Paul's Journal

09/17/2010 10:10 #52766

PDF-XChange Viewer on fedora 13
Category: linux

While there may be alternatives, you do not need on. I have pdf xchange viewer

running on linux natively using wine.

Install wine using fedora package manager (System->Administration->add remove software).

Search wine and install (A Windows 16/32/64 bit emulator) if it is not already installed.

Then download the installer for PDF Xchange and run the installer like normal. Because i don't normally run this software, I can't tell you how good it works. Its seems to be stable to me though. Hopefully, (e:tinypliny,52765) can give you more info.

It should make a shortcut on the desktop. You can drag that to the panel at the top of the screen if you prefer.

paul - 09/17/10 14:46
Emulators are slow because they emulate the hardware with software. e.g. you could run a powerpc emulator on an intel cpu or a gameboy processor emulator on a cell phone cpu. I believe wine and other virtualization such as virtualbox and vmware actually allows the software to use the hardware directly and therefore are not slow like emulators e.g. QEMU

Its why you can't have wine directly on a powerpc distro.

uncutsaniflush - 09/17/10 12:15
Wine is a compatibility layer that runs the Windows api. My guess is that for the end user there is not much difference between a "compatibility layer" and an "emulator"

But I think you are right, Fedora/Red Hat shouldn't call it an emulator.

paul - 09/17/10 10:59
Wine runs natively off the processor. Wine actually stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. Not sure why they used the term emulator in the package manager.

The more integrated the program is with windows itself, the less likely it is to work. I do believe that you can run many things though this way. :::link::: for more info.

You can always use virtual box for things that need full on windows.

tinypliny - 09/17/10 10:54
That is great!
But opens up a gaggle of questions...

So wine is fine then? I thought the idea was not to use and run things straight off fedora without an emulation interface. Is this a bridge solution till a native PDF Xchange-like solution comes to fedora? You said you were able to run Q10 as well - does that mean I can run almost any windows program on wine (that I can't find native alternatives to) and get away with it... including say, MS Word?!

09/16/2010 19:05 #52762

Seabar lunch 2
Category: food

And I am going there for dinner tomorrow. (e:jon) got the new loco moco which is a hamburger on fried rice with an egg on top and gravy. I think I want to try that next time.

I had the lunch special #2 - nigiri plate with sesame noodles and miso

09/15/2010 23:41 #52751

Mint Linux Test
Category: estrip

Drag drop worked for me in Mint linux Firefox 3.6.3. Seems like Mint uses KDE.

tinypliny - 09/16/10 19:08
Middle Earth has some awful names.

uncutsaniflush - 09/16/10 12:11
(e:paul) - I figured out what the problem was (more or less user error) in Linux Mint see :::link::: and the PCLinuxos box is just too old and patched.

Thanks for all your efforts about this.

09/15/2010 00:19 #52741

My New Workspace
Category: work

I love my new apple free environment. It really almost the only thing I like about work right now.

tinypliny - 09/16/10 19:14
The rotten and noisy dell keyboards we have on lesser privileged buildings in the campus are reason enough to hold on to that one.

paul - 09/15/10 09:10
It seems rediculous to replace a fully functional keyboard because of brand identity.

jason - 09/15/10 08:27
Dang, Tiny! Getting all technical on him!

tinypliny - 09/15/10 03:43
What's the brand of the keyboard?

09/15/2010 00:06 #52740

Seabar Lunch
Category: food

The lunches at seabar downtown Buffalo keep getting better. There lunch menu expanded like the dinner menu did. (e:samathon86) and I ended up on the new clubby looking side this time. The ambiance was pretty chic for lunch.

tinypliny - 09/16/10 19:11
man, I always get a tummy ache when I try miso soup. That and the smoky flavour always seemed a little fishy to me. Turns out that is true. Oh well. Good bye miso soup.

jbeatty - 09/15/10 08:13
The smokey flavor is from the bonito. Which is not vegetarian tiny!!! I went there for lunch on Friday. It was such a great meal. It almost made me miss working there.

tinypliny - 09/15/10 03:42
I wanted to like Miso soup but I am put off by that smoky flavour it always seem to have.