On Tuesday 03 May 2005 06:08, Mr. I. M. Williams wrote:
A couple of suggestions on features which I believe would improve
useability of OpenOffice.
Which version of OpenOffice.org (OOo for short) are you talking
about? Did you know that a major new release is coming out this
summer?
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 03:23, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:55 -0700, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
Jonathan, *
Hi All,
I have put together some basic information regarding the
OpenOffice.org knowledgebase. I am intending to post this
once a month at the most,
Wasn't someone on this list looking for articles on open source in
government? I seem to recall that someone is compiling a list.
Here's another article:
And actually, I would like to add a section on open source software
on the Digital Tipping Point website, so if someone has a
On Friday 29 April 2005 02:20, Gary Edwards wrote:
Lars D. wrote:
That is really great news. Gary, can you post a URL for a
press release after the voting is complete on Saturday or
Sunday?
Hi Lars,
Yes, we will all be celebrating on Saturday. We are now at 20%
(68 out of 341
On Friday 29 April 2005 01:25, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
On Ven 29 avril 2005 1:47, Christian Einfeldt a écrit :
On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:28, M. Fioretti wrote:
Interview by C. Einfeldt to Sun Microsystems evangelist Simon
Phipps:
Thanks for noticing this article, Marco! I included
On Thursday 28 April 2005 17:49, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
That depends on what century you are in. In later centuries,
the Klingons were part of the federation.
What??? Are you sure? In which century was that? Certainly not
in the TNG series.
Let me check
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 18:00, Rigel wrote:
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Christian Einfeldt wrote:
Hi,
The site for the localization of Klingon into OpenOffice.org
has crashed due to a power outage. Since there has been very
little interest in localizing Klingon
impressions. I like it! and I
wouldn't say that if I didn't mean it. So thanks, whoever created
this site!
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On Sunday 24 April 2005 04:10, Luis Sales wrote:
Helo,
I would like to know if there is any idea of making a version for
PDA, in my case for Palm OS, or if there some way of viewing and
editing OpenOffice files in Palm OS.
Probably not. There has been much talk about making a program
On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:35, Paige Miller wrote:
I am running Windows Me, I have my screen resolution set and
1024X768
When I open Open Office 2.0 Beta Calc, everything looks fine
EXCEPT the font in the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheets.
That particular font is appears to be almost
On Thursday 21 April 2005 21:14, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Justin Clift wrote:
snip...
These kinds of software tactics are *so* sleazy. :(
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
Yes, I agree. It took a near miracle to finally figure out how to
get MSN Messenger off my computer.
Try
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 06:41, Kevin/Joanna wrote:
oo text program autocorrect entries which I've put in myself
works only erratically - ie in some docs and not in others.
Wow, I've never heard of that problem before, as long as you are
talking about the same version of OOo.
It is true
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 switched from
horizontal to vertical for online
On Thursday 21 April 2005 00:05, 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 switched from horizontal to
vertical for online selling of the things they
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 22:29, Bimal Kharel wrote:
Using Draw (OpenOffice 2.0) I felt the need for a few things:
1) When grouped objects are moved one doesn't see an
outline/guide WHILE moving.
It seems from CPH's post that you have spotted a valid bug.
Congratulations!
If you would
On Sunday 17 April 2005 06:13, Olly Othalian wrote:
Hi there
I was typing out a assignment for my university course and
repeatedly having to refer to notes on spelling new words which I
had already type out in other paragraphs above.
Hi,
This already exists, and it is one of my favorite
On Sunday 17 April 2005 15:01, Ronald wrote:
Dear OpenOffice,
I like OpenOffice very much, it is very handy and I use it on a
daily basis. There is one thing which might make it more
powerful. I like to refer to WordPerfect. This programm had a
function to see the codes of the formatted
On Friday 15 April 2005 17:10, Volker Jung wrote:
Hello!
Why does noone give OpenOffice a professional look and feel?
Do you think that Microsoft Office has a professional look and feel?
I know lots of people who can't tell the difference between MSO and
OOo.
With all due respect, I
to see if it will be useful for them, and if
so, they can contact you for a time to pick it up. Simple. Zip
zap.
Grazi benissimo!
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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:04, Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:28 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Steve Kopischke wrote:
I believe this happens because the network of individuals has
little in the way of recognition
Can you think of any idea to improve the ammount of
On Monday 11 April 2005 20:17, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
Hi
this is a good opportunity to market OOo to non-profits which are
showing up to look at FLOSS solutions. I am going to be going to
this even tomorrow in Oakland, CA, USA.
http://bayarea.penguinday.org/
So I did go to this event
On Monday 11 April 2005 10:29, Rigel wrote:
For those computers, that support it, I think it would be helpful
to setup some walkthrough tutorials using Flash technology, or
VBA (Visual Basic For applications).
Linspire has done a number of this flash presos. Cruise their site
to see it:
Hi
this is a good opportunity to market OOo to non-profits which are
showing up to look at FLOSS solutions. I am going to be going to
this even tomorrow in Oakland, CA, USA.
http://bayarea.penguinday.org/
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On Friday 01 April 2005 04:44, Sam Hiser wrote:
snip...
