I installed OO 2.0 and can't find any way to set the default font size. It always is set at 12 points.
The installation program said it would respect the settings of previous versions of Open Office, and did not do so.
The answer has always been: "Did you try the latest version, compiled
last night? The problem may be fixed."
By the time I can test the latest version, there is a new version. I
get the same answer again. That's happened for 2 1/2 years.
Bug 204668, Linux/Windows Reproducible Crash Tests: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20466 8 (Remember that Bugzilla does not accept referrals from Slashdot, so it is
necessary to paste that link into your browser, while removing the space
inserted by Slashdot.)
I am very thankful to the Mozilla people for all their efforts.
Mozilla has changed the world for the better. Can you imagine a world in which
we did not have an excellent browser? The world's most intelligent and
educated people and leaders need information, and a browser is the window they
use to view that information. I've never seen an article which fully described
how thankful people are for Mozilla/Firefox, but I often hear thanks after I
tell people about it.
However, this is a showstopper bug for me. I often am researching more
than one kind of computer hardware. I often have several instances of Firefox
open, each with several tabs. When a crash occurs, I lose all my work. (The
session saver plugin apparently does not work with the latest Firefox.)
Apparently this bug, which would require some extremely insightful
troubleshooting, is not popular with Mozilla people. Apparently no one wants
to work on it.
The crashes are associated with high CPU use, sometimes as high as 99%
and extremely high memory use. Notice that Firefox never gives back memory. If
it is using 200 Megabytes, and all but one window and tab are closed, the
memory use will still be 200 Megabytes!
Someone who posted a message about this to another Slashdot story
said that the problems appear to be caused by incorrect handling of plugins.
This bug crashes Firefox's TalkBack, so there usually is no useful
error reporting.
The problem is the same in the Mozilla browser. I've seen Thunderbird
crash that way, also.
If you read about it, the U.S. government is far, far more corrupt than the average person thinks. Huge amounts of money are borrowed and embezzled. Some people say the money is not stolen, but it somehow makes it to the pockets of the rich, making the rich richer.
From reading about the U.S. government, I've found that many agencies operate efficiently and sensibly, but that the corruption caused by the military-industrial connection is more than one person can completely understand, there is so much material.
There have been so many of these fake science public relations articles published on Slashdot recently that I guess that either Roland Piquepaille or Slashdot editors or both are taking money on the side from P.R. firms.
Here is a list of contributors to the Fungal Research Trust: Fujisawa Corporation, Oxford Glycosciences, F2G Ltd, Chronic Granulomatous
Disorder Research trust, Aventis, Janssen Research Foundation, Roche, Schering
Plough Corporation, The Liposome Company, Merck Inc, Imedex Inc, Bristol Myers
Squibb, Aronex Ltd, Vestar Inc, Eli Lilly, BioMerieux, Alza Corporation,
Pfizer Inc, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Phairson Ltd, GlaxoWellcome, The
Gossett Trust, The Clear Group, British Medical Association, Basilea, Valeant,
Orthobiotech.
Question: Are the pharmaceutical companies funding the Trust out of the kindness of their hearts, or is the Trust a way of maximizing shareholder value?
If a pharmaceutical company wants to do some research that is risky to people, the company can avoid liability by having the work done by a "charitable" trust.
The Trust can even collect money from the public, and use it to fund research that will eventually end in a profitable product.
The article fails to mention that there are bacteria, funguses, and viruses everywhere.
Probably the article is a public relations effort. Probably the Fungal Research Trust is a money-making scheme of one or more large pharmaceutical companies, a way to preserve deniability.
The web site says it is a "not-for-profit charity". However, there are many ways that those who control the "charity" can use general research for profit. If there's some social cost, however, a "charity" provides a barrier between the work and the pharmaceutical companies.
Maybe people will spend more money on fungus medicine because of the article.
The fact that the article has no balance or perspective indicates the real purpose is different than telling the truth, in my opinion.
I wish all Slashdot comments were as interesting and well-written as yours.
You have a good point. However, maybe it is possible to look at military
expenditure in another way. Maybe military expenditure is not linearly
scaleable in the way you say. Each military plans for the same kinds of
expected conflict. So, each country should spend somewhat closer to the same
amount of money. Countries which are extremely well isolated like the U.S.,
which have a large ocean on both sides, and which have friendly neighbors,
should spend less. Nebraska is not planning on attacking Kansas, and no one is
planning on attacking Nebraska.
