Free, complete Linux desktop system available to a good home
Mark Stosberg
Hello,
People have given me so many spare computer parts that I now have a
complete system to give away. Help me find a good home for it. By
"good home", I'm hoping it's a primary computer for someone who
otherwise wouldn't have one, not an "extra" one.
I installed Ubuntu on it and used it for several days myself. It
performs reasonable well, but I would buy a new video card for it.
This current one robs the system memory instead of providing dedicated
memory on the video card. Sometimes I believe this has caused the
screen to blank out and not recover (!), until I reboot it.
It's a little Dell tower (L433c), with the following specs:
433 Mhz processor
192 Megs of memory
4.2 Gig hard drive
Ethernet included, and spare "winmodem" is available.
Includes CD and floppy drives and supports PXE booting.
It's pretty quiet and well behaved. The keyboard and mouse with it
have some quirks of their own, but could be upgraded later if they are
bothersome.
The new owner is welcome to install whatever they want on it, but if
there is no original Windows installation media, if you were going to
ask about it!
Mark
Matt Guynn
Here's a question for you.
I use OpenOffice as my main office suite right now. Many/most times that I import a document from Microsoft Word, it contains many small gray boxes which seems to indicate spaces. They are the size and shape of a little cursor box. They do not print, but they are annoying to me on the screen when doing layout, etc.
Does anyone know what causes these and/or have an idea for how I can get rid of them, besides laboriously deleting them (which is what I've found to do so far)?
THANKS
Matt Guynn
Hopi Hawk Stosberg
I have never had this problem. Will you send me one of the documents that does this for you and I can see if the same thing happens and then I'll try to fix it?
Hopi Stosberg
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Mark Stosberg
> I use OpenOffice as my main office suite right now. Many/most times
> that I import a document from Microsoft Word, it contains many small
> gray boxes which seems to indicate spaces. They are the size and
> shape of a little cursor box. They do not print, but they are
> annoying to me on the screen when doing layout, etc.
>
> Does anyone know what causes these and/or have an idea for how I can
> get rid of them, besides laboriously deleting them (which is what I've
> found to do so far)?
Matt,
I haven't seen this before, but here's a guess based on some Google
searches I just did:
Look under Tools: Options: OpenOffice.org Writer: Formatting Aids
Uncheck the box for "Non-breaking spaces". (and maybe even "Spaces").
Perhaps OpenOffice is showing you the difference between a space and a
non-breaking space. MS Word can likely do the same thing, but you didn't
have that preference turned on there.
For future software support questions, it's also good to mention which
version you are using, and in the case of software like OpenOffice, it
can be useful to mention which operating system you using it on, since
sometimes issues appear in one case but not another.
Mark