boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThe Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1381arrow-down111
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minus-squareGsus4@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years ago BTW, does anybody know of an offline encyclopedia which works under Wine? You can download wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download edit: if you really meant you want to see if any old encyclopedias work under wine, I never tried :D
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.zipBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoI know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.
minus-squarejfx@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.zipBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years ago It works great under wine Which version is that? EDIT: Never mind
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.zipBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoAh. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas
You can download wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
edit: if you really meant you want to see if any old encyclopedias work under wine, I never tried :D
I know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.
I’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
Which version is that?
EDIT: Never mind
2008 ultimate
Ah. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas