Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Mike Scott wrote: I'm taking a sabbatical from the list before I get further drawn in to this discussion. Ditto. -- John W Kennedy Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called Duden, the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for American Hoechst

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
is unfortunately stalling on.) Yes, there is a difference between base 16 and base 2. In 1964, IBM thought there wasn't. They were wrong. -- John W Kennedy Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated! http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html

Re: [users] Re: Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
binary and decimal floating-point. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread John W Kennedy
them as equal to AE OE UE (and ß as equal to ss, of course). -- John W Kennedy Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite. -- David Misch: She-Spies, While You Were Out

Re: [users] Re: 3.0.1 on WinXP requires a reboot?

2009-01-31 Thread John W Kennedy
On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: James Knott wrote: [cut] I installed the version without Java and it wanted to be rebooted. One of life's mysteries :-) New font installed, perhaps? -- John W Kennedy Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir

Re: [users] Formatting a poem

2009-01-14 Thread John W Kennedy
. -- John W Kennedy ...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her. -- Alias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h

Re: [users] font size

2009-01-11 Thread John W Kennedy
it if someone would give me step by step instructions on how to correct the problem. Thanks. You say it looks like it's larger. What do you actually mean by that? -- John W Kennedy Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad

Re: [users] Help!

2008-12-11 Thread John W Kennedy
size. The difference in word count probably depends on a difference in how word count is defined in the two programs. Is a number a word? Do you count the page headings? Etc., etc -- John W Kennedy The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor And the heart of our lord Taliessin

Re: [users] OOo3.0 Custom Installation

2008-10-19 Thread John W Kennedy
, ... Is there a reason for this change? Because OOo is, and has always been one large program. For example, most of the spreadsheet code is needed by the word-processing code to handle tables. The install individual components feature saved almost nothing. -- John W Kennedy Compact is becoming

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:18 AM, mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread John W Kennedy
in No Language. -- John W Kennedy ...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her. -- Alias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] openoffice.org

2008-10-07 Thread John W Kennedy
to shut it down. -- John W Kennedy Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite. -- David Misch: She-Spies, While You Were Out

Re: [users] OT Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-05 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 4, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. No. x^1 is x. x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which

Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread John W Kennedy
remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. No. x^1 is x. x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which is illegal. x^(1 + -1) is x * 1/x, which is 1, except for x=0, which is illegal. 0^0 is illegal. Otherwise, x^0 is 1. -- John W Kennedy The whole modern world has divided itself

Re: [users] Re: OOo for technical writing: observations from writing experiments

2008-10-03 Thread John W Kennedy
down the durations of the flights of those insects! -- John W Kennedy When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of treason to the United States. -- Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain

Re: [users] Re: Brochure printing under Mac OS X in OO 3.0

2008-10-01 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Henning Lorenz wrote: On 2008-10-01, at 01:01 , John W Kennedy wrote: On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Brian Barker wrote: Sorry, but I think you are missing the point here. The original query (as evidenced by the message subject) was about printing what OpenOffice

Re: [users] Re: Brochure printing under Mac OS X in OO 3.0

2008-09-30 Thread John W Kennedy
. Printer Settings is disabled altogether, which is completely unacceptable. -- John W Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in intelligent design, why can't he apply it to Windows? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Colour (color) wheel

2008-09-08 Thread John W Kennedy
by most human beings) is three- dimensional, not two, and shaped more or less like a cylinder. (Four- dimensional, if you include a transparent-opaque axis.) And the axes aren't linear, either. There's a reason that color matching is a billion-dollar industry. -- John W Kennedy When a man

Re: [users] Re: Replacing standard quotes with custom quotes

2008-07-25 Thread John W Kennedy
. Then, of course, you would have to search for apostrophes and left and right single quotes in a similar process. Version 3's Regular Expression support is better than Version 2's, though it is still rather backward compared to the support that has been around for yonks. -- John W Kennedy

Re: [users] Replacing standard quotes with custom quotes

2008-07-25 Thread John W Kennedy
with custom quotes before doing the FormatAuto-FormatApply? That will change new quotation marks on the fly; it won't change them in an existing document. -- John W Kennedy The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything -- Emile Cammaerts, The Laughing Prophet

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread John W Kennedy
of OOo 2.4.1, OOo 3.0 beta, and iWork 2008, which does some things better, and some things not as well. -- John W Kennedy There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets

Re: [users] Document Editing Features- text strike through

2008-06-30 Thread John W Kennedy
in others. I thought I used Writer for that but maybe that was when I as still using Word 97. Anyway, I cant seem to find what I'm looking for though it is here - just hidden from my eyes. Format-Character-Strikethrough, or an equivalent style. -- John W Kennedy Those in the seat of power

Re: [users] Re: Strange disappearing pound signs.

