charles.schulz wrote:
Hello,
On 30 janvier 2015 11:50:02 CET, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Charles-H. Schulz:
that either Windows 8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems
create
a very bad
experience when installing software...
It is LO misconfigured Apache server which assigns
Mike Scott wrote:
On 30/01/15 19:41, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
It looks like I was a bit quick to blame IE. It turns out it's 1 of the
3 mirrors in the UK which is misbehaving. Doesn't affect other browsers,
as they seem to just use the .msi extension from the download URI,
On 30/01/15 19:41, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
It looks like I was a bit quick to blame IE. It turns out it's 1 of the
3 mirrors in the UK which is misbehaving. Doesn't affect other browsers,
as they seem to just use the .msi extension from the download URI,
whereas IE uses the
It looks like I was a bit quick to blame IE. It turns out it's 1 of the
3 mirrors in the UK which is misbehaving. Doesn't affect other browsers,
as they seem to just use the .msi extension from the download URI,
whereas IE uses the Content-Type header returned by the server and
changes the
Hi :)
The problem with that is that Internet Explorer is usually completely
fine with it.
Most Windows users that i have met would be scared of trying anything
that might be difficult to download with Internet Explorer. To be
fair most them wouldn't have a clue how to install anything anyway and
Hello,
On 30 janvier 2015 11:50:02 CET, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:
Charles-H. Schulz:
that either Windows 8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems
create
a very bad
experience when installing software...
It is LO misconfigured Apache server which assigns
'application/x-troff-man'
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On 29/01/15 08:34, Philip Jordan wrote:
In some answer to Jonathan's Windows 8.1 queries
I'm not really competent to answer them BUT
IF you don't know which edition of Win8.1 nor which localization of Win
8.1 you are using, then who does know?
On 29/01/15 17:10, jonathon wrote:
My guess is that one of the crippleware versions of Win 8.1 was
installed,
Err there AREN'T any crippleware versions of Windows 8.1
Where on earth did you get that from?
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In some answer to Jonathan's Windows 8.1 queries
I'm not really competent to answer them BUT
As I've said I live in the UK
to that fact that the Machine is a Toshiba Laptop
can I add that it was bought a month ago
i.e. with presumably uptodate Software
On 28 January 2015 at 21:14, jonathon
Thanks Tom
Can I say I think you have the picture!
Meanwhile, I'll continue to look @ Ubantu
etc as helpfully set out by Gordon
I'll also *maybe* look at taking my Laptop back
to Staples, where I got it a month ago
Thanks again
Philip Jordan
On 29 January 2015 at 09:46, Tom Davies
Hi :)
Yeh, the 40mins does kinda assume that downloads all work correctly
and that you have some experience of doing it so that you don't have
to stop and read everything and maybe even do a bit of research to
check the accuracy or background of the various things that crop up.
We could help you
Hi :)
I think that just installing Firefox or some other web-browser (people
seem to like Chrome these days) and LibreOffice deals with most of the
problems.
I'm not saying the Internet Explorer and MS Office are all bad all the
time. I use both quite often myself.
I try to avoid them but they
Thanks Gordon
That's very helpful
Philip
PS
FWIW
I know you were replying to
what someone else said but
that person probably should
not have introduced this C
word as it could be that it
use contravenes human
rights etc - bit like Benedict
saying what he did recently?!
On 29 January 2015 at
Microsoft do seem to make things difficult... First their web browser
changes the .msi extension to .man, which their operating system doesn't
understand, and then their file browser hides the extension making it
difficult to correct!
That has come up on this list before, and your earlier
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On 29/01/15 17:14, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Err there AREN'T any crippleware versions of Windows 8.1
Microsoft doesn't talk about it much, but even they inadvertently called
one of those editions crippled. They usually use a much more
Hi :)
Ahah. I think we are stumbling into finding out what is going wrong at last! :)
Many people have more than 1 web-browser and i think that is really
the best way forwards. There are arguments about which is the best so
having more than one means you get the best of at least 2 worlds. I
Thanks, but I'm not sure that exactly solves my problem!
Nor for that matter does it exonerate LibreOffice
e.g.
why can't they save everyones time by saying at the outset that their
software only downloads via certain browsers
/or
how come I never had such problems with any other downloads?!
Dear Philip,
For some reason this thread of discussion does not seem to help and I
must confess that it is not clear to me what problem you're doing
through aside that you're struggling at the download/installation phase.
Would you mind following the steps below and tell us the outcome? As a
On 28/01/15 17:06, Philip Jordan wrote:
how long to do what where when etc please ref Ubuntu.?
here's the definitive guide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:All#Dual-Booting_Windows_and_Ubuntu
There's a lot of information on that page.