Linspire and Xandros are nice but tend to fail due diligence when
organizations review the products and the COMPANIES BEHIND the
products--which is a big factor--not to mention the services
surrounding the product. That's why
On Thursday 31 March 2005 05:44, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Robert Black Eagle, one of our volunteers, succumbed to cancer
around 11:15 PM, Tuesday, July 6, 2004. He is missed.
Gerry, thank you for this news. I am saddened by it. He gave me a
lot of good guidance. Thank you for your help,
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 06:22, Ian Lynch wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 15:16, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
this is a description of what JES is:
http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/compare.xml
it does not look at all related to JRE.
use Java Desktop
On Friday 25 March 2005 03:04, Johan Vromans wrote:
Justin Clift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.ultimatejudgment.com/Bill-Gates
I don't think OOo will benefit from this.
As long as people don't take the Gates discussion seriously, we will
be okay.
I agree, though that this should
On Thursday 24 March 2005 13:14, Andrew Carroll wrote:
Okay, I was pretty harsh in my last post. There are some
features that I like.
Good. Glad that you found some redeeming features.
I like the fact that I can save documents into Microsoft Office
format so other people who use MS
Hi,
Sorry for not snipping, but I wanted to be able to preserve the full
context.
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:26, Chuck wrote:
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of
the article:
Nigel McFarlane. Firefox explorers. The Age. 22 Mar
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:14, Bill Sharpe wrote:
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CPH wrote:
Almost all of your other points are also possible to change.
The only thing that _might_ be an issue is slow opening in
comparison to MSOffice.
snip...
Sun has said they will support FLOSS - They have continuous and
repeatedly displayed that support, with time, money, code,
programmers, marketing, and more. If you don't believe them,
that's you're priveldge. As for me, OOo alone is enough to prove
their sincerity.
+1
snip...
Well that's a mixed message isn't it? Sun doesn't get FLOSS,
but they are throwing so much money at it, the stock holders
are going to get pissed. RiiiIIIght
From a purely legal POV, _any_ money that SUN spends on FLOSS is
enough to trigger a shareholder suit. The
On Friday 18 March 2005 14:00, Sweet Coffee wrote:
Hi Nicu!
Are you saying that although Ogg does not play video, it can
encode it in a format that the Helix player can play?
BTW, does anyone know if the Ogg player or the Helix player work
in Windows? I could not tell after visiting their
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 18:41, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
snip...
Links from the article for easy reference:
TheOpenCD project http://www.theopencd.org/
OSSwin Project http://osswin.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for this, Jacqueline, I have linked those links here:
wouldn't have even mentioned it. But this is a
weird year for weather. so much weirdo rain in the SF Bay Area.
~ge~
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
Hi,
I thought that it might be interesting for the Digital Tipping
Point film for us to film a group of us in San Francisco giving
out OOo 2.0 CDs
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:25, Rod Engelsman wrote:
Nicu Buculei wrote:
I don't think we should care about
anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps
uncompressed Wav
You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute
presentation in Powerpoint format with
On Friday 18 March 2005 13:16, Chad Smith wrote:
I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do
this and be as pure as possible is just going to slow the
whole exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use
Windows even longer.
Amen. Well said Rod. Thank you
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:32, David Jamison wrote:
I think this is an importnat area that can be overlooked in the
Open Source community. There is a general misconception that
Open Source related specifically to the Linux platform. I have
several clients running OO sucessfully on Windows
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:25, OldSarge wrote:
To Chad Smith: For once, somebody has me wrong as to what I am
trying to find out. I have OpenOffice on both my Windows and
Linux, I have a dual boot machine. I am simply trying to find
out which was affected and what might be the cure, if
and books, which is always a good thing.
Community is obviously the key theme of our film, and so I'm hoping
for a good turn out, because we are only going to do a very few
more shoots, and that is it. We are also solidly into the editing
process.
Christian Einfeldt
415-351-1300
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:31, Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote:
Let the conspiracy theories begin! Who says SUN is using this
community to devise a competitive Office suite, then to close the
open source community and take the microsoft partnership a step
further. Huh huh? Spread some [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:00, Mike Waite wrote:
Dear open Office,
Great product as a new user.
Hi Mike,
Welcome! Actually, I just sent another intro type of email to
another new user a minute ago, so rather than add more content to
our archives, let me suggest that you look for another
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:22, Enrique wrote:
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
Hi,
It looks as if Novell is planning a big splash around OOo 2.0
with their next SuSE Linux release:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775214,00.asp?kc=EWRSS031
29TX1K616
So next time that we get
Hi,
It looks as if Novell is planning a big splash around OOo 2.0 with
their next SuSE Linux release:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775214,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K616
So next time that we get frustrated with each other let's remember
our successes, too. Of course, we can always
On Sunday 06 March 2005 13:31, p cooper wrote:
coming into this a bit late - sorry
its not very straightforward. The first TP will be when the
opposition cant ignore you. With MS this will be when they
significantly drop their business prices. IMO they aren't
bothered about piracy for home
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:04, Richard Doherty wrote:
As someone who has switched from Mic***oft Office to
OpenOffice.org,
Welcome!
and is trying to encourage others in my field
(environmental engineering) to do the same,
You rock!