The U.S. government spends so much because of government corruption,
not need. The major effect of U.S. government involvement in Iraq has not been
eliminating weapons or fostering democracy. There is more day-to-day violence
in Iraq now that the U.S. is there, not less. The major effect has been to
switch oil profits (not oil itself) from Iraqis to Americans. (The oil was
always sold on the open market.) There are people who are willing to kill to
make money, and the U.S. government is controlled by them.
Other reasons for U.S. government violence in Iraq:
1) Profit in weapons is much higher and easier to make than profit in
a legitimate business. Weapons allow businessmen who could not compete in
normal businesses to become rich.
2) Saddam Hussein was pricing his oil in Euros. If Venezuela and Iran
did that, the value of the U.S. dollar would collapse. The U.S. government is
heavily in debt. Billions
of dollars a day are being embezzled. The embezzlement depends on being able
to borrow money. If the world stops considering the U.S. dollar to be a safe
and necessary currency, there would be far less money to steal.
3) Iraq has the second largest reserves of easily extracted oil in the
world.
4) Israelis have corrupted the U.S. government. They want the U.S. to
provide security for their country, free to Israel.
5) The privatization of the oil in Iraq under U.S. control weakens
OPEC. That raises the value of oil held in other countries.
6) Mental illness accounts for most of the problem. Angry people are
willing to pay for violence. Acting out anger makes people more angry. Anger
feeds on itself.
Notes: See page 154 of the book, "Bush in Babylon" by Tariq Ali
for another source of some of these reasons for U.S. government violence.
My experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky
prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites.
Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items
differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate at each division more than once in a month.
Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only
reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from
somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and
BenQ.
If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.
Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and
against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a
rough neighborhood.
My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is
happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general
breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right
About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme
Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
"... getting a PC with a blank hard drive costs more than the same hardware
running Windows XP."
This is only what Slashdot readers have been saying for years: A
Microsoft operating system has negative value.
Seriously, my experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky
prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites.
Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items
differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate more than once in a month.
Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only
reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from
somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and
BenQ.
If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.
Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and
against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a
rough neighborhood.
My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is
happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general
breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right
About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme
Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
How do you know if they are using the library unmodified? How do you know if they are using the library correctly?
From the link you cited: "However, due to the possibility of changes made within individual companies, NIST cannot guarantee that this document reflects the current status of each product. It is the responsibility of the vendor to notify NIST of any necessary changes to its entry in the following list."
Why accept this weasel-worded statement when you can have open source TrueCrypt?
I'm scared of proprietary encryption. It is very difficult to implement encryption well. Proprietary software asks you to believe claims made by marketing people who probably don't understand any of the issues.
First a Slashdot story about U.S. preparations for war: Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot, then, after two other stories, this story, also about preparations for war.
The mood in the U.S. is violent, and pro-violence, in general, it appears.
The mood of the average person in the U.S. now is that they are willing to pay to kill. They area willing to pay an endless amount of money for killing, but very little for making relationships.
It's all part of the thinking of the Military-Industrial Complex: If you disagree with someone, just kill them.
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two and
former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech that we should beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our
liberties or democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal
employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and
is gravely to be regarded."
The Taiwanese culture is quite different from the Mainland Chinese culture. The people of Taiwan deserve credit for their achievement. They should not have their freedom and self-determination taken away by a Chinese government that just wants to be bigger, when it does not manage perfectly what it has already.
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Maybe it is better to wait for version 2.1. OO has already crashed more than once. When it crashed, it mis-reported the version number.
The information in the Help for templates is incorrect, apparently.
The de-installation program is more primitive that previously, and does not offer to uninstall all files.
I installed OO 2.0 and can't find any way to set the default font size. It always is set at 12 points. The installation program said it would respect the settings of previous versions of Open Office, and did not do so.
I reported the crashing 2 1/2 years ago!
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The answer has always been: "Did you try the latest version, compiled last night? The problem may be fixed."
By the time I can test the latest version, there is a new version. I get the same answer again. That's happened for 2 1/2 years.
Bug 204668, Linux/Windows Reproducible Crash Tests:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2046
(Remember that Bugzilla does not accept referrals from Slashdot, so it is necessary to paste that link into your browser, while removing the space inserted by Slashdot.)
See also:
Bugzilla Bug 222660, Firefox 0.8: All instances crash. Memory leaks:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2226
This is the same problem, apparently.
