[users] Re: Can't download your program for Windows

2011-09-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On 09/27/2011 12:32 AM, Doug wrote: Yesterday tried to get OO and was told that the file would take several DAYS to download. Today got an install file from http://download.openoffice.fm/free and it d/l'd a file whose name ended in .exe.part and of course Windows said Select program to open

[users] Realtec ALC655

2010-08-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
I installed 10.4 on a box with AMD 64-bit, and has a Realtec ALC655 audio chipset, which should have been setup at the install, but the system isn't seeing it. How I wish we still had alsaconf as often, it would fix problems like this!! Does anyone have any ideas? udevd errors are: udevd[354]:

Re: [users] Realtec ALC655

2010-08-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
On 08/12/2010 06:53 PM, RA Brown wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: I installed 10.4 on a box with AMD 64-bit, and has a Realtec ALC655 audio chipset, which should have been setup at the install, but the system isn't seeing it. How I wish we still had alsaconf as often, it would fix problems like

Re: [users] Title Text Spectrum Morphing

2010-03-11 Thread Fred A. Miller
On 03/12/2010 12:42 AM, jonathon wrote: netsecurity wrote: I have to rewrite 500K pages of documentation by 25 March, otherwise I'd be able to get to it sooner. I've had some truly crazy schedules for documentation but never 500,000 pages in 13 days! Well, I had four

Re: [users] Re: Who has a larger organization (100 users) using Open Office?

2009-12-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
On 12/06/2009 10:49 AM, James Knott wrote: Andreas Saeger wrote: Dan Itkis wrote: I'm looking to chat with someone who's migrated their organization to Open Office to gain insight into what to expect. thanks! Dan Does IBM count? They use their own derivate of OOo and name it Lotus

Re: [users] USA.GOV sending a resume

2009-11-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
On 11/16/2009 12:36 PM, Kelly wrote: thank you again. this helps me more than you know; I was laid off and tried sending my resume out and was having problems. Have to meet the requirements of my UI Benefits so that I do not lose them. Have a great day! Kelly Remember: Amateurs

Re: [users] 9.10 install: Monitor and Buffer I/O

2009-11-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Web Kracked wrote: Steven Kopischke wrote: I believe you are going to have better responses from your Linux distro list than from OpenOffice. OK, is there a Linux email list for OOo? Since it seems that 9.10 is referring to Ubuntu newest version - only out a day or three from the beta

[users] Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=440183855-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bfbrand=ZDNETs=5 For the last three years, I've been using a version of OpenOffice.org on all of my systems. I'm sad to say that I'm going to move back to Office 2007 on

Re: [users] Subject: Re: [users] Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-01 Thread Fred A. Miller
/1 Fred A. Miller fmil...@lightlink.com: Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=440183855-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83996fa3-bfbrand=ZDNETs=5 For the last three years, I've been using a version of OpenOffice.org on all of my systems. I'm sad

Re: [users] MS office to openoffice

2009-09-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
Pierre wrote: Satiesh Bansode wrote: whether it supports all the fuctions like email(outlook),word,excel and power point? There is a Send command on the File menu, much the same as in the MS-Office suite. It is supposed to interface with your default email client software. I use

Re: [users] Re: another package ?

2009-09-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Twayne wrote: 's funny. Your data is very misleading. Linux: -- Has a steep learning curve Tell that to my friend, who I loaned my Eee PC to. She took to it right away, without any instruction whatsoever. -- Uses non-intuitive program names as a rule Are you

[users] How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability

2009-05-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability How Office SP2 manages to reduce interoperability Jeremy Allison: Microsoft Office SP2 claims to have a fully compliant version of ODF, and that's probably true, as defined by the specification. It's just completely useless at interoperating with

[users] Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?

