It’s been a long time since my last post so I need to fill you in onwhat’s been happening. I wiped my hard drive and made it dual boot – win98 and Ubuntu Linux.My daughter (12yrs) did the same to her computer a few weeks ago.Personally I like the Gnome desktop which is the default … [Read more…]
When I reinstalled Open Office, Writer would work but not Draw. Now I’m having other more major problems with the computer so I think the hard drive is on the way out. It’s all backed up so I haven’t lost anything. If I can get another hard drive for it I’ll try Kubuntu I want … [Read more…]
I found that when I removed everything (a file called sversionrc was in a couple of places) to do with Open Office and then reinstalled it worked! I will be upgrading these machines when the current word processing class has finished. It wouldn’t be nice to do it to them in the middle of … [Read more…]
I’m running Open Office 1.0.2 on Mandrake 9.1 (at work on one of my student boxes) and having the following error message come up when trying to save a document- Error saving document. Wrong parameter. The operation was started under an invalid parameter. After this message OO closes and the document is lost. OO has … [Read more…]
I’m very happy my son has come to stay with us for the weekend for Mother’s Day!! He bought me Ferrero Rocher chocolates and a voucher to Target! Shopping and chocolate hmmmm nice 🙂 I’m glad he could come and visit as he’s working now and doesn’t get many chances I don’t care about the … [Read more…]
We’ve been creating great Tuxracer courses!! and will be uploading them to Tuxracer websites soon. If I do eventually get around to making my own website again I’ll probably put them there too. If you haven’t done it before it is easy and a great way for kids to learn. Good motivation for them too. … [Read more…]