I am very thankful to the Mozilla people for all their efforts. Mozilla has changed the world for the better. Can you imagine a world in which we did not have an excellent browser? The world's most intelligent and educated people and leaders need information, and a browser is the window they use to view that information. I've never seen an article which fully described how thankful people are for Mozilla/Firefox, but I often hear thanks after I tell people about it.
However, this is a showstopper bug for me. I often am researching more than one kind of computer hardware. I often have several instances of Firefox open, each with several tabs. When a crash occurs, I lose all my work. (The session saver plugin apparently does not work with the latest Firefox.)
Apparently this bug, which would require some extremely insightful troubleshooting, is not popular with Mozilla people. Apparently no one wants to work on it.
The crashes are associated with high CPU use, sometimes as high as 99% and extremely high memory use. Notice that Firefox never gives back memory. If it is using 200 Megabytes, and all but one window and tab are closed, the memory use will still be 200 Megabytes!
Someone who posted a message about this to another Slashdot story said that the problems appear to be caused by incorrect handling of plugins.
This bug crashes Firefox's TalkBack, so there usually is no useful error reporting.
The problem is the same in the Mozilla browser. I've seen Thunderbird crash that way, also.
From the Slashdot story: "... the underlying architecture is off limits."
Why is the architecture off limits?
It's a variation of stomich pondering.
I'm guessing: You have done no reading. You are using verbal devices to avoid seeing that your government needs serious attention from you.
If you read about it, the U.S. government is far, far more corrupt than the average person thinks. Huge amounts of money are borrowed and embezzled. Some people say the money is not stolen, but it somehow makes it to the pockets of the rich, making the rich richer.
The U.S. government is very violent: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories. The violent way is preferred because it is more profitable: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former President of the U.S. and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
Here is the same video, but with no transcript, and it requires watching a commercial: Andy Rooney on the Iraq War. Here is an MP3 file of the same broadcast: Andy Rooney on the Iraq War. Here is a transcript from the publisher: Ike Was Right About War Machine.
The U.S. government is for sale to whomever has money: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
From reading about the U.S. government, I've found that many agencies operate efficiently and sensibly, but that the corruption caused by the military-industrial connection is more than one person can completely understand, there is so much material.
It is amazing how successful are these fake science public relations efforts: 23 publications already.
In my opinion, entirely corrupt.
There have been so many of these fake science public relations articles published on Slashdot recently that I guess that either Roland Piquepaille or Slashdot editors or both are taking money on the side from P.R. firms.
Here is a list of contributors to the Fungal Research Trust: Fujisawa Corporation, Oxford Glycosciences, F2G Ltd, Chronic Granulomatous Disorder Research trust, Aventis, Janssen Research Foundation, Roche, Schering Plough Corporation, The Liposome Company, Merck Inc, Imedex Inc, Bristol Myers Squibb, Aronex Ltd, Vestar Inc, Eli Lilly, BioMerieux, Alza Corporation, Pfizer Inc, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Novartis, Phairson Ltd, GlaxoWellcome, The Gossett Trust, The Clear Group, British Medical Association, Basilea, Valeant, Orthobiotech.
Question: Are the pharmaceutical companies funding the Trust out of the kindness of their hearts, or is the Trust a way of maximizing shareholder value?
If a pharmaceutical company wants to do some research that is risky to people, the company can avoid liability by having the work done by a "charitable" trust.
The Trust can even collect money from the public, and use it to fund research that will eventually end in a profitable product.
The article fails to mention that there are bacteria, funguses, and viruses everywhere.
Probably the article is a public relations effort. Probably the Fungal Research Trust is a money-making scheme of one or more large pharmaceutical companies, a way to preserve deniability.
The web site says it is a "not-for-profit charity". However, there are many ways that those who control the "charity" can use general research for profit. If there's some social cost, however, a "charity" provides a barrier between the work and the pharmaceutical companies.
Maybe people will spend more money on fungus medicine because of the article.
The fact that the article has no balance or perspective indicates the real purpose is different than telling the truth, in my opinion.
The U.S. government is for sale to whomever has money: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government
The ancient Greeks were not stupid. When they wanted unusual materials, they just ordered them on eBay.
How can a movie that is extremely anti-male be "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"?
Don't Slashdot editors know that the purpose of being a "princess" or a "bride" is to establish that men are inferior?
The U.S. government is for sale to whomever has money: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
Sneaky legislation is just one small part of the corruption.
The U.S. government is for sale to whomever has money: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government.
It's not just the broadcast flag.
