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January 07, 2005
Crossover Office: 100% pure Windows
I'd been struggling with my own imcompetence for... well, pretty much my entire life, but it'd been more of a burden recently - but I digress.
I'd been struggling with my own imcompetence recently as I'd been strangely unable to reconfigure my much beloved Lotus Notes installation on the Windows partition of my laptop, after having used it quite successfully for several months through Crossover Office (a commercial port of Wine) on the Linux partition of the same laptop.
The reasons why I wanted to revert were twofold:
- To obtain whatever slight performance gain I might eke out of running natively (and if you don't believe an email client needs to be performant, I invite you to step into my Notes-using shoes for a couple of days)
- To restore the cultural diversity to my home office, which consists of the laptop, my G4 iMac and an AMD-64 PC running Fedora Core 3.
So after fruitlessly comparing the working and busted configurations between my Windows and Linux installs, I made one heavy-handed last attempt by copying the entire Lotus program directory from the Crossover Office/Wine installation across to my Windows partition and... Voila! No further changes needed, no configuration outside this directory structure (including no registry entries, thank God!).
Perhaps this is the first documented case of "configuration stupidity is the mother of invention"?
Posted by Andy Marks at January 7, 2005 06:26 AM
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