Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-06 Thread James Knott
Jim Seymour wrote: No, they didn't. Early Apple PCs ran the MOS Technologies (later: Mostek) 6502. CP/M never ran on anything but the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80. (And only on the latter because it was a superset of the former.) Eventually, Kildall realized the 8-bit processors' days were

Re: [libreoffice-users] RE : Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-06 Thread James Knott
Jim Seymour wrote: Nor was CP/M-86 vapourware. It was short-lived, because Kildall was way too late to the game, but it did exist. IIRC, the DEC Rainbow dual-booted CP/M-86 and DOS? CP/M-86 was also one of the 3 operating systems that were initially available with the IBM PC. The third was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Comparing to this, MS Word which used easy and open file format was a clear winner. Gee... I coulda sworn April 1st was last week. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-05 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 04/04/2014 05:56 PM, CVAlkan wrote: Not sure if my recollections are correct, but I don't believe either DOS (before 2.x) or the DOS version of Word were written by Microsoft. I seem to recall that both were purchased and re-branded. DOS was bought from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Thunderbird - too many Address Books

2014-04-04 Thread James Knott
Scott Castaline wrote: I've always used as my first entry in each address book @@@. That seems to still work as far as I can tell. My understanding is that the bots can't seem to deal with that entry or it'll ignore the rest once it encounters it. Where are those bots running? Is this a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Won't print portrait

2014-04-03 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: What printer are you using? And what printer driver? PDF or Postscript lever 1, 2, or 3? Which version was the last it worked? The same and now it does not work? If that is the case, it may be a problem with the config users files. I don't recall how long

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO for iPad, big deal or big yawn

2014-04-02 Thread James Knott
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 01/04/2014 17:01, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) A ZdNet article titled (obviously) Office for iPad, big deal or big yawn allows people to vote and so far the big yawn side is winning. HoooRaaah! ;) The big yawn side appears to largely be supporting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MSO for iPad, big deal or big yawn

2014-04-01 Thread James Knott
Pedro wrote: Maybe Apple fanboys don't care... The problem (for LibreOffice and other Open Source office projects) is that they are also offering it for free for the Android platform

Re: [libreoffice-users] direct formatting and styles

2014-03-28 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: At the risk of beating a horse to death, today I stumbled on an online rant against MS-Word. The first word processor I used, as opposed to line oriented text editors, was the one that came with VAX VMS on the VAX 11/780. Later, I used PC-Write, on DOS, and then

[libreoffice-users] Can't change digital certificate folder.

2014-03-24 Thread James Knott
I'm trying to configure LibreOffice to use digital certificates for signing documents. Under OptionsSecurity, There's a Certificate button, which opens a panel for configuring where the certificate is located. However, it appears to be impossible to change that location. After clicking OK and

[libreoffice-users] Font size in PDF form

2014-03-17 Thread James Knott
I'm trying to fill in the info in a form provided in PDF format. While I can open it in Draw and type in the info, the font is too large for the area. Is there any way that I can change the overall font size, instead of having to do it in each field? I have tried the Format Character method,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font size in PDF form

2014-03-17 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Err, Ctrl A = select all? Alternatively is each field use the same style name? Could you just modify the style? Regards from Ctl-A affects the entire document, not just the boxes I enter text into. How do you change font size in styles? I can open the Styles

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird - too many Address Books

2014-03-14 Thread James Knott
Nino Novak wrote: Am 14.03.2014 14:00, schrieb Custfold: I'm getting a bit annoyed at having my address book split between Personal Address Book and Collected Addresses, with an attempt at getting a Master Combined address book not too successful Can someone tell me the sequence/commands to

