Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Max Merbald
Hello John, of course we are grateful for the tip. It seems, however, that Dave did not make that clear enough. He appears to be more annoyed by people who mention trouble with download than with those fraudulent people who provide downloads infected with malware. Please be so kind as to tell

Re: How could I make a build on writer module?

2014-02-23 Thread LOH KOK HOE
As I read the partial build guideline, I'm a bit confuse on the build step. When I done my changes on the sw module, can I specifically just building the sw module only. I see there is a Makefile under the sw module, can I just issue `make` command right under this directory to build the sw module?

OPEN OFFICE BUG---- OPEN OFFICE CALC

2014-02-23 Thread brawny burger
FYIyou can pass this on to whoever might be responsible. I could not find any other email for this issue other than forums and it appears to be a bug in the OPEN OFFICE CALC program when using SORT. Recently when I attempted to use AND SORT a whole group of numbers using Calc (spreadshe

Re: OPEN OFFICE BUG---- OPEN OFFICE CALC

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
"brawny burger" wrote: the program seems to confuse the number "8" with the letter "B". We need more detail to check this. If there is a bug the explanation is surely more complex than this. I was sorting numbers like (but not these exact numbers, ie a series similar to these) OK, but wha

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Max Merbald To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:02:18 +0100 > of course we are grateful for the tip. Agreed! > It seems, however, that Dave did not make that clear enough. >From John's reactionary & unnecessarily abusive response, t

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread jan i
On 23 February 2014 19:21, Dave Barton wrote: > Original Message > From: Max Merbald > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:02:18 +0100 > > > of course we are grateful for the tip. > > Agreed! > > > It seems, however, that Dave did not make that clear enou

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Barton wrote: After more than decade of "attempting" to provide support and contributions to the OOo/AOO project, it appears that I lack the ability to contribute anything worthwhile. Therefore, I will remove myself from Apache and move on to other interests. Even if you can only continue

Re: Error in determine_new_packagename()

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/02/2014 LOH KOK HOE wrote: @pescetti, I notice that the revision number of the fixed you sent to me is rather old because when I issue the command `svn info | grep "Revision"`, I have this output `Revision: 1568993`. Well, what I meant is: - We had a similar problem with another configure

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Xuacu
2014-02-23 20:34 GMT+01:00 Andrea Pescetti : > > (By the way, there was nothing wrong in the tone of your first reply in this > thread; I was going to copy/paste it for a user reporting a similar > problem). > Indeed. I can't see anything snotty in saying that we can't do anything to prevent malic

[PROPOSAL] Service e-mail addresses for the Forum

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Subject to lazy consensus, these are the service e-mail aliases (that will actually work like the security mailing list: allow posts from anyone, no public archives) that will be created for the en and es forums (so, mail from the forum will appear to come from those addresses and users with re

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Max Merbald
Hi David, your answer is quite interesting. On one hand you write fairly rough answers to people who ask for support, on the other hand you react quite sensitively to the responses to your mail. Do you see the discrepance? Ok, I could have omitted the "conveniently" i apologise for this.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Service e-mail addresses for the Forum

2014-02-23 Thread jan i
On 23 February 2014 22:02, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Subject to lazy consensus, these are the service e-mail aliases (that will > actually work like the security mailing list: allow posts from anyone, no > public archives) that will be created for the en and es forums (so, mail > from the forum wi

Re: [PROPOSAL] Service e-mail addresses for the Forum

2014-02-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 02/23/2014 10:12 PM, schrieb jan i: On 23 February 2014 22:02, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Subject to lazy consensus, these are the service e-mail aliases (that will actually work like the security mailing list: allow posts from anyone, no public archives) that will be created for the en and es

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2014-02-23, 3:06 PM Max Merbald wrote: Your answer to John could, indeed, be interpreted to mean that you're a bit annoyed with people who have problem with an infected version of OpenOffice because it frequently happened. It could only be interpreted that way by a bloody moron. There was n

Re: [PROPOSAL] Service e-mail addresses for the Forum

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Is there a reason to limit this to "en" and "es" only? They are the only ones who asked. Of course, when the pattern is ready, we can apply it to other forums. +1 from me. I do however ask the forum-admins to consider if we could use 1 ML. If we potentially create one ML

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/02/2014 Max Merbald wrote: Hi David, your answer is quite interesting. On one hand you write fairly rough answers to people who ask for support (dropping John, the original poster, from CC since this is irrelevant to his support request) OK, we as a group have different opinions on the

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 23/02/2014 Max Merbald wrote: >> >> Hi David, >> your answer is quite interesting. On one hand you write fairly rough >> answers to people who ask for support > > > (dropping John, the original poster, from CC since this is irrelevant to

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Jonathon
On February 23, 2014 12:50:12 PM PST, Xuacu wrote: >I can't see anything snotty in saying that we can't do anything to prevent >malicious sites offering tampered with copies of Apache OpenOffice. The issue is that the vocabulary that was used, implied that the victim was entirely to blame. Tha

Re: Malware infection

2014-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Can we agree that we will answer all those mails by simply sending a link to a webpage or wiki page? When I respond I just sent them to this blog post: http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/how_to_safely_download_apache I oft

Re: Excel file validation

2014-02-23 Thread shzh zhao
thanks a lot ,I will bring it into AOO automation test. 2014-02-21 21:02 GMT+08:00 Rob Weir : > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Nick Pratt wrote: > > Does the OpenOffice - Calc project have any validation tools for Excel > > BIFF8 files? Perhaps something that would log out of spec record > >

Re: Successful OpenOffice built

2014-02-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 23.02.2014 00:36, Reem Elnagar wrote: Hi :) I managed to build Openoffice :) and it is written in the orientation to send you an e-mail when I finish so here it is :) cool. If you like you could share your experience. We are especially interested on the feedback, on how the building

Re: Successful OpenOffice built

2014-02-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
:-) forgot the link to the building guide [1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO Best regards, Oliver On 24.02.2014 08:43, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 23.02.2014 00:36, Reem Elnagar wrote: Hi :) I managed to build Openoffice :) and it is written in th