On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Sounds like a great fix. One machine down, how many to go? :) If anybody is looking for the OpenOffice setting for default file types (in OOo 2.4): Tools > Options > Load/Save > General > Always Save As --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