2009-04-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
What this means is that OpenOffice must live on beyond Sun. Maybe Oracle will get behind it; I’m not so sure and I’m not alone. However, whatever rebranding of Go-oo needs to happen should happen and we should make sure that our students and schools still have access to the highest quality, free

Re: [users] MICROSOFT TO LIMIT SUPPORT FOR OFFICE 2003

2009-04-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/4/7 Fred A. Miller fmil...@lightlink.com mailto:fmil...@lightlink.com MICROSOFT TO LIMIT SUPPORT FOR OFFICE 2003 -- The company says that beginning next week it will move Office 2003 out of mainstream and into extended support, right along

[users] Hackers seize on 0-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint

2009-04-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
Hackers seize on 0-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/4745340/120843336/181312/0/ -- The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral and rational incapacity of the American people. ~ Fred Miller

[users] MICROSOFT TO LIMIT SUPPORT FOR OFFICE 2003

2009-04-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
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[users] Hackers seize on zero-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint

2009-04-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
Hackers seize on zero-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint http://ifwnewsletters.newsletters.infoworld.com/t/4714499/250558731/180587/0/ -- The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral and rational incapacity of the American people. ~ Fred Miller

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

2009-02-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote: Thanks for all the good information and advice Life's a learning curve ... especially in IT. And, it NEVER ends! ;) Fred -- The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher

Re: [users] viewer for Impress

2009-01-25 Thread Fred A. Miller
Adrienne wrote: I helped my sixth graders make open office Impress presentations which they can show at school on my room computer but I need to be able for them to show them at home. Is there a viewer I can pack with their program? If nothing else, why not export to a pdf? Fred --

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

2008-12-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
M. Fioretti wrote: 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. Same from here!! Fred -- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our

Re: [users] Q Re: StarOffice 9 Released today

2008-11-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
Web Kracked wrote: Twayne wrote: snip They say there is no dumb question except the one that doesn't get asked. Let's test that outg. Historically, I came to OO.o from StarOffice long, long ago. In fact in my blissful ignorance I didn't ever realize they weren't the same thing for

Re: [users] Re: Please reconsider.

2008-10-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
Nancy Russell wrote: I am being inundated with email from this site. Is it always going to be like this if I stay on? I already get lots of email and I can't handle reading everyone's email who has a thought or issue with the program. That's what tech. elists are like. Fred --

[users] Animator_vs__Animation

2008-10-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
Just a tad bit of humor for OO users. Fred -- Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Animator_vs__Animation

2008-10-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
Fred A. Miller wrote: Just a tad bit of humor for OO users. Sorry! Forgot the address: http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf Fred -- Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason

Re: [users] OTL files - Out Text files?

2008-10-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: From: Dave Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: web at work [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400 Here is a question. I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. It is an Outline Text type of document. snip SO can anyone help? Anyone used OTL files

Re: [users] New extension.

2008-10-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 18/10/2008 21:25, Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What am I missing? 'Using openSUSE Linux 11.0 Thanks, Fred

Re: [users] Re: New extension.

2008-10-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: NoOp wrote: On 10/18/2008 01:25 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What am I missing? 'Using openSUSE Linux

[users] New extension.

2008-10-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What am I missing? 'Using openSUSE Linux 11.0 Thanks, Fred -- Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason.

Re: [users] New extension.

2008-10-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What am I missing? 'Using openSUSE Linux 11.0 Thanks, Fred You should be able to click on File Open and select the PDF file

Re: [users] Re: New extension.

2008-10-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
NoOp wrote: On 10/18/2008 01:25 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What am I missing? 'Using openSUSE Linux 11.0 Thanks, Fred You should

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] [users] Re: New extension.

2008-10-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
Keith Bates wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:00:25 -0700 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/2008 01:25 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Ok...I have 3.0 installed and the new extension to import a PDF. However, in Draw and Impression it won't work. What

Re: [users] Clipart pictures?

2008-10-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to download clipart to open office or un other webb to get pictures? Elisabeth Nordin Any browser and search service should get you all you need, and more. Fred -- Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason.