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost money

2014-03-03 Thread James Knott
myfmh...@ybb.ne.jp wrote: I donated Japanese yen through MasterCard on 3 Mar. 2014 to get LIBREOFFICE by your internet form ,but the softwear could not downloaded. Please send me how to download. You don't have to pay to download LibreOffice. It's always free from www.libreoffice.org,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-26 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Now once we have LO for Android and Mac i devices, There is a version of OpenOffice for Android now available. That will certainly meet your requirements for working with ODF on a tablet, though you'll want one with a large display. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-26 Thread James Knott
Jim Seymour wrote: I agree, re: The role of I.T. I.T. is not an end, but a means. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-26 Thread James Knott
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 10:08 -0500, James Knott wrote: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andropenoffice That doesn't work on my Kindle - tried it and kept getting an error message about not being able to download resources... That would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-26 Thread James Knott
James E Lang wrote: I wish I could afford to purchase a 10 Android tablet. As it stands I am running this app on my 4.1 Motorola Atrix phone and though it's imperfect I am thrilled to be able to do so. Some day … :-) I have a Nexus 7 tablet and Nexus 5 phone. There are certainly things I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-26 Thread James Knott
Jonathon wrote: Two major issues with tablets as desktop/laptop replacements, is that they are neither multi-tasking, nor multi-user. Later versions of Android support multiple users. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-25 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: A few years ago, most lawyers in the U.S. used WordPerfect, and they really liked it. It had some features that were very suitable for the law office. However, most of their corporate clients were using Word. (Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft). Over time, law

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-25 Thread James Knott
Doug wrote: but when I really need to get down and dirty, WP is the place to be. Many years ago, I occasionally had to use WP at work. I much preferred Wordstar 2000. Back then I was using PC-Write at home. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-23 Thread James Knott
Stephan Weinberger wrote: Maybe i'm not going to make friends, but OOXML strict actually *is* an open standard. The real problem is, that MS-Office until 2013 was not capable of creating strict files, but wrote OOXML transitional instead (which may - and as a matter of fact always did -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Has anyone seem this 4.0 article, yet?

2014-02-18 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I just received an e-newsletter that referred to this article. I just read that article. We must get the same newsletter. :-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2014-02-13 Thread James Knott
maddie10...@gmail.com wrote: are people with libreoffice able to have an account that they can save work to so that they don't have to use the same computer all the time. I am a middle school student and I am doing this from a home computer and I want to be able to access my spreadsheets

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scam????

2014-02-08 Thread James Knott
Earl Beavers wrote: Have I been scammed? I agreed to a $5 charge but the program would not download or react in any way. I feel like a dunce. I assume you downloaded from somewhere other than www.libreoffice.org. If so, you may have been scammed, or at least paid when you didn't have to.

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Office woes

2014-02-07 Thread James Knott
Mark LaPierre wrote: MS is lost in the concept of making all interfaces look the same on Windows Phone, Surface, and desktop. MS Office 2013 totally ignores the setting and scheme that you have on your desktop. I'm talking serious eye strain. People have been complaining about it for more

Re: [libreoffice-users] mail format

2014-01-17 Thread James Knott
Doug wrote: Is there a way to make Libre save in MS Word 1997-2003 .doc format as a default? If so, how? Using version 4.1. Thanx--doug Yes, click on ToolsOptionsLoad/SaveGeneral and make your selection there. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import into a Template

2014-01-12 Thread James Knott
Tinkerer wrote: I have downloaded a c,s.v file from my Bank and created a Template for the Bank listing. I can load the Bank file into a new Spreadsheet and I then have to reformat it. Why can I not Import it into the Template, or is there another way? Templates are used to create

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Import into a Template

2014-01-12 Thread James Knott
Tinkerer wrote: That is exactly what I am trying to do. I open the CSV Template then I go to Insert Sheet from File OK and it creates another sheet either before or after the sheet from the Template. I finish up with a two sheet file, one sheet Formatted and the other sheet with the Bank

Re: [libreoffice-users] immediate rename of command line converted documents

2014-01-09 Thread James Knott
e-letter wrote: If a m$ document is stored on a public web server (E.g. http://path.to.document.com/file.doc), is it possible to change directly the name of the converted file which is created in the local directory? Otherwise, 'mv' can be used after conversion, but it would be able to rename

