Look what I found on the Microsoft Japan island in Second Life today:
A jab at our favourite penguin, perhaps?
“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.
OpenOffice.org reading .docx!
12 March 2008Yesterday, I received a .docx (in MSOOXML format) file from somebody. I was just about to reply with a polite message asking them to transfer $549 to my bank account for a copy of Office 2007, when I tried opening it, OpenOffice.org (2.4rc2, currently in Ubuntu Hardy, and according to Cafuego, it also works in 2.3) popped up, reading it fine!
IE8 will pass the Acid2 test
20 December 2007According to the Internet Explorer blog, IE8, currently in development, passes the Acid2 test. This is great news for everybody: web developers and web users in the general public.