[users] Groklaw - The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move

2008-10-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
Why do I say Microsoft, when this is SC 34? Look at this, will you? It has a list of participants in the July meeting in Japan of the SC 34 committee. The committee membership is so tilted by Microsoft employees and such, if it were a boat, it would capsize. In fact, I'd say it already has. Of the

Re: [users] Groklaw - The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move

2008-10-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Richard Detwiler wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Why do I say Microsoft, when this is SC 34? Look at this, will you? It has a list of participants in the July meeting in Japan of the SC 34 committee. The committee membership is so tilted by Microsoft employees

[users] IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate

2008-09-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
Here’s the real irony. 1. Before submitting its Office format as Office Open XML, Microsoft held it as proprietary. 2. To make OOXML a standard, Microsoft allowed others to implement it. 3. But with no one (including Microsoft) implementing it 4. Microsoft could simply change the

Re: [users] Installing RC - where is it?

2008-09-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2008/9/20 M Henri Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/9/20 Johnny Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Distro=Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice.org, latest RC (downloaded today from the Openoffice.org site). I unpacked, opened a virtual terminal, went to the directory with all the debs, then

[users] Document Standards Dispute Leaves ISO Battered

2008-09-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Document Standards Dispute Leaves ISO Battered A decision to dismiss appeals against the controversial fast-track approval of a Microsoft document format has provoked six members of global standards-setting body ISO to question ISO's

[users] Microsoft's ODF support looks good - but on paper only

2008-08-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [users] It's official: OOXML is a standard

2008-08-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3945tag=nl.e539 It's a standard that no one, not even Microsoft uses. It's certainly a disgrace for ISO. I do agree with you. It's a travesty that it even pasted, IMHO. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, I

Re: [users] It's official: OOXML is a standard

2008-08-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
Rodney Myers wrote: On Aug 18, 2008, at 11:53 AM, James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3945tag=nl.e539 It's a standard that no one, not even Microsoft uses. It's certainly a disgrace for ISO. The best standard that money can buy. You got it! Fred

[users] It's official: OOXML is a standard

2008-08-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [users] Adding Comments: best practice

2008-08-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
Ramzi El Halabi wrote: I am facing the same problem John is facing, and I agree totally with what he is saying Regards, Ramzi Al Halaby -Original Message- From: John Fistere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:47 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users]

Re: [users] Adding Comments: best practice

2008-08-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
Harold Fuchs wrote: [snip] No, it doesn't. We all read from left to right and from top to bottom. This argument has been around the horn more than once. Many of us old timers simply won't read top posted mail. I did this one, but normallyNADA! Fred You are obviously a mere stripling

Re: [users] Re: Ubuntu god

2008-08-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Paul wrote: Bob Estes wrote: James Knott wrote: [snip] Well, lets see some evidence why it isn't. There's plenty that discredits what the church etc. teaches. Not on this list. If this discussion must take place - take it to social. Definitely not a 'users' discussion. Correct!!

Re: [users] Re: How to win friends for Open Office

2008-08-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Larry Gusaas wrote: Keith Bates, 2008/08/03 5:48 PM: I'm just wondering how many of those who participated in the god ubuntu thread gave any thought to what they were actually doing when they jumped in with their enlightened comments on religion. If I were a brand new user of Open Office

Re: [users] Re: How to win friends for Open Office

2008-08-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
John Boyle wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Keith Bates, 2008/08/03 5:48 PM: I'm just wondering how many of those who participated in the god ubuntu thread gave any thought to what they were actually doing when they jumped in with their enlightened comments on religion. If I

Re: [users] Re: Installing OO.o on PCLinuxOS

2008-07-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Russell Butler wrote: Bob Estes wrote: I've just installed and updated PCLinuxOS 2007 in a dual boot configuration with Windows XP PRO, SP3. This is my first experience with any form of Linux. OOo came with the PCLinux installation, and the Synaptic package manager updated it to v. 2.3.1.

Re: [users] Re: Installing OO.o on PCLinuxOS

2008-07-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Howard Coles Jr. wrote: [snip] No, it is not. Its Based on Mandriva Linux, so you'd need RPMs that are mandrake . . .uh, mandriva, oriented. It uses Apt, and Synaptic but it does so on an RPM based system. OH, crap, there is another one that does that as well, but I can't recall its name

[users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is cropping up from two directions: cloud

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
The Morses wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft

Re: [users] Re: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Twayne wrote: CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE? -- The latest incarnation has met with a mixed reaction and more people are opting for Macs and Linux. The time is right to see if you can survive without Microsoft Office. A new generation of alternatives is cropping up from two directions:

[users] What's Holding OpenOffice Back?

