Ave atque vale

2013-06-09 Thread TJ Frazier
, but will be available (maybe) through email / wiki. It's been fun. /tj/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Writer suggestion

2013-03-31 Thread tj
Questions like yours are better directed to our users' mailing list: or to the forum. HTH, /tj/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

2013-03-25 Thread TJ Frazier
On 3/18/2013 03:45, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/17/13 11:27 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: ... I also noticed that when you zoom a text document the lines for redlining as well as for smarttags, etc. are not zoomed in the same way and makes it less visible. But this seems to be a general issue. Juergen

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread TJ Frazier
artitions". [1] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:TJFrazier/Reveal_Codes> /tj/ -Original Message- From: TJ Frazier [mailto:tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 02:10 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On 3/18/2013 11:12

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-21 Thread TJ Frazier
somewhere that Symphony has an inspection tool which might serve the purpose of "Reveal Codes". Can you (or others) confirm or deny such a thing? (I don't want to write a bunch of code that nobody will use.) TIA, /tj/ --

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

2013-03-18 Thread TJ Frazier
<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121911> Feel free to cross-link or add comments. /tj/ On 3/18/2013 03:45, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/17/13 11:27 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: ... I also noticed that when you zoom a text document the lines for redlining as well as for smarttags, et

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

2013-03-17 Thread TJ Frazier
thickness, which corresponds to the glyph property "stroke weight". The un-zoomed skinny line just disappears at high zoom factors. Do you want me to file an issue in BZ on this? /tj/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: de

Re: [Problem with Mwiki] Link to list catagories not working

2013-03-06 Thread TJ Frazier
upgrade and is a good feature to allow people a quick check of Categories available. Regards Keith I can confirm (a) Keith's results, and (b) that Category:MainIndex is alive and well. Something may be wrong with or around the extension that provides the "category tree"

Re: [question] what is text [ x-comment ]

2013-02-22 Thread TJ Frazier
simple asterisk in column 1, to the elaborate HTML "" which we sometimes see on the wiki. (2) Assuming that your output language(s) have such a facility, you might consider transforming "x-comment" into a comment in the output. /tj/ rgds Jan I. -Andre We have

Re: [blog]: request for review of a draft for a short blog post

2013-02-19 Thread tj
quot;as many other people _as_ you like or /// install it on as many computer_s as_ you need." +"as many other people as you like or install it on as many computers as you need." /tj/

Releasing incompatible changes

2013-02-13 Thread tj
ile deferring our proposed change to 5.0. (I favor the change, but not so suddenly!) HTH, /tj/

Re: Calc behavior: result of 0 ^ 0

2013-02-09 Thread TJ Frazier
bet that in half of the "broken" cases, someone will say, "Aha! That value should never be 0! We've finally found that old bug!" In short, we'll be helping some folks.) /tj/

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

2013-01-30 Thread TJ Frazier
fice and the Fedora side to get OpenOffice properly packaged). Regards, Andrea. Good! The proposal was noticed by Phoronix too :) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4ODI Regards Ricardo Note that the article says that AOO 4.0 is scheduled for "April, 2012". Oops. /tj/

Re: Open Office CD

2013-01-25 Thread tj
al-up is a PITA.) HTH, /tj/

Re: [MWIKI]Is wiki bug?

2013-01-07 Thread TJ Frazier
On 1/7/2013 11:18, janI wrote: that sund like the CR/LF problem (unix/windows), the new editor might be more sensitive. I do not think there are anything I can tune on that part, but maybe TJ knows more (I am not the best mwiki user, I just do the server maintenance). Rgds jan I. The wiki

Re: Can't Escape the CAPTCHA Cats on MIki

2013-01-06 Thread TJ Frazier
On 1/6/2013 05:34, janI wrote: @TJ: thx for helping regina, however in general I think it is better to analyze the problem, otherwise we end up all being sysop (I have no problem with that, as long as we all understand what it means). The problem is solved by a reconfiguration of confirmEdit as

Re: Can't Escape the CAPTCHA Cats on MIki

2013-01-05 Thread TJ Frazier
CHA any more. This fixes your problem, but the general problem remains. /tj/ janI schrieb: Hmm. I cannot really judge if there is a system problem, or you are just all chasing cats (and the system works). So I assume there is no system problem, and this is just a case of wild cats :-) If I a

Re: Color coding for Basic snippents on Mwiki?

