Re: List of tech consultants?

On 10/9/06, Michael Hopcroft <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bryce Verdier wrote:
> > Is there something specific your trying to do? Because maybe some of
> > the people on the list might be able to help you out.
> Well, I'm trying to escape the Microsoft Menace before Vista arrives and
> the WGA program raises total havoc with legitimate XP systems. However,
> I have five distinct problems:
>
> 1. My major hobby (anime fandom) requires a great deal of DVD burning
> and duplication. There are certain Windows programs I have come to
> depend on that have no known Linux analogue. I probably shouldn't
> specify which programs here -- you never know who is listening.

I think these programs can all run under wine.

http://www.winehq.com/

> 2. I have a Canon Pixma MP150 Printer/Scanner/Copier. I do not know
> whether there is a driver for it, and it is a USB device which
> complicates matters a bit.

No driver yet :-(

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP150

> 3. There are some Windows games that I do not wish to give up. There are
> obscure wargame and sports simulation titles, and while they are not
> graphically intensive on the level of, say, the EA Sports Madden series
> their file structures are built heavily around the Windows OS (so that,
> for example, it looks for a Windows address for scenarios, saves,
> seasons, etc.). I am wondering whether, even with emulators, the file
> structure would defeat any effort to play these games.

Either the previously mentioned wine, or cegega

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedega

> 4. I am a frequent customer of DriveThruRPG.com, which watermarks PDF
> files  to mark legitimate ownership. Would these watermarks pose a
> problem for Linux PDF readers, and are there Linux software packages
> that support cut-and-paste from PDFs to other software.

I remember doing copy/paste from a linux pdf reader at some point, but
don't remember what app it was.

> 5. Even though I have 850GB total storage between two internal and one
> external hard drive, I am still uncertain of how I can migrate my data
> between OSs.

The linux ext2 filesystem can be read from windows (with an add on
program), and the windows ntfs filesystem can be read from linux.

> Those, in a nutshell, are my difficulties. Other than that, I have what
> I need -- my disks of Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6, a cable broadband connection,
> and everything that goes with it. Asdie from perhaps having another
> 250GB external drive to back up my C: drive onto, which I will not be
> able to get my hands on for a while, I have what would be required for a
> transition; except the expertise.
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