2008-07-07 Thread Fred A. Miller
What's Holding OpenOffice Back? Why doesn't free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good.

[users] New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009

2008-06-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
I wonder what compatibility issues we'll have with this release. Or should I say, how will MickySoft screw the OSS community this time? Fred New proof: Office 14 slated for 2009 Mary Jo Foley: Even though Microsoft has yet to release a public test build of Office 14, it is tracking for a

[users] Countries Line Up Against OOXML as Global Standard

2008-06-05 Thread Fred A. Miller
Countries Line Up Against OOXML as Global Standard Venezuela is now the latest country to appeal the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML file format. Following news last week that the South

[users] What might come of the OOXML revolt?

2008-06-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread Fred A. Miller
John W Kennedy wrote: On May 24, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2008 07:29:46 -0700 Ganesha Bhaskara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If SUN, IBM etc., starts behaving like MSFT, Actually, MSFT is behaving like IBM did 30 or 40 years ago. Not really. IBM tended to be on

[users] EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap

2008-05-23 Thread Fred A. Miller
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Re: [users] Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
mike scott wrote: On 22 May 2008 at 3:39, Drew Jensen wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:20:02 +0100 mike scott wrote: Unless their version starts acquiring incompatible extensions. Isn't this what happened with java? (Or maybe I remember wrongly.) Are you

Re: [users] Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: NO you're not! 'Ballmer has as much ethics and morals as a rabid grizzly. Fred Hi Fred. You might want to check your computer clock. It appears to be off by several hours. Thanks, James! I've be messing with openSUSE Betta 3 and now am

Re: [users] Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: NO you're not! 'Ballmer has as much ethics and morals as a rabid grizzly. Fred Hi Fred. You might want to check your computer clock. It appears to be off by several hours

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
NoOp wrote: On 05/22/2008 03:57 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: You might want to check your computer clock. It appears to be off by several hours. Thanks, James! I've be messing with openSUSE Betta 3 and now am back to 10.3. 'Guess I missed setting the clock correctly

[users] Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office:ODF.........

2008-05-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx -- Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Sir Winston Churchill

[users] UK education agency nixes OOXML

2008-05-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
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[users] MICROSOFT FACES ANOTHER INTEROPERABILITY COMPLAINT IN EUROPE

2008-05-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
MICROSOFT FACES ANOTHER INTEROPERABILITY COMPLAINT IN EUROPE Microsoft's reluctance to make its Office suite interoperable with competing products has prompted a British government agency to complain to the European Commission, which is already investigating the company's conduct in this area.

Re: [users] Open office won't open

2008-05-17 Thread Fred A. Miller
samantha stille wrote: hi there - hope someone can help. after much trial and error, have managed to download Openoffice, but when i go to open it, all that happens is that it comes up on the bar at the top of the page, but that is it. No documents, or programmes, or anything. Even when I

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Bob Estes wrote: I wish knuckleheads everywhere would stop putting either Billary or Obama (God help us all) on a pedestal!! Bush has done a lot that I don't agree with, but the idea of either of those to socialist hairbags on the demo. ticket getting into the White House is enough to make

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
William Case wrote: Hi; On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 14:00 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote: James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Drew Jensen wrote: [snip] [snip] First of all, I am an American. Second of all, I DID NOT vote for the hockey puck that is in the White House. Third of all, I DO

Re: [users] Re: new user nees HELP!!!!!

