[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-16 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 08:04:23 AM +, Mike Scott wrote: X-Validation-by: ooo.u...@gmail.com X-Validation-by: ooo.u...@gmail.com On this list, perhaps - but I think I recall Dennis H saying, two posts up-thread, that the Apache lists had no similar flag. just the last in the hundreds of

[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 08:23:59 AM +, Mike Scott wrote: I'll make the suggestion again that I've made before I think it's useless to make any suggestion on this list that will be shutdown soon anyway. It has to go on the new list. Besides, it has to be compliant with the general rules and

[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-15 Thread 'M. Fioretti'
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 11:04:55 AM -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I don't know where the subscription-required-to-post meme comes from. It is simply not true. OK, no problem. Either my memory is simply wrong about this or I _may_ have confused libreoffice lists with apache-oo ones. No matter,

[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-15 Thread 'M. Fioretti'
(please do STOP sending two copies of each message. I see by myself in the index of my email client which messages are replies to stuff I wrote and are therefore addressed to me). On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 12:27:49 PM -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Marco, I double-checked what there is available

[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-15 Thread 'M. Fioretti'
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 16:54:32 PM -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: That's an interesting solution. Especially that it can be done by a side-car server that essentially receives the mailing list and reforwards messages as needed. yes, this is a good synthesis. Have you ever seen this done?

[users] Re: List Migration Prospects (was RE: Re: Hi)

2011-12-14 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 13:20:50 PM -0800, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: The lists are not being transferred (the lists and their current archives will completely disappear except where 3rd parties have established archives). is there, by chance, a single list of these 3rd parties? 3. Nice catch

[users] Re: FW: read immediately ~ serious

2011-12-14 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 10:21:23 AM -0500, Larry Moore wrote: Snopes verified. PASS IT ON !! READ IMMEDIATELY (SERIOUS) Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, this information is 11+ months old, and is partly a hoax (started in

[users] Re: Major gaps of Open Office Impress versus Microsoft Power Point

2011-07-05 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 15:24:35 PM +0100, e-letter wrote: Firstly, why bother to write this text in a document? just a note: after asking Sergio, I put that text online here: http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/major-gaps-of-open-office-impress-versus-microsoft-power-point-what-do-you-think/ where it

[users] Re: how does the mail list work?

2011-07-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, July 3, 2011 1:34 am, aosd...@gmail.com wrote: I am receiving digests. ... I am not familiar with using the mail client to organize received emails the way a forum organizes topics and responses. I am using gmail on Firefox. Michael Adams refers to a properly threaded mailing

Re: Fwd: Re: [users] Emailing: ScreenShot009

2010-12-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 11:37:28 AM -0500, David B Teague (davidbtea...@comporium.net) wrote: Some of the folks on this list didn't think you are subscribed. If that's true, you won't have received this answer. So I have forwarded it to you. David, nothing personal, of course, but thanks for

Re: [users] Stand-alone OOo Writer

2010-05-26 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, May 26, 2010 08:27:23 AM -0400, James Greenidge (ji...@mac.com) wrote: Re: Myself, I'd love to see a stand-alone OOo Writer that'd both run quicker and use less memory, especially in older Macs. James, not exactly what you were asking, but there is a version of OOo that should run

Re: [users] Re: Why and how the OpenDocument format can save you a lot of time!

2010-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 21, 2010 19:51:38 PM -0400, Twayne (twa...@twaynesdomain.com) wrote: I have to wonder what the purpose of the post really is? ... I respectfully suggest that you use better marketing techniques... I'm afraid I can't see the relevancy or any use for the information on this avenue.

[users] Why and how the OpenDocument format can save you a lot of time!

2010-05-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, here is the introduction to a series of quick and dirty recipes I'll publish on my tips tricks website: http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/why-and-how-opendocument-format-can-save-you-lot-time If there's any specific trick you'd like to see explained in that series, just ask and I'll do

[users] Ooo tutorials for blind users?

