on 1/28/2006 13:18 'Ian Lynch' wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:13 -0800, John Boyle wrote:
To All: The simplest cure is to use either Mozilla or Firefox and avoid
Internet Explorer entirely!!
But not that useful for promoting ODF in a world where the reality is
that most computer users use
Thunderbird is an e-mail program with a very weak address book. Sunbird
is a pre-alpha attempt at a calendar/scheduler. Neither is a PIM.
I have searched for a long time for a good, open source PIM and have
come up empty. I have been using EssentialPIM Pro (it has a free
version), but it is
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Thunderbird is an e-mail program with a very
Try clearing the ToolsAutocorrectOptionsCapitalize the first
letter box.
SJK
on 12/29/05 16:43 'Tracey Ambrose' wrote:
Hi, I've just discovered that I can't start a cell with a lower case letter,
I am being forced to have upper case and this can not even be over come in
formating, if
Gee there's *another* e-mail address to add to my killfile.
I may not agree with much of anything Chad/Rod post, but I am getting
tired of the anti-Chad tirades.
SJK
on 12/18/05 18:29 'Roger Markus' wrote:
Hmm... Chad and Rod pouring Microsoft propaganda into the list again! (See:
I do not know anything about the mail list management software used for
these lists.
However, is there any way to strip Return Receipt Requests off before
sending them off to the list members? There seems to be an increase
lately in those.
SJK
Have you tried FileExport to PDF?
on 12/14/05 06:34 'Zebri Shaari' wrote:
Dear pros,
Firstly i congratulate you on your success on openoffice 2.0. Many of
my colleagues and i use this program which is equilavant to it's
competitor, even better i may say.
Could i suggest that i you also have
on 11/20/05 12:56 'mark' wrote:
Heh. Try the redhat list, where folks invoke an out-of-office
message, which responds to *every* *single* *post*.
But no, there's only two or three folks whose email wants the
receipts, and I'm assuming that thay just don't understand what's
happening, and I
I think it is high time to close this thread. There is significantly
more childish taunting than real content at this point.
SJK
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on 11/12/05 10:35 'Randomthots' wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Hmm, does File Versions not fill your requirements? I think it should
do the job.
This is what I meant about the Help being inaccurate. On OO2, Windows
version, I have no Versions menu item under File. I have Changes
on 11/04/05 07:52 'Johan Vromans' wrote:
G. Roderick Singleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Legitimate authors do NOT need to spam mailing lists to generate sales.
I think you are slightly overreacting. As far as I can see, Mary
pointed us at a book that may be interesting for OOo people.
on 11/02/05 08:57 'mark' wrote:
Randomthots wrote:
snip
What *I* get annoyed at is the attitude that just because some people
in the world pay for Internet by the byte, that it's somehow wrong in
principle to *ever* use technology like html e-mail. What if I want
to send a nicely formatted
on 11/02/05 09:29 'mark' wrote:
snip
Yikes, mark - what got your undies in a bundle? Just because a rather
Luddite approach to e-mail formatting is right for you, don't presume
that it is right to everyone.
Luddite means against all technology, or most advances. I've been
doing email for
on 10/13/05 15:11 'Chad Smith' wrote:
So you are saying that Google rapes people. Google kills people. Google
pillages people's homes.
You're out of your mind. It's a damn search engine. It doesn't even have a
penis to rape with.
On 10/13/05, Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chad
OK, Chad. Fine. Be pedantic. Allow *me* to recap.
on 10/13/05 17:23 'Chad Smith' wrote:
On 10/13/05, *Steve Kopischke* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chad - you are intentionally misreading Jonathon's posts just to
try and
get a rise out of him
on 10/10/05 09:00 'Nicolas Mailhot' wrote:
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 14:19 +0100, Alexandro Colorado a écrit :
You can always uncheck it...
ROTFL. I hope you're not serious.
