[discuss] ISP problems. (waaaaay off-topic but maybe amusing...)

2005-08-24 Thread William W. Austin
I'm doing this mainly to see if my membership has been automatically dumped... (sorry to waste your bandwidth) Some time within the last 36 hours, due to a clerical error (I upgraded my service to a higher speed line and added 2 additional ip addresses and they apparently completely blew i

Re: [discuss] grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Larry Gusaas
Do you have the URL's for them? I searched Sourceforge for "Language Tool". No grammar checker showed up. On 24 Aug 2005 at 21:20, Jonathon Blake wrote: > Amy wrote: > > > I would like to see a grammar checker in future releases of English > > Open > > Download and install Language Tool. You

Re: [discuss] Re: grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Barton
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 08:35 +0800, Richard jenkins wrote: > It makes me very proud, to be a member of this discussion group; where > people can get together to discuss the open office forum. > Grammar checkers as well as Spelling checkers, although a very good > thing does make you very lazy, the o

[discuss] Re: grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Richard jenkins
It makes me very proud, to be a member of this discussion group; where people can get together to discuss the open office forum. Grammar checkers as well as Spelling checkers, although a very good thing does make you very lazy, the other problem comes with spelling words i.e. UK English, USA Englis

[discuss] Cropping images in Writer

2005-08-24 Thread Duncan Smith
Hi I scan into documents a lot and it would be hugely benficial to me if Writer was able to dynamically crop these images with the mouse rather than having to use the dialogue box. Sadly I still often use Word (97) as thsi feature speeds up my work dramatiically (though I am trying to move t

Re: [discuss] grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Amy wrote: > I would like to see a grammar checker in future releases of English Open Download and install Language Tool. You can find it on Sourceforge. >it has no grammar checker Technically accurate. There are three grammar checkers that can be used with OOo. xan jonathon -- Does your Of

[discuss] grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Amy Newport
Dear Open Office, I would like to see a grammar checker in future releases of English Open Office. I like Open Office except for the fact it has no grammar checker and is slow to open. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Using Windows in unusual ways?

2005-08-24 Thread Anthony Long
A writer at a major computer mag here in the US is looking for sources--people using Windows in unusual ways. Thought some of the folks here might either be doing so or know of others who are. Let me know. Thanks, Anthony -

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:20 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > I said I'd dig *very* deep in search of a scam, because unfortunately > those legitimate cases are very rare, IMO. I'm not talking about OOo in > particular here, because I don't know much about its distribution process > and what actual

[discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi Daniel, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Indeed, you'd have to give people a very compelling reason to pay you > for it. > At the simplest level, if the cost is the CD is very low, a user with a > dial-up connection might decide that paying you $5 is more convenient > than

[discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Richard jenkins
Did you like that, I love a good discussion. On 8/24/05, Richard jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel, > Cheers mate, what you say is quite right; selling it for USD $5 was a > smart move it would weed out those that, just take things offered for > free, the difference here or there sorry

[discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Richard jenkins
Daniel, Cheers mate, what you say is quite right; selling it for USD $5 was a smart move it would weed out those that, just take things offered for free, the difference here or there sorry was that Ian also told those that purchased the product as well as those that did not, that it could if wishe

Re: [discuss] FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:51, Alexandro wrote: > Yes we are, I am very interesting in your experience since my roomate > (chineese) has had some issues with the kanji converstions from OOo to MSO. Don't you mean Japanese? Kanji is Japanese; the Chinese writing system's what kanji's based on, but it

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:44 +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Oh, here's another example. Ian went to a conference a month ago. The > largest education conference in the world, in Los Angeles. These are > people who had never heard of OOo. Ian figured that if he gave out the > CDs for free, a lot

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Richard jenkins wrote: Yes, it is a little rude that someone would give it you for free and then you go and charge others for it, elbeit it be that you made it a little better or maybe you didn't maybe you just think you made it better because you created it. Give it freely as it was intended to

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Carrera
Sebastian Luque wrote: Thanks for your explanation. I just find it odd that anybody would want to deliberately buy something that's available for free. I, for one, wouldn't trust anybody trying to sell me things I can get for free. I would dig *very* deep in search of a scam. But I would nee

Re: [discuss] Error Message

2005-08-24 Thread Cyrille Moureaux
Hi, OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in accessing the OpenOffice.org confirguration data. Please contact your system administrator. The following internal error has occurrec: GetStorage, name: "No Content! Please advise on what I can do to remove this error... This is a know

Re: [discuss] MS lochs down Scots Police deal - II

2005-08-24 Thread Alexandro
On 8/23/05, Christian Einfeldtextra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IMHO, someone who is a reporter and on the ground should spent some > time trying to find out what was behind this decision. Like Ian, I > suspect mere laziness and misunderstanding and fear. I also don't buy > the interoperability

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Ian Lynch
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:10 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are > > free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license > > says that charging money is o

Re: [discuss] Error Message

2005-08-24 Thread Alexandro
It looks like a permission problem which OS are you using_ Probably you just need to reassing the permissions. The quick fix is to re-install however usually windows is weird like that and will break things up. On 8/24/05, Candy C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OpenOffice.org cannot be started

[discuss] Error Message

2005-08-24 Thread Candy C
OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in accessing the OpenOffice.org confirguration data. Please contact your system administrator. The following internal error has occurrec: GetStorage, name: "No Content! Please advise on what I can do to remove this error... Thank You

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Alexandro
On 8/24/05, Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > If I give you a product under a particular copyright license, you are > > free to distribute it under the terms of that license. If that license > > says that charging money is ok

Re: [discuss] Re: FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Alexandro
On 8/24/05, Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Free as in open source means that you are Free to take the source code > > and modify it. You are also free to copy it and give it away to others > > or to install it on as many co