Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....

2010-03-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/3/6 Ivan Stout aibanham...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they needed and there was no vendor to force

Re: [users] Problem with sum in Calc

2010-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 5 March 2010 18:20, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 3 March 2010 19:36, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: JOE Conner wrote: On 3/3/2010 10:52 AM, AG wrote: 11.73 + 7 + 15.75 + 24.68 + 17.5 + 21.18 + 20.65 + 17.85 + 19.25 + 23.1 + 12.6

[users] gmane up?

2010-03-06 Thread Mark Miller
I normally read the list via gmane ... but have been unable to connect since yesterday. Is anyone else having trouble? tnx mcm -- -- Mark C. Miller mr.mcmil...@gmail.com [home] mcmil...@ologn.org [church] mark_mil...@mail.nobl.k12.in.us [school] mmil...@millermc.net

Re: [users] gmane up?

2010-03-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 06/03/2010 16:48, Mark Miller wrote: I normally read the list via gmane ... but have been unable to connect since yesterday. Is anyone else having trouble? tnx mcm Yes. Not working here in UK. - To unsubscribe,

Re: [users] gmane up?

2010-03-06 Thread upscope
On Saturday 06 March 2010 08:48:39 am Mark Miller wrote: I normally read the list via gmane ... but have been unable to connect since yesterday. Is anyone else having trouble? tnx mcm Yes I just tried it a few minutes ago. It appears to be down. Get message Cannot connect to host.

[users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
Ivan Stout wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher

Re: [users] Re: calc: statistical functions, ANOVA etc????

2010-03-06 Thread Le Couey
On 3/4/2010 9:04 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: ... http://gnumeric.org has by far more to offer in this particular field of interest. But gnumeric does not run under MS XP? Uwe, Yes there is a version for MS XP. I've got it on my machine. I haven't used it much, yet, but it does run

Re: [users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-6 8:48 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: You said With ssh forwarding and sshfs... SSHFS is one way of getting access to files hosted elsewhere. You could run OpenOffice on your machine and access files that are somewhere else. The next step up would be regular network accessible storage, aka

Re: [users] Hugely OT About Proxies (was Re: [users] INDIA'S MINI COMPUTER....)

2010-03-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
Lars Nooden wrote: On 2010-3-6 8:48 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: You said With ssh forwarding and sshfs... SSHFS is one way of getting access to files hosted elsewhere. You could run OpenOffice on your machine and access files that are somewhere else. The next step up would be regular

[users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread Dave and Anna Whitehouse
Hi We are about to use Open Office, for the first time whilst overseas for a few months, where it will be our only text/imaging programme. We are wanting to keep the kids informed about our travels and send Open Office documents, including photos, as attachments to emails. In 'ms Word' - my

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread RA Brown
Dave and Anna Whitehouse wrote: Hi We are about to use Open Office, for the first time whilst overseas for a few months, where it will be our only text/imaging programme. We are wanting to keep the kids informed about our travels and send Open Office documents, including photos, as

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread Richard Detwiler
Dave and Anna Whitehouse wrote: Hi We are about to use Open Office, for the first time whilst overseas for a few months, where it will be our only text/imaging programme. We are wanting to keep the kids informed about our travels and send Open Office documents, including photos, as attachments

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread Troll/Idiot
On 06-Mar-10 18:15, Dave and Anna Whitehouse wrote: Hi We are about to use Open Office, for the first time whilst overseas for a few months, where it will be our only text/imaging programme. We are wanting to keep the kids informed about our travels and send Open Office documents, including

[users] Compression of files

2010-03-06 Thread Dave and Anna Whitehouse
To Troll, Richard and RABrown, Jim and, no doubt, others.. Folks, your answers were amazingly fast and just what we were looking for. Just sent a test doc, as an attachment including images, to myself via email. Absolutely fine. I'll check out all the ideas over the next wee while but at this

[users] repeat column on new page

2010-03-06 Thread James
I have a table with 2 columns and I allow the row to 'break across pages'. The 2nd column has a lot of text but the 1st column is a category. Can I make the first column repeat when it starts a new page? I have: A 1 2 3 4 B 1 2 - page break - 3 4 C 1 2 3 4 I want: A 1 2 3

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-7 2:15 AM, Dave and Anna Whitehouse wrote: I guess I have missed something.. Can anyone enlighten me? ODF is already compressed. The default file format for OpenOffice is the OpenDocument Format, shared by other applications. By default ODF is already compressed using Zip. See p31

Re: [users] Compression of documents

2010-03-06 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-7 3:06 AM, Richard Detwiler wrote: An important additional advantage is that essentially anyone can read the file, whether they have OpenOffice installed or not. Richard, an additional advantage of ODF is that essentially anyone can read the file, whether they have OpenOffice.org