John Jason Jordan wrote:
Recently a fellow linguistics major bought herself a new Dell computer.
It came with Windows [some version], but I convinced her not to get
Microsoft Office or other software. My successful sales argument for
this was that she can get the MS Office suite cheaper at our university
bookstore with her student ID than from Dell. I also explained (very
carefully, I thought) that she could ALSO install OOo for free, etc. I
stressed that it was so much easier to do linguistics work with OOo
because of support for IPA characters. I even burned a CD of the latest
Windows version of OOo and gave it to her.
The computer finally arrived and she bought the whole MS Office from
the bookstore and installed it. When I next saw her in class she said
she tried the CD I gave her but "it wanted to install something and I
stopped it because I was afraid to install something for fear it would
mess up my new computer."
OKI, the babe is too dumb to qualify as a graduate student, but there
you are.
I am wondering if a "live CD" (like the Linux live CDs) might be useful
for people like this. They could run OOo from the CD without installing
it. The CD would assure them that it was configured so it could not
touch their hard disk.
Or does such already exist and I am unaware of it? Or is this a dumb
idea?
Y'all have opinions about this?
Hi John
I am not sure how this works, and I don't know if it will only work on a
specific machine, but it seems something of this sort can be done with
the portableapps version:
http://portableapps.com/support/openoffice_portable#cd
Of course it will work off a usb key if you just want to give a
demonstration.
Regards
Russell
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