2010-05-04 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I just interviewed Tony, who's starting an audio documentation project for blind computer users willing to switch to Linux and Free Software: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/150 the question for this list is: do audio tutorials like those Tony is asking for already exist for OOo, even on

Re: [users] richiesta informazioni

2010-03-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:20:33 AM +0100, Enrico Cuttini (rico...@gmail.com) wrote: Ho recentemente scaricato la versione 3.2 che ha automaticamente cancellato Enrico, quella a cui hai scritto è una lista di supporto che funziona soltanto in inglese. Se hai bisogno di supporto in italiano (io

Re: [users] Recommended Best Batch .odt to .doc Converter

2010-03-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 08:16:29 AM -0500, James Greenidge (ji...@mac.com) wrote: It's not like I have a choice. If higher-up clients sniff on OOo and demand .doc files of several hundred of your .odt formatted SOHO files you jump their hoop unless you win the lottery. Jim, I understand your

Re: [users] problemi installazione ope office

2010-02-13 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 17:22:24 PM +0100, Sara - Omninet Italia (saraaqui...@omninetitalia.com) wrote: Buongiorno a tutti, io ho un problema con l'installazione di Open office ultima versione su un computer. Buongiorno, personalmente non uso Windows, quindi anche se questa fosse la lista giusta

Re: [users] Top posting should be allowed

2010-02-12 Thread M. Fioretti
Keith wrote: why some dislike top posting. If I am following a long thread the last thing I want to do is page down over the information I have read before. One of the reasons for bottom posting (on a support mailing list like this, at least) is that half the reason it exists is for people

Re: [users] OO Writer for kids, teacher practices, etc...

2010-02-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 23:28:44 PM +0100, Marcello Romani (mrom...@ottotecnica.com) wrote: I've been using OpenOffice.org for several years now, both at home and at work. It's not meant to be a word processing for kids application, so maybe it's not suitable for 6 or 7 years old kids, but I

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 09:15:34 AM +, Harold Fuchs wrote: In the discussion you cite above you say: Whenever you answer at ooo-users, ALWAYS send the reply to both the OP and the list. Period. I think this suggestion easily makes it onto the shortlist of candidates for the most asinine

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 14:50:25 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I have not clear how a switch to mailman would reduce such messages. Mailman is much more configurable. Yes, but first of all, I am not sure that it would or could ever cope with all the situations that people

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 08:38:27 AM -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote: Why is this discussion staying on the users list? Don't ask me. When I was asked off list about the same thing I answered off list. When I asked on list I answered on list, also because the technical competence shown in that other

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 6, 2010 4:54 am, Dave Barton wrote: Dave, I do wish you success with your support web form. This, however: Over the years there has been much protracted debate and argument about the rights, wrongs and the mechanism of allowing non-subscribed posters to send moderated

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 21:40:55 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: I suggest that everybody just follows the strategy explained here: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=65332 What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 23:18:41 PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? ... I have not clear *why* you are asking this. The hundreds of messages each quarter about unsubscribing, I have not clear how

Re: [users] Mailing Lists Forums [Was: checksum]

2010-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 08:25:42 AM +0100, Clayton wrote: What would be the correct venue to get the users' list upgraded to Mailman and off of CollabNet? The simple answer is this: http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home Interesting, I didn't know about that, thanks. It seems

Re: [users] Displaying Moodle data in Calc

2010-01-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 4, 2010 10:46 am, perfect-engl...@gmx.de wrote: hi everyone. I'm trying to link the data from a Moodle Website with a calc spreadsheet. I need to take some of the results from a Moodle course and add it to existing data in a Calc spreadsheet. Do you mean that you want to

Re: [users] Displaying Moodle data in Calc

2010-01-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 4, 2010 11:41 am, Andy Chaplin wrote: Do you mean that you want to import data directly from the remote **Mysql** (or PostGreSql, whatever) database running on the server, the same database that Moodle uses to work and store its data? If yes, then yours is a classic case of

Re: [users] OOo LiveCD

2010-01-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, January 3, 2010 9:49 pm, Programmer In Training wrote: Is it possible to copy over the install directory of OOo into a CD and have it run from a CD? I think this: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable may be what you are looking for. HTH, Marco --

