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#61

Please don't send to me directly, I'm on the list.

Thanks

#62

Urmas wrote:

It is much more better than an ODF, which documents nothing, and
depends on a reference implementation from a single vendor, Sun.

Year 1900 being a leap one is a universal convention which predates
Excel for several years.

What planet are you living on? ODF documents are available for all to
read. Do you know what an open standard is? As for the 1900 bug, care
to provide some references that back that up? Why would anyone
deliberately include a flawed function in a spreadsheet?

Here's some info on ODF, including links to specifications.
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office

#63

Apologies Tanstaafl, I replied to all. I must have replied directly to you as well as the list

Regards

Andrew Brown

#64

And you did it again.

Best is to use an email client that actually supports Reply-To-List (like Thunderbird).

#65

Please don't feed the troll!

#66

Hi :) 
It is awkward but it's the way the list has been set-up.  We just need to delete twice per message rather than just once.  We can't really expect people to change email-clients just in order to post to this list!  That would be absurd.

It might be good to start-up a petition about getting the list set-up back to the way it was when it all worked magically whichever emailer people used.

Btw good call re: NOT feeding the troll.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#67

Heh! Heh! yes force of habit clicking "Reply All" when I see multiple names, instead of "Reply to list" as I have done now, and I do use Thunderbird :stuck_out_tongue:

Andrew Brown

#68

Hi :slight_smile:
On the space station it's only the laptops that are going to have Gnu&Linux put on them.  All the command&control systems are already Gnu&Linux.  I was listening to one of the ground-crew giving instructions on what to type in and it was roughly like
"ls", "LS, it says ... roger"
"cd ..", "cd ..., err nothing happened, roger"
"That's ok.  it shouldn't have said anything" "[sigh of relief]"

and then a command that my network administrator had emailed to me for me to do on our network!!  :)))

About 80% desktop machines here have Xp, the other 20% have Win7.  All have Ubuntu.  So do they count as Window machines or Gnu&Linux when they have both?  2/3 servers have Debian (including the firewall box), 1/3 is Windows Exchange (that's the noisy one that keeps weirding out).  The Routers and switches seem to use a Linux.  Most hand-helds are Android, couple Blackberry, couple iThings, 1 Windows phone.

All counts are unreliable.  Most are paid-for research with MS paying the bill.  If a machine is bought with Windows on it and the Windows gets wiped and replaced by Gnu&Linux then that gets counted as a Windows machine by pretty much all researchers.  Hence Bug1 in Ubuntu. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#69

Hi :slight_smile:
This kinda reminds me of the story about 2 bulls on top of a hill both looking down at a herd of cows.  The younger one says "Lets race down the hill and dance with one of those ladies".  The older one replies "Lets walk down and dance with them all".

If we follow MS's lead in keeping up with their latest formats then we might get short-term gains but we really stuff ourselves up in the longer term.  Plus we end up trailing a long way behind MS.  We need to work towards getting ahead of them in more and more ways.  At the moment we already beat them in quite a few ways but we need more in order for more people to take notice.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#70

When you get a new hammer, do you make the new hammer look like the old hammer? No!
LibreOffice does not need to be micro$oft office, a bloated application that tries to be all things to all people and does none of them well. LO is a good office suite in its own right. People need to stop being lazy and learn something new for a change.
Girvin Herr
P.S. - Nice metaphor!

#71

+1