2008-05-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/5/14 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You'd be surprised at how many systems do not have a PDF reader installed. Plus Adobe Reader 8.1.2 for Windows takes up 130MB of disk space. In this case I think it better that the OP simply save the file in Word format for her _boss_ :-)

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
Drew Jensen wrote: [snip] Are there individuals, companies, that would rather go the pick and choose route - of course there are, but I submit that this is not the majority of prospective SMB users...they have neither the time, personnel nor inclination to do so. Anyway - just some of my

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-05-13 Thread Fred A. Miller
Drew Jensen wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Drew Jensen wrote: [snip] Are there individuals, companies, that would rather go the pick and choose route - of course there are, but I submit that this is not the majority of prospective SMB users...they have neither the time, personnel nor

[users] First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta

2008-05-12 Thread Fred A. Miller
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1822tag=nl.e539 -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, I don't have to support your Windows anymore. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Re: 64bit builds

2008-05-04 Thread Fred A. Miller
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 04 May 2008 07:57:32 -0400 James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: In any case, there are no 64-bit builds listed on the official download page: http://download.openoffice.org/other.html#en-US Quite so. I've had a 64 bit Linux version for almost 2 years now.

Re: [users] 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Jerry Feldman wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2008 21:13:20 -0400 Drew Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From an announcement on the GULLFoss blog today http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_builds_for_linux The build engineers at SUN will begin official 64bit builds for Linux with the

Re: [users] Re: 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
John Thompson wrote: On 2008-05-03, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know when or if OO.o will be released for the IA64. It is already..for Linux anyway. I'd assume for MickySoft as well. I don't think the current 64-bit linux builds are official OOo builds, but rather

Re: [users] Re: 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: John Thompson wrote: On 2008-05-03, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know when or if OO.o will be released for the IA64. It is already..for Linux anyway. I'd assume for MickySoft as well. I don't think the current 64-bit linux builds

Re: [users] Re: 64bit builds

2008-05-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: James Knott wrote: John Thompson wrote: On 2008-05-03, Fred A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know when or if OO.o will be released for the IA64. It is already..for Linux anyway. I'd assume for MickySoft as well. I don't

Re: [users] your product

2008-05-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Joseph wrote: Drew Jensen wrote: Guy Voets wrote: Diagnosis confirmed by the amount of spelling mistakes: a pre-teen. Is yahoo already taken over by mickeysoft? Since you seem to care so much about spelling - The company is named Microsoft! Not that it has anything even remotely to do

Re: [users] Re: New version of most complete free office suite is available

2008-05-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Joseph wrote: Can it be used with Ubuntu. Ubuntu has OpenOffice already installed, but I like to make the best of programs and if there's more that I can use, I think it's good to have it all when one does some of the things I do. I don't find it in the Package Manager or the Add/Remove

Re: [users] windows server 2008 - thin client install

2008-05-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Michael Adams wrote: Anyone run OO.o on windows server 2008 for thin clients? Any recommendations for this combination, or gotchas? Yep...use Linux and boot MickySoft. Well, you did ask. ;) Fred -- MickySoft Aims to Lasso Everything With Live Mesh. What will get lassoed is your private

Re: [users] Paper size woes

2008-04-23 Thread Fred A. Miller
Greg Trounson wrote: Dear list, Running Openoffice.org 2.3.0 on Fedora 8 systems. I have an interesting problem that has surfaced on two different machines. I have 3 network printers; an HP Laserjet 5200 (HP LaserJet 5200 PS driver, JetDirect), an HP 3700 (HP Color LaserJet 3700 PS Driver,

[users] Why should anyone be surprised?! ;)

2008-04-22 Thread Fred A. Miller
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test http://news.zdnet.com/2424-3515_22-198109.html?tag=nl.e539 -- Q: what's the difference between a teddy bear and Steve Ballmer? A: they both have sawdust for brains but one is smart enough to keep his mouth shut.

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-21 Thread Fred A. Miller
NoOp wrote: On 04/20/2008 12:50 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote: NoOp wrote: On 04/18/2008 07:37 AM, Urbane Tiger wrote: To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would point out that OOo has already done so; times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-20 Thread Fred A. Miller
NoOp wrote: On 04/18/2008 07:37 AM, Urbane Tiger wrote: To those who say OOo should not slavishly do what Unclue Bill does, I would point out that OOo has already done so; times were when Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint were discrete products, Then MS bundled them into Office, I believe it

Re: [users] Vista Compatibility

2008-04-19 Thread Fred A. Miller
Robin Walsh wrote: I have heard good things from several sources, but I have a Dell computer with Windows Vista. I want to down load Open Office if it is compatible. Please advise. Yesit is. Fred -- Q: what's the difference between a teddy bear and Steve Ballmer? A: they both have