Bad and dangerous defaults have no place in mature software. I think it
was Sun which spent lots of $$$ in
on 10/10/05 11:27 'Nicolas Mailhot' wrote:
Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 09:58 -0500, Steve Kopischke a écrit :
Calling an option an excuse is just whining laziness masquerading as
expertise. Change the value and move on.
I stand by what I wrote. Making a behaviour optional is no excuse
on 10/10/05 12:41 'Nicolas Mailhot' wrote:
I have explained why this default is a problem. Twice.
Have you anything to say on the subject except trolling on the message
tone ?
You claim this is a problem, but you have offered no objective data to
back it up, only your opinion. I found it
on 10/06/05 17:32 'Daniel Kasak' wrote:
Nagarjunam Kancharla wrote:
I was just thinking, wouldn't it be great if each tool of openoffice
(writer, impress, math, draw) are available individually as an
extension of firefox and available as one of the tabs. Its like you
open the writer tab,
on 10/04/05 13:00 'Larry Gusaas' wrote:
It is simple to add .sxw or .odt file support to Copernic. Go to Options/Advanced. Click Add
and put in the file type you want listed. Simple to include any file type not listed by default.
While that technique will add the SXW/ODT file support to
on 09/20/05 10:04 'Randomthots' wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
My answer is - who cares? Why does it matter if it is a Blog or an
online
newspaper? Why does it matter if an office suite is defined a certain
way or
not? What we need to decide is, not what some mythological architypical
OFFICE
This is a common issue with Thunderbird. Messages saved as FILENAME.EML
will not open in the Thunderbird e-mail client (it is not a browser) by
double-clicking the file. You can, however, open such files from within
Thunderbird via FileOpen.
For support with Thunderbird, please visit
on 07/24/05 12:07 'M. Fioretti' wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 12:36:31 PM -0400, Chad Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
if *YOU MARCO* won't do it, why the hell should anyone else?
As already said, I have no computer which I can leave online 24/7, and
this is not going to change.
Is this
Chad:
on 07/24/05 14:20 'Chad Smith' wrote:
[snip]
The only drawback is that
annoys *YOU*. And, I for one, am willing to live with that
ineffectiveness.
Priceless. Thank you.
oldgnome
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on 07/23/05 14:12 'Chad Smith' wrote:
Marco,
[snip]
I say all of this to say, you're constant outcry for better email
practices is a waste. All it does is create the very traffic and
wasted bandwidth that you so desperately wish to stop. That, and it
annoys people. At least it annoys
on 07/23/05 14:33 'Ian Lynch' wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 15:12 -0400, Chad Smith wrote:
At least it annoys me.
I think you are missing the point. Its not disc space, but the sheer
volume of mail to read and sort through on many lists. This is
particulary so when the person posts is not
Marco:
Have you begun following the periodic threads about this topic? Every
few weeks (was my attempt at humor that far off the mark), it seems, we
have the same discussion - how do we deal with the unsubscribed? There
is a need to let the list know the unsubscribed has been messaged - so
on 07/23/05 16:14 'M. Fioretti' wrote:
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 15:27:52 PM -0500, Steve Kopischke
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Marco:
Have you begun following the periodic threads about this topic?
Why, yes, for some years now, and I'm getting quite annoyed by the
constant lack of good
Marco:
My apologies for getting your name wrong. Other than changing two i's
for c's, the rant stands as posted.
Ian:
As a group, I think we're getting wrapped around the axle backwards
here. The politeness being displayed by the replies being sent to the
unsubscribed simultaneously with
on 07/23/05 17:49 'M. Fioretti' wrote:
Isn't this translated to: we who are too lazy and uneducated to
behave ourselves and make online fora more useful will continue to
make a mess of the whole place?
Is now a good time to remind you that you began this thread and that few
have come to the
I, too, want to challenge Mr Hines' contention. The best way to contact
anyone about Mozilla products is through the MozillaZine forums at:
forums.mozillazine.org
oldgnome
on 07/09/05 12:46 'Alexandro Colorado' wrote:
Quoting Eric Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does anyone know how to
on 05/20/05 14:09 'Rigel' wrote:
Okay. I am going to set a particular record straight here. Chad.
