webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
I remember the B.B.S. systems. My first email address was about 80
character long and it was via a B.B.S. network. Now we cannot live
without its descendant, the Internet. Can you imagine your life
without the Internet?
Actually, the Internet predates BBSs,
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The Internet was not the Internet back then. I believe it was ARPANET
or something like that. I do remember that much in my computer
classes. College and businesses had the ability to connect to the
mainframe interconnection system that sprang out of the Dept.
And I bought my first computer (IMSAI 8080) 20 years before he was born!.
anne-ology wrote:
Anthony you grew up in a world that many folks still have not
entered - some of us started using computers as a convenient type-writer,
some of us started communicating over the BBs with others,
Jay Lozier wrote:
How about paper tape readers and punch cards in the days of IBM and 7
dwarfs, Fortran, Cobol, and Basic.
Many years ago, I had a Teletype M35 ASR, which had paper tape punch
reader, which I had connected to that IMSAI 8080 mentioned in my
previous note. At one part in my
Jay Lozier wrote:
When MS introduced Win95 they were well positioned to implement a good
GUI for MSOffice, they had already do it once on the Mac.
Check out Novell vs Microsoft for info on how Microsoft used hidden API
on Windows to ensure their apps worked better than the competition.
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 07/24/2012 09:43 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:16 24/07/2012 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Also the lag time for satellite can be up to 15 seconds from
ground station through a satellite to the ground station.
Oh dear: the speed of light must have decreased by a
anne-ology wrote:
why there cannot be a satellite for the southern hemisphere
which speaks with the northern one [??? - is the $64,000 question;-) ]
Actually, most satellites used for communications are geostationary and
sit over the equator. Whether they look north or south
Dan wrote:
While we are wasting space on this topic, a computer was used in the
USA for the 1890 Census.
It wasn't a computer. It was a tabulator, which simply totalled up the
various values. Prior to computers, there was a big business for IBM,
with punch card readers, tabulators,
anne-ology wrote:
GMT was the standard for centuries - Big Ben's still ticking
away, isn't it?
Not quite. Time zones came in during the late 19th century. Prior to
that, each town had it's own local time. However, the Greenwich
observatory was used to set London time and for navigation
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 07/24/2012 10:02 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
That underwater cable network is used for both phone and Internet
communication, since phone systems not seem to be converted to
digital to go through the cables to give more lines
Tom Davies wrote:
I think the distance between Australia and New Zealand is surprisingly large.
Nothing like as close as i keep thinking it is.
If Sarah Palin lived in NZ, she could see Australia from her home. ;-)
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Brian Barker wrote:
Also the lag time for satellite can be up to 15 seconds from ground
station through a satellite to the ground station.
Oh dear: the speed of light must have decreased by a factor of 63
since I was at school! Has someone told the scientific community?
Probably some
Tom wrote:
It's usually possible to set-up some special area that can be shared with
other computers on your house or work-place network but even that can be
quite tricky. Trying to get your machine to act like a server is quite
challenging.
You can use services such as Google Drive or
Same thing.
Marc Grober wrote:
https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1
On 6/20/12 6:14 PM, James Knott wrote:
Marc Grober wrote:
get a cert from CACert.org
Hmmm...
I just tried going to that site and got this:
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connectsecurely
Andreas Säger wrote:
From my perspective cacert.org is a hacked site. My Firefox issues the
same warning about untrusted connection.
As soon as I use the unencrypted connection ...
http://www.cecert.org/index.php?id=1
... I'm prompted for all kinds of personal information.
A cert site
Steve Edmonds wrote:
I think firefox throws a tiz because it is a self signed cert (they
certify their own certificate).
I get the same thing for the self signed cert I use on our web server
(company access only) and on my router.
steve
The whole point of certificates is trust. If anyone
Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
Please notice the typo. It looks like James used cecert.org.
No I didn't. I used https, which checks the certificate for the site.
If you can't trust their certificate, you can't trust any certificate
they provide. If I go to that site with only http, then I don't
Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
*The bottom line is if you don't want the warnings, can't afford the
time to explain them, and have the money, pay a commercial provider and
realize you are trusting some unknown corporation (rather than yourself
and the combination of CACerts' web of trust).* If you
Many applications, such as email use X.509 certificates. There used to
be free certificates from a company called Thawte, but after they were
bought by Verisign, the free certificate program ended.
