PE apps on linux, alternative solutions when win4lin breaks

[Maxim Veksler]

Hello Tomer,

No, it's not High Learn. It's an in house software that seems to be
developed by openu. Anyway, the website it self is not the problem,
the whole system is quite workable with Firefox / Chrome, the IT
department at openU is actually quite aware of standards and browser
interoperability.

The problem is that the lectures them self were created with a stupid
thing called "Microsoft Producer"[1] which requires an ActiveX plugin
to make it even start. So I must have a IE browser fully working with
sound, popups and everything to view the lectures.

Suggestions?


[1] http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/technologies/producer.mspx


On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Tomer Cohen<tomer at gmx.net> wrote:
> What software are openu.ac.il using? In case it is highlearn, you can use
> the following userscript - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9847
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 00:04, Maxim Veksler <maxim.veksler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello friends,
>>
>> I've recently decided to give another take on running iexplorer on
>> linux because of http://openu.ac.il lectures.
>> I'm looking for as lightweight as possible solution to run IE & Office
>> 2003 on Ubuntu 9.04.
>>
>> I've tried Win4Lin because of the feature of opening just 1
>> application instead of a full virtual machine but the product* is
>> buggy and totally crashes. I have also tried WINE but this does not
>> work with the required ActiveX openu installs. Is there some other
>> virtualization solution (VMWare?, VirtualBox?, Xen? more...?) that
>> could provide the feature of opening single application as if it was
>> native?
>>
>> What alternatives / creative ideas are there ?
>> All I need is Internet Explorer and Office so that I could view the
>> video lectures.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for helping,
>> Maxim.
>>
>>
>> P.S. * Note "Product", not "Project" - it's a commercial software.
>
>
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> Tomer Cohen
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