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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Jun 9, 2008
I'm about halfway through a 16-hour search-and-replace operation on my Windows 2000 machine. I fired it up in safe mode, copied the "Program Files" folder from C: to D: and exported my registry. Then I set about changing every occurence of "C:\\Progra" to "D:\\Progra". In a 63MB file. In safe mode. 
When it's done sometime tomorrow morning I'll save it and re-import the Registry file before restarting the machine. Assuming it boots OK I'll delete the "C:\Program Files" directory, and free up a ton of space on my C: drive.
Why am I doing this? Because I don't have enough space on the C: drive to install a small DLL file for my webcam. 
This is long overdue. Once it's done and working I'll use the Windows 2000 box to copy files between hard drives for my pal Colin.
I watched "Naked News", two episodes of "Jericho", "Living with Modernism", "Dirt", "Numb3rs" and two episodes of "Family Guy". 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
I *need* it to test websites in IE. I've tried IE4Linux, but it gets the font sizes "wrong", or at least different from the Windoze version.
At least it's Windows 2000 - the best version of Windows ever released. 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
Naked News won't play full-screen in VLC.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
Incidentally, IE4Linux *is* IE under WINE. It's just an automated install script.
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
I've never had any problems getting VLC to run full-screen with Debian 
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
"but it gets the font sizes "wrong", or at least different from the Windoze version" probably because it's using different fonts have you installed the appropriate fonts on your Linux distro
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
Yup. I've installed all the "Microsoft Web Fonts", in both the Linux and Windoze version. Still, if you have two lines of text, one with its size set in points or em, and the other set in px, side-by-side, when they're visually the same size (with font size at "Normal" or "100%") in Firefox, Opera and IE for Windoze the one set in px will be one or two pixels higher in IE running under WINE.
I've tried it in two different Linux distros; it's just a quirk.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
"I've never had any problems getting VLC to run full-screen with Debian"
It's a problem with the Windows Media streaming plugin. It fires up taking about 2/3rds of the screen area and has a permanent control bar at the bottom.
Anyhoo... I treat the Windoze machine as an "appliance" - it's connected to my TV and I use it for watching streaming video. It works, and it works well, apart from the HDD filling up to the point it fell over trying to install a driver.
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
your screen running at the same resolution and DPI under both windows and Linux?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
"your screen running at the same resolution and DPI under both windows and Linux?"
Near as dammit. And the screen resolution was different between the two Linux machines I observed the problem on. (One SuSE, One Ubuntu)
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
the DPI? (I think the default setting for MS Windows is 96)
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
IIRC I usually have 1024x768 15" monitors at about 72dpi, and 1280x1024 19" around 85dpi. Those are just rules of thumb; I can't be @rsed working it out "properly".
But the font discrepancy showed up between IE and Opera on the same Linux box, and they were running at the same DPI.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
(I've got to head to bed... Can we continue this another time...? 
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
but Opera isn't designed by MS so it's probably sensible enough to take account of things like DPI :_)
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jun 9, 2008
True, but unhelpful. As I said, I need the Windoze box to see how websites look in Windoze because they don't look the same in Linux under IE. Gotta crash now; will continue in the morning if you're still around...
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HappyDude Posted Jun 9, 2008
Well I'll just point out it is possible to change the DPI in Windows so all your careful work could be ruined anyway and wish you pleasant Microsoft free dreams 
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Dizzy the Void Posted Jun 10, 2008
Eh, I only use Windows because it has most of the games I'm interested in, and it doesn't seem to be as simple as "Just use WINE". I suppose I could use, say, VMWare ... meaning I'd have to scale up the requirements to include VMWare's overhead, and that of the parent OS ...
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