Re: [discuss] QuickStart in 1.9.79

2005-05-05 Thread Graham
Caleb Marcus wrote: Hmm, 1.9.79 seems to be the latest beta, and I don't see it. Maybe it's because they haven't gotten the latest beta for bittorrent yet. In truth, the latest beta is 1.9.100 but I think the latest torrent is 1.9.87 and '95 coming shortly Cheers Yo

Re: [discuss] QuickStart in 1.9.79

2005-05-05 Thread Caleb Marcus
Thanks, that helps. I'll use HTTP. Graham wrote: Caleb Marcus wrote: Hmm, 1.9.79 seems to be the latest beta, and I don't see it. Maybe it's because they haven't gotten the latest beta for bittorrent yet. In truth, the latest beta is 1.9.100 but I think the latest torrent is 1.9.87 and '95

Re: [discuss] Open Source Software

2005-05-05 Thread Rich
Christian Einfeldt wrote: On Sunday 01 May 2005 17:52, Caleb Marcus wrote: I just want to know what open source software people are using. I use Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Audacity, Perl, and OpenOffice. I use Damn Small Linux (DSL) to install on older boxes, such as PIs and PIIs. DSL is

Re: [discuss] Re: Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 22:15 -0500, Randomthots wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: Is it? At my office, even little things like how OOo doesn't overflow on both sides when you center a cell cause people to complain and try to get you to use the Microsoft product. I think Writer is easily as

Re: [discuss] Re: Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

2005-05-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
Randomthots wrote: I think Writer is easily as good as, and probably better than, Word for most users. Ditto for Impress (in 2.0), and Draw has no equal in MSO. But Excel is likely the finest piece of software in MS's stable, and a damn high target for Calc. I would be interested to hear more

Re: [discuss] Re: [conspire] Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

2005-05-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 17:42 -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote: -- There are several factors affecting Sun's performance over the past several years, and Linux is but one of them (and not necessarily the most significant.) What are some of the other factors?

[discuss] Re: Suggestion for Cross File (Global) Search

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Brown
Claude Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:3fd6098b05050312471162f36 @mail.gmail.com: It would be very handy to have a search feature that could work across many files. For example searching a folder of documents for any document containing a phrase. There are several macro-ish add-ons

Re: [discuss] Re: Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

2005-05-05 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 22:15 -0500, Randomthots wrote: Tony Godshall wrote: Is it? At my office, even little things like how OOo doesn't overflow on both sides when you center a cell cause people to complain and try to get you to use the Microsoft product.

[discuss] Re: Java in OO.o: Proprietary trap or creative commons?

2005-05-05 Thread Johan Vromans
Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:15 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: So the question remains: will OOo be released 'built correctly' (not requiring _any_ Java), in multiple forms (with/without Java), or just with Java leaving the 'built correctly' version as an

Re: [discuss] Re: Java in OO.o: Proprietary trap or creative commons?

2005-05-05 Thread Jonathon Blake
Johan wrote: For the time being I'll assume that OOo 2 will require Java. Also assume that you will have to compile it from scratch. xan jonathon -- A Fork requires: Seven systems with: 1+ GHz Processors 2+ GB RAM 0.25 TB Hard drive space

Re: [discuss] QuickStarter is now quick! - Build 100

2005-05-05 Thread Caleb Marcus
Yes, it has gotten much faster. I noticed that in Build 97 (I think that's the build) it didn't quite work right. I'm glad to have the quickstarter back. Rigel wrote: I noticed a dramatic improvement in the loading time in the quickstarter. I am impressed. The load time for OpenOffice

[discuss] Access Help from QuickStarter

2005-05-05 Thread Caleb Marcus
I'd like to be able to access Help and Options from the QuickStarter. Any thoughts? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: Christian draws out a Sun Microsystems guy

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:45 +0300, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I actually find calc to be more in target with excel when the gap widens is on Impress. Basically the lack of animation mature functionality makes Impress fall behind the PowerPoint 'power user'. Things like embedded video, flash