Just FYI, consulting and being around random shops with customer and
vendor docs, I find a lot of the .pptx, docx, or xlsx files are spotty
at best what works under linux, what works sanely (complex
forumlas==poop), and what just crashes openoffice. Libreoffice is
almost useless with the new formats, as the dev's don't feel they need
to support microsoft's continued forced incompatibility with everyone
else on purpose (can't blame them either). Obviously M$ doesn't care,
as most people just keep buying office when microsoft tells them to
every few years to stay "compatible" with their own poop.
I keep an xp vm in virtualbox for this reason at all times, generally
with real office (well, as real as usenet gets for clean slipstream
install images), just to make sure if I *have* to resort to exporting
from it to something I can use (2000-03 compat office formats).
Seamless mode under linux i found finally works decently, reduces the
sting of using windows significantly and hides it to keep my linux
desktop cred. ;)
Likewise creating complex formatted docs are horribly incompatible
usually under real m$office from libre/openoffice, so export as pdf is
your friend when passing back and forth to windoze users.
Really sucks it has to be this way - thanks microsoft.
-mb
On 08/08/2012 11:28 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
Its cool.... I was surprised they specified an OS as well. but the
university of Minnesota seems more willing to work with me. This is what
they said (in part):
Firefox or Chrome for Linux should work fine for Moodle. Open Office for
Linux saves as Word and in other MS compatible formats. We also have
Google Docs as a University implementation so you can use those online
apps.
As long as you can view the following types of files you should be able
to access most anything in the courses:
* Video
o .mp4, .wmv, Flash (flv or swf),
* Word Processing
o .docx, .doc (may require a document viewer for .docx)
* PowerPoint
o .pptx, .ppt (may require a document viewer for .pptx)
* PDF
* Excel
o occasionally .xlst, .xls
* Web browser (Chrome or Firefox may be the best choices, you are
welcome to try others)
As Mark mentions, the only course we have that is geared specifically to
a Microsoft product is Spreadsheets (CA 1020) but if you want to take
that course and can accomplish the tasks without the Windows based
interface tutorials and save the files as .xls, we'll get you into the
section (different instructors) where you will not be required to use MS
Office.
SO I think I'll be paying them for my degree!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Harold Wong <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I’m surprised that the online school is requiring you to run a
specific OS. With that said, if you really need Windows 7 for
school and want to continue to use Linux as your main OS, I would
recommend virtualizing it as that would be much simpler.____
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Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007 / 2010 | VCP5____
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Of *Adam McCullough
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Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time
finding a university that isn't very MS-happy.____
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Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm
pretty sure Windows protects against that. Licensing/piracy reasons.____
On 8 August 2012 10:56, Michael Havens <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____
they want $305/credit hour. Is that the going rate for a University
now a days? I think I'm going to go with a school that isn't so in
bed with MS. UMN is not in bed with em.____
or else.... coulde I out it on an external HD?
:-)~MIKE~(-:____
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____
the pert i left out is if you install windows to the drive that has
Linux on it. even if you re-size the drives to make space it will
overwrite grub, and you will need to re-install and reconfigure it.
alternative install win7 in KVM or virtualbox.____
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Stephen <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> well personally if you can just install to a new drive then you can
> have it pristine and configure grub...
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Michael Havens <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I need to put 7 back on my computer for school. How do you do
it w/o
>> blowing everything else away (ie on another partition). I also
need to
>> repartition. How big does it need to be for 7?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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