2013-01-05 Thread TJ Frazier
. See links on my user page for examples. /tj/

Re: typing formulae in writer

2013-01-04 Thread TJ Frazier
ou can look and see "how they did that". A quick guide to the syntax (actually, the appendix to the Math Guide) is also available in wiki format[2]. [1] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/c/c8/0800MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt> [2] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Reference/Math_commands> /tj/

Re: MWIKI down?

2013-01-02 Thread TJ Frazier
r user action is necessary. According to Jan, the system is suffering from "kernel panic" bouts (???). He plans to upgrade the VM, which may cure the problem. /tj/

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
hat 'What links here' list? s/DPL>/DynamicPageList>/ (case insensitive!) There may be other parameter incompatibilities, but they should be few enough to fix by hand. Worth trying? (If so, please let me know ahead of time, so I can be ready to jump on problems.) /tj/ On 1/1/201

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
or the reviewing. My German is totally inadequate for that. Do you have any suggestions for how Heiko should handle the next review cycle? Send straight to me (no review)? Send to you? Post it on the wiki, and ask the DE list for review? Generally speaking, docs like this shouldn't be sent to a mailing list. /tj/

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
A couple of the templates are giving user-error messages. (Are you seeing those in the error logs?) I was going to try to fix or disable those, but the wiki went down ... :/ /tj/ On 1/1/2013 14:37, janI wrote: So if I understand you correctly we need it and cannot just remove it. Then I hope

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread tj
fice.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Extension_DPL> HTH, /tj/

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
will wait at least 72 hours for feedback on either or both points. /tj/

[Mwiki] No CAPCHA images

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
Jan, We have a complaint on the wiki[1] that CAPCHA images are not appearing. [1] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User_talk:Andre> /tj/

Re: Endnote/Index in Writer

2012-12-30 Thread TJ Frazier
I can't say for sure.) HTH, /tj/

Re: Draft: Guidelines for redistributing (an original) Apache OpenOffice with 3rd party bundles (e.g. books or template packages)

2012-12-30 Thread TJ Frazier
ot; ... granting you the privilege to use 'Apache OpenOffice™' or other ASF trademarks and logos with your bundle ... a case by case basis. In no case is such labeling of distributions allowed without the written consent of the ASF." /tj/

Re: [mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

2012-12-26 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/25/2012 23:18, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 12-12-25, at 21:51 , RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier @jan, Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, and I'm deeply sus

Re: [mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

2012-12-26 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/25/2012 21:51, RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier @jan, Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, and I'm deeply suspicious of the other new accounts. Any ISP involv

[mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

2012-12-25 Thread TJ Frazier
something (Apache server?) can be configured to reject IP addresses or ranges? If so, do you do that, or do we need to go through Infra? /tj/ P.S.: Something is really slowing down any "save" (or delete) operations. I had one time out. I think the same was true of testwiki. Unless you

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

2012-12-25 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/25/2012 08:05, janI wrote: On 25 December 2012 13:22, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/25/2012 04:03, janI wrote: HI Tj and Helen. First please bear over with me, it is x-mas morning, and my head is not fully operational :-) Let me explain: we are actually running on the test system, I have

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

2012-12-25 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/25/2012 04:03, janI wrote: HI Tj and Helen. First please bear over with me, it is x-mas morning, and my head is not fully operational :-) Let me explain: we are actually running on the test system, I have a link for production that I can switch to different directories, and I simply

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

2012-12-24 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/24/2012 06:50, janI wrote: Hi. I have taken wiki.openoffice.org, down for a db maintenance. Jan I. Jan, I'm seeing a problem with the editor tool bar. Tried to check it out on testwiki, but got a 403. /tj/

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

2012-12-22 Thread TJ Frazier
earlier (from 12-01), real IP address. I assume that you hadn't installed ATS yet. What I really want is email addresses. I was sure there was supposed to be a new way to retrieve those, but maybe I was wrong. I'll do some more searching on WikiMedia. /tj/ On 22 December 2012

Re: [wiki help] sysop help needed !!