2008-06-26 Thread John W Kennedy
native output which was still called “.doc”. I don’t know what you mean by “glorified”. I seem to recall /a/ release of Word that used RTF format for its .doc files. Rumor that it that it was an emergency workaround to make ship date. -- John W Kennedy The blind rulers of Logres Nourished

Re: [users] Making the result of a Calc function permanent

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
that I cannot find it in Numbers '08 (from Apple's iWork suite) at all, and OOo's way of doing it is a little on the arcane side. -- John W Kennedy The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue. -- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
and Xmas since long before you were born. Here's a bit of Hebrew for you to look up: chillul ha-Shem. -- John W Kennedy Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns and pays. -- Charles Williams. Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
in religion, OFFENSIVE and ARROGANTLY SO, as WELL AS IGNORANTLY SO! Until now, I had thought you had some intelligence but this proves otherwise!!! :o I will be deleting any and all messages with your name attached! Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle -- John W Kennedy Information is light. Information

Re: [users] How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-15 Thread John W Kennedy
than as a Latin eks. Cf. Xmas. It is neither a particularly Christian nor a particularly un-Christian use, but it is quite informal. It's much older, however, than textspeak. -- John W Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-15 Thread John W Kennedy
(in his letters, of course, not his published works). -- John W Kennedy The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. -- G. K. Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday

Re: [users] Re: ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-27 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 27, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Jim Allan wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: If you mean the SORT statement of COBOL, of course it did! No. I mean the standard IBM DOS sort. I was at several shops all of which used a third-party sort because the IBM DOS sort “did not work properly”. I don’t know

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-25 Thread John W Kennedy
with something like the following two examples you may have a look at the definition document / REF/ Or the syntax of variables to be substituted look like $ {Name} Vote for Issue 46414. Some of us have been asking for a fix in this area for many years. -- John W Kennedy The pathetic hope

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-24 Thread John W Kennedy
together on one line? Mark it No language under Format-Character-Font. -- John W Kennedy Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts -- J. Michael Straczynski. Babylon 5, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread John W Kennedy
, and often could not wait for the standards to catch up. (Standard COBOL, for example, did not get around to supporting disk files until 1968.) Microsoft, on the other hand, deliberately pisses in standards simply to protect their monopoly. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust

Re: [users] Character Encodings

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
W Kennedy You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_. -- C. S. Lewis. An Experiment in Criticism

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office: Move enhances customer choice and interoperability with Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
the unapproved and frequently maddening trick of putting a BOM into UTF-8. -- John W Kennedy The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. -- G. K. Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office: Move enhances customer choice and interoperability with Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 23, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Jim Allan wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: If you have something to blame Microsoft for, then document it, as people have for the OOXML fiasco or discrepancies from standard HTML, or some of their dirty tricks or mistatements. Your comment about broken glue doesn’t

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice and portable harddrives

2008-05-15 Thread John W Kennedy
their rational. It is not Lashon Hara to warn against future evil. -- John W Kennedy Well-informed Goy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Problem with installing Open Office on MacBook Pro

2008-05-13 Thread John W Kennedy
of failure. Any way that I can install and use Open Office? Older versions of OSX required you to download, and if you downloaded it, it's that older version you got. Leopard puts it on the OSX DVDs; install it from there. -- John W Kennedy But now is a new thing which is very old

Re: [users] Money, Currency, Federal Reserve (subject line updated, hope that's okay)

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
, spreading ridiculous pseudo-legal arguments that have been repeatedly rejected by the judiciary as frivolous. 2) This subject is also completely off-topic. 3) *PLONK* -- John W Kennedy Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light. -- Tom Stoppard. Night and Day

Re: [users] shortkeys

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
and End are Fn-LeftArrow and Fn- RightArrow. PgUp and PgDn are Fn-UpArrow and Fn-DownArrow, and Fn- delete is PC-style delete. -- John W Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 11, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Bob Estes wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago. Let's bring back pieces of 8 :-) Let's

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 10, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:23:31 -0400 James Knott wrote: Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths

[users] Beta issues?

