Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:11:04 +0200 Klaus Muth m...@hagos.de wrote: Hello Klaus, Séamas et al, I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any Nazi-symbol-like shape. I was going to reply off-list, but things seem to have taken a bad turn. Séamas is referring to the X-Face:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any Nazi-symbol-like shape. I think you are mistaken. His messages contain a graphic embedded in the header, using a new technique called X-face, which places a graphical image in all e-mail messages. Perhaps your e-mail program is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:31:47 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello Brian, Wikipedia disagrees: Wikipedia is not an authority - it's a collection of opinion pieces. -- Regards _ / ) The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately

Re: [libreoffice-users] table with offset between rows

2015-08-04 Thread Gary Collins
Thanks, that seems to work well! /Gary   From: Piet van Oostrum pie...@pietvanoostrum.com To: Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 20:07 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] table with offset between

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:58 04/08/2015 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Wikipedia is not an authority... And there was no need for me to point this out, since you already knew! ... it's a collection of opinion pieces. Just like your opinion, then? In fact, Wikipedia, as usual, gives its sources for these claims -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:02 04/08/2015 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: The symbol is the logo of a band called Crass - An English anarcho-punk group of the late 70s and into the 80s. Nothing at all to do with Fascism. Wikipedia disagrees: [T]he Crass logo was an amalgam of several 'icons of authority' including the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Klaus Muth
I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any Nazi-symbol-like shape. I even tried to look at those messages in different fonts, both monospaced and proportional to no avail. There is only one symbolic thing in his mails: _ / ) / _)rad which looks very much like a B and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Are you talking about the ASCII art capital B? No, the thing that looks like a Nazi symbol. -- 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: probllem about microsoft visual c

2015-08-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If something is working well for you it is difficult NOT to recommend it to others! However it is better to use more current versions and try to stick to either the current Fresh or Still branches. There seems to be about 1 genuine security issue per year (rather than the handful per month

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: probllem about microsoft visual c

2015-08-04 Thread anne-ology
you're right; I was wrong. These updates are quite necessary if one is on-line with the program. From: V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:18 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: probllem about microsoft visual c To: users@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread anne-ology
Are you perchance referring to the icon referring to http://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/picons/ ? if so, it's not a nazi symbol although I can see where it might resemble such; instead it was designed to symbolize computers as reaching the 4 corners of the globe.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open from Explorer in Windows 10 not working

2015-08-04 Thread Luuk
On 2-8-2015 21:35, Brian Barker wrote: At 20:45 02/08/2015 +0200, you wrote: When double clicking on a file (filename.ods) to open it in Calc (4.4.5) it shows a popup 'How do you want to open this file?' I tried to choose the correct executable (C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and JDBC on Mac-OS/X

2015-08-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/08/2015 21:20, H. Stoellinger a écrit : Hi Heinrich, I have to get an LO-Base-4.3 connection to a MySQL-DB going on a Mac. Having downloaded the OS-independent version from Oracle, I tried to define the connection as usual (including defining the Java-Runtime and the classpath to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbol in e-mail message

2015-08-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the ... bit hides crucial context = (symbolising the idea that power will eventually destroy itself). Without that context the meaning seems to be reversed. Crass were not combining those icons of authority to show respect to all or any of them!! Quite the reverse! They were so