[discuss] Re: Hello
On 20/09/2011 10:35 AM, Richard E. Walter Jr wrote: On 9/19/2011 2:56 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: On 15 September 2011 22:07, Mattias matt...@inssp.com mailto:matt...@inssp.com wrote: Hi My name is Mattias Ghodsian and I'm the C.E.O of International Swedish Software Production and i wonder if its ok to use open-office on my company PC's ? i heard that it costs to do that If so !! then it cant be a free version Best Mattias / Inssp -- There are absolutely no restrictions on the use and free distribution of copies of OpenOffice,org. You are free to use it on any PC and to make copies to use on other PCs. OK everyone, i joined this discussion simply because i am trying to find out if OOo upgrades all the features i have in my Star Office 6.5 that i'm still using after 8 years. Still havent found that answer, Could anyone assist me? Rich Install it and try it. It's free. I used to use Staroffice. -- Amos T. Fairchild (tim) Author, dog lover, strange dude in general. Book: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ATF Book: http://www.goodreads.com/amostfairchild Blog: http://amostfairchild.blogspot.com/ Page: http://bcs4me.com -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [OT - OOo + Adobe Acrobat] Re: User related mailing list
On 27/08/2011 10:12 AM, NoOp wrote: On 08/26/2011 04:24 PM, RA Brown wrote: Jason Ax wrote: Will OpenOffice ever be compatible with Adobe Acrobat? Acrobat does not recognize OpenOffice files. Jason That would be up to Adobe. Acrobat is a PDF editor/creator and it sets the PDF standard. OOo can create PDF following those standards. OOo's native format is the Open Document Format, ODF for short, that is set by the International Standards Organization. Adobe needs to modify their code to import ODF files for conversion to PDF. They do it with MS formats so it would not be hard for them to use the ODF format as well. As long as Adobe and companies like it do not support the ODF format it will be harder for business to accept it. There are work a rounds, one would be to Save-as to DOC format and then import in to Acrobat. Andy Now see. You should be moderated for responding to a hijacked list thread rather than advising the poster that he hijacked a thread and pointing him to the OOo mailing list etiquette page... http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html#netiquette What no mention of thread hijacking? Let's try the new improved: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html Start a new thread for a new topic When asing a new question, please start a new thread with an appropriate new subject line. This makes it easier to read, and to find later in the archives. Closer the Tom Dennis E's of the world will be much happier with top posting... of to the sandbox you go Andy. :-) pffft. -- Author, dog lover, strange dude in general. Book: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ATF Blog: http://amostfairchild.blogspot.com/ Page: http://bcss4me.com -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org
On 8/08/2011 8:00 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: Please apologize if my translation lacks the elegance of your own wording, my knowledge of your language is somewhat limited. lol Mathias. Very elegant :) And I have literally written millions of words with OOo. I would be lost without it and the OOo team. tim. -- Author, dog lover, strange dude in general. Book: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ATF Blog: http://amostfairchild.blogspot.com/ Page: http://bcss4me.com -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org
The trolls seem to be bad lately... tim -- Author, dog lover, strange dude in general. Book: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ATF Blog: http://amostfairchild.blogspot.com/ Page: http://bcss4me.com -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
Re: [discuss] Attention
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 04:43:01 am Gary wrote: I've heard about your project for some time.. and was excited when I discovered your web site and went to check it out. I have to say.. your web site.. not your product, needs a like of work... Which web site? You can't be talking about openoffice.org as it's a very nice. clean, straight forward site that is very easy and clear to use. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OOo on slackware.
