Silly computers ...
Oct. 19th, 2008 01:47 pmMy big achievement so far this weekend has been to partition and format an SD-card such that the first partition is windows-readable and the second can hold a Linux installation of OpenOffice.org 3.0 for the Eee. (I followed the instructions here, with suitable modifications; it turns out that the Windows partition has to be partition1 or Windows won't see it.)
Unfortunately, though OO3 runs nicely, its spellcheck refuses to work at all, and there's not very much help out there; they changed the way this version handles dictionaries, and EN_US is *supposed* to be the default that doesn't require any special action. (This is, if anyone was wondering, a 4G Surf 701 with very minimal changes to the factory setup -- I enabled the Advanced Desktop, tweaked the simpleui.rc file to put back the icons that got lost in the process, and then left it severely alone.)
I really need to stop messing with this and play at domesticity for a bit; I can't put the laundry off again.
Update: Fixed it. For some reason I had to figure out where the dictionary package was hiding and manually install it as an extension.
Unfortunately, though OO3 runs nicely, its spellcheck refuses to work at all, and there's not very much help out there; they changed the way this version handles dictionaries, and EN_US is *supposed* to be the default that doesn't require any special action. (This is, if anyone was wondering, a 4G Surf 701 with very minimal changes to the factory setup -- I enabled the Advanced Desktop, tweaked the simpleui.rc file to put back the icons that got lost in the process, and then left it severely alone.)
I really need to stop messing with this and play at domesticity for a bit; I can't put the laundry off again.
Update: Fixed it. For some reason I had to figure out where the dictionary package was hiding and manually install it as an extension.