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread James Knott
tk wrote: There is AndroidOpenOffice. I tried that a while ago, on my Nexus 7, and it didn't work very well. I uninstalled it. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-02 Thread James Knott
Robert Holtzman wrote: Linux is a clone of UNIX, an epitome of a proprietary operating system. Wrong yet again, oh trolling one. Linux was derived from minix. Actually, Linux created Linux in part because he found Minix so limiting. However, the goal of both was a Unix like environment. The

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-01 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: So, my computer has Office (Starter version), LO *and* WordPerfect, so I can talk to just about anybody. No PC-Write??? ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Just think about it: there was NOT A SINGLE successful FOSS-created project so far. Ever hear of Linux? Besides those of us who use it on our desktops, it also runs about 95% of the super computers, most of the Internet (along with Apache), including the likes of Google, Yahoo and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Because people buy computers to work, not to tinker with. There are many who don't need Windows but are forced to pay for it with a computer. Take a look at the strong arm tactics MS has used over the years to see how they got to this point. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
M. Fioretti wrote: *Big* charities often have the problems that Jonathon said. Very small organizations, instead, need to spend zero time/money on maintaining/re-learning the software they have to use, because it would be all resources subtracted to working in the streets with the people they

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
Peter West wrote: If people writing documents on their private computers had been obliged to but a copy of MS Office, alternatives would have been embraced much more enthusiastically. FWIW, several years ago, I bought a copy of PC-Write for DOS. It was shareware, but if you paid for it,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: James Knott сообщил(а) в новостях следующее:529918d1.30...@rogers.com... ...and then hold [created documents] hostage, until the users coughs up for MS Office. There is immense number of software capable import DOC files, due to their format being virtually unchanged since

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: FWIW, several years ago, I bought a copy of PC-Write for DOS. It was shareware, but if you paid for it, they sent a manual. I might still have that manual here somewhere. Found it. Now, I wonder if PC-Write is available on the web somewhere. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Also on newer machines MS have started running a cunning scheme whereby people get to use a trial version of MS Office which then stops working after a month or so. In order to keep on using it people have to pay an extra bit. That happened to a friend of mine about 3 years

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread James Knott
John Meyer wrote: I didn't know we considered trialware cunning. They let people create edit documents for a while and then hold them hostage, until the users coughs up for MS Office. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread James Knott
Paolo Debortoli wrote: think microsoft did the same politics with charities and schools: discounted prices (but they are still stealing money somehow...) One thing MS got caught doing was providing free software to charities and then claiming full retail value as a tax deduction. -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Resale Rights

2013-11-24 Thread James Knott
Alfie Mc wrote: Hi im a big fan of your free software and wondered if i could attain resale rights thus allowing me to distribute your product within the uk on cd roms which will definitely promote your product/company. As I understand it, there are no resale rights. You are free to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread James Knott
Mark Bourne wrote: I always think of # as being a sharp sign. The musical sharp symbol is slightly different: ♯ Yeah, it is a bit flat to be a sharp sign. ;-) I've always known it as a number sign. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] paypal

2013-11-18 Thread James Knott
josephine mcdonald wrote: hi, i donated $10.00 via pay-pal 11/18/13... but now i'm having trouble downloading libreoffice.. i can't get past the page asking for a donation?? can you help? You don''t have to make a donation to download, though it's certainly appreciated. Where are you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing Apache OO on same distro as LO - for alternate use

2013-11-18 Thread James Knott
john herron wrote: Can Apache OO be installed alongside LO (to run at different times)? Both can be installed and even run at the same time. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: [libreoffice-users] presentation question

2013-11-13 Thread James Knott
On 11/12/2013 11:08 PM, June Newman wrote: I have libreoffice installed on a mac with os x 10.8. If I prepare a presentation and put it on a flash drive, will it play on a windows computer. I don't have the right adapter to connect to a digital projector, and need to use a windows laptop.

