protection, dongles, etc. It's horrible. And many instrumentation companies orphan their hardware as the software moves on. You want the new software, well buy the new USB version of the instrument. only $100k such a deal. Also at BYU we had one company that granted us a perpetual site license for a particular version of their analysis software 5 years previous, but then refused to grant us new license files because it was an old version and they'd much rather we upgraded to the latest version for a mere $10k. I hacked around this one using an arcane virtual machine solution to run RH 6.2 underneath RHEL 5. I think I used virtuoso containers for this to make it super light weight and still secure. Other companies insist on arcane license enforcement strategies when the fact is that their software is useless without their instrument hardware. So their instrument is a big freaking dongle. Why do they need a hasp dongle as well? I know professors are cheapskates but still it's ridiculous. sigh. That's one aspect of the job I don't miss at all.</RANT> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