Any opinions on the best way to install OOo on Slackware (12)? I have the rpm version downloaded for the other rpm based boxes, and rpm2tgz seems to work fine and OOo installs and as far as I can tell it is working. I haven't found anything not working yet, anyway. I just had to set up my own kde menus, etc. But then I see there are 3rd party tgz OOo builds and was advised that these would be better. Opinions welcome, however. thanks -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series
On Monday 09 April 2007 16:00, Peter Reaper wrote: Tim Fairchild said on 09.04.2007 00:55: On Monday 09 April 2007 04:46, Peter Reaper wrote: Michael Adams said on 08.04.2007 15:59: *** on about the punctuation in an email just makes you look like a smartass. Not that the other posts don't help. Umm, *** on about being disinterested in clear and correct use of language makes you look like an idiot. Hey, you're goody-two-shoes filter-censor missed smartass. That would be 'your' ;) Thanks. Pot, kettle, black. Wrong analogy. I never claimed that others must be grammatically perfect. OTOH I *do'* appreciate the correction. So yes, pot - kettle - black would apply there. :-P Yeah, sorry, I spose I just don get real hunged up on correctness in emails. I spect them to be a bit like talkin. :) tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series
On Monday 09 April 2007 21:53, Peter Reaper wrote: Larry Gusaas said on 09.04.2007 09:57: Peter Reaper wrote: Larry Gusaas said on 09.04.2007 01:25: Peter Reaper wrote: Larry Gusaas said on 08.04.2007 21:48: Peter Reaper wrote: Michael Adams said on 08.04.2007 15:59: clip / The quoted article does not say it is mandatory in any way anywhere. Yes it does. Re-read it. It says: *Separate* three or more items in a series with a comma. That sounds pretty mandatory to me. http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#26 True, but that does not make the article correct .A was previously posted by Adrian Try It's interesting - I was taught at school not to use a comma before the 'and' in a list. I was taught the same. Did you look at the article in Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma The issue is not as clearcut as you claim it is. clip / Also, I was merely pointing out an error in Adrian's signature (which appears in *every* post of his) in the hope that he would *welcome* the opportunity to correct a highly visible (but minor) error and that he might appreciate the opportunity to learn something about the language he is using. He even *thanked* me for it. clip / He was very polite. Did you look at the Wikipedia article he cited ? The comma was not necessarily an error according to some other opinions. Yes, I did read it. Interesting read! It is pretty clear there that in *American* English, the serial comma is virtually always used (see Style guides) (AP are traitors ;-) ). I also found the reasons (see Ambiguity) *for* its use far more compelling than those *against* its use. I live in America. Which part of it are you referring to? North, South or Central? That's an irrelevant distinction. Is it? You said American English, not U.S. English. American could be anywhere on tow continents. Logically, you are right. I find it interesting that non-US-Americans love to point out that America is not only the US, as is US-American didn't know this. However, since the USA so massively dominates (economically, militarily, culturally, living-standard-wise, etc.) the American continent, it is pretty obvious to most that when talking about most topics (e.f., English grammar!) that the USA is meant. It seems that it is often those who are resentful or jealous that the USA is a dominant power in the world who point out this politically correct distinction. Yes, US-Americans are often naive about the US being the center of the universe. But you know what, in many ways, it is. Be happy it's not Iran or North Korea or China or Russia, or even Europe (can you say bureaucracy?). http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/2007/04/quality-of-life-in-america-and- europe.html http://engram-backtalk.blogspot.com/2007/04/quality-of-life-in-america-and- europe_07.html So, I see people pointing out that distinction for what it is. An attempt to divert a discussion that is not going the way they want, and a way of expressing their (irrational) dislike of the US. Getting totally OT and this is all just a big troll anyway. Bye. -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series
On Monday 09 April 2007 07:13, Peter Reaper wrote: Larry Gusaas said on 08.04.2007 21:48: Peter Reaper wrote: Michael Adams said on 08.04.2007 15:59: clip / The quoted article does not say it is mandatory in any way anywhere. Yes it does. Re-read it. It says: *Separate* three or more items in a series with a comma. That sounds pretty mandatory to me. http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#26 True, but that does not make the article correct .A was previously posted by Adrian Try It's interesting - I was taught at school not to use a comma before the 'and' in a list. I was taught the same. Did you look at the article in Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma The issue is not as clearcut as you claim it is. clip / Also, I was merely pointing out an error in Adrian's signature (which appears in *every* post of his) in the hope that he would *welcome* the opportunity to correct a highly visible (but minor) error and that he might appreciate the opportunity to learn something about the language he is using. He even *thanked* me for it. clip / He was very polite. Did you look at the Wikipedia article he cited ? The comma was not necessarily an error according to some other opinions. Yes, I did read it. Interesting read! It is pretty clear there that in *American* English, the serial comma is virtually always used (see Not everyone here is in 'America'. Would that be North or South or United States of? Style guides) (AP are traitors ;-) ). I also found the reasons (see Ambiguity) *for* its use far more compelling than those *against* its use. Anyhow, it's a minor issue, and I never intended to make it any more than that. I found it interesting that the old empire (UK) Where English originated... and its (former) colonies have a different (IMO less ideal) convention/rule for this. In your opinion, which would be an 'American' one. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series (was: Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default)
On Monday 09 April 2007 04:46, Peter Reaper wrote: Michael Adams said on 08.04.2007 15:59: *** on about the punctuation in an email just makes you look like a smartass. Not that the other posts don't help. Umm, *** on about being disinterested in clear and correct use of language makes you look like an idiot. Hey, you're goody-two-shoes filter-censor missed smartass. That would be 'your' ;) Pot, kettle, black. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default