Re: [libreoffice-users] presentation question

2013-11-13 Thread James Knott
June, it's not necessary to cc to anyone. If you send to the list, we will see your message. On 11/13/2013 08:53 AM, June Newman wrote: -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Subject: DRM books

2013-11-10 Thread James Knott
Daniel wrote: Is there an extension in LO in order to read DRM ebooks? Why would you want to read ebooks in an office suite, when there are already many apps for that task? BTW, other than library books, I try to avoid DRM. I don't have a single DRM book that I own a copy of. The books I buy,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: So you've just made that malarkey up? Wow. He is correct in saying MS did a lot of things to cripple competition. That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when Borland sued them and more. They have a very long history of playing dirty, up to and including

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: James Knott: That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when Borland sued them and more. 'AARD code' was not in any retail version of Windows. It is fake. Well, you 'd better thel that to the guys at DR-DOS and also those in the antitrust case

Re: [libreoffice-users] Wordstar

2013-11-04 Thread James Knott
Marc Grober wrote: And I wish I was still able to use wordstar ;-) I used to use Wordstar 2000 at work. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-03 Thread James Knott
Valter Mura wrote: Seems to be the same story as Netscape vs. Internet Exploder... oops Explorer... MS was also late to the game for the Internet. Apparenly BG didn't think much of it. IIRC, they bought another app to make IE. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-02 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Just a simple question, Do you know who originally designed Microsoft Office? Microsoft mostly. IIRC, they bought what became Excel and I believe Word too, from other companies. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-02 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: StarOffice users are Linux users? . . . . I have never seen StarOffice available for Linux. StarOffice was a MS OS package not a Linux package, when it first came out, so StarOffice audience was a Windows audience and not Linux. Actually OOo, AOO, and LO may have its

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-02 Thread James Knott
baldwin linguas wrote: I can remember writing college papers with Clarisworks. And there was Wordperfect from Corel. Although, I'm uncertain whether these were before or after MSOffice. I saw them both before I ever heard of MSOffice, though. Let's see...Clarisworks was released 1984.

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-02 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: I used to use PC-Write on DOS many years ago. IIRC, the same company had a spreadsheet and database available. Of course, if we don't limit ourselves to PCs, the mainframe and minicomputer world had office software long before there was such a thing as a PC. Forgot

Re: [libreoffice-users] Huge security bugs

2013-10-29 Thread James Knott
Marcello Romani wrote: Am I the only one smelling a troll here ? And here I was thinking it was my socks! ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Huge security bugs

2013-10-28 Thread James Knott
I have been using LibreOffice and OpenOffice before it for many years and have never seen such behaviour. As for associating older files, that's an operating system function, where all files of a specific type, no matter how old, are associated with the specified app. So, if you associate XLS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font charts

2013-10-14 Thread James Knott
Ken Springer wrote: Back in the 8-bit computer days, it was easy to find simple charts for various things, like this simple ASCII font chart. LMAO!!! Forgot to include the link! http://www.asciitable.com/ Does anyone know of a similar simple chart for modern/contemporary fonts?

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-09 Thread James Knott
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:52:09AM +0200, Anthony Easthope wrote: But I like compiling from source complains the battle scared OS pioneer! [1]http://lifehacker.com/398611/how-to-compile-software-from-source-cod e The link leads to not found, at least for me.

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I think we would have more Linux users if packages like LO can be installed with one click of the mouse onto the install file as Windows does with the .msi file. That can already be done. Generally, if a package is available as an RPM or DEB file, then clicking

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Jay Lozier wrote: My observation is that for the many users of Linux, Windows, and Macs will have about the same experience once installed and configured. I have a couple of friends who have me take care of the Linux boxes. They do not seem to have any trouble with Linux once I got it set up

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Is anyone else still getting extra duplicates a day or few after the original posts? They seem to have stopped for me. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Have you tried to do that for LO? How many package files need to be run to install LO on a Linux box? There are 52 .deb files to run/install in the 4.1.2 64-bit Debian install, plus the help pack, plus the language pack if needed. Like to do a single click or

Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-08 Thread James Knott
Paul wrote: There is nothing inherent in linux that makes it harder (barring the sheer number of distros; see below), it depends purely on how much effort the developers are willing to go to for any particular linux distro. Don't forget, LO is included in many distros. It might not be the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 'deployment'

2013-10-07 Thread James Knott
Milos Sramek wrote: A friend recently asked me, if it is possible to remotely install and configure LibreOffice on numerous client machines - so that the admin does not have to run from one computer to the next to do the job. Is that possible for LO? Yes, it's certainly doable. It's easy