[users] General note about URL shorteners, was: Groklaw article on Microsoft methods - correct URL

2009-12-27 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 11:53:46 AM -0700, John Meyer wrote: While I would say that using a shorturl on an e-mail site is a bit apropos, I would disagree with the short-urls automatically equal spam. They are not always spam, far from it, but create several problems it would be bad to ignore:

Re: [users] Re: Again on: OOo4Kids, a lighter OpenOffice for limited computers

2009-11-29 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, November 30, 2009 1:48 am, NoOp wrote: Marco, I downloaded and tried the OOo4Kids; many, many issues that I can see. When I get some additional free time I'll try to go through and document what I found - the most glaring was having a Draw toolbar as the main toolbar in Writer.

[users] Again on: OOo4Kids, a lighter OpenOffice for limited computers

2009-11-27 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 08:30:15 AM -0800, NoOp wrote: On 11/20/2009 04:10 AM, M Henri Day wrote: OOo4Kids, an OpenOffice spinoff born for primary school, but about 35% smaller and, according to the developers, working fine on 128 MB of RAM: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/42 Very

[users] OOo4Kids, a lighter OpenOffice for limited computers

2009-11-19 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, here's an interview to a developer of OOo4Kids, an OpenOffice spinoff born for primary school, but about 35% smaller and, according to the developers, working fine on 128 MB of RAM: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/42 Regards, M. Fioretti -- Computers in classrooms: how JumPC

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 11:38:38 AM -0400, Tim Deaton wrote: It's useless to waste time on Wikipedia. It may be useless if your only market is techies. techies know better than trust Wikipedia without checking the sources anyway. This said, I *never* referred to techies in my earlier posts,

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 14:42:14 PM -0400, David B Teague wrote: Only trolls and fan-boys have the low standards to cite Wikipedia. So just don't waste time on it. What you say is just not true. You expose your bias against and utter ignorance of Wikipedia. There has been considerable research

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 22:01:45 PM +0300, Lars Nooden wrote: A problem, however, is that 99% of low-end students, if they bother to look up a source at all, make a beeline for Wikipedia when introduced to a topic... Partly, that happens because (see my other post) the first results in most

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 13:16:52 PM -0400, Web Kracked wrote: I have a question? Why not get some really smart people together on ODF, OpenOffice.org, and other open source software, technologies, and concepts, AND create a Wikipedia style of site but with the correct info. ALSO only allow

Re: [users] Groklaw article on anti-ODF «whispe r campaign»

2009-06-15 Thread M. Fioretti
I'm sorry, I hit reply by mistake before answering the second part of your message. On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 13:16:52 PM -0400, Web Kracked wrote: So lets put up or shut up. You experts in ODF that want to correct the wrongs, do something about it. Create the proper info site and get it linked

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-30 Thread M. Fioretti
Dave, please accept my apologies for not answering earlier. For some unknown reason, I manually filed this message without reading it in another folder and only realized it now. On Fri, May 22, 2009 15:24:32 PM -0400, Dave Post wrote: If you take out the resend message to the list part, ie

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-30 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 22, 2009 20:54:55 PM +, jonathon wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: You should work on a message by message basis: if message X doesn't contain some headers send copy to poster. If not, don't. Depending upon how one reads the OOo list, the specific filters to check might

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, May 21, 2009 22:22:33 PM -0400, Dave Post wrote: I've written an AppleScript for my email client (OSX Mail 3.6) that, if activated, will respond automatically to messages that contain moderator for users@openoffice.org in a Delivered-To header field by sending a modified version of

Re: [users] Proposed stopgap for unsubscribed-users problem

2009-05-22 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 22, 2009 11:11:02 AM -0400, Dave Post wrote: On May 22, 2009, at 2:55 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: the only way to cope with this ridiculous situation would be some kind of autoresponder that worked invisible in the background. So OK to your script, as long as you only send extra

