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Snooping WordWeb

Started by Ranjhith · 11 months ago

Having fully transitioned to Ubuntu, WordWeb is the only Windows application that I missed. After setting it to work on Ubuntu, one fine day, it gave this surprising message:

Bloody WordWeb was secretively snooping my StrawBee (thats how I named my lappy :). Some kinda system moni ... Continue reading »

6 comments

  • Sujai

    1 year ago

    Hey..Glad to hear that you moved to Ubuntu! Welcome to the brave new world.
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  • Ranjhith

    1 year ago

    @Sujai
    Its all becos of the guys like you. Do spread the message. :)
    The satisfaction is immense, if you get something working.
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  • Roopa

    1 year ago

    Why not just use a dictionary written for Linux instead of loading WordWeb with 'Wine' and getting it drunk? I find the GNOME dictionary way more user friendly than WordWeb (and more stable too).

    Wine makes sense only for those applications that don't have a Linux equivalent. Antony Lewis is right - sensible people don't see this message :P
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  • Ranjhith

    1 year ago

    @Roopa
    GNOME one is online, I suppose. I need something that doesn't connect to the internet.

    Sensible ppl shud be feared of such a message, so they might diligently switch-off their machines. :) Anyways, this is way too much for WordWeb to do that.
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  • Roopa

    1 year ago

    yeah, the GNOME dictionary, by default, connects to the internet but you can tweak it to connect to a local dictionary server (check this ). It would be an one time effort (and if you can't take that effort, go back to Windows!) but once you get it working, it would be way less cumbersome than running WordWeb through Wine. I personally loved the GNOME dictionary that I missed when I switched to Windows...

    If you think what WordWeb is doing isn't fair, how fair is it, running a program designed for Windows on Linux? Isn't that an insult to all the Windows programmers world-wide? huh? :P
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  • Ranjhith

    1 year ago

    @Roopa
    Thanks for coming back. :) Will check that out.
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