On Thursday 05 April 2007 18:45, Peter Reaper wrote: Adrian Try said on 03.04.2007 14:02: Hi again BTW: Your signature is missing a comma before the and: -- Computer software should be affordable, effective, and safe. ^ http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#26 - see 2) Thanks very much for the correction. I wonder if the grammar checker that many people are asking for would have helped? It's interesting - I was taught at school not to use a comma before the and in a list. Wikipedia raises an interesting issue: the rule you mention is definitely true with American English, but not necessarily so outside of America. It is an issue of much debate. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma I'll leave the comma out for the moment (apologies to all Americans), and I'll keep my eyes open to see what the main usage is here in Australia. Did you read the explanation in my link above why a serial comma avoids ambiguity: Crapping on about the punctuation in an email just makes you look like a smartass. Not that the other posts don't help. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007
On Thursday 05 April 2007 18:49, Peter Reaper wrote: People and businesses don't care (enough) about interoperability (yet). To get market share, OOo must continue supporting the DOC(x) format and must *dramatically* reduce the suckyness of its interface. I don't care how many geeks and fanboys claim how superior OOo's UI is - it's not. As long as they don't go down the road toward the sucky MSO interface. OOo has moved that way too far already. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] PayPal sucks
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 00:10, Andrew Simmons wrote: hi, I just tried donating some funds to OO.o, but after the tedium of typing my name, address, CC details, inside leg measurement etc, my attempted donation was rejected because this credit card is already registered for a PayPal account. Then you use the PP account, perhaps? This is true, but irrelevant: I loathe despise PP, and only used them once when there was no alternative. I don't want to use PP, I just wanted to make a normal credit card payment. The thing is, paypal works and is probably the best way when dealing international, tho CC is nearly as good (but who likes giving out a CC number more than necessary.) I went to donate, clicked a couple of buttons, and OOo said thanks for the donation. Shrug. Helps that I have a PP account, but then that wasn't exactly hard to set up either. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog BC Forumhttp://bcs4me.com/forum Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Linux installations
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:30, Russell Butler wrote: Alex Huckabay wrote: Do you know where i can get a version of linux to download for a computer that was running windows 98 to replace windows 98. Also do you know where i can download a version of linux that will run good as a second operating system on a Dell optiplex GX270 with a pentium 4 processor and windows XP Pro Thanx Hi Alex You are getting a bit OT for an OpenOffice.org list. It is a bit OT. But DSL is good for old PC's (How old are we talking about?) Will run well on P166 etc. And anything for newer PC's (P3 and up) Mandriva and PCLinuxOS are good starters. Or Knoppix, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. Simply Mepis is probably top of the list for newbies. I use Mandriva for the kid's machines here... -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] curiousity about office products etc...
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:46, Beth wrote: So I have been experimenting with differant office suites out there. I dont have alot of money so the more free the better. ;) Anyway there is this one disturbing thing to me. As far as I can tell Microsoft office is the only one that comes with Outlook which is an absolutely awesome mail client in my opinion. You can't account for taste ;) Ah well, OSS users have things like Kontact and Evolution, so little point in OOo having to reinvent the wheel. I like it because it integrates using calendar's and reminders and such. I dont remember all the features cause its been quite a while since I was able to use it regularly. Anyway I have been hoping to find one that is as good as Outlook from the opensource community for free and preferably with a office suite of some sort. Anyway what it comes down to is I have not been able to be successful in this endeavor. What I am wondering is why this is not happening? I am just curious why there is not a awesome email client like outlook only open source. Did Microsoft strike a deal where no one could make a free good email program like theirs? LOL okay that is a little farfetched I know. I just am curious is all. :) -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bcsr4ever - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Crashing on Windows XP64 (AMD x64)
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:59 pm, Enno Rehling wrote: Tim Fairchild wrote: [1] The 32 bit builds. I am aware that the 64 bit builds are still a work in progress, and didn't feel so experimental. A 32bit build of OOo2 or XP64 :) Worded a little funny there... Not to people who know what I'm talking about (32 bit build of XP64? What should that be?) Then the note really should have been beside OOo, not XP... And that's obvious anyway since OOo is known to be 32bit... 64bit XP is still a bit experimental anyway, right? Speaking of 64 bit, is there likely to be a 64bit OOo sometime? I have 32bit OOo2 on 64bit linux and it's not really an issue... But curious... There's apparently work being done on it, but it's going to take a while. But are you really breaking the 2 GB barrier with your documents? I run a 64 bit OS... Might as well run 64 bit software, but I don't mind running 32 bit. In any case, OOo starts to get glitchy with Docs with more than 32000 pages and they are hard to save :) tim -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Crashing on Windows XP64 (AMD x64)
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 06:49 am, Enno Rehling wrote: I installed OOo 2.0.1 on an AMD dual-core x64 machine with XP64[1], and can only get Writer up. All the other apps cause an immediate crash[2]. I was wondering if anyone has got OOo running under such a configuration - maybe it's just me? I was looking through bugzilla and couldn't find anything resembling my issues. Enno. [1] The 32 bit builds. I am aware that the 64 bit builds are still a work in progress, and didn't feel so experimental. A 32bit build of OOo2 or XP64 :) Worded a little funny there... Speaking of 64 bit, is there likely to be a 64bit OOo sometime? I have 32bit OOo2 on 64bit linux and it's not really an issue... But curious... -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Cert report on operating system vulenablities...
