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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, walt<w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 06/28/2009 10:16 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM, pk<peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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>>> Why Windows? I'm merely curious, not trying to criticize... |
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>> No offense taken. All the trading is done on the Windows platform |
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>> using proprietary trading platform apps. All the datafiles are |
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>> therefore sitting in Windows and it just seems easier... |
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> So true, and that's exactly where M$ wants us. I need to use a |
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> couple of M$-specific apps for the same reason, and much to my |
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> joy they both run very well on recent versions of wine. |
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> I first tried wine years ago when it was running only 16-bit |
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> windows apps and I gave it up as nothing more than a toy -- but |
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> things have *really* changed since then! |
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> Wine is a toy no longer, it's a powerful tool and I'd urge you |
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> to play with it at for a week or two to see what it can do. |
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> They have an apps database that lists popular windows programs |
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> that are known to run under wine (or not) and what you need to do |
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> to get them working. |
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> http://appdb.winehq.org/ |
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> I don't see Trade Station listed there but you could be the first |
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> one to get it working :-) |
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I used to be an app maintainer for wine. I know about it and support |
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it but no longer us it. I tried TS maybe a year ago. It wouldn't even |
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install much less run. There's no good way for Wine developers to |
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debug the problems as it required a funded account for anyone to run |
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it. |
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Sorry, but I'd never risk REAL money trading a Windows app in like TS |
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in Wine, vmware, xen or anything else that the app wasn't specifically |
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written for. The very last thing I wanted to do with this thread is |
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create some sort of religious war. It's not my intent. I do however |
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STRONGLY support your right to become a full-time, fully automated |
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trader trading every day with your own money like I have. Then you'll |
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have the right to decide what to do with your money for real as |
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opposed to making suggestions about what I do with mine. |
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Yes, M$ wants us there, and you can go check the TS forums (or maybe |
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you can't if you don't have a trading account - I don't remember) to |
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find the 50 times I've asked TS to port their platform to any distro, |
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any revision of Linux. The number of people responding in the positive |
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is large, but TS has no visible intention of do it so I'm locked in. |
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Please, let's drop the M$ stuff from this discussion. R will like work |
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out nicely for me. I can run the trading on windows, because it's the |
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only practical solution, but I can share a drive over the network and |
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use R on Gentoo reading those files. Please don't assume that because |
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I use Windows that I prefer it. FAR FROM IT! |
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With best regards, |
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Mark |