Hi everyone :)I have been trying to set up OpenOffice.org on our Mac PPC machine (an old G4 Sawtooth named Goofy). Originally I had hoped to do it all via Desktop Transporter, which handles non-English keyboard layouts, unlike VNC. But:
Three Steps to Frustration1. No X11. This is a real user system: default install, cute widgets, stacks of custom fonts, still graphics and music and video files scattered everywhere.
2. No install disc. The Tiger disc has disappeared. After a prolonged search among my teenage daughter's anime DVDs, I finally find the install disc.
3. The install disc won't load. After investigation, we find that the CD/DVD drive has actually died.
Result: no install disc: no X11: no OpenOffice.org. What next? (I ask myself) Is the machine going to rear up and bite me?Fortunately, we should be able to get a replacement CD/DVD drive from my husband's work (local ISP and computer shop). Not only do I want to install X11 so I can test OpenOffice.org on this machine, but ...
<Clytie calls her teenage daughter Trinh into the room> Clytie: Um, how are you today? Trinh: <eyeing Clytie oddly> OK. Clytie: Ah, sit down. Trinh: Why? Is this something I can't do standing up? Clytie: <uneasily> Well, it might be better if you were sitting down. <Trinh sits down, looking puzzled> Clytie: Well, you know the DVD burner on Goofy? [PPC machine] Trinh: Yes. Clytie: Um, it doesn't work any more. Trinh: <off-hand> Well, I didn't use it anyway. Clytie: I mean, the CD/DVD drive. Trinh: What?! Clytie: It's dead. Trinh: WHAT???!!!Clytie: It's not my fault, really! I just happened to be using it for the first time in years when it happened. Just one of those coincidences. Perfectly normal. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Trinh: Mum, you're babbling. Clytie: I am? Trinh: Yes. And you broke my DVD drive! <Evil teenager look> Clytie: Oops.from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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