On Saturday 07 Jan 2006 12:54, Chad Smith wrote: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB2005.html#top This bulletin provides a year-end summary of software vulnerabilities that were identified between January 2005 and December 2005. The information is presented only as a index with links to the US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin the information was published in. There were 5198 reported vulnerabilities: 812 Windows operating system vulnerabilities; 2328 Unix/Linux operating vulnerabilities; and 2058 Multiple operating system vulnerabilities. Still think Windows is more buggy and unsafe than Linux? http://tinyurl.com/9shch -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Office is broken...
On Wednesday 04 Jan 2006 09:33, Bob Long wrote: [CC'd to user] In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Nun-Ya Damn Business [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: It would appear that I am having a problem accessing a feature in your suite: write, to clarify; AutoCorrect, to be precise. This feature, which worked quite well prior to the 2.0 release, allowed me to add various misspelt words and the corrected counterpart, such that it would aid my writing. Now however, this feature has disappeared. I have removed the newly installed version and re-installed Office, as suggested by forums but the AutoCorrect feature is not there. Currently, there are four choices (functions) listed: Tools - Auto Correct: Options, Custom Quotes, Exceptions Word Completion. Not sure this helps (as you say you are using Linux), but in the Windows version (OOo 2.0 - not 2.0.1) the options are: Tools - Auto Correct: Options, Custom Quotes, Exceptions, Word Completion *and* Replace, which I think is the one you are looking for. these options are there in my linux version 2... -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re:Online only apps
On Tuesday 22 Nov 2005 01:34, Chad Smith wrote: I have played many of these free games for Linux, even getting a distro that was completely created for games, and very few of them were close to the quality of games available on Windows. There is a program called Are you comparing the free games that come with linux to the free games that come with windows (or freeware from elsewhere) or are you comparing free to commercial? Cedega, that will let you run some (not all) of the latest WIndows games on Linux, however, it's $5 a month, if you plan on gaming every month, it comes out much cheaper to buy or keep a legal copy of Windows. You don't have to keep paying the $5. $15 will let you download the latest versions for 3 months, and you can continue to use those forever to play the games that work with those versions... -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Online only apps
On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 04:50, Chad Smith trolled: On 11/19/05, Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MS is the only OS that have virus. think about it? Not even your cellphone running Symbian OS has vriuses. http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143697/grisoft-warns-linux-virus Grisoft predicts Linux virus plague 'Only a matter of time,' warns antivirus firm And yet linux anti-virus programs are essentially non existant? They make apps for linux that scan for windows viruses, yet seem very slow to make anything that scans for linux viruses... Possibly because actual linux viruses attacking desktop boxes are just not out there in the wild as yet. They have been promising them for the last 10 years or so that I've been using linux. I'm still waiting. A Google search for Antivirus Linux returns 14 million results http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+linux And what the point you are making here? These entries appear to be about software that scans for windows viruses on linux servers? Doing the same with Antivirus Mac yields 7 million http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+mac http://www.google.com/search?q=antivirus+linux And 26 million for antivirus + windows - and like most of the 14 million linux entries, these are about windows viruses no doubt... The Mac entries seem to be about Mac's... Your point? -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free
On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 11:44, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/16/05, Tim Fairchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can hardly be 'tied' to the windows platform when it runs on all the unix types. Of course you may say that MSO is no longer tied to windows either since it can run on Mac and many unix types as well... That's exactly my point, Tim. Thank you. Of course the othe side is that MS chooses to limit what platforms it makes MSO for while OOo does try to create a multiplatform app... It's only the work of others that make MSO possible on linux. The same might be said of OOo on Mac, perhaps... I'm a big supporter of crossover as it is a big help to small software makers especially. They don't have the resources to make multi platform apps, but with crossover they are less likely to need to. -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes
