virtual machine! why didn't I think of that. What are the minimum memory
requirements for 7. (I don't have XP but I do have 7)
> Just FYI, consulting and being aatround 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 <Harold.Wong@microsoft.com
>> <mailto:Harold.Wong@microsoft.**com <Harold.Wong@microsoft.com>>> 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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>>
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>> Chief Technical Evangelist – Private Cloud | US Developer & Platform
>> Evangelism - West Region
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>> >
>>
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>> Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007 / 2010 | VCP5____
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>> *Subject:* Re: ot Online school____
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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 <bmike1@gmail.com
>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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~(-:____
>>
>>
>>
>> ____
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com
>> <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com
>> <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com
>> <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>> 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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