I finally had enough of trying to run Word 2007 on Wine. It worked several times, but every time I really needed to use it, it would fail to start. It would just hang on the splash screen. Even more annoying was that the splash screen stayed on top obstructing my view of other windows.
So, I installed Vista as a virtual machine. It works relatively well. Here are a few links I found helpful in the process.
Kent and I found this neat little game. At two years old, he is not quite able to play himself, but he seems to enjoy watching it in short bursts. I guess I am a kid at heart because I don’t mind satisfying him.
Here is a quick screenshot of the game menu:
Here is a quick screenshot of the game during play:
So, thanks Dominique for writing this game. We enjoy it!
I had been looking for this link a while ago and couldn’t remember the name:
I found it a long time because it was linked to Bob Young, one of the founders of Red Hat. It seemed like a great option if I ever wanted to try to publish something.
Sharing files from Ubuntu was very easy with this how to. The only problem was that I had to start nautilus with root privileges the first time:
sudo nautilus
Then, I could follow the instructions.
I found a couple of forums discussing options for alternatives for Microsoft’s OneNote. I don’t really have time to research all of these, but I wanted to note them in case I had a chance to come back later and spend some time researching them more.
Here are the forums:
This option seemed to be the most popular. I have used this a little, but I haven’t got into it that much.
This is a KDE application.
This one looks interesting, but it doesn’t look like it is WYSIWYG. You might have to learn some formatting features.
Now, this one I have obviously used. But, I would consider this more if you want to share your notes.
Stands for hierarchical notebook.
Here is a link worth taking note of. This article gives some tips on the legal side of using Open Source software.
How To Avoid Becoming a Defendant in a BusyBox or Any GPL-Related Lawsuit
I just had a situation at work where I am forced to use Microsoft Office. Normally, Open Office does everything that I need it to do, but this was different. First, the documents were large and had many graphics (textbooks). Open Office seemed to hang just scrolling through them. Second, others in the office would be using Microsoft Word to edit the documents, and if I used Open Office, the document would have to go back and forth between the two.
In order to stay on Linux, I used a tool called Play On Linux to get Word to run inside Wine. Wine is a Windows Emulator that allows Windows programs to run on top of Linux. Play On Linux is a tool to make installation and configuration of Wine much easier.
A script did not exist for Office 2007, but one did for Office 2003. So, I took that script and modified it to work. I did submit it to the Play On Linux website so that others could use it, but it is in the process of being validated. Watch for it here. This is my first script, and so don’t expect too much! Here it is while they validate it:
#!/bin/bash if [ "$PLAYONLINUX" = "" ] then echo "Ce script doit être executé dans PlayOnLinux." exit 0 fi source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources" #Verifier les dépendences cfg_check #Presentation POL_SetupWindow_Init POL_SetupWindow_presentation "Office 2007" "Microsoft" "http://www.microsoft.com" "Tinou modified by Stephen Phillips" "Office2007" 1 5 POL_SetupWindow_cdrom if [ "$POL_LANG" == "en" ]; then POL_SetupWindow_textbox "What is the name of the setup program?" "Office 2007" "setup.exe" else POL_SetupWindow_textbox "Quel est le nom du fichier d'installation ?" "Office 2007" "setup.exe" fi SETUP="$APP_ANSWER" POL_SetupWindow_check_cdrom $SETUP mkdir -p $REPERTOIRE/wineprefix/Office2007 select_prefixe "$REPERTOIRE/wineprefix/Office2007" POL_SetupWindow_prefixcreate cd $WINEPREFIX/dosdevices rm ./* ln -s ../drive_c c: ln -s / z: ln -s $CDROM ./d: #Set_WinVersion_Session 0.9.46 cd $CDROM if [ "$POL_LANG" == "en" ]; then POL_SetupWindow_wait_next_signal "Installation of Office 2007 in progess..." "Office 2007" else POL_SetupWindow_wait_next_signal "Installation de Office 2007 en cours..." "Office 2007" fi wine $SETUP POL_SetupWindow_detect_exit POL_SetupWindow_reboot #Fin du code du jeu #Création du lanceur POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut "Office2007" "Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12" "EXCEL.EXE" "excel.xpm" "Excel 2007" POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut "Office2007" "Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12" "WINWORD.EXE" "word.xpm" "Word 2007" POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut "Office2007" "Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12" "POWERPNT.EXE" "powerpoint.xpm" "Powerpoint 2007" POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut "Office2007" "Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12" "MSPUB.EXE" "publisher.xpm" "Publisher 2007" POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut "Office2007" "Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12" "ONENOTE.EXE" "onenote.xpm" "OneNote 2007" if [ "$POL_LANG" == "en" ]; then POL_SetupWindow_message "Installation finished" "Office 2007" else POL_SetupWindow_message "Installation terminée" "Office 2007" fi POL_SetupWindow_Close exit
I just saw an article from LXF saying that Open Office 3.0 is ready for download. I installed it, but I haven’t used it enough to really comment on it yet.
The download was pretty easy. I downloaded the zip file, uncompressed it, and then I used dpkg -i to install all of the deb files. They installed into the /opt directory, which was great because now I can have both versions.
This is one of the links from my list of things to blog. It has been a while, but I came across this link and thought it was worthy of remembering:
I just saw this post which linked to the Gnome 2.24 Release Notes. It looks exciting. I like the time tracking tool. Several other features looked very exciting too.