2008-05-08 Thread John W Kennedy
Anybody know when http://qa.openoffice.org is going to start accepting 3.0 beta issues? -- John W Kennedy Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread John W Kennedy
the cent picked up the penny name.) Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago. -- John W Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in intelligent design, why can't he apply it to Windows

Re: [users] MacroMedia Flash UpDate ReSets Computer Wide Open

2008-05-04 Thread John W Kennedy
Plugins to use the site fully or see all content or something like that, with a green jigsaw icon displayed. The code on the website runs a program on your computer ... so it has access past your firewall. Do I detect bogosity? -- John W Kennedy The bright critics assembled in this volume

Re: [users] Re: Re: N-dashes

2008-04-29 Thread John W Kennedy
to make a simple macro that uses Insert-Special Character to insert an en-dash, and then use Tools- Customize-Keyboard to set some key combination to execute that macro. -- John W Kennedy The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being

Re: [users] Inserting field names

2008-04-28 Thread John W Kennedy
number or File name. Instead of obtaining the desired page number as a digit, I have the text Page Number and of course the text File name but not the the proper file name. What happens ? Has anybody experienced the same ? It's a toggle. View-Field Names. -- John W Kennedy ...if you had

Re: [users] Inserting field names

2008-04-28 Thread John W Kennedy
not be so obvious, but look at all the different options in the Insert-Fields-Other dialog. Sometimes you want to know just what the heck the thing is. -- John W Kennedy ...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her. -- Alias

Re: [users] Standard US English

2008-04-23 Thread John W Kennedy
in the first place. As an examination of any real dictionary will show, judgment is the normal US spelling, and the normal UK spelling in legal work, while judgement is the normal UK spelling outside of legal work. -- John W Kennedy The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy

Re: [users] Re: OOXML

2008-04-20 Thread John W Kennedy
is the reason that the cheaper USB is the de-facto standard for general-purpose work. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [users] Installer has ceased to respond

2008-04-11 Thread John W Kennedy
/ Tomtom package, I'll get by. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] Installer has ceased to respond

2008-04-01 Thread John W. Kennedy
, and I was hoping that Aqua OOo would be ready first. Does anyone have any further ideas, short of restoring to factory status, which, considering the amount of various software I have installed, is a job that will take me about two weeks to complete? -- John W. Kennedy Read the remains

Re: [users] Re: Advice re ECDL

2008-03-20 Thread John W. Kennedy
Henning von Roeder wrote: actually i wa snot, and ..computer driving license sounds quite as silly to me as early childhood development Neddie: Up, up, and away! GRAM: Sound of high-performance engine and tires squealing. F/X: Police siren: GRAM: Brakes squeal. Grytpype-Thynne: Now, sir,

Re: [users] spell check in open office

2008-03-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
documents in? If you go to Tools-Options-Language Settings-Languages, what is selected under Default languages for documents? Select a bit of text that you think isn't being spell-checked. If you go to Format-Character-Font, what does it say under Language? -- John W. Kennedy If Bill Gates believes

Re: [users] formating problem

2008-03-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
, bled index tabs, and similar gaudy devices. -- John W. Kennedy The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. -- G. K

Re: [users] Like WordPerfect?

2008-02-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
isn't so cheap. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another company to-morrow! -- Sir William S. Gilbert. Utopia Limited

Re: [users] Emailing: 7 years

2008-02-11 Thread John W. Kennedy
Tom Bell wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: This is a hash sign: # I believe that you may call this a number sign, but the technical name for it is hash. Actually, it's called an octothorpe. Hash is food (at least it pretends to be g). It has several

Re: [users] Emailing: 7 years

2008-02-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
century. The notion that it is somehow the proper name is an urban myth. (It is also sometimes used as a substitute for the musical sharp sign, but it's not really the same.) -- John W. Kennedy Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat? -- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford

Re: [users] OOo Writer crashes when Format | Page

2008-02-09 Thread John W. Kennedy
a completely different driver? -- John W. Kennedy Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart that you and the people are one, human beings all, and good government shall arise of its own accord

Re: [users] openoffice compatability

2008-02-01 Thread John W. Kennedy
). I've been using SO/OOo since before Sun purchased Star, and I use it all the time, but if I ever had to write even one script, I'd get Final Draft. (My wife has it, so I know.) -- John W. Kennedy The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a Marcus Aurelius is as naïve

