[discuss] Re: Hello

2011-09-19 Thread Tim Fairchild
On 20/09/2011 10:35 AM, Richard E. Walter Jr wrote: On 9/19/2011 2:56 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: On 15 September 2011 22:07, Mattias matt...@inssp.com mailto:matt...@inssp.com wrote: Hi My name is Mattias Ghodsian and I'm the C.E.O of International Swedish Software Production and i

[discuss] Re: [OT - OOo + Adobe Acrobat] Re: User related mailing list

2011-08-26 Thread Tim Fairchild
On 27/08/2011 10:12 AM, NoOp wrote: On 08/26/2011 04:24 PM, RA Brown wrote: Jason Ax wrote: Will OpenOffice ever be compatible with Adobe Acrobat? Acrobat does not recognize OpenOffice files. Jason That would be up to Adobe. Acrobat is a PDF editor/creator and it sets the PDF standard.

[discuss] Re: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

2011-08-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
On 8/08/2011 8:00 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: Please apologize if my translation lacks the elegance of your own wording, my knowledge of your language is somewhat limited. lol Mathias. Very elegant :) And I have literally written millions of words with OOo. I would be lost without it and the

[discuss] Re: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

2011-08-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
The trolls seem to be bad lately... tim -- Author, dog lover, strange dude in general. Book: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ATF Blog: http://amostfairchild.blogspot.com/ Page: http://bcss4me.com -- - To unsubscribe send

Re: [discuss] Attention

2008-03-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
openoffice.org as it's a very nice. clean, straight forward site that is very easy and clear to use. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia

[discuss] OOo on slackware.

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Fairchild
kde menus, etc. But then I see there are 3rd party tgz OOo builds and was advised that these would be better. Opinions welcome, however. thanks -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland

Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Monday 09 April 2007 16:00, Peter Reaper wrote: Tim Fairchild said on 09.04.2007 00:55: On Monday 09 April 2007 04:46, Peter Reaper wrote: Michael Adams said on 08.04.2007 15:59: *** on about the punctuation in an email just makes you look like a smartass. Not that the other posts

Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series

2007-04-09 Thread Tim Fairchild
a discussion that is not going the way they want, and a way of expressing their (irrational) dislike of the US. Getting totally OT and this is all just a big troll anyway. Bye. -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies

Re: [discuss] Re: [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series

2007-04-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
... and its (former) colonies have a different (IMO less ideal) convention/rule for this. In your opinion, which would be an 'American' one. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland

Re: [discuss] [OT] Grammar: Comma before and in a series (was: Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default)

2007-04-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
of language makes you look like an idiot. Hey, you're goody-two-shoes filter-censor missed smartass. That would be 'your' ;) Pot, kettle, black. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland

Re: [discuss] Re: Draw: Page Pane - Turn off by Default

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Fairchild
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Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-05 Thread Tim Fairchild
and fanboys claim how superior OOo's UI is - it's not. As long as they don't go down the road toward the sucky MSO interface. OOo has moved that way too far already. tim -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul

Re: [discuss] PayPal sucks

2007-03-27 Thread Tim Fairchild
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Re: [discuss] Re: Linux installations

2007-02-06 Thread Tim Fairchild
for newer PC's (P3 and up) Mandriva and PCLinuxOS are good starters. Or Knoppix, Ubuntu, Kubuntu. Simply Mepis is probably top of the list for newbies. I use Mandriva for the kid's machines here... -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya

Re: [discuss] curiousity about office products etc...

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Fairchild
that is a little farfetched I know. I just am curious is all. :) -- Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. Email

Re: [discuss] Re: Crashing on Windows XP64 (AMD x64)

2006-02-07 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:59 pm, Enno Rehling wrote: Tim Fairchild wrote: [1] The 32 bit builds. I am aware that the 64 bit builds are still a work in progress, and didn't feel so experimental. A 32bit build of OOo2 or XP64 :) Worded a little funny there... Not to people who know what I'm

Re: [discuss] Crashing on Windows XP64 (AMD x64)

2006-02-06 Thread Tim Fairchild
, is there likely to be a 64bit OOo sometime? I have 32bit OOo2 on 64bit linux and it's not really an issue... But curious... -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia

Re: [discuss] Cert report on operating system vulenablities...

2006-01-07 Thread Tim Fairchild
and unsafe than Linux? http://tinyurl.com/9shch -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage

Re: [discuss] Re: Office is broken...

2006-01-04 Thread Tim Fairchild
Correct: Options, Custom Quotes, Exceptions, Word Completion *and* Replace, which I think is the one you are looking for. these options are there in my linux version 2... -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul

Re: [discuss] Re:Online only apps

2005-11-22 Thread Tim Fairchild
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Re: [discuss] Online only apps

2005-11-19 Thread Tim Fairchild
for antivirus + windows - and like most of the 14 million linux entries, these are about windows viruses no doubt... The Mac entries seem to be about Mac's... Your point? -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland

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

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

2005-11-15 Thread Tim Fairchild
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Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-08 Thread Tim Fairchild
, and an integrated network packet sniffer would be nice, and... :) -- - Tim Fairchild Atchafalaya Border Collies. Kuttabul, Queensland, Australia. - Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] Deal breaker

2005-10-26 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Wednesday 26 Oct 2005 10:18, Ren wrote: I just found something that, to me, is a deal breaker. I had Calc open and attempted to load a file with the extension of .txt into it. Instead of opening the file in Calc, Writer popped up with the .txt file loaded. This is completely unacceptable

Re: [discuss] The price of Free Software

2005-02-06 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 22:12, Manolis Christodoulou wrote: Imagine the situation whenI run a Firefox window with a java applet inside, an OOo Writer, and a GIMP instance at the same time under Windows XP. This is very common to people like me who prefere to use free software. How many graphics

Re: [discuss] Break it up

2005-01-28 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 12:50, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: I'm on dialup and am not going to wait 7 hours for it to download. Could you break it up into smaller zip files that I could down load over a period of days? Two immediate options, besides using a download manager (see

Re: [discuss] OOo distributed with USB flash drive

2005-01-24 Thread Tim Fairchild
On Saturday 22 Jan 2005 19:45, Jacqueline McNally wrote: Were these from Iomega? That company has been distributing OOo in its storage devices for at least a year now. I would be interested to know too because Dick Smith New Zealand also carries on their shelves an OOo CD put together by