Re: [users] Re: .docx documents do not import in OOo3.1 on OSX 10.5.7

2009-05-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, May 18, 2009 19:11:18 PM -0700, NoOp wrote: BTW: you might want to *read* Marco Fioretti's post. While I think that Marco sometimes takes his articles a little too far in his insistence of users toeing the digital freedom line (sorry Marco), please have a look at the two paragraphs

[users] Scout documents and closed formats, was: [users] .docx documents do not import in OOo3.1 on OSX 10.5.7

2009-05-16 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 15, 2009 22:07:16 PM +0100, David Patrick wrote: I am having trouble opening .docx documents that have been emailed to me. These documents have consisted of a series of text boxes with text inside them. ... Can anyone either tell me, or point me in the right direction for a

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 19:24:25 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Dotan, I'm a bit confused. Isn't what you say here: Having ODF render differently in MSO and OOo will certainly help to destroy ODF. That is why I argue that OOo should render as MSO does. just what you label as unwise a few lines

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:21:57 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: If we found a place where the actual standard or the proposed one is lacking, and MS has implemented it in some different way than OO, then yes, as long as the standard (or a draft) is not defined, copying MS will be the wiser

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:18:55 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2009/5/8 M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net: Exactly. I do not expect MS to code the ambiguous parts of ODF to be compatible with OOo. I expect them to make it different. and why users, especially governments, should ever allow

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 21:28:52 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Following MS is a moving target. If you want to be the market leader, you have to work for it. couldn't agree more if all players had equal opportunities. If competition among software programs happened only around features,

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 22:07:15 PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: and why users, especially governments, should ever allow this really escapes me, sorry. Because they are already MSO users. You are starting in the middle, not the idealogical beginning. No, I was referring (not clearly enough, I

Re: [users] Re: OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 08, 2009 13:46:49 PM -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2009/05/06 3:38 PM Harold Fuchs wrote: Thought this might be of interest even if OT. This thread, which has nothing to do with giving support to users is now 57 posts long. this thread is about the real, main reason to use OOo

Re: [users] is open office free to use in internet cafe?

2009-04-14 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 13:49:42 PM +0800, ShiLiang wrote: My friend want to open an internet cafe and we are not sure about if its legal to download and install the open office on his machines. You can legally use as many copies as you wish of OpenOffice for any commercial activity, from

Re: [users] Problems saving a file as a .doc file

2009-04-12 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 23:52:52 PM -0700, Arnold Roth wrote: I've been using the 2.4 version of OOo for some time and have saved write files as .doc format... Now I've updated to the 3.0 version and my first attempt at saving a file in this format won't work. I'm doing the same thing I've

[users] OOo Impress version of: Seminar on how OpenDocument, OOXML and other formats impact innovation

2009-03-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 19:23:58 PM -0700, NoOp wrote: My seminar about How file formats can be used to favor (or hamper) innovation: concrete impacts on free markets, business competition, culture, equal opportunities, education... is finally available at:

Re: [users] OOo Impress version of: Seminar on how OpenDocument, OOXML andother formats impact innovation

2009-03-31 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 14:09:18 PM +0200, Reinier Bakels wrote: My seminar about How file formats can be used to favor (or hamper) innovation: concrete impacts on free markets, business competition, culture, equal opportunities, education... is finally available at:

[users] Seminar on how OpenDocument, OOXML and other formats impact innovation

2009-03-30 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, the 2009 edition of my seminar on How file formats can be used to favor (or hamper) innovation: concrete impacts on free markets, business competition, culture, equal opportunities, education... which contains several pages discussing OpenDocument, which is the default

Re: [users] Re: Is there any logotypy We use only OpenDocument or We are Openoffice only Group?

2009-03-26 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 15:14:03 PM -0700, NoOp wrote: Congratulations! You can find logos etc here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_where.html The material at that URL may be useless in this particular case. Please note that, even if the subject of the message also mentioned

Re: [users] Is there any logotypy We use only OpenDocument or We are Openoffice only Group?

2009-03-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 15:51:38 PM +0100, Peter Fodrek wrote: Today our Information and Communication Technologies Group of Department of Control and Industrial Informatics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of Slovak University of Technology Peter, Good move!