I have a wish list
for some things that would make
fund the
translation of OOo specifically for this project.
For those that do not know, the HP-441 uses Mandrake as the OS.
Kindest Regards
Craig A. Adams
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:43 -0800, Christian Einfeldt wrote:
This story doesn't mention OOo by name, but it talks about
FLOSS
On Monday 28 February 2005 20:07, Craig Adams wrote:
Hi Christian, All,
THe HP iCommunity in Limpopo has by all accounts been a roaring
success in terms of how appropriate use of Free and Open Source
Software can benefit a community and the local economy.
Ooops, I forgot the link to our
the
Digital Tipping Point. Please contact me here with info about your
film, and please send any vidoe ONLY to einfeldt at gmail dot com.
Thanks!
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com
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On Sunday 20 February 2005 07:33, Ed Campbell wrote:
Well, folks -- OpenOffice has been key to my migration away from
M$oft for the past year or so. Essentially, I was able to remove
MSOffice completely from my computers. However -- don't we
always say that -- Linux experiments concluded
On Sunday 20 February 2005 02:38, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hi everyone!
I've put up slides for the recent RegiCon in San Diego, USA. Just
so you get to meet some of the crowd that went there:
Hi Daniel, thanks for putting up those slides. It's lots of fun to
see pics of the great folks that I
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:40, Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
Hi Daniel,
this is a good idea. What a pity we don't have the movie at the
same time!
+1
We are working on the movie. Paul has now given me a total of 43
CDs with audio on it to FTP up and look for volunteers to
transcribe! Holy
On Thursday 10 February 2005 06:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi their,
I wish to encourage the use of Open Office in the business
community I work in.
Tell them that they also get great free tech support, if they want,
or, if they need paid support, they can get it either from Sun
Is there, by the way any good OO hint or creativity sajts on the
web? Yo know, have you tried this ideas
There are several links here to different sites. Maybe one will
work for you.
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,76/Itemid,4/
Hi,
Adam Doxtater has built a community forum for the Digital Tipping
Point film. If you would like to know what is going on with the
film; or talk about the film; etc., please feel free to go here:
On Friday 04 February 2005 09:55, Rtnmi wrote:
Can someone tell me if OpenOffice has a default email program for
it?
As Nicu has pointed out, most people use Mozilla or Thunderbird.
Rejoice, and be glad.
Thanks,
Bob
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On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:46, Peter Kupfer wrote:
Is this real?
IMHO, no, it is phishing.
I sent like 10 messages to the discuss and got one of these. I
didn't cc anyone or anything else. I am subscribed to the list,
and my post made it through.
Can a moderator (or anyone really)
Hi Eugen,
Welcome!
BRING. OK, let's get to that part that may be of any interest
to anyone. The ideas.
Actually, there are some people who have complained that the OOo
lists are too corporate, so having personal info is definitely a
good thing.
1) FAST
--
On Friday 04 February 2005 02:38, Daniel wrote:
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Could someone help me put together a set of Extras?
Daniel, would you please ping me when you get this done? I will
link it here on the Digital Tipping Point site:
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 22:54, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
People want DRM, so we need to eventually be able to
provide it to them, but make it OPEN.
It's more difficult than than:
* Some people want DRM.
* Some people abhor DRM.
* I doubt most people have
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:06, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Leading security researcher Bruce Schneier has provided a list of
things you can do to improve your security.
Of these four items, I do the first three. heh.
WRT to number four, I can't believe that someone would guess my
snip..
Is anyone aware of a way those two concepts can co-exist? Because
as soon as the content has been decrypted, an application could
do anything with it, which renders DRM virtually unusable on the
application level. DRM on the hardware level (like trusted
computing) however still needs
On Sunday 30 January 2005 10:23, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Michael A Chase wrote:
I think you are allowed to give a URL so we don't have to
searching around bumping into the furniture. :}b
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154
OOops tee heee
go daniel go!
anything
else. Also, info like this will appear periodically on my website:
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com
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on the website that they could be stored. So
yes, I think that your work in documenting how to get Dragon
working with OOo would be a huge, huge, benefit. I'm sure that I
could link to that page from
http://www.digitaltippingpoint.com
Thanks,
Sarah Bate
Christian Einfeldt [EMAIL
snip...
I just (this weekend) purchased Dragon Natrually Speaking 8 Pro
and installed on a Windows machine and did basic testing in MSO
Word 2000, Publisher, Works, and OO.o.
It did work to create a basic document. However, I did need the
Pro version and not standard and the price for
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:12, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 15:03:54 PM -0800, Christian Einfeldt
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
For those of you who haven't cruised Ian Lynch's site or looked
in detail at Ian's INGOTs biz, you really should do so. Ian has
basically hit upon
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