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<p class=MsoNormal>Sorry, this is probably the wrong forum but I know there’s
a lot of you out there who might be able to help. And I’m not sure
where to start.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We have an old W2K machine, but hooked up to three
televisions throughout our school. Currently our secretary creates a
power point presentation and runs a script I created to copy the presentation
from her computer to the headless computer. I’ve been on parental
leave for six months and have come back to find the setup hasn’t worked
since I left! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My ultimate dream would be to install a 2<sup>nd</sup> video
card in the secretary’s machine that would only pick up the presentation,
say from a virtual pc on that computer. But I’m assuming that’s
not possible (at lease I haven’t found anything by Googling yet).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So, my questions are, can I turn the headless computer into
a Centos box and display the power point on that? Can Open Office display
Power Point presentations? Can I script Open Office from the command
line? Can I write a script on a Linux box that would grab the Power Point
presentation from a shared directory on a Windows server and then run the show
on the Linux box?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any and all help...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b><i><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:maroon'>Jeremy
Schubert</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:maroon'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>The two basic principles of Windows system administration:</span></i></b><b><i><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:maroon'><br>
</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>For minor problems, reboot </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:maroon'>For major problems, reinstall</span></i></b><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'> </span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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