Re: [users] Re: switching a open office document to microsoft document

2009-03-17 Thread M. Fioretti
service why they still have such anti-citizen requirements (it's probably just out of inertia, but it doesn't excuse them anyway). Best Regards, M. Fioretti - http://mfioretti.com -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around

Re: [users] Copia/Incolla

2009-03-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 13:06:45 PM +0100, Simona Pirola wrote: Ho installato Open Office 3.0 e mi trovo benissimo. Simona, la lista pubblica di supporto OpenOffice a cui hai scritto è solo in inglese. Non conosco la soluzione del tuo problema, ma ti conviene chiedere di nuovo alla mailing list

Re: [users] Spam challenge from being on this list.?

2009-02-04 Thread M. Fioretti
using that address and be more careful with a new one from now on, or install some good anti-spam system. Best Regards, M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.net -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you

Re: [users] AT the risk, and proud to do it, of being called a Bible Thumper

2008-12-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 09:07:22 AM -0800, John Boyle wrote: To ALL, including James Knott, *MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BLESSED NEW YEAR :-) * Same from me! Merry Christmas to all. Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around*

Re: [users] supporto

2008-10-02 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 06:36:09 AM +, giulio gentile wrote: salve ho installato da poco open office pero ancora non sono riuscito a disinstallare office 2007 anche se ho eliminato manualmente tutti i componenti..ma il problema e che non riesco ad aprire i file office 2007 con open

[users] Digital signatures don't work in OpenOffice (on Linux/Fedora

2008-09-30 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I'm trying to set up digital signatures in Openoffice 2.3 and Fedora Core 8. I *have* followed the instructions at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_use_digital_Signatures and http://www.linux.com/articles/57554 I've got a client certificate which shows in Firefox but

Re: [users] come configurare la tastiera per i caratteri di una lingua straniera

2008-07-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 09:34:41 AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho appena iniziato a usare open office, versione 2.4, su un sistema operativo wndows vista home premium Daniela, quella a cui hai scritto è la mailing list pubblica degli utenti OpenOffice di lingua inglese. Personalmente non

[users] updated information on sqlite in OOO 2.3?

2008-07-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am looking for up to date information on how to open and manage an existing sqlite3 database file from OpenOffice on Linux. The first tutorials and pages found through Google don't look really current or applicable as is. Is this really the case? TIA, Marco Fioretti

[users] Does OOo Base corrupt Sqlite databases?

2008-07-21 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, I am experimenting on Linux with OOo 2.3 Base and Sqlite3 databases, using ODBC. I have already managed to access from Base a test.db sqlite3 file I had created with a script, and to create forms and reports. Of course, when I saved the database, I got a wonderful Test.odb file, that

Re: [users] database

2008-06-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, June 8, 2008 12:18 pm, Alessandro Sambo wrote: gentili signori, da utente assolutamente sprovveduto sto cercando di organizzare una serie di documenti di testo e album di foto in un database. Alessandro, personalmente non so aiutarti, mi dispiace. Comunque l'indirizzo

[users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, May 22, 2008 08:20:02 AM +0100, mike scott wrote: On 21 May 2008 at 22:32, Jason Cipriani wrote: I can't imagine any harm that could come [from MS supporting ODF] Unless their version starts acquiring incompatible extensions. Please note that this danger does exist anyway, it could

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 24, 2008 16:30:46 PM +0200, M Henri Day wrote: Very interesting article, Marco - many thanks for the link ! Have you had any responses other than those posted on Roberto Gallopini's blog ?... Thanks. The article was translated and published on a Spanish blog, and I've exchanged a

[users] Re: adding OpenOffice icon in Solaris, was: Hey

2008-05-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, May 06, 2008 16:53:14 PM -0400, Jimenez, Mario A CTR USSOUTHCOM JTFGTMO wrote: I want to readdress this issue and express some urgency on behalf of my users. since from the beginning of your message it looks like you already know that users@openoffice.org is a public mailing list where

Re: [users] Using Open Office

2008-02-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 11:49:00 AM -0500, ENIGMA CYCLES LLC wrote: Hello, I am Erik McMillan with Enigma Cycles and we are in the process of starting a charity for underprivilged High School students that plan to further their education but are unable to afford a computer. Erik, I maintain a

