On Tuesday 26 Oct 2004 5:23 pm, Arindam Basu wrote: > The reason I am kind of forced to use MS products > (including Windows) is, following a hard disk crash, I > failed to reinstall any flavor of Linux in my non > Windows partition (after the hard disk was replaced > and Windows XP Pro was installed by the Compaq > engineers here). My earlier Fedora core I CDs did not > pass media test this time, and I just failed (plain > failed) to load SuSE and Mandrake. Last one was > Knoppix, promising when run from the CD, but > hdinstall, and it took like forever to transfer the > packages, after which, it too gave up. Wasting two > sundays, I decided to temporarily use Windows to get > my work done.
dear dr.basu, for office work at least, you can do without microsoft. get yourself the windows version of OpenOffice and convert the slides to OO Impress format before uploading them. if you can't download it yourself (it's about 46 megs), i can do it for you - please let me know if you want that. - t. -- cogito, ergo es. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