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: boot-loaders, was: Fw: Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-07 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: People keep telling me to use a different /home partition, but I never do. When you do your next upgrade, get another drive for /home and use the original for everything else. Then copy your entire /home directory to the new drive. When you install the next

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: North America Pub Chat

2013-10-07 Thread James Knott
Dave Liesse wrote: And, of course, our daylight (summer) time has to be different from the rest of the world. We start earlier and end later than the European countries And different again from the Southern Hemisphere, where they're wrong by 6 months.. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading Latest Windows Release

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Brian Grainger wrote: To Whom it May Concern, Trying to download and install the latest Windows version of LibreOffice from a machine in the UK running Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Using the standard process for downloading from the download page the LibreOffice install file came as a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Repositories, was: Fw: Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: ...Because Linux is inherently broken and cannot run vanilla builds of software. Also repositories keep prehistoric versions of apps only, backporting only the security issues fixes, which have to be manually picked from the developer's VCS and manually patched in. So to fix a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: boot-loaders, was: Fw: Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: It was really nice of Windows to stop allowing me to boot into Ubuntu after I upgraded from Vista to Win7. I had to use a boot fixer disc to give me back my Ubuntu. At least that laptop is the one I use only once in a while, since I have a small drive in it,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading Latest Windows Release

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Brian Barker wrote: Could some helpful person with the right sort of account please report this as a bug at the LibreOffice site? Meanwhile I may contact catn.com directly. Go tho the LO site and place your mouse pointer over the link. What file name shows up at the bottom of the browser?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: boot-loaders, was: Fw: Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

2013-10-06 Thread James Knott
Don Myers wrote: I started with Ubuntu with version 8.10, and have had each version since then. I generally find it easiest to do a clean install. One advantage of that is every 6 months I have a complete backup of my hard drive. The second advantage is it is very easy to do. Each program has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-04 Thread James Knott
Wolfgang Keller wrote: Didn't you post that question yesterday already? It's like déjà vu all over again. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-03 Thread James Knott
Has anyone else been getting duplicate messages from this list? For the past couple of days, I have been receiving messages from this list that I had already received 2-3 days earlier. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-03 Thread James Knott
Virgil Arrington wrote: So, you should get two copies of this email. However, I've never had to wait 2-3 days for the second copy. It usually comes within minutes of the first message. This morning I received some from Sept 30 and Oct. 1, including one from me, which I had already seen. When

Re: [libreoffice-users] Duplicate messages

2013-10-03 Thread James Knott
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: But the first day it happened, it also happened outside of the LO lists and included ALL of my email and newsletters recieved that morning. It's only happening with the LO list. I use Seamonkey email. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?

2013-10-03 Thread James Knott
Brian Barker wrote: At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/ ), over at ZDNet. It deals

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?

2013-10-03 Thread James Knott
I've just received a batch of resent messages, such as the one below, from some idiot joto2...@verizon.net, who thinks it's fun to resend messages without adding any content. joto2036 wrote: - Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Ruth Ann wrote: I am curious as to how the Provider works. Thank you for telling us about it. I installed Provider in Thunderbird last night and see that I now have a tab for Google Calendar next to my tab for Lightening. My Google calendars display, and I was able to add an event to Google

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Ruth Ann wrote: I have been using Lightening and Google both for a long time. In the past, I have always just made separate entries in both calendars - synchronized them manually so to speak. So, I have always had a Calendar tab next to my email tab in Thunderbird. Then last night, when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
John Jason Jordan wrote: What have I missed? Have you enabled a Greek keyboard? I have configured mine for U.S. English, International English and Greek. So I can easily switch layouts to type stuff like ³¤€óÓæςερτδωδσ© and more. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Alex Thurgood wrote: Please also note that the Gdata provider 0.25 currently causes Thunderbird to hang, requiring the user to restart TB in safe mode. I haven't had that problem with the Provider for Google Calendar on either Linux (version 24.0) or Windows (v17.0.3). It just works. However,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is that http://www.sogo.nu/english.html No, nothing to do with it. This is Google calendar in Thunderbird. I might be interested in trying to get that working in a couple of weeks but first need to see some screen-shots and stuff so i will hunt around their site