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard
Marc Grober wrote:
get a cert from CACert.org
Hmmm...
I just tried going to that site and got this:
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connectsecurely to www.cacert.org, but we can't
confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely,
Felmon Davis wrote:
I am curious: what happens if one just changes the file extension from
.doc to .docx?
You divide by zero and a black hole appears. ;-)
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I have tried to install Libre Office 3.5 multiple times on my Windows
7 64-bit machine. When I start the install, a message comes up saying
to Close LibreOffice Quickstarter 3.5. Nothing else is open. When I
click OK. I get a message that the install was interrupted with no
Herpiko Dwi Aguno wrote:
from nautilus/dolphin/pcmanfm, Calligra can open remote file, but
Libreoffice can't. Is there a way to open remote file using Libreoffice?
if I open a remote file from Libreoffice, it say You can only select local
files.
I have no problem opening files over Samba or
yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
You have to mount the remote device
Actually, in Linux you don't. Just open Konqueror (KDE desktop) to the
share and the files are available. In Windows, I do have it mounted,
but IIRC, even there, it's not necessary to mount it.
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Jay Lozier wrote:
This trip down memory lane makes one feeil old. Anyone remember
teletypes with punched tape?
Many years ago, I was a bench tech and spent my days overhauling them.
I later bought a Teletype M35 ASR, as surplus from my employer, which I
connected to my IMSAI 8080.
Paul Schwartz wrote:
I had an IMSAI, too. Do you remember 4K RAM boards? Those weren't the smallest
either. It was my introduction to Assembler.
Yes, I remember those, but I started with a 16K board initially loaded
with 4K. It was also my introduction to assembler. I used the
assembler,
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
and handwriting the code on the special coding forms they required
before I typed the code into the terminal/mainframe.
Years ago, you could by BASIC coding forms at places like Radio Shack.
Coding forms used to be quite common in the days before interactive
Joep L. Blom wrote:
I assume you never worked with the folded papertape used with the DEC
PDP-8!
Other than the folds, there was no difference between folded tape and
the usual rolled stuff. Some punches and readers were designed to hold
fan fold tape, but could work with the other just
Stefan Weigel wrote:
Yes, but...;-)
Using QuickStarter not necessarily is a question of how long does it
take to start up the application.
From the users point of view, QuickStarter also is an alternative
(and by some users preferred) way of accessing LibrOffice in the
GUI, with nice
Stefan Weigel wrote:
Hi,
Am 21.05.2012 14:00, schrieb James Knott:
From the users point of view, QuickStarter also is an alternative
(and by some users preferred) way of accessing LibrOffice in the
GUI, with nice shortcuts for opening documents or creating new
documents from templates
Andreas Säger wrote:
swriter
scalc
simpress
sdraw
sbase
smath
soffice .uno:NewDoc
soffice .uno:Open
Regardless of the language, how is such a list created? It could be
done in KDE 3, but apparently not in KDE 4.
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Tom Davies wrote:
In Gnome and i think Xfce too you can right-click on existing menus and Edit the menu to Add new item but hopefully the desktop integration does that better with nice icons and stuff. Still the Edit menu can re-arrange the menus quite a lot or put items in different main
Gabriel Risterucci wrote:
2012/5/21 Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk
Hi :)
I really do not know anything about KDE at all. There were some earlier
posts about KDE3 but not about KDE4. Hopefully someone else might have
ideas
Apols and regards from
Tom :)
At least on KDE 4.6.5, I can
I previously installed OpenOffice on my computer and recently
LibreOffice. I have also installed the various free Microsoft viewers.
One thing I've noticed is that I can't have both LO and OO associated
with the various file types. Please note that I'm just talking about
association, not
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache OpenOffice all use the
same (old Star Office) names for the individual application programs. Even if you
succeed in having
James Knott wrote:
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
You can try to add AOO associations manually, but it might not be
effective.
The problem is that LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, and Apache
OpenOffice all use the same (old Star Office) names for the
individual application programs. Even if you
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I don't know whether the choose program dialog will allow a shortcut to be
used. That's an interesting idea though.
