Originally Posted by Ceefer when I want to check IP addresses on my home network I know how to open a 'DOS' window and use 'ipconfig'. How do I do that in Linux?
ifconfig
I may have a big problem with password protection of Microsoft Office files. I have a lot of sensitive documents on my 'serious' computer which are password protected. I take many of these documents to clients (who all use Windows and Office) and bring many back. I've found that OpenOffice, which I like very much, cannot open password protected Office documents. Does anyone know of an office suite that can do this, or will I have to find a way of running Microsoft Office under Linux? I really want to get away totally from Microsoft if I can.
try the OOo 2 beta, though basically the answer is going to be "no, .doc is a proprietary format, you're lucky nything works at all". older versions of msoffice (2000 i should think) ought to work in wine and/or crossover office.
For backups I currently use Norton Ghost to make a clone of the primary hard drive to a second hard drive, every day. This is simple, fairly quick and has got me out of trouble many times. Is there a similar program that will run under Linux?
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
How difficult will it be to move my Mozilla Thunderbird archived emails and address book over to Linux?
copy data from c:\documents and settings\$USERNAME\application data\mozilla\thunderbird\profiles\$RANDOMLETTERS or something like that to ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles/$RANDOMLETTERS
guessing a little, but close enough