Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread Cor Nouws
John Boyle wrote (9-4-2008 1:38) To Sophie and Cor: I cannot believe you people support this decision as the benefit definitely goes to the Communists and NOT to the OO community! I am a Vietnam vet and cannot see any benefit to any one else! You idiots cannot seen beyond the end of your nose a

[discuss] [OT] RVN VETS - Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread NoOp
On 04/08/2008 04:38 PM, John Boyle wrote: > To Sophie and Cor: I cannot believe you people support this decision as > the benefit definitely goes to the Communists and NOT to the OO > community! I am a Vietnam vet and cannot see any benefit to any one > else! You idiots cannot seen beyond the en

Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread John Boyle
To Sophie and Cor: I cannot believe you people support this decision as the benefit definitely goes to the Communists and NOT to the OO community! I am a Vietnam vet and cannot see any benefit to any one else! You idiots cannot seen beyond the end of your nose as to what is real and unreal! Bec

Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread sophie
Hi, John Boyle wrote: > To Peter: What most people object to is your holding your conference in Beijing in the first place! There are lots of countries you could pick even now! >:o May be you have missed how this location have been choosen? For your information there was six locations propos

Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi John, John Boyle wrote (8-4-2008 22:49) To Peter: What most people object to is your holding your conference in Beijing in the first place! There are lots of countries you could pick even now! >:o The choice for Beijing was made because of the people living and working there, that are par

Re: [discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread John Boyle
To Peter: What most people object to is your holding your conference in Beijing in the first place! There are lots of countries you could pick even now! >:o pj @ OOo wrote: Dear OOo community, after evaluating the pros and cons of several possible dates to hold the OOoCon, we are now plannin

Re: [discuss] Re : [discuss] 2008 OOoCon in Beijing

2008-04-08 Thread jonathon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:07 AM, pablo ibanez wrote: > I was just wondering if holding a conference in a country is a tacit > endorsment of its government's conduct, where could a conference take place: > which government's conduct is to be endorsed? You have to select the government that is t

Re: [discuss] pasting into Writer from clipboard

2008-04-08 Thread WesNathan
mike scott-2 wrote: > > On 4 Apr 2008 at 13:07, WesNathan wrote: > >> >> Greetings, >> >> For some reason, everytime I paste usually text into Writer from Windows >> clipboard, the text is always beyond the normal margins of the page. It >> just >> spreads out as if the white screen(page) wi

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:54:30 +1000 Allen Ryall wrote: > Thanx Michael; > > BUT - there IS NO "start > (All) Programs" - indeed, I have nothing I > would call a 'menu'. The start menu is part of Windows, specifically Windows98 - WindowsXP. If you have Windows Vista it is the round circle thing

[discuss] Re: Problem saving emails

2008-04-08 Thread Bud Oliver
Greetings: I have recently downloaded OOo 2.4 which replaced 2.3. I have noticed that the saved emails that I have and the new ones that I try now to save have been converted somehow. When I try to open them, the ASCII window comes up with Western Europe with Windows-1252/WinLatin as a defaul

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-08 Thread mike scott
On 8 Apr 2008 at 9:54, Allen Ryall wrote: > Thanx Michael; > > BUT - there IS NO "start > (All) Programs" - indeed, I have nothing I would > call a 'menu'. I've attached a WORD version of the contents of my folder; > when I double-click on "setup" (Note - NOT 'setup.exe'), I am just presented

Re: [discuss] disable "discard changes" dialog for M$ Office files

2008-04-08 Thread Richard/g
On Monday 07 April 2008, Seb wrote: > Hi, > > Every time I open a M$ Office file (Word, Excel, or Powerpoint), simply > browse its contents without changing anything, and then close the file > I'm always presented with the dialog: > > The Document "X" has been modified. > Do you want to save yo

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.4

2008-04-08 Thread Allen Ryall
Thanx Michael; BUT - there IS NO "start > (All) Programs" - indeed, I have nothing I would call a 'menu'. I've attached a WORD version of the contents of my folder; when I double-click on "setup" (Note - NOT 'setup.exe'), I am just presented with an option to MODIFY the files I already have. T

[discuss] Re: [OOoCon2008] Possible need to postpone the OOoCon (November 5 to 7)

2008-04-08 Thread pj @ OOo
Dear OOo community, after evaluating the pros and cons of several possible dates to hold the OOoCon, we are now planning to welcome you to Beijing from November 5 to 7. The main reason to eye November is the fact, that flight prices normally drop significantly after October. Another important

[discuss] Re : [discuss] 2008 OOoCon in Beijing

2008-04-08 Thread pablo ibanez
hi evrybody I was just wondering if holding a conference in a country is a tacit endorsment of its government's conduct, where could a conference take place: which government's conduct is to be endorsed? In which country? Where is this country, I want to move there!!! ;) Cheers to all And thanks

Re: [discuss] 2008 OOoCon in Beijing

2008-04-08 Thread Claus Agerskov
A. G. P. wrote: ... a decision to hold any conference in China is a tacit endorsement of the government's conduct. Holding a conference in a country is not the same as endorse the government of that country. If a lot of OOo'ers can't get visa to get to a country then I would suggest not to