On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 05:37, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/15/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be more than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to the Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the search engine boom started by Yahoo and expanded by Google? Bill Gates never said that. It is a widely reported internet myth. http://tafkac.org/celebrities/bill.gates/gates_memory.html Yep, Bill denies saying it. Of course he denies a lot of things :) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. This may also be a myth. Attributions seem to get lost after a while, so who knows... Actually, tho, there are some interesting things in some of these articles. http://news.zdnet.com/5208-1009-0.html?forumID=1threadID=6527messageID=131873start=-1 He claims to have said that the industry uses an extra two bits every couple of years... And yet MS desktop OS's seemed to have been behind in bits along the way. Slow to 32 bit, slow to 64 bit... lots of left over 8 bit stuff... hmmm. -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite
On Wednesday 09 Nov 2005 07:50, Daniel Kasak wrote: Andrew Brown wrote: Daniel Kasak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:436FCC9F.9050703 @nusconsulting.com.au: OpenOffice.org developers have better things to do than write an email client from scratch just because people are too lazy or incompetent to open an external email program and attach a file. That's the spirit! The customer isn't just wrong. He's lazy and incompetent as well. I stand by that statement. What people are asking for is an email program that allows them to email from inside OpenOffice ... so they don't have to open an external client. That's lazy. If they claim they don't know how to attach a file to an email, then that's incompetent. Oh come on, OOo should really have all these things integrated, with a gimp-like tool as well, and it's own integrated OS, and a dog agility course designer, and an integrated network packet sniffer would be nice, and... :) -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Deal breaker
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2005 10:18, Ren wrote: I just found something that, to me, is a deal breaker. I had Calc open and attempted to load a file with the extension of .txt into it. Instead of opening the file in Calc, Writer popped up with the .txt file loaded. This is completely unacceptable behavior. I use Excel all the time at work and I really want it to work the same way. Obvious silly troll attempt. -- - Tim Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com Photos http://www.pbase.com/amosf Bloghttp://bcs4me.com/blog - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] The price of Free Software
On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 22:12, Manolis Christodoulou wrote: Imagine the situation whenI run a Firefox window with a java applet inside, an OOo Writer, and a GIMP instance at the same time under Windows XP. This is very common to people like me who prefere to use free software. How many graphics libraries do you think are up and running in my system then? I say 5! I probably have more than that, but don't see a real problem so far. Up til a couple of weeks ago I was running a P3-700 with 256 meg ram and it could handle 20 apps running on mandrake linux with several different libs with no trouble. I have even less trouble now with my amd64-2800 with 512meg ram :) My wife has a celeron 666 and there have been PC's in the house with P2-350's... I even have a pentium 166MMX with 64meg and it runs various apps you mention. The biggest hog in the list may be XP as I don't see any trouble in linux. tim -- - Tim Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Break it up
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 12:50, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: I'm on dialup and am not going to wait 7 hours for it to download. Could you break it up into smaller zip files that I could down load over a period of days? Two immediate options, besides using a download manager (see http://download.openoffice.org/index.html) I just downloaded OOo 1.9 over dialup and my dialup is 21600 at best. With dialup anything over 5meg is a big download and needs a download manager IMO. I used wget (since I'm linux based) and downloaded OOo over a few sessions in two days... tim -- - Tim Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] OOo distributed with USB flash drive
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 19:45, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Were these from Iomega? That company has been distributing OOo in its storage devices for at least a year now. I would be interested to know too because Dick Smith New Zealand also carries on their shelves an OOo CD put together by one of our community members that includes lots of FLOSS software. The Dick Smith NZ site (www.dicksmith.co.nz) mentions OpenOffice.org a lot, whereas, Dick Smith AU (www.dicksmith.com.au), there is no mention :( And, I found this the other day: http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/ What is really neat about this is that you can install it from a Windows box (as well as a Linux box), and of course it includes OOo. Guess who asked for one as a wedding anniversary present :) From what I can tell, the disk was done by dick smith NZ, and the drive might be samsung? not sure. But looks like the NZ dick smith is the one behind the FLOSS... tim -- - Tim Therese Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepagehttp://www.bcs4me.com - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
