Re: [discuss] Re: NOTICE: Security Patch

2005-04-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Louis Suarez-Potts louis at openoffice.org writes: Users of earlier releases (1.1.3 and prior) must upgrade. Thanks for the alert. But for the Chinese version only 1.1.3 is available. There is no 1.1.4. What should we do? Thanks! And, as a generic answer, to add to Justin's, contact the

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o1.9.91 window docking issue?

2005-04-15 Thread Stephan Schaefer
Hi all, To enable docking by mouse via dragging, it is required that your windows show their contents while moving and not only a wireframe. Otherwise OOo does not receive any events from the system until you release the mouse which is too late. On XP go to

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote: This is NOT a missunderstanding OOo DOES look to communicate with Sun Servers and the firewalls do warn the user about it. The misunderstanding is on the side of the user about the nature of the connection. The firewall is doing it's job. It

[discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced recently) and play with it in the weekend. unfortunately, i will have no internet connection in about one hour. so, what's you experience - which mirror first gets new releases ? :) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Justin Clift
Rich wrote: say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced recently) and play with it in the weekend. unfortunately, i will have no internet connection in about one hour. so, what's you experience - which mirror first gets new releases ? :) This is probably the page you want:

Re: [discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
hmm The following URL could not be retrieved: ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/mirmon/mirror-state.html Squid sent the following FTP command: CWD mirmon and then received this reply mirmon: No such file or directory. damn :) Justin Clift wrote: Rich wrote: say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced

Re: [discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
ok, sorry about previous mail. for some reason thunderbird sent ftp link to opera - using http it works. thanks :) Justin Clift wrote: Rich wrote: say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced recently) and play with it in the weekend. unfortunately, i will have no internet connection in

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
How in the world is that the responsability of the Firewall to know? And how do you think that would make any difference to Joe Six Pack. The issue is on the user to blame not the firewall, if you ask the firewall to warn u when some app tries to connect to the internet to warn you. This happens

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Lars D . Noodén
What is the best way to enlighten the large population of end users that there are applications that track and report on all their activties and that OOo is not one of them? On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote: How in the world is that the responsability of the Firewall to know? The

[discuss] privacy - hidden identifiers (was: Concern)

2005-04-15 Thread Lars D . Noodén
While we have the theme of privacy concerns going, does OOo embed a tracking number (aka GUID or global unique identifier) into documents like MS-Office97 and later do? If yes, why and are there plans to stop? If no, are there plans to keep it that way? -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Alexandro Colorado
That implies that the user has taken action. I thought were are talking about those that do not customize their firewalls. If the user is stupid and uneducated, no app in this known universe will make it smart. [...] I agree. Stupid is forver. Ignorance, in contrast, can usually be

Re: [discuss] Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Mathias Bauer
Lars D. Noodén wrote: What is the best way to enlighten the large population of end users that there are applications that track and report on all their activties and that OOo is not one of them? On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote: How in the world is that the responsability

[discuss] Re: Concern

2005-04-15 Thread Randomthots
Alexandro Colorado wrote: The behavior however that I couldn't explain was the one that happens when you start OOo. Since I dont use any firewall I couldn't duplicate it and verify it, but I did know people that duplicate and verify that OOo makes calls to the internet (or scans for it) everytime