Re: [discuss] Export OpenOffice to IRAN and other americanly forbidden countries.

2006-02-14 Thread Wesley Parish
is that they are doing more to spread notions of Liberty (known in the Muslim world under the name Justice) than any idiotic rantings and ravings of certain politicians whose names I do not wish to mention, lest like the Black Plague they descend on me ... Wesley Parish Quoting yo yo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello

[discuss] ODF question

2006-01-22 Thread Wesley Parish
Definitions, etc - necessary for ODF? I know XML Schemas are, so I expect I'll be working out how to get that supported. But the rest? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku

Re: [discuss] ODF question

2006-01-22 Thread Wesley Parish
Thanks. I've just sent the email off. FWIW, I intend using ODF as the default file format. ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey, None of those things are strictly necessary. You just won't be able to know for certain that the file you're receiving is a valid

Re: [discuss] Sooner or Later

2006-01-13 Thread Wesley Parish
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:01, Hinton Carl wrote: Who owns WordPerfect? Corel. They were sold it by Novell, who bought WordPerfect Corp. -Original Message- From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2006 10:42 To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss

Re: [discuss] Office lite

2006-01-07 Thread Wesley Parish
Lite, the other's going to be crossgraded to a higher OS - Linux - it'll mean I have some idea of what to do ;) Wesley Parish I think it is worthwhile to be flexible :-) Cheers Louis PS, the dev list you refer to is probably dev@openoffice.org, a fine list. Other key developer lists

Re: [discuss] DOWNLOAD PROBLEMS

2006-01-03 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:28, Ray wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [discuss] DOWNLOAD PROBLEMS On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:48:34 -0500 Doug Carey [EMAIL

[discuss] A cursory examination of MS Office OpenXML

2005-12-26 Thread Wesley Parish
provided room in its draft MS Office OpenXML standard. ActiveX is best known for its role as Malware's Little Helper and is part of the reason why Microsoft Windows networks spend an inordinate amount of time doing malware-scans, etc. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love

Re: [discuss] Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your personal settings ...

2005-12-02 Thread Wesley Parish
Thanks. Wesley Praish On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:09, Mathias Bauer wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: This is an error message I am getting on a MS Win98SE box in an MS Win98SE network I attempt to manage. OpenOffice.org 2.0 Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your personal

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

2005-11-28 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:40, mark wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: I suspect Microsoft dragged over some of their programming gurus from arcane C/C++-using projects to draft this standard, because it's got snip Arcane? Uh, you mean like OpenOffice.org's codebase? Or all

Re: [discuss] Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-26 Thread Wesley Parish
MSO12 XML makes versus the clarity of OO.org's ODF? Microsoft are amongst the world's most prolific business producers of hot air - let them be hoist by their own petard, if they will! Wesley Parish On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:05, Sam Hiser wrote: I've amplified this terrific article by Daniel, David

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

2005-11-22 Thread Wesley Parish
Thanks Sigrid and all the others who have responded. I'll try this one and see how I go. Wesley Parish On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:25, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote: Hi Wesley, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:35:37 +1300: I downloaded the tar.gz file, detarred

Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-20 Thread Wesley Parish
computers - facilitator and accountant. Getting people comfortable with Linux is somewhat harder - considering it takes for granted what MS WinXP treats as purely optional security extensions. ;) Wesley Parish Do as many of these steps as you can. Each step will go a long way towards making your

Re: [discuss] WSJ The $100 Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Wesley Parish
no worries about this. The OO.org site advises using the OO.org 1.0.3.1 release for computers with only 64 MB of RAM. I've tried to run OO.org 1.1.5 on an MS Win95 box with as much memory, and I appreciate the advice. Wesley Parish -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-15 Thread Wesley Parish
.] Could you cool off, please! Take it off-list, please, if you must argue. Thanks Wesley Parish On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:23, Randomthots wrote: Daniel Kasak wrote: We are talking about the possibility. The problem is that you don't like the answer that you're getting. I haven't liked your

Re: [discuss] WSJ The $100 Laptop

2005-11-15 Thread Wesley Parish
And of course, Bill Gates will subsidize the first 640 KB of RAM! ;) On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:16, Rei Shinozuka wrote: i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time, but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use for word processing and

Re: [discuss] a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Wesley Parish
How Microsoft's Enterprise Desktop Stifles Linux and How to Fix it http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/47511/index.html Every time I read an article suggesting that Linux cannot budge Microsoft off the Enterprise Desktop, I have a private laugh. If you knew what I did, you would laugh too. The

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:46, Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Jonathon Blake wrote: Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the appropriate templates? Having downloaded the 260+ MB source code

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-14 Thread Wesley Parish
; and then patent the stolen stuff as if they were the ones who came up with it. Anyway, that's what I've been thinking. Take it with a pinch of salt, the bigger the better. Wesley Parish This is the best answer to the inclusion of email features within OOo. The usage of ODF as a standard

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Wesley Parish
to the OSI error. I've already done that. He said it'll be when he's got time to grab the tarballs and put everything up on his site. We really should miror them - not as part of OpenOffice.org, of course, but somewhere here and there so that they won't go missing. Wesley Parish -Lars Lars

Re: [discuss] Massechusetts Senate Meets on Halloween...

2005-11-01 Thread Wesley Parish
if Microsoft wished to use the source code, would be the GPL, quoting while doing so, various Microsoft techies on the topic of Intellectual Property. ;) It might even be a good idea, and it would leave Microsoft with egg on its face. Wesley Parish -- Robin Laing

Re: [discuss] thanks, quick question

2005-10-31 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:06, Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Daniel Carrera wrote: [snip] Microsoft is not claiming patents on any processes necessary to read or write .doc files. They just keep the format closed, change it on every release, and leave you to guess how it works.

