Congratulations Jim! I think there is a way to set the default file type when saving documents in Open Office in the options section. Check there to see if you can have it set to default to MS Word. Or, you can provide them the link to Open Office and have them install that instead of using the MS programs for free.
Kevin Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Jim_Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:57:25 To: NLUG<[email protected]> Subject: [nlug] Making Inroads Well, thanks to Microsoft's incompetence (or possibly my stupidity, but I'm leaning towards the former), we now have our first Linux-based public access computer in our library. This machine is an older Gateway 2600, and for some reason or another would_not_recognize that it had the latest & greatest Flash Player or that JavaScript was enabled in any browser, Firefox or IE7. Neither would it install the Windows Updates for the last couple of months, and none of the online solutions worked either. After a successful repair install on another machine to fix the update problem I decided to do that with this machine. I reimaged this machine 3 times (due to the way the drive security is set up, this is the only route to a 'properly functioning' machine) to no avail. It never would see the latest Flash or that JS was enabled. So I decided to experiment. It now runs Kubuntu 8.04 and performs flawlessly. All issues are resolved. Kubuntu is more than our users need as most all they do is YouTube and Yahoo! games, with a bit of word processing thrown in. We'll have to help people with the save format in OpenOffice, but for now, and my director is happy that we don't have to spend money on this, we are public with the use of Linux & OSS. Yay us! Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
