[Herts] Closed Windows.

[David Honour]

I don't think we'll be able to help you with the password (unless
someone is good with john the ripper (password cracker)).

On the subject of instructions in linux there are in fact several ways
of gaining usage instructions for most things you could want to do
(these usually work best for command line apps).

The man (short for manual) and info commands do what they say on the
tin and the '--help' option is pretty handy too.

Hope that helps:
David

On Sat, 10 May 2008 18:42:41 +0100
Andrew Porter <andrewchoras at supanet.com> wrote:

> To all,
> 
> As a person who is new to this group, and wishing to pursue Linux as
> an operating system, I can confirm that it is my dissatisfaction with 
> Microsoft Windows products, and Microsoft  Office software that has 
> driven me to find alternatives. Even when moving to Fire Fox, 
> Thunderbird and Open Office in a Microsoft operating system, the 
> underlying flaws within the Microsoft product remain. These include a 
> massive amount of software code to do very little, packages that
> simply expand rather than have the underlying flaws removed, US
> English as the default, and in many case what Microsoft consider to
> by UK English, rather than English, is still full of faults all
> biased towards US English.
> 
> To resolve my frustrations, I took the advice to have a new computer 
> configured as a dual boot system with SuSE Linux, and Microsoft
> Vista. This was done through Q-Tek in Stevenage, and after fighting
> against the problems with Microsoft Vista, I have eventually managed
> to get a computer that communicates with the Internet, and the
> printer. Problems such as fighting against faulty driver software in
> Microsoft Vista for my printer when trying to install the correct
> software took many evenings of frustration. Perhaps the warning
> should have been that Microsoft Office 2000 requires 1.4GByte of
> memory, against 91MByte for Open Office. I  none longer use, and I
> have not installed Microsoft Office.
> 
> Having resolved the Microsoft problems, I turned my attention to SuSE 
> Linux 10.0, as installed by Q-Tek. Sadly, this does not work, as
> Q-Tek forgot to give me the password needed by SuSE Linux 10.0 to
> install the printer software, and access the Internet. In other
> words, I cannot down load the printer software through SuSE Linux,
> and therefore I cannot install the printer software?
> 
> Question: My car provides my with a manual on how to use all the 
> controls, options, etc., in the car. Why does software come without
> any instructions, and comments such as, 'contact your PC manufacturer
> for product support.' Does this mean that Q-Tek will come to my home,
> at their cost, to show me how to use Microsoft Vista and SuSE Linux?
> 
> I await for an informed response.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Porter