Re: [discuss] Gates memo: The Internet is just a passing fad

2005-11-16 Thread Lars D . Noodén
In 1995 Mr gates was still calling the Internet just a passing fad. In 1999 I was still hearing certain diehard MS fans repeating that opinion as fact. It took ages to tract that one down. Like I said earlier it appears all part of a theme in a campaign to rewrite Gates' past and re-paint

Re: [discuss] WSJ The $100 Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs? Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first? -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business. Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market

Re: [discuss] Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:34 +1000, Tim Fairchild wrote: Yep, Bill denies saying it. Of course he denies a lot of things :) What he did or did not say misses the point. What matters is that DOS was badly designed in the first place. It got taken up because suits in industry trusted IBM as the

Re: [discuss] WSJ The $100 Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:07:50 -, Lars D. Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs? Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first? Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no worries about this. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL

Re: [discuss] WSJ The $100 Laptop

2005-11-16 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:44, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:07:50 -, Lars D. Noodén [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs? Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first? Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-16 Thread Robin Laing
Chad Smith wrote: On 11/15/05, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wake me up when there's MSOffice for linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc. Crossover Office, WINE, Win4Lin. But it is NOT native so it isn't for Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc. It is running via an emulator so John's original

Re: [discuss] Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-16 Thread Robin Laing
Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:38 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:45 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: [snip] [snip] You're showing my age, Ian! It was 640 Kb of RAM. That was Robin :-) There was also a story that Bill Gates visited

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-16 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/16/05, Robin Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it is NOT native so it isn't for Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, etc. It is running via an emulator so John's original statement stands. OOo doesn't run on Mac natively. It has to have a foreign windowing system for it to work. Does that mean OOo

Re: [discuss] Gates memo warns of 'disruptive' changes

2005-11-16 Thread mark
Robin Laing wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:38 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:45 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: [snip] You're showing my age, Ian! It was 640 Kb of RAM. snip Man you are right. It was 640K, not 640M. Ouch. I

[discuss] Lacking OpenOfficeOrg writer facilities

2005-11-16 Thread Andras Szabo
Gentlemen, I am a retired technical translator and used to work with Windows Word text processor. Usually I split the text entry window and load in one of them the source language text while I write the translated text into the orther window. Obviously, this procedure requires to use two

[discuss] Spell Check

2005-11-16 Thread Hana Adib Habayeb
Hello, I'm using open office 2.0 and I notice that when I use spell check, if it corrects a word that is capitalised, the correction is never capitalised. It would be much easier if the spell checker in the next version just noticed the capitalisation and corrected accordingly. Thank you for

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft eyes making desktop apps free

2005-11-16 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 11:44, Chad Smith wrote: On 11/16/05, Tim Fairchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can hardly be 'tied' to the windows platform when it runs on all the unix types. Of course you may say that MSO is no longer tied to windows either since it can run on Mac and many unix