Look what I found on the Microsoft Japan island in Second Life today:
A jab at our favourite penguin, perhaps?
Arbitrary dates
8 August 2008Well, it turns out it’s the 8th day of the 8th month of the year 2008, or, 08/08/08. As I realised later today, that’s also the date of the opening ceremony of Beijing 2008.
Another arbitrary date: on the 6th of this month, I turned 18. Birthdays are strange — just an arbitrary date during the year that is used as an excuse to party. I didn’t have a party, mind you.
I’m now disappointed — being 18, I can’t use being underage as a defence in court in case I crack the US DOJ’s network, or bring down Google with a DoS attack. Ah well — fun’s over.
“IOPL not enabled” with Visio 2003 in Wine
4 August 2008If you’re trying to run Visio 2003 in Wine, and you’re getting the “IOPL not enabled” error message (or it hangs at the splash screen), try this:
- Make sure you’re running the latest version of Wine. (The latest stable version at the time of writing is version 1.0.)
- Type
winecfgin a terminal. Go to the Libraries tab, and add an entry calledgdiplus. Then, edit the entry you just added, and select “Native (Windows)”. Do not select “Native then Builtin” — that doesn’t work (for some reason)!
I thought I’d post this, because I spent absolutely ages trying to get this working, because Google failed me. Hopefully this post will get some Google juice.
