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
- .mp4, .wmv, Flash (flv or swf),
- Word Processing
- .docx, .doc (may require a document viewer for .docx)
- PowerPoint
- .pptx, .ppt (may require a document viewer for .pptx)
- PDF
- Excel
- 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.w...@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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> *From:* plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:
> plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Adam
> McCullough
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:03 AM
> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
> *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.****
>
> ** **
>
> 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 <bmi...@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 <cryptwo...@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 <cryptwo...@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 <bmi...@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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> > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
> >
> > Stephen
>
>
>
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>
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