Errr, you're trying to open a.txt file..txt implies TEXT, so it opens in the Writer, as would be the expected behavior.
No, not if I open it in Calc. I agree that if I opened a.txt file in Writer, that would be the expected behavior.
If you rename the file to idicate WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS, i.e. a.csv file, then it will open the way you think it should.
So the solution is to rename all my txt files (that HAVE to use this extension since the software access the tables using these names) back and forth between.csv, just because it refuse to open/import the files in the program I'm executing. Yes, it sounds like a method that would be necessary in a brain dead MS program, but this time the roles seem to be reversed.:-(
It's OK to expect a lot from FLOSS, but I think expecting it to be psychic is a bit much, don't you think?
How hard is it for it to understand that it should open a file in the same program I'm asking it to? My problem is that it tries to be psychic and ignore what I want to open it in, and pick a program that "seem to be right" judging by its extension and not content.
OK, but that might only make it slightly faster (Insert->External Data instead of File->Open). What I'm really after is a way to make OO start up and open a file in the same program that I'm telling it to when I'm giving it the file name on the command-line.
Windows has this "Send To" feature where you can place shortcuts to programs in a special folder, such as Calc in this case, and then just right-click on a program and select "Send To"->Calc and have it open using that file. What that actually does is just use the program and put the file name as a command-line argument.
Windows XP also support associations of one file extension (.txt) in this case to more than one program. That's an excellent feature IMHO, and let you right click on a file and pick "Open With...->Calc" in this case.
Neither of these ways that both are quicker than starting a stand-alone version of OpenOffice work because the program has a non-standard way of open files (i.e. doesn't open files in the program you tell it to)
Something I thought was a very annoying feature in OpenOffice 1.0.3 was that it tries to be "smart" and open a file in a part of the office suite it "thinks" is best fit to do the job, and no apparent way to turn that function off.
For example, if I choose to open a tab-delimited.txt file in Calc, it still open it in Writer. What?! I didn't tell it to open it in Writer. Even MS Office is more smart than that and imports it as best as it can by figuring out the delimiter etc, and certainly not tries to open it in the word processor, when I basically issued the command "ooocalc.exe table.txt". If it lacks the intelligence to open it, at least go confused and show me the Import dialog so I can properly import it as a tab-delimited text. But there doesn't even seem to be a setting for this...
I noticed there's a setting in OO that let you select the default program to use. But I don't want to open any document in a "default" program, I want to open a document in the program I'm opening it with!
So right now, I have to go through the looong path of starting Calc stand-alone, File->Open, select the.txt file, pick the.txt file format to be something like "Comma-delimited txt file" somewhere deep in its combo box and then it finally understands "aaah, it's delimited!" and stops forcing me to use another program than I'm trying to open it with.
I really hope I'm missing something here, or this behavior will be fixed in OO 1.1, because I really despise programs that think, no... assumes, they know more than you do. I was also shocked to once again have to disable the paper clip feature in OO! Only difference was that the current incarnation was now a light bulb and not a paper clip. What progress the world is making.:-(
I guess it's really time for Kazaa to get on the train and start using links aka edonkey then. I know about sig2dat but that software isn't really part of Kazaa (comes bundled with Kazaa Lite though). What Kazaa is missing to get rid of those fakes once and for all is built-in support for "kazaa-links" with browser integration. You know something like "kazaa://894eaab15f64cc6fcd001/Terminator3.DVDRIP. XviD.avi" which, when clicked, starts a download in Kazaa for that exact version of the movie. Then all one need is to put up some ad-sponsored sites listing verified links. I know quite a few and none have been closed for any reason, yet they're rather well known and I'm sure RIAA are aware of them since they basically act as primary community sites for the entire eDonkey network. A problem might be that they don't *directly* link to anything. However, they do indirectly, but perhaps the question is how indirect links are disallowed... I mean, those links store something like a 128-bit MD4 checksum. Is 16 bytes enough to describe a version of Terminator 3 accurately and uniquely and get someone to court for?
I guess RIAA hasn't dared to do this in the case of being told "nope, are you crazy" by the judge (not thinking/caring about the extremely small mathematic probabilities an identical MD5 sum describe another file in circulation) and having these sites explode in popularity as an effect.
Anyway, fake files *is* a non-issue in most cases unless you look for an incredibly rare soundtrack/movie/software that none have even bothered to generate a checksum from. But those are also the most rarely faked. For common files, there is no special issue with fake files, at least when using most other p2p apps then Kazaa.
I find it surprising that they haven't even opened the service for europeans on *Mac's* yet. I wonder what the difficulties are? I mean... No sane person could willingly delay the release of iTunes on both Windows and in more parts of the world. Apple's income right now would seem like nothing in comparison.
