Re: [Dorset] Computer-janitor ramifications

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:07 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, Have checked my version of OOo (on laptop) and it's 3.2 with an Oracle logo, that's a standard upgrade by Ubuntu. On the PC it's listed as 3.2.1 Oracle so don't know why the desktop is a .1 higher than the laptop as

[Dorset] Daily Telegraph, Saturday 21st

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Merchant
Technology section had some articles on Computing, one on Operating systems by Hunter Skipworth said that Linux was available, but not good for the un-techy user. I couldn't find the article online, so can't use his exact words. Then along comes their techy page giving assistance (Rick Maybury),

Re: [Dorset] Lucid reliability

2010-08-21 Thread Kevin Giles
Hi foks, Thanks for you comments. I think I'll stall for a bit. If I might try to get an idle PC up together to install lucid to in order to kick it around for a bit. Though I'm not so concerned about how easily it is set up but more about how well it keeps going long term. if only Canonical

Re: [Dorset] Computer-janitor ramifications

2010-08-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 18:50 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, You could see if the versions of the openoffice.org-common available and chosen to be installed differ between the two machines. $ apt-cache policy openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-common:

Re: [Dorset] SMB or NFS

2010-08-21 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:24:15 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said: The ability of a user on a client with root access being able to gain access to other users' files on an NFS server seemed like a fundamental problem when I was making this same decision. With SMB you have got much better

Re: [Dorset] Computer-janitor ramifications

2010-08-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, apt-cache policy openoffice.org3 openoffice.org3: Installed: 3.2.1-18 Candidate: 3.2.1-18 Version table: *** 3.2.1-18 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status That package isn't known in any repository, since none are listed with the version they provide. So you've installed