Re: [users] Receipt of purchase

2008-02-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 11:11:32 AM -0500, Susan Fernand wrote: I purchased the open office suite back in November 07. I need a receipt for my expense reports. Can someone e-mail me? visa and the dat was 11/5/07 and it was emailed to this address Mrs Fernand, users@openoffice.org is a

Re: [users] OOo zealot, me?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, January 22, 2008 7:59 pm, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'd like to know about the direct environmental impact of MS Office, not other MS products. I don't want to convince them to switch OS, rather, I want to convince them to send newsletters in a non-MSO format. This is covered in the Does

Re: [users] Marco - please stop trying to dictate the list's behaviour (was Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?)

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 23, 2008 1:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And when did this become your personal list, Marco? It isn't, obviously. I have made very clear that I was just reminding a practice that EVERYBODY on the list, just a few days ago, agreed on as the most sensible one, one much more

Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:00 pm, James Knott wrote: I ignore those discussions, as they often turn into flame wars, so I didn't see any such agreement. Care to post it? Search the threads The right way to recognize and manage unsubscribed users To moderators and all volunteers of OOo users

Re: [users] Marco - please stop trying to dictate the list's behaviour (was Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?)

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:27 pm, Harold Fuchs wrote: At the last count there were around 2400 users subscribed to this list. I don't remember any consensus on any subject. See my answer to James and Donald, or the one from Michele, which confirmed what I said. I'ts not my fault if you lost

Re: [users] Marco - please stop trying to dictate the list's behaviour (was Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?)

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:23 pm, Michele wrote: ... and that we can better continue in doing what we are good: helping users with questions about OpenOffice.org Hello Cor, Actually the purpose of this request is to improve the quality (actually I should say quantity) of our answers to

Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 15:18:18 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Why is it that the web site cannot insist on a subject and then include it? ... Since your comment was intended to be sarcasm, then my comment is directed at the site admin and not you. It just seems strange that

Re: [users] Document Converter wizard broken ?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 21:56:11 PM +0100, john d. herron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have several hundred winword (.doc) files that need to be turned into OOOrg Writer (.odt) files. It _seems_ bug Bug #93002 in the Ubuntu version of OpenOffice: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=423652

Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 17:29:38 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, if it's too much bother to fix the web site, it's too much bother for me to fix the subjects. All this has nothing to do with how much bother it is to fix the website and for who. I have spent far too much

Re: [users]Marco, give it a rest; was: James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 21:19:39 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've just looked at posts by myself and Marco. To date, I've posted almost 2500 messages (only 3 or 4 others have posted more) in this forum, the vast majority offering help to users. He's posted about 190 and it

Re: [users] List Proposal [Was: James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?]

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 13:32:53 PM +1100, Dave Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Having been subscribed to this list almost from it's inception, I have seen this this argument/issue raised ad-nauseam, so I have avoided buying into the recent exchanges. Now I would like to put forward a proposal

Re: [users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 20:33:20 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The problem here, is not the subject lines. It's the way you seem to think you run the list. Are you a moderator? Also, take a look at some of your posts. Such as from Jan 5 And I am demanding that everybody

[users] Stopping the thread, was: James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-23 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 23:58:10 PM +0100, M. Fioretti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 17:29:38 PM -0500, James Knott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, if it's too much bother to fix the web site, it's too much bother for me to fix the subjects. ... Thanks for making so clear

[users] James K., may you please stop sending answers without meaningful subjects?

2008-01-22 Thread M. Fioretti
I'm trying this way since repeated discussions on list and a direct request off list seem to have gone completely unnoticed. James, the whole list agreed just a couple of weeks ago that sending REPLIES to messages with meaningless empty subjects like [users][moderated] WITHOUT replacing that

Re: [users] OOo zealot, me?