I like drop shadows like this since I actually think they more clearly separates the meny from the background that can just as well be filled with text and other GUI widgets. I think drop shadows help against that problem by improving the menu outline.
I'm not sure where the "read news paper in blinding sunlight" comes in, and how I would possible be able to compare a menu with a newspaper. First, my computer screen isn't using a contrast comparable to blinding sunlight.:-)
I still believe it's better to have a website "defaced" than having it hacked by some group of hackers with more evil intentions than replacing the front page with "boohoo you suck". If a website can easily be defaced, they have a problem. Sure, they might see it as bad PR since the world get to see that "this company has a problem with security". But I'm not getting that worked up over that part.
Neither WoW or SC2 are developed by Blizzard North, but Blizzard "South" (usually just called "Blizzard"). These are two separate divisions that form Blizzard Entertainment.
Blizzard North has only done Diablo I and II so far.
Blizzard "South" has done all Warcraft and Starcraft games, and the older Rock & Roll Racing, Lost Vikings, etc.
Yes, this is what I did immediatelly after reading the article, just to check what was going on. And there it was. Huh? Sure, it's not directly supported by ATI, but was it ever?
I agree that I think NT4 should be gone, although I also understand those who have a perfectly fine NT4 machine that will have dropped support and upgrades in the future. But Windows 2000 is leaps before NT4 across the board IMHO.
I agree that XP's themes can be annoying, but these can easily be switched off. I don't know if XP is worse when it comes to services enabled by default, compared to 2000, but I think Windows Server 2003 could be much better than XP and perhaps even 2000. So far, I've only heard good things about it, and it sounds like MS have listened to the criticism and disabled a lot of services and also modularized it someone to make it a leaner server for what you will use it for. They also rewrote the critized IIS pretty much from the ground up with much more security in mind.
"It's plain that the dinosaurs of the recording industry have completely lost touch with reality," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF senior staff attorney. "At a time when more Americans are using file-sharing software than voted for President Bush, more lawsuits are simply not the answer. It's time to get artists paid and make file-sharing legal. EFF calls on Congress to hold hearings immediately on alternatives to the RIAA's litigation campaign against the American public."
"Install into a new empty directory. Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems."
That is an easy way to work around bugs. Just say "donÂt do that" in the readme.
It doesn't really have to do with *bugs*, but poor backwards incompatibility. However, that's seldom classified as a bug, but often an unfortunate side effect from heavy changes in an application. But I agree that if there isn't a very good reason to have it be backwards incompatible, they should do what they can do maintain compatiblity with previous versions.
(by the way, if you think that was a troll then never reply to it.)
Hmm, I still haven't thought any of your posts being a troll.:-/ And no, I don't use to reply to those.
One bad bug i want to note is:209896 Bug: mozilla crashes if upgraded from 1.3.1 to RC2. workround: uninstall first.
Yeah right: so every bug somebody calls (on some generic internet forum) the response will be: delete you mozilla directory first, then reinstall.
Isn't it a contradiction there? If you didn't make a good point (many major bugs left in a *release candidate* ?? I didn't know they let such things happen), I would take your post as a troll, but perhaps you just got yourself a bit worked up about it.:-)
I agree about this and it's a good point. The purpose of Release Candidates should be to tell that "we don't really think there are any bugs in this release, but if any pop up, there'll be another release candidate". Otherwise, if they *know* it has unfixed bugs, they could just as well let it be another beta.
I guess the RC term is used because only minor bugs are left or something like that, but I don't think that justifies that designation.
Hmm, isn't Q3 starting to become a rather aging engine for benchmarks? It's not like it stresses the hardware very much anymore.
Besides, wouldn't it make a G5 look even better if they picked a demanding game it could perform with 45 fps on and comparing it to another modern system where it got 25 fps on average (choppy in certain cases). Or isn't there such a game?:-)
It's not like they can say a G5 plays noticeably better on Q3, regardless of what it would score.:-/
Hmm, better for my needs I migth add, since MA doesn't come with streaming or hardware support. But if I'd compress music, I wouldn't use any special features FLAC has that MA doesn't.
According to that one, it seems to me like Monkey's Audio is better. Compresses slightly better than FLAC in "fast" mode, and is still fast. Compresses noticeably better with "extra high" mode, but slower.
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I could never have guessed!
However, it's far easier to update a block list than RIAA for moving between IP's.
Errr, you're trying to open a .txt file. .txt implies TEXT, so it opens in the Writer, as would be the expected behavior.
.txt file in Writer, that would be the expected behavior.
.csv file, then it will open the way you think it should.