Apparently not. So, that leaves either using OpenOffice or renaming the
individual apps. In Linux it'd be easy to just create a link with a
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On the web page
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/External_web_banners
There are 6 QR-Code images.
What are they actually used for? The only thing I have seen similar
to this is used with a cell phone to help download an image or app
that
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
as long as their camera can deal with them.
I tried, but mine will not.
Gee... That's a shame. I guess everyone will have to stop using QR
codes, as your phone can't deal with them. ;-)
I've used them a few times with my Google Nexus One. I just open up
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 05/19/2012 04:49 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
as long as their camera can deal with them.
I tried, but mine will not.
Gee... That's a shame. I guess everyone will have to stop using QR
codes, as your phone can't deal with them
Andreas Säger wrote:
Tanstaafl wrote
The problem with the Compatability Pack is, it takes over *all* file
associations for *all* Office documents, including the ordinary .doc,
.xls and .ppt files... this confuses users who are not computer saavy...
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: [libreoffice-users] DocX
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 13 May, 2012, 7:47
Had that too, and Mesa that had some functionality generally still not
found today.
On 2012-05-12 23:31, James Knott wrote:
Steve Edmonds wrote:
I was using star office on OS/2 15 years ago.
While I had
Steve Edmonds wrote:
I was using star office on OS/2 15 years ago.
While I had Star Office, I used Describe back then.
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The Wolfkin wrote:
wait.. ALL of them have viewers now?
They've been around for years. I was using a Word viewer on OS/2 about
15 years ago.
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The Wolfkin wrote:
I'm pretty good at people and I know full and well that they don't have the
skill to change it to .doc or the patience for me to explain why. I'm like
an inverse human. Rather than adapting my environment to suit myself. I
expend most of my energy to adapt my practices to suit
Andreas Säger wrote:
Do the send as MS Word with as many ODF documents as you like. When
you are done drag all the attachments into one email and close them
without saving.
How do you drag the attachments? Where do you drag them from?
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Tom Davies wrote:
Actually that might be the best way to do this. Upgrade to something like
Thunderbird and then do as Andreas suggests.
It doesn't work on Thunderbird.
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It doesn't work on Thunderbird.
I can do it with Thunderbird 11.
Which version of Thunderbird does it not work in? Which OS?
The current one for Ubuntu is 12.0.1
I tried it again and it does work. I have no idea why it didn't earlier.
I'm running
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
To be honest, no email client will do everything for everyone. People
look at all the things that MS Outlook has/had and want it in an
open-source client. Outlook is more than a client. But if you want a
good email package that has a calendar [that may now have
Andreas Säger wrote:
Why should MSOffice support ODF?
Actually, later versions do, though there are some issues.
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Chaim Seymour wrote:
I am preparing slides for a lecture. At home I use Libre Office, but when I
finish I will have to convert the slides to Powerpoint. As far as I can
see, the only way to do it is via PDF. I tried the conversion and it works
fine, but is a pain to do.
Does anybody have a
Mark Simon wrote:
My guess is that it does apply to hand tools, as the difference is
trivial. When you multiply inches by enough (63360 in one mile), then
the difference is probably enough to be a problem, and so US surveying
has a problem. I don’t know how they handled that in England.
Tom Davies wrote:
At a guess The Wizard of Oz is copyrighted by some fairly hefty people that wouldn't
like to see copies of the story floating around unless they got paid for each copy! I'm not even
sure they would accept a single private use copy. So, i think this list has to
officially
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi:)
+1
I agree. It's not really any of our business so i waited until after Dan gave
some technical help. I left it up to the op to consider about how he wants to
handle a potential problem.
man_without_clue wrote:
On 03/17/2012 11:30 AM, Mark Simon wrote:
FYI, 1 inch is exactly 2.54 cm. The inch was redefined in 1959 as
derived from the metric system.
Just being pedantic :]
Oh, I didn't know that!
Does that apply to machine hand tools also?
Yes, he pedantic about them
Doug wrote:
Hi my name is Doug. i was interested in downloading and running LibreOffice.
