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No, not the kind of wine that makes you tipsy, but the kind that allows Windows programs to run on non-windows operating systems. With the release of Google Chrome, the new browser from Google, I was disappointed that they had failed to make a beta version for other operating systems. However, I tried running the installer in wine, only to get the following result:

fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0×13fba0 0×33f930) stub!
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000280, 00000001): partial stub.
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),6,2,(nil),64,(nil)) - stub!
fixme:winhttp:WinHttpOpen ((null), 1, (null), (null), 0×0): stub

A few people managed to get it working through a few tweaks.

First, make sure you are running the latest version of wine (1.1.3 currently).

Download the offline installer of Google Chrome.

Then get the native riched20 and riched30:

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks

sh ./winetricks riched20 riched30

To run Google Chrome simply execute the following command:

wine “$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe” –new-http –in-process-plugins

It should also run from your Wine program directory (Applications -> Wine -> Programs -> Google Chrome) if you are running Gnome.

Just to prove it works, here is a screenshot.

It works!

Oh yeah, and I wrote this post in Google Chrome :D

It is a bit laggy and the anti-aliasing doesn’t work, but that is expected with a compatibility layer such as wine. All the main features are fast and impressive though. It gets a thumbs up from me!

This month’s book is “Biblical Nonsense” by Dr. Jason Long, and I’m thinking about scrapping the live discussion. It is fun when you get to invite the author along (as with Hemant Mehta) but otherwise it usually ends up with 2 people discussing the book for about 5 minutes, and then turning onto something else.

So the discussion for this book will simply take place over in the forums.

We need to start choosing a book for October.

Do not vote unless you wish to read the book or take part in the discussion!

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I’d also like to know who out of my readership is interested in the book club, so please make a comment if you think you’ll be able to subscribe to it regularly. I’d also love some feedback on it.

A load of tech-based blogs (and some atheist ones) have been going on about the new Google browser “Chrome”. It looks good (nice and basic), and it is built on the best rendering engine: WebKit. I’ve often wished Mozilla just used WebKit, or at least had a function to switch rendering engines. There has been a bit of idle chatter about possibly using WebKit with Firefox, but it never leads anywhere.

There is one problem with Chrome though; it doesn’t work on Linux. That might not come as a surprise to most people, since a load of you probably use Windows (eurgh), or Mac OSX (eurgh eurgh). However, given Google’s commitments to Linux it is rather odd that they wouldn’t develop the version for Linux at the same time as the Windows release. Every Google server currently runs Linux, all their company computers run Linux, and it is no secret that the company itself hates Microsoft.

So why have they committed to a Windows Beta, and then promised a Linux version after the release of version 1.0? They don’t understand that I have to restart my computer, boot into the miserable NTFS partition, wait 5 minutes for XP to load, fiddle about with the wireless network which never manages to start properly, and then wait a further minute for my web browser to load, all just to download and install a copy of the beta.

Seeing as I don’t use Windows for anything other than gaming, I usually wouldn’t have much time to play around with it. Luckily, in two days time, Spore comes out, and my ext3 partition won’t see the light of day for several weeks. Of course my laptop will still provide me with my daily fix of Gentoo for good measure. So Chrome will become my browser for browsing Spore forums, looking at creatures other people have created, and of course, downloading copious amounts of “Spornography”.