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Alex Thurgood wrote: Also bear in mind that the Google Data provider and Lightning extension are said not to work with the newest version of Google's calendar communication protocol API meaning that if nothing is done about it, the whole thing will become a white elephant. Does the new

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-10-01 Thread James Knott
Ruth Ann wrote: Now that is pretty nifty! ;-) You can also connect to Google Calendar with your tablet or smart phone. I also use gcontact sync to sync my address book with GMail. Of course, my tablet and phone contacts are synced too. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Using Lightning with Google Calendar | How to | Thunderbird

2013-09-30 Thread James Knott
Occasionally on this list, someone asks about open source email calendar that can be used with LibreOffice. Here are instructions for using Google Calendar with Thunderbird. You can use the Thunderbird Add-Ons manager to install both Lightning and Provider for Google Calendar, instead of going

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't uninstall because not an administrator?

2013-09-26 Thread James Knott
Doug wrote: Using the command prompt in administrator mode, there is a subdirectory that I can't uninstall. How do you get elevated privileges in the command prompt? (Win 7 PRO-64.) Create an icon. on the desktop or Start menu, to run a command propmpt. You can then right click on it and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Created PDF files to not appear as recently created / used

2013-09-10 Thread James Knott
Robert Orzanna wrote: I noticed that LibreOffice's PDF creator does not add the created PDF to the list of recently created files. Through google I found a related bug report but without any comments on it yet. My understanding of that recent files lists are files you recently edited and are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer

2013-09-08 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: For most people the answer is to shrug and pay the money because they are unaware of any other option and wherever they bought the machine from is unlikely to know either (or at least not admit to knowing). I just did a quick search for computers on Amazon (since it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: A4 as used by almost the entire rest of the world (incl Canada). Actually, we use US Letter in Canada. I have never seen A4 available in stores. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mobile devices?

2013-08-29 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: I just had a glimpse of an Android and it looks like it's got a mini-Usb socket in the top. If that could break-out to a powered usb-hub then surely you could get keyboard, mice, maybe even screens working off the Android? So 1 docking station at work and 1 at home

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?

2013-08-28 Thread James Knott
rost52 wrote: The metric system has it is advantage in the factors of 10 or 1/10. I consider this as the reason why most countries adopted the metric system. It was also designed as a logical system, tied to defined physical constants. I recently watched a video about how the new standard for

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?

2013-08-28 Thread James Knott
Brian Barker wrote: The kilometre [...] is currently determined by the wavelength of light emitted by the kry[p]ton-86 items. Sorry, but for the avoidance of confusion, you are thirty years out of date. Since 1983, the metre has been defined as the distance travelled by light _in vacuo_ in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice paragraph styles exported to other software/formats?

2013-08-27 Thread James Knott
Ruth Ann wrote: Metric just never caught on here in the USA. And I noticed that as the signs were replaced, the news ones just gave the distance in miles again. You can thank Reagan for that one. Peanut Carter had implemented a plan to convert, but Reagan killed it. This was the same period

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with definite integral

2013-08-21 Thread James Knott
Uwe Dippel wrote: I have yet to find a nice way to draw the vertical line that is usually used in solving definite integrals; the one where one writes upper and lower limits as sub and sup. Can anyone suggest anything better than | which comes out looking quite wrong? Are you using Math?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Felmon Davis wrote: anyway, I agree with Tom we shouldn't disagree about agreeing to disagree. I disagree. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Mark's Google A/c wrote: I've been getting a *lot* of failed mail notifications from the mailing list over the last few weeks. After extensive investigation, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my mailbox or mail servers, so I'm curious, how many other people get this, either

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: James Knott: Here's an article you can show to others. http://lifehacker.com/battle-of-the-office-suites-microsoft-office-and-libre-1147940828 What a ridiculous article. The LO suite inadequacy is clear to any who worked with it more than 15 minutes. The reason

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