You're right, and you're wrong. Jonathon. You're right, and you're...
Sort of wrong.
Rigel:
Thanks for setting the record straight.
Jonathan, Chad, et al:
Can we put this one to bed now. Please?
on 05/18/05 15:07 'Chad Smith' wrote:
On 5/18/05, Maria Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for example:
- 200 licenses for Office at a cost of $66,000 (approximate OEM cost)
- 10 macros that will cost a total of $20,000 to transition
- A necessary upgrade that will cost just slightly more to deploy
on 05/18/05 16:18 'M. Fioretti' wrote:
I think that you have no exact idea of how most big companies and big
public administrations work. I'm *not* saying the list above does
always make sense, but it *is* how many big organization decide.
Private individuals and small businesses are an entirely
I think that might be a better feature at the operating system level,
rather than in an application suite - I'd rather be able to search
across *all* files, not just OOo. For example, WinXP Pro found a phrase
I just searched in a couple of ODT documents I recently created, using
the Search
In OOo, it's called an XY chart.
oldgnome
'Michael Posa.' wrote on 04/30/05 10:09:
Dear Openoffice,
I am studying engineering I would just like to suggest a very important feature
(in my opinion) for the open office spreadsheet program - many engineers and
scientists need to make graphs on two
How about that - I see the same thing. I haven't put 1.9.95 through its
paces much yet since installing - just editing an existing file.
Interesting.
'Trevor Farlow' wrote on 04/26/05 02:24:
Has anyone else noticed German text labels at the bottom of file
manipulation dialog boxes in English
Arthur Buijs wrote the following:
To write a document use Writer
To do your calculations use Calc
To present an idea use (Im)pres
To manage your data use ...
Um... Mange? No, that's not quite right, either
oldgnome
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To
Mike:
Have you tried taking your problem to the MozillaZine Thunderbird
Support forum @ http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39 ? I'm
pretty sure the solution might be fairly quick and easy.
oldgnome
Mike Finley said the following on :
To All,
I am an avid user of the Open Office,
Adrian:
I am sorry to hear you lost three hours of work.
However, are you aware that the software you were using is BETA
software? Under normal circumstances, BETA software should never be used
in any kind of production environment.
oldgnome
adrian Greeman said the following on :
I spent three
Diane Mackay said the following:
Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
[...]
I think on the other hand the user should not have the feeling s/he's
been
redirected from one place to the other without much gain each time
(Welcome
to the IRC channel, sorry there are mostly developers/builders here,
please
join
Diane Mackay said the following on :
See Daniel, here too suggests that the expectations may be too high. I
can see
after reading Steve's message again, that I drew my conclusion about
my own
expectations from both your's and Steve's responses... I think that I
drew a
fair conclusion,
Daniel Carrera said the following on :
Steve Kopischke wrote:
Can you suggest an electronic, collaborative environment where such a
diagramming dialogue can take place?
If it is useful, feel free to use http://oooauthors.org for that purpose.
Daniel:
Thanks.
Diane:
What are your thoughts
Diane Mackay said the following on :
Steve Kopischke wrote:
Diane:
What are your thoughts?
oldgnome
Hi oldgnome (way cool name by the way!),
Thanks. It comes from a time when I took 16 of my employees on a ropes
course team-building exercise. I was 20+ years older than almost all of
them
Ric Hayman said the following:
Diane Mackay wrote:
Hi,
I am writing to point out some of a recent users list thread and to
open the
discussion here. There has been a huge discussion ongoing for about
three days
on the users list, and I believe threads like this are detrimental to
the value
of
Chad - I misplaced the message from earlier today about greenzap or was
it zapgreen...(and can't find your e-mail adress). Could you send me
the link?
Many thanks!
oldgnome
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