[dundee] war stories

[Robert Ladyman]

Most commonly seen from from newbies, and what I did as a newbie (soooo long 
agooooo):-

Not knowing where to get other software from (that is, that there is a 
software installation program of some sort) and trying to download programs 
from the web (this is the most common).

How do I open a Word file?...and accidentally saving in ODT format instead of 
DOC.

Help, my screen's gone! (when you've got multiple X workspaces / desktops).

This program's crashed - how can I get rid of it (CTRL-ALT-ESC in KDE)

Why can't I listen to music / watch films, etc.

Where the hell is the documentation?

Having a wireless SSID of http://10.0.0.86 and not realising that the wireless 
software (at the time) used the SSID as the name of the file for the settings 
(this was me)

Being unable to work out why my password would not save in KMail....until I 
realised that my ISP had given me one with a '#' (hash) at the start: that's 
used as a comment in KDE config files.





> Hi
> 
> As mentioned last Thursday in the pub (err I mean at the meeting) I am
>  planing to include some "Linux War Storries" in may SFD talk and would
>  appreachiate if you can share some of your war storries with me.
> 
> My talk aims to give newbies an idea what sort of things they have to cope
>  with and how to survive - it also gives Linux veterans an idea what
>  newbies expect (based on a survey) A rather non-exiting example of my war
>  storries include: Spell checking in standard/default open office
>  installation in ubuntu 10.04 did not work. After reading in the
>  documentaion of open office that spell checking is done via myspell I've
>  fixed it by installing myspell.
> 
> cheers
> Markus
> 
> 
> Dr. Markus Tauber
> School of Computer Science
> University of St Andrews
> North Haugh
> St Andrews       phone: +44 1334 463691
> Fife KY16 9SX    fax:   +44 1334 463278
> Scotland        
>  http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~markus/<http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7E
> markus/>
> 

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