Re: [discuss] thanks, quick question

2005-10-30 Thread Wesley Parish
hear about the problems, I can pass them on and know someone will take it seriously enough to do something about it. Wesley Parish There is nothing illegal about opening Word files in OpenOffice.org. Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Saturday, October 29, 2005 Jonathon Blake wrote: Timothy wrote

Re: [discuss] thanks, quick question

2005-10-30 Thread Wesley Parish
saying we should be closed as the Fir, an expression of plant - and they why I'm glad they up on them firs! Some wisdom on the matter, courtesy of emacs meta x dissociated-press! ;) Wesley Parish /Henrik - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [discuss] Re: Demand OpenDocument! Sign the petition.

2005-10-22 Thread Wesley Parish
Actually it would be a more convincing comparison if we could persuade Microsoft to part with download numbers for Microsoft Office ;) Just to drive it in that _our_ distribution is Internet-and-friend-based, while theirs is anything but ... ! Wesley Parish On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:59, Ian

Re: [discuss] FREE?

2005-08-24 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:51, Alexandro wrote: Yes we are, I am very interesting in your experience since my roomate (chineese) has had some issues with the kanji converstions from OOo to MSO. Don't you mean Japanese? Kanji is Japanese; the Chinese writing system's what kanji's based on, but

Re: [discuss] ECCO Pro to be Open Sourced

2005-07-16 Thread Wesley Parish
Source version of ECCO Pro out to the widest segment of the population, it let anybody visiting the site, to download ECCO Pro with as little fuss as possible? The more fuss, the less interest; or so I've experienced. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish

Re: [discuss] Re: EU says no to software patents

2005-07-08 Thread Wesley Parish
Give them a copy of the mp3 of Peter Cook presenting Misty Mr Wisty and the Invention of the Plib. Once they've stopped laughing, ask if you can patent their laugh. By that time, if they haven't got the hint, ... Wesley Parish Peter_Cook_+_Peter_Cook_Presents_The_Misty_Mr_Wisty_+_10_The_Plib_

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-09 Thread Wesley Parish
proportional to it's price! A program quality's also proportional to its existence, and Firefox has got the lead in innovation and security over MS IE. Wesley Parish On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:43, Chuck wrote: My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to commercial software

Re: [discuss] HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-07 Thread Wesley Parish
development tools and a good part of their cash flow will be dependent on the people they have intimidated into paying for irrelevant and totally useless software patent licenses. Just my 0.02c - probaby heavily inflated. Wesley Parish On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:59, Anthony Long wrote: I'm curious

Re: [discuss] Re: XML patent hahaha :)

2005-06-05 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 02:50, Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Wesley Parish ha escrit, a 03/06/05 11:22: | Oh god, that is hilarious! Copying and barefacedly lying about it are the | most significant innovations across any industry? I can see where South | Park got a lot of its inspiration from

Re: [discuss] XML patent hahaha :)

2005-06-03 Thread Wesley Parish
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From XML.org daily newslink: Possible Prior Art for Microsoft XML Patent Found Ingrid Marson, ZDNet News UK The row over Microsoft's XML patent has taken another twist with the discovery of an open source application on Sourceforge

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-02 Thread Wesley Parish
misrepresentation crime act penalties) It's time to put this sort of sh*t back where it belongs. Wesley Parish On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:04, Alex wrote: Now having re-read the proper patent. I still don't see how they could be awarded a patent on what appears to be nothing more that converting a data

[discuss] grammar checkers revisited

2005-06-02 Thread Wesley Parish
I've just found this site: http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/index.html http://borel.slu.edu/gramadoir/eagar.html It looks as if it may need localization - at the moment it's only got Gaelic (Irish) supported. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-01 Thread Wesley Parish
now, when they had no time for him while he was alive. Wesley Parish On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:47, M. Fioretti wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2005 21:46:03 PM +1200, Wesley Parish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: One NZ inventor - Richard Pierce - who believed in this working-in-secret has the distinction

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-05-31 Thread Wesley Parish
major part of it - now you have the patent system in the sworn service of the Guilds again. Marco Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he

Re: [discuss] Subject: Re: [discuss] pedanting

2005-05-18 Thread Wesley Parish
or Fraffly localization? Wesley Parish On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:32, Eric Hines wrote: The Brits speak Brit, and the Yanks speak English. It's a wonder we can communicate at all I agree, though--how many nations speak English? That's how many regionalizations of English we need. I suspect Chinese

[discuss] Solutions to problems

2005-04-21 Thread Wesley Parish
of OpenOffice.org and fired up Draw. I worked out how to spin the photo around, so it was vertical, and he wanted to take the program home with him! (Unfortunately, the installation package had gone awol, and I wasn't able to burn him a copy then and there - pity.) It's heartening! Wesley Parish

Re: [discuss] Re: Solutions to problems

2005-04-21 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Christian Einfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 21 April 2005 13:50, Rod Engelsman wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: I had an interesting experience the other day, the the community centre cycafe I work as a volunteer for. An elderly gent turned up, with some photos he wanted

Re: [discuss] Re: data base in OOo2?

2005-04-08 Thread Wesley Parish
size. Since OO.org connects to _serious_ databases of all shapes and sizes, I don't see that as being a problem with OO.org. Regards, bealach Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important

Re: [discuss] Finally some Voice Recognition software for OpenSource / Maybe even OOo :-)

2005-04-03 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 04:06, OldSarge wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:55, Justin Clift wrote: Sweet Coffee wrote: Hi! Also found the following. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) Open Source Software Release http://www.intel.com/technology/computing/sw04034.htm

Re: [discuss] Finally some Voice Recognition software for OpenSource / Maybe even OOo :-)

2005-04-02 Thread Wesley Parish
and best wishes, Justin Clift SC Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people