.csv, just because it refuse to open/import the files in the program I'm executing. Yes, it sounds like a method that would be necessary in a brain dead MS program, but this time the roles seem to be reversed. :-(
No, not if I open it in Calc. I agree that if I opened a
If you rename the file to idicate WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS, i.e. a
So the solution is to rename all my txt files (that HAVE to use this extension since the software access the tables using these names) back and forth between
It's OK to expect a lot from FLOSS, but I think expecting it to be psychic is a bit much, don't you think?
How hard is it for it to understand that it should open a file in the same program I'm asking it to? My problem is that it tries to be psychic and ignore what I want to open it in, and pick a program that "seem to be right" judging by its extension and not content.
OK, but that might only make it slightly faster (Insert->External Data instead of File->Open). What I'm really after is a way to make OO start up and open a file in the same program that I'm telling it to when I'm giving it the file name on the command-line.
Windows has this "Send To" feature where you can place shortcuts to programs in a special folder, such as Calc in this case, and then just right-click on a program and select "Send To"->Calc and have it open using that file. What that actually does is just use the program and put the file name as a command-line argument.
Windows XP also support associations of one file extension (.txt) in this case to more than one program. That's an excellent feature IMHO, and let you right click on a file and pick "Open With...->Calc" in this case.
Neither of these ways that both are quicker than starting a stand-alone version of OpenOffice work because the program has a non-standard way of open files (i.e. doesn't open files in the program you tell it to)
Doesn't it already use a Visual Basic language for macros/scripts? Seemed so when I checked in 1.0
Something I thought was a very annoying feature in OpenOffice 1.0.3 was that it tries to be "smart" and open a file in a part of the office suite it "thinks" is best fit to do the job, and no apparent way to turn that function off.
.txt file in Calc, it still open it in Writer. What?! I didn't tell it to open it in Writer. Even MS Office is more smart than that and imports it as best as it can by figuring out the delimiter etc, and certainly not tries to open it in the word processor, when I basically issued the command "ooocalc.exe table.txt". If it lacks the intelligence to open it, at least go confused and show me the Import dialog so I can properly import it as a tab-delimited text. But there doesn't even seem to be a setting for this...
.txt file, pick the .txt file format to be something like "Comma-delimited txt file" somewhere deep in its combo box and then it finally understands "aaah, it's delimited!" and stops forcing me to use another program than I'm trying to open it with.
:-(
For example, if I choose to open a tab-delimited
I noticed there's a setting in OO that let you select the default program to use. But I don't want to open any document in a "default" program, I want to open a document in the program I'm opening it with!
So right now, I have to go through the looong path of starting Calc stand-alone, File->Open, select the
I really hope I'm missing something here, or this behavior will be fixed in OO 1.1, because I really despise programs that think, no... assumes, they know more than you do. I was also shocked to once again have to disable the paper clip feature in OO! Only difference was that the current incarnation was now a light bulb and not a paper clip. What progress the world is making.
Hehe, that's a pretty good and innovative way to stop people having to "pirate" their music just to hear if the album is worth your money. :-)
I guess it's really time for Kazaa to get on the train and start using links aka edonkey then. I know about sig2dat but that software isn't really part of Kazaa (comes bundled with Kazaa Lite though). What Kazaa is missing to get rid of those fakes once and for all is built-in support for "kazaa-links" with browser integration. You know something like "kazaa://894eaab15f64cc6fcd001/Terminator3.DVDRIP. XviD.avi" which, when clicked, starts a download in Kazaa for that exact version of the movie. Then all one need is to put up some ad-sponsored sites listing verified links. I know quite a few and none have been closed for any reason, yet they're rather well known and I'm sure RIAA are aware of them since they basically act as primary community sites for the entire eDonkey network. A problem might be that they don't *directly* link to anything. However, they do indirectly, but perhaps the question is how indirect links are disallowed... I mean, those links store something like a 128-bit MD4 checksum. Is 16 bytes enough to describe a version of Terminator 3 accurately and uniquely and get someone to court for?
I guess RIAA hasn't dared to do this in the case of being told "nope, are you crazy" by the judge (not thinking/caring about the extremely small mathematic probabilities an identical MD5 sum describe another file in circulation) and having these sites explode in popularity as an effect.
Anyway, fake files *is* a non-issue in most cases unless you look for an incredibly rare soundtrack/movie/software that none have even bothered to generate a checksum from. But those are also the most rarely faked. For common files, there is no special issue with fake files, at least when using most other p2p apps then Kazaa.
Too bad I both use Windows and live in Europe. :-P
I find it surprising that they haven't even opened the service for europeans on *Mac's* yet. I wonder what the difficulties are? I mean... No sane person could willingly delay the release of iTunes on both Windows and in more parts of the world. Apple's income right now would seem like nothing in comparison.
