[Herts] Closed Windows.

[Tim Gibbon]

Hello Andrew,

In the Linux world, you may find that someone will have scratched your
itch and documented it. A bit of Googling will usually turn up a
solution. This is not always the case in the Microsoft world.

Here is a link to reset the root (cf Administrator in the Windows
world) password. You will need to download and burn a Knoppix CD
first:

http://f241vc15.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/reset-lost-root-password-and-more-using-knoppix-linux-live-cd/

Parent site:
http://www.knoppix.org/
Good site to download the ISO CD:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/

Hope this helps,

tng


On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM, David Honour <thegoatee at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
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