2012-12-22 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/22/2012 16:40, janI wrote: On 22 December 2012 22:32, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/22/2012 11:17, janI wrote: On 22 December 2012 17:10, RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/22 janI Before I upgrade our database (and system) to 1.20.2 I would like to clean some of the dead stuff. I would

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

2012-12-22 Thread TJ Frazier
a Saturday, as fairly low-usage days. Any time of day will be inconvenient for some people, so pick a convenient time for you! :-) /tj/ On 21 December 2012 00:42, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/20/2012 16:44, janI wrote: Can anybody give me a link to a couple of pages with intensive math ?? I

Re: [wiki help] sysop help needed !!

2012-12-22 Thread TJ Frazier
adding a request to the Wiki Maintenance page, to install the "CheckUser" extension. I want to use that to fight the spammers. /tj/

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-12-22 Thread TJ Frazier
e URL where you found the link, and the link itself. Then I or someone will try to straighten this out. /tj/ (wiki Bureaucrat)

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

2012-12-20 Thread TJ Frazier
nce/Math_commands> has many but very simple math commands. All seem to be working fine. My user page has one example. It's working fine. With the removal of the F*CK editor, the "preview before first edit" preference now works fine. Very glad to have that back. /tj/

Re: Is mwiki down?

2012-12-17 Thread tj
s currently marked in red, which should mean that someone in Infra is already hustling to fix it. /tj/

Re: [question] draw...

2012-12-16 Thread TJ Frazier
e way: use the purple TOC box at the right. A v3.3 guide is available in ODT[1] and PDF. The links are described on the wiki documentation page. [1] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/5/50/0400DG33-OOoDraw3.odt> /tj/

Re: [UX]Comments visibility

2012-12-16 Thread TJ Frazier
sketch out some concepts, then socialize for feedback. Definitely a good question for UX! KG - Yup. Keep 'em coming :) Regards, Andrea. While you're thinking about visibility, please think about bookmarks. Totally invisible, very deletable, combination undesirable. /tj/

Re: Admin mailing list?

2012-12-13 Thread TJ Frazier
y, so does the admin ML. Probably a good thing. /tj/

Re: Request mwike account or something to that effect

2012-12-13 Thread tj
ent object. You can iterate through the collection, looking for tables that meet your criteria for "needs sorting". Each table has a collection of rows. That collection has a useful property, ".getCount()", which returns the number of rows. Happy sorting! HTH, /tj/

Re: can I get permission to upload file to mwiki ?

2012-12-12 Thread TJ Frazier
r reminding me. This needs a bureaucrat, to make a new sysop. /tj/

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-12-11 Thread TJ Frazier
this wiki share your interest in macros, including Andrew Douglas Pitonyak, Bernard Marcelly, and me. We look forward to your contributions. /tj/ wiki Bureaucrat (User:TJFrazier on the wiki)

Re: NewWikiMainPage

2012-12-10 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/10/2012 02:39, Andrea Pescetti wrote: tj wrote: 2) Please use a suitable subject, like "Labels". Your query has nothing to do with the wiki main page. Note that this is due to the fact that http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page contains a notice saying "You're

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-12-09 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/9/2012 13:33, marc payen wrote: USER NAME : marcooo93 Best regards Done. You should have the email with your random password. Please change that when you first log in. Welcome to the wiki! Write here again if you have any problems. /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on the wiki)

Re: NewWikiMainPage

2012-12-09 Thread tj
uery has nothing to do with the wiki main page. 3) Google Translate did a very poor job on your text. You might try to reword and expand it. I couldn't tell what your problem is. HTH, /tj/

Re: Wiki troubles?

2012-12-08 Thread TJ Frazier
On 12/8/2012 16:19, janI wrote: On 8 December 2012 21:56, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/8/2012 12:19, janI wrote: Hi. If I understand you correctly I think I will have no change of correcting it...it is a standard usage of spammers, to make a fake login, and I think that is what you have been

Re: Wiki troubles?

2012-12-08 Thread TJ Frazier
n I. Yes, you are lucky. When you are done, you will understand every part of the procedure, and you can feel confident that you can fix any part of it. I wish I could help more. Thank you for all your hard work. /tj/ On 8 December 2012 17:52, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/8/2012 11:16, janI

Re: Wiki troubles?