[users] OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely

2008-04-18 Thread Fred A. Miller
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2303tag=nl.e539 -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, I don't have to support your Windows anymore. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
Bob Estes wrote: [snip] Further, Thunderbird already has several million users, a vast support network, and a considerable amount of add-in's/extensions (to include Calendar/PIM). Sorry, but I'd not vote for 88366. Neither would I. Nope.would be TOTAL ignorance. Fred -- Q: what's

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: NoOp wrote: On 04/16/2008 03:09 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Many people ask for an email client from OpenOffice.org, and these people have either never heard of Thunderbird or have rejected it for some reason. Thus, I suggest a different email client for OOo. See this OOo bug:

Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

2008-04-16 Thread Fred A. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I wonder why people want OOo to have an intergrated email client? The volunteer programmers have enough to do making OOo the best Office Suite out there. Completely agreed. It is way more important to have properly working Charts, bibliography handling and stuff

[users] Microsoft's OOXML trophy is conditional

2008-04-15 Thread Fred A. Miller
Those that giveth can also taketh away By Mark Ballard http://www.theinquirer.net/articles/flameAuthor/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/15/ooxml-trophy-conditional: Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 1:24 PM *THE COVETED* international standard gong which the ISO awarded to Microsoft's OOXML could be

Re: [users] OOXML

2008-04-14 Thread Fred A. Miller
James Knott wrote: Urbane Tiger wrote: Now that OOXML has been accepted by the ISO as a standard can we expect OOo will adopt it its the preferred format. Please no rants - there are plenty of soapboxes that are very much more visble to the world at large than is this mailing list. This

Re: [users] office 2007 format

2008-04-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
John Ferguon wrote: Does this version of openoffice support the Microsoft office 2007 format yet? No, but version 3, which should release this Sept. will.import only, no export. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, I don't have to support your Windows anymore.

Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

2008-04-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: I have tired Oxygen. . . a few months ago and it did not read/write them well. Also when you try to read the resulting word document into the Word 2007 trial, it caused an error. I hope it is fixed now. It would be great if you could have both installed at the same time.

Re: [users] OpenOffice issues with MS Office on same machine

2008-04-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
web at work wrote: [snip] The only thing I see is MS Office 2003 takes a lot of drive space on a 80 gig laptop drive. Oh Well. . . . . long winded . . . . . .but true-ish? TL in New York, USA Where in NY? ;) Fred -- Fred Molon Labe A: Because it messes up the order in which people

Re: [users] Compatability Issues with Office 2007 Documents

2008-04-06 Thread Fred A. Miller
Larry Sonstein wrote: While I like the OpenOffice concept, its inability to open documents created with Microsoft Office 2007 is causing issues, since a number of people with whom I exchange documents are using the 2007 version of Office (Vista version), and OpenOffice does not appear to

[users] EU investigating OOXML vote

2008-04-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
The EU is investigating Microsoft’s handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft’s problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities.

Re: [users] Sorry - Service '/home/usr/.local/share/applications/writer.desktop' is malformatted.

2008-04-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed OO.org 2.4 on OpenSUSE 10.3. First I installed it with rpm -i *.rpm without un-installing the older OO.org 2.3 with YaST2, wanting to keep both in case of problems with 2.4. The KDE desktop part of 2.4 did not work; the OO.org 2.3 links remained in

Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 on Ubuntu Hardy beta

2008-04-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Pierre wrote: Fred A. Miller wrote: Wish I could help you, but I tried Kubuntu 8.4 beta a few days ago and found it useless at this point. I never did get to look at OO on it. Fred, Did you look to the Ubuntu forums for a bit of help? That said and at the risk of going OT, I found

Re: [users] TOTAL FAILURE

2008-04-03 Thread Fred A. Miller
Senectus . wrote: Interesting that we've had two of these incoherent and obscure e-mails in a short amount of time... I suspect they're just childish abuse attempts And, probably from the same person. Fred -- Security in Windows comes from patching a sieve.

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