I currently have ms office home and student 2010 installed. My question is
can i run both programs on my computer at the same time with-out
encountering any major problems.
Many thanks in anticipation,
Brian Barker wrote:
At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots,
known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating
a change in sound, rather than a diphthong.
For what it's worth, the German for
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á,
, £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual.
Pardon my
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á,
, £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual.
Pardon my
Mark Stanton wrote:
You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but
might be wrong), you key in the ASCII code for the letter you want.
That mehtod is unique to Microsoft products. It doesn't work in Linux.
Dunno 'bout Mac.
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Doug wrote:
I don't think the right alt key works out of the box --you'd have to
modify it to be a Compose key. You could also make the right ctrl key
to be Compose, or the right Microsoft key, if your k/b has one.
You just have to enable the U.S. - International keyboard, as I
mentioned in
http://www.muktware.com/news/3342/intel-joins-libreoffice
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Steven Shelton wrote:
Just saw this headline:
The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE is
now available in Intel AppUp(SM) Center
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm curious now . . . what is Windows from SUSE?
openSUSE is a Linux distro that includes LibreOffice. I
Darlene Sartore wrote:
Have tried all morning to install LibreOffice... downloads to Desktop ...
installs gets passed few steps, then gives popup saying to shut down
LibreOffice 3.5... Nothing is open.. when click OK , installation stops
... restarted computer... still same... Downloaded
IGraham wrote:
Base
its been quite a few years since I've perplexed myself with a database, but
needs must
i want to print my Thunderbird address book, (the phone numbers mainly) i
can do this from within Thunderbird but i cant choose the fields or set up
the display so the output is hardly
Andreas Säger wrote:
You can export the address book in tab or comma delimited format. You
can then import that file into Calc and do whatever you want with it.
No, you can't do anything with database data in Calc. You can not query
virtual tables nor can you generate reports nor serial
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
It seems that different e-readers prefer different text formats, like
epub. They did this for business i.e. money/profit reasons. People
had to buy their formatted documents.
Have you used an ereader? I have read both PDF and epub on mine and
Pedro wrote:
That is a little unfair on PDF! PDF is excellent for archiving documents as
IF they were printed. It saves on trees and it saves on disk space (compared
to digitized images of documents).
The fixed page size and numbering is extremely important when you are
referring to some
Andreas Säger wrote:
I thought I would try it for converting Libre User Guides to epub
format for
the iPad.
Why not PDF? What is the advantage of epub?
On ebook readers, epub text flows as required with different font
sizes. PDFs don't.
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Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 07/02/2012 13:03, e-letter wrote:
It is not known from the original poster _why_ the sheets needed to
be changed.
Jeeze. DOES IT MATTER? No of course it doesn't MATTER.
When you try to provide computer support, you'll often find someone is
trying to
Tom wrote:
Hi :)
Is there a good tool for uninstalling programs in Windows? Preferably
something that can declutter the registry. Just after the New Year before
last someone was recommending something in this list that seemed good from
what people were saying.
Regards from
Tom :)
Format
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Bearing in mind that many GnuLinux users will be getting most of the stuff from their
own distros rather than upstream here (but many do prefer upstream) i thought you
might be interested in some stats from Drew
Regards from
Tom :)
Quite so. I have never downloaded a
nvrk wrote:
The number displayed in a Calc cell is limited in decimal places by the
formatting preference. Set the number format for the cells to show more
decimal places and see the results.
In your case the sum calculation is based on the actual multiplication
result in the individual cells
Marquita Stewart wrote:
Good Evening
I have a question about the LibreOffice Software that I downloaded. I am unable to open the files that I save. I once had a free trail of Microsoft Office and I was unable to afford the full version once my trail was up. I downloaded LibreOffice and now
Tom Davies wrote:
Sorry about my last post! I'm just updating the antivirus on a handful of
machines here. A pointless and futile task imo. I could be down the pub
watching a band.
One of the joys of running Windows and part of the reason I use Linux
almost exclusively. With Linux, it's
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
The first Android nasty has been found, but it is spamware and
things like that.
Mac had its first nasty a few months ago.
Linux is not immune but it is not worth the efforts of the hackers to
do the heavy work for the different version of the
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