2012-12-08 Thread TJ Frazier
I was already logged in. Not an earth-shaking problem, but if you see a way to fix it ... /tj/ On 8 December 2012 17:08, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Wonder if the mWiki is being worked on, any email of outages must have escaped my inbox. Any confirmation, update? -- Alexandro Colorado Apach

Re: [RELEASE] Update 4.0 planning items

2012-12-07 Thread TJ Frazier
e scraped off the wiki page. This is the easiest way I know to distribute a macro whose lifetime should be that of the version; easy to add, easy to refer to in the notes, and easy for users to get at. If I can't update the macro by code-cutoff time, we can go with what we have. /tj/

Re: Request Mwiki Account

2012-12-06 Thread tj
-contributing.html Preferred username is smansour email is samer...@gmail.com Thanks Done. The email with your temporary password has been sent to you; please change it when you log in. If you have any problems, please write again to the list. Welcome to the wiki. /tj/

Re: new user

2012-11-30 Thread TJ Frazier
have created your user page for you. (This is another temporary problem associated with the spammers; it will be back to normal soon.) /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on the wiki.)

Re: [call for review] wiki maintenance

2012-11-29 Thread TJ Frazier
implement a couple of your ideas before I release the final script. Jan. Quick question: How do you expect anyone to review >30K account names? I suggest to go ahead and delete them. --/tj/ On 29 November 2012 19:09, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 29/11/2012 janI wrote: ooo-wiki VM is so w

Re: [call for review] wiki maintenance

2012-11-29 Thread tj
user_id from xmaint_uids); Jan. Jan, You have locked down the wiki so tightly that even sysops can't create new pages. If this is necessary, we'll have to live with it, but please let us know for how long. If this is not necessary, please fix it. /tj/

Re: New page in media wiki

2012-11-29 Thread TJ Frazier
from the spam problem. I have appointed you a sysop. Please use your new karma cautiously. /tj/ (TJFrazier on the wiki)

Re: Enable mWiki account

2012-11-29 Thread TJ Frazier
karma cautiously. /tj/ (TJFrazier on the wiki)

Re: how to scale a worksheet to fill the printed page

2012-11-28 Thread tj
On 11/28/2012 20:47, Edward Fields wrote: Hi TJ thanks for responding. the print function as described does not match my configuration, probably because I mistakenly said I was using ver. 3.1, I am in fact using 3.4.1, Rev .1372282 according to the About OpenOffice.org dialog box this is the

Re: how to scale a worksheet to fill the printed page

2012-11-28 Thread tj
now if this works for you. /tj/

Re: New wiki acount

2012-11-26 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/26/2012 16:24, Vincent Thiry wrote: User name : balak064 Mail : balak...@gmail.com Thank you Done. You will want to change your password after you first log in. If you have any problems, please write again. /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on Mwiki)

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-11-26 Thread TJ Frazier
first login (but I haven't checked that). /tj/ On 26 November 2012 22:59, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/26/2012 13:06, Thiago Ramos wrote: My username can be thiago_addlabs and e-mail this same. Thanks. Att, Thiago Giannini

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-11-26 Thread TJ Frazier
/nº - Niterói - RJ Done. Your confirmation email should be there by now. Please write again if you have problems. /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on Mwiki)

Re: IAccessible2 integration for AOO 4.0

2012-11-26 Thread TJ Frazier
s, as authorized by Oracle.) A simple statement by Armand that no such license data exists, or by an IBM'er that the data will be changed, should allay any concerns; and we should feel confident of passing the RAT scan. /tj/ - Dennis -Original Message- From: Steve Yin [m

Re: Wiki maintenance.

2012-11-25 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/25/2012 18:10, TJ Frazier wrote: Jan, FYI, I just deleted / blocked two spammers. The rate was only one per hour, so we can handle that. The ID's were already created, so please run that "delete recent accounts" script as soon as it's ready. /tj/ Doing a little

Re: Wiki maintenance.

2012-11-25 Thread TJ Frazier
Jan, FYI, I just deleted / blocked two spammers. The rate was only one per hour, so we can handle that. The ID's were already created, so please run that "delete recent accounts" script as soon as it's ready. /tj/ On 11/25/2012 11:58, janI wrote: Ok, got it (I just wa

Re: Wiki maintenance.

