September 16, 2009

Using SMEStorage Multi-Cloud Explorer with Ubuntu | TheSMESpace Blog

Using SMEStorage Multi-Cloud Explorer with Ubuntu Posted by info on September 6th, 2009
One of our users recently pointed out to us how they are using the SMEStorage Multi-Cloud explorer within Ubuntu. The explorer is one component of our windows tooling that is installed. The explorer itself is a dedicated .exe file so that makes it compact an easy to run when using virtualisation libararies such as WINE or Crossover.
Ubuntu provides support for WINE within its additional applications. To intalle support for Wine in Ubuntu you need to add the Wine Package:

Once Wine is added Just double clicking on the explorer file will launch it using the WINE virtualisation.

The Explorer can work with the Following clouds (depending on your package):
- Amazon S3
- Mosso Cloud Files
- MobileME
- Box.net
- WebDav enabled Clouds
- GMail-as-a-Cloud
- Email-as-a-Cloud
- FTP-as-a-Cloud (Private Cloud)
A single version of the explorer without having to install the entire suite on windows to extract it can be downloaded here.

via thesmespace.com

SMEStorage is a multi-platform cloud storage service which hooks into Amazon S3, Rackspace, Box.net, iDisk, Gmail, and other providers to provide a unified interface. Here we see a way to run the Multi-Cloud Explorer in Wine on Ubuntu.

September 14, 2009

Run Evernote in Ubuntu Linux with Wine

Before I made the decision to ditch Windows Vista in favor of Ubuntu Linux, I asked myself what I would really be giving up. The only answer I could come up with was the marvelous Evernote client, which is not distributed in a Linux version. While the Web interface retains allmost all of the functionality of the client, it of course by definition lacks the convenience of a local copy of your Evernote database. With a little research, however, I am happy to announce that I am now running the latest Evernote 3.1.0.1225 in Ubuntu 9.04 using Wine. Wine is a Linux program that allows you to install and run many Windows programs in Linux. You can see that a couple of graphical components are a little wonky (the black boxes around the toolbar icons), but overall the functionality is intact. In fact, I took the above screen shot with Evernote. My database, over 1GB, synchronized without a hitch. And the automatic update feature even works properly as well. All in all, I'm extremely pleased.

Installing Wine in Ubuntu is very simple. Go to Applications > Add/Remove and type "wine" in the search box. Click the check box, click "Apply," and the program will install. To install Evernote, just download the installer file and double-click it. A launcher icon should appear on the desktop, and Evernote will also appear in Applications > Wine > Programs.

I found that at first, the text in the Evernote List View was not displaying. This was remedied with the simple registry fix below:

6.16. Wine displays corrupted or missing text.

This may be bug 16146, caused by the nvidia-96xx legacy driver, or bug 18120, which affects QT 4.5.0 applications. It could also be caused by missing fonts, font conflicts, or adding new fonts to Wine.

Try using a fresh Wine prefix (by moving or deleting ~/.wine, or changing the $WINEPREFIX environment variable). If you still have this problem, try setting the following in the Wine registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
"ClientSideWithRender"="N"
Place above in a text file called norender.txt and it can be inserted into the registry with the command regedit norender.txt. Please apply only as required. (This was reported as being required of OS X on the 1 Dec 2007, and more recently on other platforms, such as Ubuntu.)

via wiki.winehq.org

I may even try running some other Windows programs in Wine at some point. Maybe. But there are so many excellent native Linux apps, I may not need to.