Re: [discuss] Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Wesley Parish
I've just been reading PlexNex and was wondering, since Microsoft has floated enough vapourware to make flight above 3 foot extremely dangerous - rock-filled clouds are such a hazard to aerial navigation ;) - perhaps Sun could help them along? I'm referring to a response Brian Jones made to a

Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Randomthots wrote: 1. Does Microsoft's XML standard now encompass all document types? Last I knew they only had an XML format for Word. Microsoft's FAQ says: Currently, only Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint will use Office XML Formats In

[discuss] open office

2005-11-26 Thread Max
Inexperianced person; the first four uses to view a document using Firefox Browser resulted in a sceen saying it crashed and requires going through a recovery process. To simply read a document this seems quite un-instinctive. (bad experience) They are likely my last four.

[discuss] Re: OO.org 2.0 circular installation problem

2005-11-26 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:41:49 +0100, Pavel Janík wrote: From: Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:55:29 +0200 hmm i didn't see anything about circular dependancies. actually i didn't see any information about dependancies at all. Of course. There is a

Re: [discuss] Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Sam Hiser
Wesley Parish wrote: I've just been reading PlexNex and was wondering, since Microsoft has floated enough vapourware to make flight above 3 foot extremely dangerous - rock-filled clouds are such a hazard to aerial navigation ;) - perhaps Sun could help them along? I'm referring to a

Re: [discuss] A novice story.

2005-11-26 Thread Bernd Eilers
Hi there! The file is saved to a temp Directory by the browser, the browser starts OOo and the browser removes the file. There is no way for OpenOffice.org to know that the browser or email client is going to remove the file afterwards nor that OOo has been started from a browser or email

[discuss] Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
Wow, I have just checked this out. Holy disruptive innovation, Batman, this thing is going to rock Microsoft's world. A company called ThinkFree has gotten ahead of Google and Sun in terms of getting OOo online!!! It really is kinda freaky. You can test it by going to this link

Re: [discuss] increasing OOo's install base over the holidays

2005-11-26 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:21:01 -, Christian Einfeldtextra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Just an idea for increasing our install base: burn a free liveCD with Linux on it, or the Open CD. I'm sure that this is not a revolutionary idea and also not new, but it bears repeating at this

Re: [discuss] OOo

2005-11-26 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I dont think ThinkFree supports OpenDocuments or OpenOffice.org there are other OpenOffice.org clones out there. But Thinkfree was bought by handcom which also has another Offce suite and they dont support OpenDocuments either. On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:32:48 -, Christian Einfeldtextra

Re: [discuss] add in or plug in idea

2005-11-26 Thread Chad Smith
Hi Ray, If you do discuss this with a programmer, you might want to bring up the possiblity of modifying Thunderbird, Firefox, and Sunbird (all from Mozilla.org) to work directly with OOo. Tb is an email program. Ff is a webbrowser. Sunbird is a calendar, PIM program. The Mozilla projects

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:09 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: If you're selling burned CDs for $5 a pop, you don't have a lot of profit to advertise with, and if you selling pressed CDs in a box for $25 or higher, for a number of reasons, you're probably going to change the name. If not only for fear

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-26 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/26/05, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:09 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: If you're selling burned CDs for $5 a pop, you don't have a lot of profit to advertise with, and if you selling pressed CDs in a box for $25 or higher, for a number of reasons, you're

Re: [discuss] Google jamming open and office ?

2005-11-26 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 15:53 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/26/05, Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 09:09 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: If you're selling burned CDs for $5 a pop, you don't have a lot of profit to advertise with, and if you selling pressed CDs in a

[discuss] Re: Online only apps

2005-11-26 Thread Randomthots
Chad Smith wrote: I'm not saying that Linux can't run games, like there is something within Linux itself the prohibits the high-end performance that Windows can deliver. I know that's not the case. Actually, that may be the case. I recall a thread in this forum many months ago -- another

[discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Randomthots
Daniel Carrera wrote: I haven't yet seen any examples of the new Excel format. But verbosity isn't really an issue. snip The number of characters has no effect on speed. There is no reason why w:r is faster to parse than text:span text:style-name=T1. I'm sorry, Daniel, but I find that

[discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-26 Thread Randomthots
Christian Einfeldtextra wrote: I have a question to this list: Do we like ThinkFree? or are they schmucks like Luxrsty (I deliberately misspelled their name to make them not searchable) Negative: AFAICT, there is no mention of OpenOffice.org on their website. In fact, the only hint that

[discuss] Re: file converters

2005-11-26 Thread Randomthots
Richard Rowe wrote: biologist write scientific papers and reports, often need to access material in older file formats. I think that providing a range of text file converters would be a big plus for Open Office Writer. MS tends to abandon Word formats on about a 5 year cycle, and loading

Re: [discuss] increasing OOo's install base over the holidays

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Einfeldtextra
hi, On 11/26/05, Alexandro Colorado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:21:01 -, Christian Einfeldtextra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Einfeldt I like their store-within-a-store concept and I definetly think a Linspire mini will make a great X-mas pressent. Is

Re: [discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-26 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/26/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Einfeldtextra wrote: I have a question to this list: Do we like ThinkFree? or are they schmucks like Luxrsty (I deliberately misspelled their name to make them not searchable) Negative: AFAICT, there is no mention of

Re: [discuss] Re: Online only apps

2005-11-26 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/26/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Smith wrote: I'm not saying that Linux can't run games, like there is something within Linux itself the prohibits the high-end performance that Windows can deliver. I know that's not the case. Actually, that may be the case. I

Re: [discuss] Re: file converters

2005-11-26 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/26/05, Randomthots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Rowe wrote: biologist write scientific papers and reports, often need to access material in older file formats. I think that providing a range of text file converters would be a big plus for Open Office Writer. MS tends

[discuss] Openoffice.org Base

2005-11-26 Thread martin
Dear Sirs. After downloading and installing OOo 2.0 for both Windows, and Linux (i86) I was gratified to find that in the Windows version I can at least import tables from an M$ Access database. I was extremely disapointed however to find that the same capability does not exist in the Linux

[discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Randomthots
Daniel Carrera wrote: Randomthots wrote: The number of characters has no effect on speed. There is no reason why w:r is faster to parse than text:span text:style-name=T1. I'm sorry, Daniel, but I find that hard to believe. I have a file that is strictly text, numbers, and dates. Seven