2008-01-21 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 21, 2008 8:39 am, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2) Any environmental club should be one of the last places to adopt and support Microsoft software, see the links in the Environment paragraph at http://digifreedom.net/node/103 (it may even be interesting to challenge them with

Re: [users] Uninformative subject lines

2008-01-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 12:35:45 PM +1100, Mike Shearer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: this is plea to those who respond to calls for help or comments from persons not yet up to speed on how to use the users@openoffice.org emails to please change absolutely meaningless subject lines into ones that

Re: [users] Uninformative subject lines

2008-01-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 06:42:04 AM -0600, Dan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Then perhaps both of your should do something about it. When you see these uninformative subject lines, change them and send in a response when you can with a more meaningful subject line. Instead of asking people to

Re: [users] OOo zealot, me?

2008-01-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 00:47:36 AM +0200, Dotan Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not be a zealot or anything, but I thought that the regular readers of this list might like to know that today I withdrew my membership from my university's Green (environmental) club because they insist upon

Re: [users] Open Office License

2008-01-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 12:57:15 PM -, Fuller, Daniel Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Open Office, Sir, please note that users@openoffice.org is a public mailing list, with archives published on the Internet. This said, Before we install the software please can you clarify if we

Re: [users] I am trying to install Writer. My order is below...

2008-01-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 03:02:52 AM -0600, Russ Salmon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you could please let know how i can install your software wuite on my HP Pavilio laptop, 1.32 GHZ and 1.99 Gigs of RAM i would really appreciate it. I'm very excited to begin using your software bundle,. but

Re: [users] I want to see a .odt doc. do I have to download Open Office

2008-01-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 09:53:24 AM -0700, Susan Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I already have Word, but I want to see a friend's document that she created in Open Office. Do I have to download your program to see it? I think it is the easier solution, if you have a broadband internet

Re: [users] DOCX files

2008-01-14 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 08:56:11 AM +1300, Michael Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:24:46 -0800 Jose Millan wrote: I can't open the docx files with OpenOffice. Can you help? Yes, get the originator of the email to resend the files in .DOC format. They will have

Re: [users] Convert to `Word`

2008-01-14 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 09:02:12 AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can I convert an `Open Office Document` to `Word` and if so how? Yes, with some limitations. But it is in your own interest, whenever it is under your control or within your rights, to never store, distribute

[users] MS Office best of breed, OOo website 15 years old

2008-01-13 Thread M. Fioretti
DISCLAIMER: the slashdot comment summarized and linked below is an answer to an unrelated article of mine which just made Slashdot front page. That's why I saw it, I'm scanning all the comments because I kind of need to, this time. You're obviously welcome to read my article too, but as far as

Re: [users] Trying to activate version 2.3.1

2008-01-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, January 10, 2008 1:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only module in the suite that I can get into is WORD. There isn't any icon to activate the whole suite nor transfer to the other modules. My operating system is VISTA-Home premium . I paid $47.00 and down loaded the software on

Re: [users] bottom-posting Nazis go away! (was Re: [users] OOo and Linux/Troll/Idiot)

2008-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 7, 2008 1:07 pm, Lindsay Graham wrote: But [bottom posting] is not policy on this list Not explicitly, maybe. Please note, however, that: 1) the OFFICIAL guidelines www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html explicitly say to keep messages short and to the point, and that All

Re: [users] Link to External Data

2008-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 7, 2008 4:11 pm, Victor Chapman wrote: This is my second post on this topic. Does anyone use the Link to External Data found in calc. Are there any examples or tutorials out there on how this feature is supposed to work. I am trying to pull data from a web site using this

Re: [users] Link to External Data

2008-01-07 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, January 7, 2008 4:20 pm, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, January 7, 2008 4:11 pm, Victor Chapman wrote: I am trying to pull data from a web site using this feature and find that it like trying to grasp a handful of fog. what is the format of those data? I found a previous request from you

Re: [users] bottom-posting Nazis go away! (was Re: [users] OOo and Linux/Troll/Idiot)

2008-01-06 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 14:07:30 PM -0500, Donald H Locker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: no problem. Really. Just don't be surprised if this doesn't maximize And if it is really no problem, why do you persist in telling people that they must bottom-post on this forum It wasn't an observation

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