I think that program is called "real life" :-)
I like drop shadows like this since I actually think they more clearly separates the meny from the background that can just as well be filled with text and other GUI widgets. I think drop shadows help against that problem by improving the menu outline.
:-)
I'm not sure where the "read news paper in blinding sunlight" comes in, and how I would possible be able to compare a menu with a newspaper. First, my computer screen isn't using a contrast comparable to blinding sunlight.
I still believe it's better to have a website "defaced" than having it hacked by some group of hackers with more evil intentions than replacing the front page with "boohoo you suck". If a website can easily be defaced, they have a problem. Sure, they might see it as bad PR since the world get to see that "this company has a problem with security". But I'm not getting that worked up over that part.
No, sorry, I was confused. :-) ;-)
I of course meant SC1.
Yes, it's interesting how they remove a feature before looking at alternative solutions. I agree about that... :-/
Probably not.
Neither WoW or SC2 are developed by Blizzard North, but Blizzard "South" (usually just called "Blizzard"). These are two separate divisions that form Blizzard Entertainment.
Blizzard North has only done Diablo I and II so far.
Blizzard "South" has done all Warcraft and Starcraft games, and the older Rock & Roll Racing, Lost Vikings, etc.
Yes, this is what I did immediatelly after reading the article, just to check what was going on. And there it was. Huh? Sure, it's not directly supported by ATI, but was it ever?
*confused*
I agree that I think NT4 should be gone, although I also understand those who have a perfectly fine NT4 machine that will have dropped support and upgrades in the future. But Windows 2000 is leaps before NT4 across the board IMHO.
I agree that XP's themes can be annoying, but these can easily be switched off. I don't know if XP is worse when it comes to services enabled by default, compared to 2000, but I think Windows Server 2003 could be much better than XP and perhaps even 2000. So far, I've only heard good things about it, and it sounds like MS have listened to the criticism and disabled a lot of services and also modularized it someone to make it a leaner server for what you will use it for. They also rewrote the critized IIS pretty much from the ground up with much more security in mind.
I tried to click on the black www but nothing happened. Doesn't it have to be blue?
<average worm spreader>
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"It's plain that the dinosaurs of the recording industry have completely lost touch with reality," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF senior staff attorney. "At a time when more Americans are using file-sharing software than voted for President Bush, more lawsuits are simply not the answer. It's time to get artists paid and make file-sharing legal. EFF calls on Congress to hold hearings immediately on alternatives to the RIAA's litigation campaign against the American public."
"Install into a new empty directory. Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems."
:-/ And no, I don't use to reply to those.
That is an easy way to work around bugs. Just say "donÂt do that" in the readme.
It doesn't really have to do with *bugs*, but poor backwards incompatibility. However, that's seldom classified as a bug, but often an unfortunate side effect from heavy changes in an application. But I agree that if there isn't a very good reason to have it be backwards incompatible, they should do what they can do maintain compatiblity with previous versions.
(by the way, if you think that was a troll then never reply to it.)
Hmm, I still haven't thought any of your posts being a troll.
One bad bug i want to note is:209896
:-)
Bug: mozilla crashes if upgraded from 1.3.1 to RC2.
workround: uninstall first.
Yeah right: so every bug somebody calls (on some generic internet forum) the response will be: delete you mozilla directory first, then reinstall.
Isn't it a contradiction there? If you didn't make a good point (many major bugs left in a *release candidate* ?? I didn't know they let such things happen), I would take your post as a troll, but perhaps you just got yourself a bit worked up about it.
I agree about this and it's a good point. The purpose of Release Candidates should be to tell that "we don't really think there are any bugs in this release, but if any pop up, there'll be another release candidate". Otherwise, if they *know* it has unfixed bugs, they could just as well let it be another beta.
I guess the RC term is used because only minor bugs are left or something like that, but I don't think that justifies that designation.
Hmm, isn't Q3 starting to become a rather aging engine for benchmarks? It's not like it stresses the hardware very much anymore.
:-)
:-/
Besides, wouldn't it make a G5 look even better if they picked a demanding game it could perform with 45 fps on and comparing it to another modern system where it got 25 fps on average (choppy in certain cases). Or isn't there such a game?
It's not like they can say a G5 plays noticeably better on Q3, regardless of what it would score.
Hmm, better for my needs I migth add, since MA doesn't come with streaming or hardware support. But if I'd compress music, I wouldn't use any special features FLAC has that MA doesn't.
According to that one, it seems to me like Monkey's Audio is better. Compresses slightly better than FLAC in "fast" mode, and is still fast. Compresses noticeably better with "extra high" mode, but slower.