Re: [users] OOo Bloat

2007-06-22 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:33:46 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forget voting against MS whatever; perhaps it's time to vote to just get > back to a very solid, basic, OOo office package that will install and > work properly with valid response/application times on multiple platforms. Abiwor

[users] OOo Bloat

2007-06-22 Thread NoOp
I just fired up an old HP Vectra 5/75 that someone gave to me from a school; this thing is a 75Mhz processor/32Mb of RAM, and a 2.3Gb drive - it happens to have my wife's old files on it. It takes forever to boot (Win95) perhaps 15 minutes. But once booted I find that it has MS Office 97 on it and

[users] Re: [moderated]

2007-06-22 Thread NoOp
On 06/21/2007 02:01 AM, Jonathan.Hewitt wrote: > Hi, > > Im really stuck. I need to distribute OpenOffice 2.2 to about 3000 > machines. I have got it to work in Group Policy, however I don't want > it to prompt the user asking them if they want to auto update or to > register the product. I have

[users] Re: I am using version 2.2.1of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :

2007-06-22 Thread NoOp
On 06/20/2007 09:28 PM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Rev. Mike wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have to say that, of all vendors, especially one that offers freeware, >> you re rapid response is VERY welcome and much appreciated. >> >> It is FAR FAR above that of Verizon & Microsoft, 2 of the top vendors in

[users] Re: Text link on your home page + folder option

2007-06-22 Thread NoOp
On 06/21/2007 12:25 PM, mahendar yadav wrote: > Dear sir, > > I represent a start up company called Intellygence an online marketing firm > that is into content management. I have just visited your website [ > www.openoffice.org], and liked what I have seen. > > We would like a text link on your

Re: [users] Re: ODF Format

2007-06-22 Thread Mhac Janapin
Hello Nawal, It's because it is zipped. Try unzipping the file into an empty folder to get the contents. Hope this helps a bit. Mhac - Original Message From: Nawal Kishore Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:50:06 PM Subject: Re: [users] R

[users] Re: [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-06-22 Thread NoOp
On 06/20/2007 11:47 PM, Russell Butler wrote: > NoOp wrote: >> Umm... >> >> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=openoffice+%2Bmedical+dictionary >> >> > Thanks NoOp, > > I notice actually several of those links are to my own posts! Others are > to online services, which are really only useful

Re: [users] Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-22 Thread Robin Laing
TerryJ wrote: Hagar de l'Est wrote: Hi All, Please sign the petition here : http://www.noooxml.org/petition/ (cookies have to be enabled for this site) Thanks, Hagar 2466 votes at this very minute. I appreciate your efforts, Hagar de l'Est. I saw your post on 8daysaweek.co.uk and vote

[users] Re: an arcane property of OO sorting

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Allan
jonathon wrote: I thought that the standards listed some languages as being excluded from that set of rules. You can tailor the Unicode Collation Algorithm to fit particular languages. See http://unicode.org/charts/collation/ for some collations for particular languages. Note that the OpenOf

[users] Re: an arcane property of OO sorting

2007-06-22 Thread Jim Allan
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Sorry for being thick. I suspected this might be a "feature" rather than a bug. As I'm working on Namibian languages (Nama and Khoekhoegowab, specifically) this is going to be a problem. "Phonemes" in these languages are often expressed by digraphs or even trigraphs. They nee

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-22 Thread John Boyle
To Jonathon: By then I will be to old to care! :-) :-D jonathon wrote: mike scott wrote: I thought it seemed good to know /someone/ is looking at speech recognition, Virtually all of the speech recognition work is done by organizations that want closed source, and everything wrapped

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-22 Thread John Boyle
To Mike Scott: You have hit the nail on the head. I would not be surprised if most of what is mentioned are dead in the water. What is really needed is a Current list of viable voice dictation/os operation programs in existence! :-( mike scott wrote: I thought it seemed good to know /someone/

Re: [users] Language packs for OOo 2.2 Windows version

2007-06-22 Thread Harold Fuchs
Goudreau, Joel (NBPLS/SBPNB) wrote: Hello, I'm having a hard time finding the language packs. I have been all through the OOo site look, have been to the L10n project site, yet I still can't find a location to download the packs. I have one for ver 2.1 that I found somewhere though.

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-22 Thread jonathon
mike scott wrote: > I thought it seemed good to know /someone/ is looking at speech recognition, Virtually all of the speech recognition work is done by organizations that want closed source, and everything wrapped in patents. Couple that with the fact that most of the R&D is going into embedded

Re: [users] Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-22 Thread Harold Fuchs
Hagar de l'Est wrote: Hi All, Please sign the petition here : http://www.noooxml.org/petition/ (cookies have to be enabled for this site) Thanks, Hagar 2466 votes at this very minute. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [users] technical problem

2007-06-22 Thread Harold Fuchs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SORRY! I was preoccupied this a.m. with other thoughts. I know you need the other information, I guess I wasn't thinking properly. Operating System is Windows XP Yes, I have downloaded and installed it. Removed it and installed it again. When I try to open it I get a

Re: [users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-22 Thread Anthony Chilco
If you're looking for use space on a windows 2000 or above system, you can't beat ExplorerXP. It's a freeware program available here: http://www.explorerxp.com/ tc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:28:42 jonathon wrote: Marleen Jongen wrote: We have Vista Basic If "ls -al"

Re: [users] program size on PC, had OpenOffice 279 MB + 108 download, in programs and features : 1,10 GB ?

2007-06-22 Thread James Knott
jonathon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> So, does Vista understand Linux shell commands? >> > > I've forgotten what the name of the program is, but it > installs most of the *Nix shell commands to Windows. > Personally, I consider any computer that does not have the > basic *Nix co

Re: [users] Network installation [moderated]

2007-06-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jon, Jonathan.Hewitt wrote: Im really stuck. I need to distribute OpenOffice 2.2 to about 3000 machines. I have got it to work in Group Policy, however I don't want it to prompt the user asking them if they want to auto update or to register the product. I have read that a file called resour

Re: [users] Linux/OSS developers: stop following and start leading

2007-06-22 Thread mike scott
I thought it seemed good to know /someone/ is looking at speech recognition, but the list below doesn't exactly inspire confidence: On 21 Jun 2007 at 12:20, jonathon wrote: > John wrote: > > > viable voice dictation/OS program if they really are concerned about > > expanding the Linux base?