In Brief:
1. Ensure you have a Windows Recovery
On 28/01/15 17:27, Tom Davies wrote:
Of course MS are unlikely to be happy about
people finding out that the alternatives are not only better but are
also often free so they apparently put a lot of work into trying to
prevent people from staying outside their eco-system.
So how soon will the
There is some major work going on on this. We have a viewer in beta version.
But we aim this year to get an editor and viewer version released. Right now we
need to develop and improve our base system first.
Best,
Charles.
On 28 janvier 2015 18:35:40 CET, Gordon Burgess-Parker
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On 28/01/15 15:49, Philip Jordan wrote:
I'm using an almost new Toshiba Laptop with Windows 8.1
What edition of Windows 8.1 are you using?
What localization of Windows 8.1 are you using?
jonathon
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Dear Philip,
Forgive me to answer before Stuart but do you mean to say that you
followed the link and ended up with downloading a file with a .man
extension at its end?
I have just tried your link and got a file with a .msi ,which is a very
common form of Windows Installer.
By the way, what
Dear Charles
I'm sure I've covered this before, but:
I'm using an almost new Toshiba Laptop with Windows 8.1
though I followed Stuarts instruction/link in downloading the file with
the msi end
it said man on the Laptop after this was done
- or does that mean I failed to replace the existing
Dear Philip,
Sorry for the question on your laptop; it does explain why there is such
as thing as an App Store.
It also seems to explain what you're going through. On our other
community support venue, somebody else reported exactly the same problem
one month ago:
Thanks
though I'll do what you say, it must be emphasized that as far as I can
tell
more than once, I downloaded from the site you show on Sunday
I did this as the link from Computer active didn't work
too, I only went to Microsoft for an Icon as my laptop
refused to install the software by
Thanks V Stuart
I've followed your instruction to be very specific it meant I downloaded
from this link
http://mirror.catn.com/pub/tdf/libreoffice/stable/4.3.5/win/x86/LibreOffice_4.3.5_Win_x86.msi
(gb, prio 100)
So far so good - incidentally an exact replica of file resulted/replacing
like
Hi :)
I'm not sure why you are having a problem downloading LibreOffice, nor
why you are apparently only getting a small chunk of it, nor why you
haven't been this unlucky before.
There are too many factors to explore. Have you tried rebooting the
router? Are you using a wireless connection or
Thanks Charles
FWIW it's at least good to know it's not just me
too, I'd like to tell ComputerActive about this
as not only did their current edition feature a
good i.e. favourable LO review BUT TOO
they're currently running stuff on how to use
Windows 8.1 - given all the trouble
But too,
The installation file would be the file you downloaded, the one that
changed from .msi to .man.
True enough I should not need to tell you all these details about
compatibility and so on and so forth, but it seems that either Windows
8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems create a very
On 28/01/15 15:43, Philip Jordan wrote:
Thanks
though I'll do what you say, it must be emphasized that as far as I can
tell
more than once, I downloaded from the site you show on Sunday
I did this as the link from Computer active didn't work
too, I only went to Microsoft for an Icon as my
Brilliant - well your reply is Gordon
- but as to W 8.1:
I'm bereft of suitable words!
On 28 January 2015 at 16:40, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonb...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 28/01/15 15:43, Philip Jordan wrote:
Thanks
though I'll do what you say, it must be emphasized that as far as I can
Thanks Gordon Tom
I'm afraid that the 40 minutes suggested is rather more than a tad
optmistic e.g.
Items 1-5 inc will each take me some considerable time i.e.
they all involve me far beyond my comfort zone!
But thanks for trying to help
ATB
Philip Jordan
On 28 January 2015 at 17:33,
On 28/01/15 16:51, Philip Jordan wrote:
- but as to W 8.1:
I'm bereft of suitable words!
then do what I did - dual-boot Ubuntu :-)
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how long to do what where when etc please ref Ubuntu.?
I mean I know I'm retired but my use for IT is as support ref life i.e.
not taking over what remains of my life!!
All the best thanks
On 28 January 2015 at 16:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonb...@gmail.com
Hi :)
It is kinda overkill to install Ubuntu purely for this issue. On the
other hand it would free you from the sorts of problems you seem to
dislike about Windows generally. You don't need to constantly keep
buying new things so often and new computers every couple of years
just in order to
Hi :)
@ Ann. ComputerActive is a magazine about IT.
People in the UK tend to only know 1 language. For most it's some
variant of English. For others it might be some other language. Some
of the ones who only speak English sometimes get all obnoxious and
demand the rest somehow magically
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