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Fuzzy Logic Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Windows
Fuzzy Logic Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Windows | Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Windows |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 04 October 2008 | |
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David’s latest article is called “Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Linux”. As a Windows user, I’ve been looking at some of his articles and I’ve realised that you can do the same things in Windows, the operating system you’re probably using right now. Of course, iTWire has a lot of Linux readers, too, seeing as we have three top-notch Linux writers, so maybe you’re not using Windows at all. But with Windows having an overwhelmingly large market share, whenever David writes an article on the things you can do in Linux, I want to know if you can do those things in Windows too, so Windows users can benefit from the same tips and tricks. One of David’s recent articles was on adding extra hard drives to your Linux computer, and after 5 pages and endless command line instructions, it turns out that yes, you can add more hard drives to Linux, and share your primary storage space across all those drives, rather than having different drive letters, as opposed to Windows which uses different drive letters and can’t consolidate several drives into one. Hey, if that kind of thing floats your boat, you can read David’s article on that topic here. But this article is looking at how to “Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Windows”. In David’s article, he tells us that the game AisleRiot Solitaire has 82 Solitaire variations within it, and one of those was so engaging and mind bending that it helped a friend of his to quit smoking, because they were spending all their free time playing this game, rather than going outside for a smoke. So, the question is... is AisleRiot Solitaire also available for Windows? The answer turns out to be yes, and no. The home page of the AisleRiot software is here, and you can see that there is a Windows version to download here. You then realise that there’s a message saying a new server for hosting the Windows .exe download is needed, so the software which does otherwise work on Windows is not available to download. Now, Linux people like to think themselves pretty smart, certainly smarter than Windows users. So, why can’t the maker of AisleRiot Solitaire find a download location? After all, there’s CNET’s Download.com, Tucows.com, there’s RapidShare, MegaShare, and other similar sites, there’s good old BitTorrent, and then there’s a host of other Download.com clones that you’d think would all be happy to host a free Windows download on a free-of-charge basis. But what if you want actual quit smoking software, instead of relying on a game which you might, or might not, be interested in playing? Also, David discovered “another piece of quality free open source software which is genuinely useful and will keep you from repetitive strain injury (RSI) or aid you in recovering from it” – but as is often the case, there’s no need to change operating systems to use it. There’s a Windows version, too! Please read on to page 2. |
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