I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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Wonderful story, not just for Linux but the time and caring you went above and beyond the norm.
That is something I have found with the open source community, people are usually more than willing to help somebody else out!
Good story. And it is sad that a professor would be more focused on the formatting rather than the content except when the requests are to make it easier for aged eyes or sight difficulties.
I think if Open[Libre]Office would be 99.9% formatting compatible with MS Office, then people with professors like this aren't forced to use something they don't want to.
What I have had to do is use MS Office Online to check my non-MS Office made documents for major formatting issues. Even though the web application cannot create or run certain elements of a document (macros, etc.) it does a very good job of rendering what it looks like accurately.