2012-11-25 Thread TJ Frazier
Hi, Jan, TJ comments inline. On 11/25/2012 06:50, jan iversen wrote: I am starting this thread so we have a place, to keep our decisions. I will also a bit later make a new wiki page, "wiki planned maintenance" where I (and hopefully also the other administrators) will keep track o

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-11-24 Thread TJ Frazier
ing a real contribution and helping everybody, by writing to this list if you encounter any problems. Welcome to our wiki! /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on Mwiki)

Re: MWiki

2012-11-24 Thread tj
d provide that information if you have to ask. We do have a mailing list, which you are welcome to join: see the "users" list on the "support" link. Questions like yours are welcome there (this list, "dev", is for the developers), but you would surely be directed to the wealth of information on the forum. HTH, /tj/

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

2012-11-23 Thread TJ Frazier
, extensions, better spam prevention, &c. /tj/ On 23 November 2012 09:00, C wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Thanks Clayton, you probably know the inner details of our Mediawiki configuration better than most people here, so it is great that you are going to c

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-22 Thread TJ Frazier
27;t cause problems (fingers crossed). With the wiki set to "invitation only" new accounts, we should have time for some longer-range planning. /tj/

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-21 Thread TJ Frazier
tty sure that the OOo Wiki dB has this problem. I have asked him to send the "MySQL magic", and will forward it. /tj/ "Ask me for anything but time!" -- Napoleon

Re: Fidelity Improvement sample wiki

2012-11-21 Thread tj
o add them to the permission list? Thanks! - Shenfeng (Simon) Hi, Simon, For (2), this is one of many, many things controlled by parameter file "LocalSettings.php". It can only be changed by a site maintainer with root access. That may take a while. /tj/

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/20/2012 20:10, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 11/20/2012 06:46 AM, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. Oh, please do It looked to me more like it was about three a minute in th

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread tj
various maintenance items on a wiki page, probably called "Pending Maintenance". If that doesn't scare you off, your help will be greatly appreciated; Infra expects the AOO project to do this level of maintenance ourselves, and it is quite beyond me. Let me know. /tj/

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread tj
On 11/20/2012 09:21, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. How many "real" wiki accounts do we get on a typical (no-spam) day? Are w

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/20/2012 07:31, Herbert Duerr wrote: On 20.11.2012 12:46, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. I agree that for the current spam attack this is the most reasonable solution. After that p

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/20/2012 07:24, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, tj schrieb: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. +1 I had made that suggestion already. Do not wait, but change it immediately. Kind regards Regina T

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread tj
it before the banner goes live (after the actual change to the wiki). Please excuse my half-speed pace: running under a terrible cold, making me feel every one of my seventy years. When a site maintainer makes the change, please tell the list; I'll tackle the wiki part then. /tj/

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread tj
On 11/20/2012 06:46, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will research what change is required to block other sign-up meth

[Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread tj
names is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and 24/7. We cannot survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely. To be continued. /tj/

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-17 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/17/2012 18:04, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 17:17, Rob Weir wrote: On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:26 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 15:56, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, disabling new registrations is one thing which might, however, stop sensible people from participating. I think it must be

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-17 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/17/2012 17:17, Rob Weir wrote: On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:26 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 15:56, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, disabling new registrations is one thing which might, however, stop sensible people from participating. I think it must be very frustrating when you're tryi

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-17 Thread TJ Frazier
can't. Won't it be possible to ban some of the more aggressive spammers instead? Max Hi, Max, Indeed, we sysops are banning every single spammer, but they seem to have a large supply of user names to burn. We need to find out what they have in common, and ban /that/! /tj/ Am 1

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-17 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/17/2012 08:28, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, TJ Frazier schrieb: Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And still they come. In the short run, I can probably handle it, though help from any

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

2012-11-16 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/16/2012 22:04, Dave Fisher wrote: On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one

[Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-16 Thread TJ Frazier
-maintainer work is needed. The additional powers available in later Mwiki versions might be enough to control this sort of thing. Clayton has advised that upgrading is a non-trivial problem, due to a possible encoding foul-up. Whatever we do, we need to do it sometime soon. /tj/

Re: bugzilla.

2012-11-15 Thread TJ Frazier
("preferences" at top of page, "Account information" tab), it should change on all bugs reported by that account. If you added a new BZ account (giving you two accounts), please consider merely changing the old one. I should be able to delete the extra account, if you want. /tj/ BZ admin

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

2012-11-14 Thread TJ Frazier
e, "global/footer.html.tmpl". AFAIK it will take root access to the system to change, i.e., we need a site maintainer to do it. HTH, /tj/ [1] <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/docs/en/html/cust-templates.html>

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread tj
the fu to work on this directly — all I have for XML editing is Writer itself — but I'd sure like to help.) /tj/