I wish all Slashdot comments were as interesting and well-written as yours. You have a good point. However, maybe it is possible to look at military expenditure in another way. Maybe military expenditure is not linearly scaleable in the way you say. Each military plans for the same kinds of expected conflict. So, each country should spend somewhat closer to the same amount of money. Countries which are extremely well isolated like the U.S., which have a large ocean on both sides, and which have friendly neighbors, should spend less. Nebraska is not planning on attacking Kansas, and no one is planning on attacking Nebraska.
The U.S. government spends so much because of government corruption, not need. The major effect of U.S. government involvement in Iraq has not been eliminating weapons or fostering democracy. There is more day-to-day violence in Iraq now that the U.S. is there, not less. The major effect has been to switch oil profits (not oil itself) from Iraqis to Americans. (The oil was always sold on the open market.) There are people who are willing to kill to make money, and the U.S. government is controlled by them.
Other reasons for U.S. government violence in Iraq:
1) Profit in weapons is much higher and easier to make than profit in a legitimate business. Weapons allow businessmen who could not compete in normal businesses to become rich.
2) Saddam Hussein was pricing his oil in Euros. If Venezuela and Iran did that, the value of the U.S. dollar would collapse. The U.S. government is heavily in debt. Billions of dollars a day are being embezzled. The embezzlement depends on being able to borrow money. If the world stops considering the U.S. dollar to be a safe and necessary currency, there would be far less money to steal.
3) Iraq has the second largest reserves of easily extracted oil in the world.
4) Israelis have corrupted the U.S. government. They want the U.S. to provide security for their country, free to Israel.
5) The privatization of the oil in Iraq under U.S. control weakens OPEC. That raises the value of oil held in other countries.
6) Mental illness accounts for most of the problem. Angry people are willing to pay for violence. Acting out anger makes people more angry. Anger feeds on itself.
Notes: See page 154 of the book, "Bush in Babylon" by Tariq Ali for another source of some of these reasons for U.S. government violence.
My experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites. Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate at each division more than once in a month.
Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and BenQ.
If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.
Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a rough neighborhood.
My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
See also Andy Rooney speaks out against the war in Iraq.
"... getting a PC with a blank hard drive costs more than the same hardware running Windows XP."
This is only what Slashdot readers have been saying for years: A Microsoft operating system has negative value.
Seriously, my experience with Dell is that they have VERY tricky prices. Never buy something from Dell until you check all the coupon sites. Dell plays the game of having several divisions that price the same items differently. Prices sometimes fluctuate more than once in a month.
Basically, I have found Dell to be a very abusive company. The only reason I would buy from them is if they have something not available from somewhere else, such as the 2405FPW 24 inch LCD monitor made by Samsung and BenQ.
If you do business with Dell, get a written warranty.
Be careful about Dell employees. They sometimes act for themselves and against the interest of their company. Talking to Dell is like going into a rough neighborhood.
My experience is that Dell is undergoing the social breakdown that is happening in other parts of the United States. One big example of the general breakdown is discussed in this transcript and video: Ike Was Right About War Machine. ("Ike" is former U.S. President and former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)
See also Andy Rooney speaks out against the war in Iraq.
How do you know if they are using the library unmodified? How do you know if they are using the library correctly?
From the link you cited: "However, due to the possibility of changes made within individual companies, NIST cannot guarantee that this document reflects the current status of each product. It is the responsibility of the vendor to notify NIST of any necessary changes to its entry in the following list."
Why accept this weasel-worded statement when you can have open source TrueCrypt?
I'm scared of proprietary encryption. It is very difficult to implement encryption well. Proprietary software asks you to believe claims made by marketing people who probably don't understand any of the issues.
TrueCrypt seems quite fast.
People say good things about TrueCrypt. I've just begun using it.
Not biometric, but a good way to keep information safe.
First a Slashdot story about U.S. preparations for war: Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot, then, after two other stories, this story, also about preparations for war.
The mood in the U.S. is violent, and pro-violence, in general, it appears.
The mood of the average person in the U.S. now is that they are willing to pay to kill. They area willing to pay an endless amount of money for killing, but very little for making relationships.
It's all part of the thinking of the Military-Industrial Complex: If you disagree with someone, just kill them.
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in World War Two and former U.S. President General Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a famous speech that we should beware of the "military-industrial complex". Here's a quote:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."
Another quote:
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present - and is gravely to be regarded."
The Taiwanese culture is quite different from the Mainland Chinese culture. The people of Taiwan deserve credit for their achievement. They should not have their freedom and self-determination taken away by a Chinese government that just wants to be bigger, when it does not manage perfectly what it has already.