![]() I looked around dabs and I can’t believe they sell machines with 256mbs of RAM. I did hunt around for a machine, but the Mac mini might be again too painful for my parents and it doesn’t have a mic jack for Skype. I want to “upgrade” the machine as the USB ports are dodgy, the network card hates DHCP and the sound card doesn’t work. Recently I just turned off the fan and took the side case panels off. Years ago I bought my parents a mini-itx (when they were all the rage) based machine from scam, sorry .uk who built a very noisy machine. I am also trying to convince him to get broadband now. Of course I want him to use Debian, or Debian based like Ubuntu Dapper. He says he is familiar with Fedora since he had some Linux Format magazine guide. I noticed he was trying to get a Winmodem working. He got as so far as to install Fedora, but never managed to get the dialup modem working. He did manage to procure an old Matrox PCI MGA which does work. He never got it working and since recently returning to Praze Farm I had a look at his machine.Ī local computer store said his Radeon 7000 works. He is a complete novice and I helped order the parts from with him two years ago. Our good neighbour Morley has been more keen to use Linux. I frustratingly tried to edit and format the letterhead and it couldn’t get it to align nicely to right. God knows how to extend that border line to the right. That’s painful.Ī simple letterhead of my parent’s business shows the import is leaky. My mother has made quite a few documents that each have to be manually updated to doc and then opendocument text (odt). Those files I can import into OpenOffice. Thanks to a online resource I installed a plugin for Works7 to export wps files into Word compatible RTF files. In fact wps files aren’t compatible with new versions of Microsoft Office. They’ve been using the pre-bundled Microsoft Works 7 (.wps files), which aren’t compatible with OpenOffice. ![]() They’re not quite used to OpenOffice yet. So moving them over to Ubuntu dapper, not possible. Unfortunately the USB device is dependent on Win32 drivers. Though I don’t know what possessed me to purchase a CIT200 Linksys Skype phone for my parents. I’ve bought some crap hardware, but haven’t we all? I’m home in the UK temporarily and I am having to deal with the painful realities of home computing. ![]()
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