Re: [users] Voting on Issues

2008-01-25 Thread John W. Kennedy
in C (though I don't know why it was chosen), and it /is/, as a result, common as muck, even though it's stupid. -- John W. Kennedy The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue. -- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude

Re: [users] Voting on Issues

2008-01-25 Thread John W. Kennedy
is so much easier to interpret? I don't know why, but it's the native time format of C, so it's found all over the place. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Wouldn't he have to do that for every occurrence, just in case one occurrence overflowed a line without him noticing? Unfortunately, yes. The same is largely true of the no-width no break solution, except that that approach

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: You can't, in general. You just have to deal with the fact that there are always going to be exceptional and difficult cases. A problem that I had a couple of years back, for example, was in transcribing an 18th-century play (William Dunlap's 1798

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: But it is easy to give cases where + should be a break, and easy to give cases where ‘ should, even in the same documents. I'm sure it's possible, but easy? I can't think of a case where I'd like a+b to be treated as three words in one case

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
this is a hyphenation issue. Format it as no language. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another company to-morrow! -- Sir William S. Gilbert

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Format it as no language. That's not a very attractive option, because I want to be able to spell-check those paragraphs. In the documents I write, many paragraphs have the word C++ in them, and foregoing spell checking for those paragraphs would

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in c++

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 23/01/2008 23:22, John W. Kennedy wrote: Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Format it as no language. That's not a very attractive option, because I want to be able to spell-check those paragraphs. In the documents I write, many paragraphs have the word C

Re: [users] X11 2.1.2 stops OpenOffice.org from starting

2008-01-15 Thread John W. Kennedy
, and you must have checked it. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another company to-morrow! -- Sir William S. Gilbert. Utopia Limited

Re: [users] Two questions about OpenOffice from a professional...

2008-01-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
James Knott wrote: Svyatoslav Zaborov wrote: Hi all! If you wish to post to this list, please do so in an intelligent manner. Your post is not appreciated and certainly didn't sound as though it came from a professional. Not to mention that it's racist crap. -- John W. Kennedy When a man

Re: [users] scrolling in openoffice.org + Windows XP + Thinkpad R60

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Kennedy
). The UltraNav is the more complex ThinkPad T-series equipment that includes both a TrackPoint and a touchpad. -- John W. Kennedy Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts -- J. Michael Straczynski. Babylon

Re: [users] scrolling in openoffice.org + Windows XP + Thinkpad R60

2008-01-05 Thread John W. Kennedy
have this problem? It works for me, under virtually identical conditions, so I imagine it's a question of Tools-Options-OpenOffice.org-View-Middle mouse button. -- John W. Kennedy There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks

Re: [users] Re: Calc: Format/Formula help

2007-12-02 Thread John W. Kennedy
to change spelling mistakes. Blonde, male, British secretary? :-) Blonde is female by definition. A male is blond. -- John W. Kennedy ...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her. -- Alias

Re: [users] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-02 Thread John W. Kennedy
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 03/12/2007 00:21, NoOp wrote: Anyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Not here. I just did. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind

Re: [users] Re: Use of open office.

2007-11-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
to be the same size as pre-1928 dollar bills, so that they would fit into drawers meant for cash. -- John W. Kennedy ...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman. -- Rupert Goodwins

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-11-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
supported -- neither are Bengali and Tulu. If you know a computer programmer who speaks both Kannada and English, by all means ask him if he can help out. -- John W. Kennedy Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold

Re: [users] Source code offer and distribution requirements

2007-11-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
. Jonathon is, of course, correct. As long as Microsoft's gangsterism is permitted to flourish, /all/ non-Microsoft software is at risk. -- John W. Kennedy Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart

Re: [users] Re: KeyTweak: Keyboard Remapping in Windows (Freeware)

2007-11-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
above. After 3 seconds if you haven't hit a key for the accent then the apostraphe finally appears on screen. I suspect that you don't have to wait three seconds if you hit the space bar. -- John W. Kennedy Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat? -- Charles Williams. Judgement

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-17 Thread John W. Kennedy
for inscription on the plastic, and have been at least since the mid-90s -- probably for as long as there have been two Alt keys. -- John W. Kennedy Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because

Re: [users] Password

2007-11-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
of a password being required to update Java. Where are you getting it from Some operating systems require /their/ password to update /anything/. Neither OOo nor Java even gets involved in this process. -- John W. Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in intelligent design, why can't he apply

Re: [users] Can not open .pps files properly

2007-11-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
of OpenOffice.org? There is a program called Lotus Symphony that is /based/ /on/ OpenOffice.org, but is not the same. By the way, this looks like you have done a replacement of some of windows modules. Not as far as I know. -- John W. Kennedy Information is light. Information, in itself

Re: [users] Open Office 2.1

2007-11-08 Thread John W. Kennedy
reading. -- John W. Kennedy Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated! http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 October 2007 14:49:28 John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: So, go ahead and sue. First you have to find a lawyer dumb enough to take the case. It's quite obvious this guy's a troll or a complete idiot. Also, here's his company's web site. http

Re: [users] How to download open office!

2007-10-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
a download option at all. Could you please provide a link to be able to download it via http. I see the option right there. Click on Download OpenOffice.org. -- John W. Kennedy Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light. -- Tom Stoppard. Night and Day

Re: [users] open office

2007-10-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
-4492-4133-BBAB-421CD88ADA32 this is not 25 digits. Pls help This makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the OpenOffice.org program, which is distributed free of charge, doesn't come in a box, and has no product code in the first place. -- John W. Kennedy But now is a new thing which is very

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
you and your employer for harassment and malicious prosecution. (Note: I am not affiliated with either Sun Microsystems or OpenOffice.org. I am also not qualified to practice as a lawyer in either the United States or Canada.) -- John W. Kennedy Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-26 Thread John W. Kennedy
. It may be a one-man operation. He's quite mad -- he sent me back an incoherent and vilely spelt rant accusing me (insofar as I could construe it at all) of impersonating myself. -- John W. Kennedy Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light. -- Tom Stoppard

Re: [users] Question about Copyright

2007-10-18 Thread John W. Kennedy
, which first appeared on the CMS operating system ca. 1967. -- John W. Kennedy Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another company to-morrow! -- Sir William S

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-10-14 Thread John W. Kennedy
.) -- John W. Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
in the future. Let's see what happens. -- John W. Kennedy Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and not because

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo stealing the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format? Just as much and in the same way as Symphony is. -- John W. Kennedy

Re: [users] Re: WARNING: Do Not Install IBM Lotus Symphony (Beta)

2007-09-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
. On my Windows system, the uninstaller is in the usual place. (I really don't see what is so shocking about a program for editing ODF files setting associations with ODF files.) -- John W. Kennedy Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns and pays. -- Charles Williams. Bors to Elayne

Re: [users] File format change in OO 2.3

2007-09-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
-created files. -- John W. Kennedy Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts -- J. Michael Straczynski. Babylon 5, Ceremonies of Light and Dark

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/21/07, John W. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cheated?! not again! check out the threads on the wonderful freedoms of GPL/LGPL to allow vendors to charge...even for download links! If they were sold 1.1.4 as the lastest, they were cheated. you are just

Re: [users] Re: Default Character Set or Encoding

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
John Rotomano wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am currently using OOo 2.3, but previuos versions have had the same problem. I run Kubuntu 7.04 and 6.06. I download shop inventory from a suplier. The download is in .csv format and includes 20 or so columns of product

Re: [users] OT freeware /open source image editing software??

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
to the novice. -- John W. Kennedy But now is a new thing which is very old-- that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer, which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake. -- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford

Re: [users] Re: Default Character Set or Encoding

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
Joe Conner wrote: This path will allow you to change Windows-1252 to UTF-8 if you wish to do so. TOOLS = OPTIONS = LOAD/SAVE = HTML COMPATABILITY = CHARACTER SET As far as I know, that only affects export and import of HTML files. -- John W. Kennedy Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed

Re: [users] OT freeware /open source image editing software??

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
Robin Laing wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: Lisa Hetherington wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good open source/freeware image editing program?? http://www.gimp.org/ But buy the O'Reilly GIMP book. GIMP is very powerful, and it's user-friendly to those who

Re: [users] Default Character Set or Encoding

2007-09-20 Thread John W. Kennedy
. What version of OOo? What operating system? What version? What are you actually doing? -- John W. Kennedy When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of treason to the United States. -- Joy Davidman

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