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Release Notes for the OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Release

Last updated July 2002

OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 is the result of development on the cvs branch tagged "OOO_STABLE_1". Some builds have already been released from this branch, namely OpenOffice.org 1.0.0, and earlier the snapshots 641, 641C and 641D. Development was focussed on bug fixes. Thus, in these release notes, I dropped the 'features' section which used to be rather big in release notes of other (snapshot) releases with a 'bug fixes' section.

The work progress in 1.0.1 is also reflected in a changelog file.

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Bug Fixes
OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 test results

News and Issues

        * Mozilla
            We upgraded mozilla integration from 0.9.5 to 1.0
        * Installation
            The installation sets now contain a detailled installation guide in pdf format. After unpacking the installation tarball, you should find the file "installation_guide.pdf" with detailled instructions on how to create single user or network installations of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. The french, german and italian communities have completed translations of this guide which you will find in the respective installation sets instead of the english ones. Translations to other languages are in preparation. They are collected at http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide/index.html.

        * Solaris/sparc patches
            The Solaris/sparc version needs the following patches:
                    o If you have Solaris 8 (sparc), patches 108434-01 and 108435-01
                    o If you have Solaris 7 (sparc), patches 106387-8
                    o The patches are available at sunsolve.sun.com.
                                + Instructions: Search for the appropriate patch numbers and download
                                + Uncompress the files
                                + cd to the directory containing the patches
                                + As root, execute the following:

prompt> patchadd [patchnumber]

                                + (repeat as needed for Solaris 8)

Bug Fixes

This is a brief description of bug fixes for 1.0.1. You can click on the corresponding IssueZilla number to find out more details.

        * Several file saving operations tended to crash OpenOffice.org due to unreadable characters in the filename path. This has been fixed. (IZ 4655)
        * Fontcache problems have been solved (IZ 4366)
        * Font server discovery has been improved. (IZ 1610)
        * Autopilot functions didn't work when OOo is network installed on read-only partitions. This is fixed now. (IZ 4735)
        * Fixes for Thesaurus (OOo used to crash when changing the language in spell checking) (IZ 4435)
        * Any hyphenation dictionary should work now under any locale. (IZ 4555) (IZ 4687)
        * OOo used to freeze when programs access /dev/dsp - for instance slide transitions in OpenImpress froze when they are accompanied with sound handled by the gnome sound daemon. This has been fixed now. (IZ 4353)
        * Certain fonts caused the installation not to work in certain setups. This has been fixed. (IZ 4468)
        * Fix compilation of MailDocumentConverter with optimisation (IZ 5523)
        * Many mismatches between memory allocation (array context) and de-allocation (not array-context) throughout the code have been fixed (IZ 5181)
        * Fixes for Costa Rica Spanish locale settings (IZ 2285)
        * Changed the default to convert Excel Ole objects to Calc. This caused trouble in opening a large PowerPoint document with embedded Excel Ole objects. (IZ 4131)
        * A locale problem when starting OOo has been fixed (IZ 5445)
        * Chinese input method 'miniChininput' fixed (IZ 5157)
        * Fix for currupted text in case the application windows is partially out of the screen (IZ 5954)
        * Spadmin did not check for ghostscript correctly (IZ 3763)

OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Basic Functionality Test Results July 15 2002

By Mandy Crow
Jun 21, 2002

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The hazy, lazy days of summer may mean long afternoons by the pool for many, but for others, the welcome break from school or work means a chance to hit the road.

That's especially true for churches, where the changing season marks a time of record travel as members take to the roads in the church bus or van for various activities such as mission trips and recreational outings.

Safety may have always been an issue, but this summer it's even more important, as churches, colleges and other organizations consider the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's cautionary warning in April to users of 15-passenger vans.

The NHTSA is warning users of an increased rollover risk for 15-passenger vans, especially those carrying more than 10 passengers. Other significant factors are heavy loads and inexperienced drivers.

Through its Christian Stores Division, LifeWay is a distributor of church buses and other vehicles, said Terry Butler of LifeWay Church Buses. It uses Carpenter Buses of Brentwood, Tenn., as its endorsed provider of bus and van product lines, and churches mentioning LifeWay get a discount off the base price of buses.

"The church vehicles LifeWay endorses meet all federal safety requirements," Butler said.

Butler said the job of LifeWay Church Buses area is to find the best vehicle for the church.

"A lot of the work we do is consulting with churches to help them design the type of vehicle they need, depending on frequency of trips and who goes. We provide the safest and most economical vehicle within the church's budget."

Henry Headden, president of Carpenter Bus, said several transportation options are available to churches. Those options include 15-passenger buses and Type A school buses, a vehicle that seats 12-20 adults and meets federal regulations regarding rollover and impact safety specifications.

"When churches call up and are concerned about safety, we tell them two things," he said. "Number one, we will take a van in on trade. Number two, if they are concerned about transporting their children, youth or adults and they're really concerned about safety, we have three or four vehicle alternatives.

"A Type A school bus meets all school bus safety specifications, and we know without a shadow of a doubt that they meet all federal safety specifications," Headden said. "But a lot of churches don't want to buy a school bus. They want something for multipurpose use."

School buses today can be equipped with air-conditioning, comfortable high back seating and custom interiors, Butler said.

Multipurpose options include several products Butler describes as being "between a bus and a van," such as the 15-passenger compact shuttle that requires no commercial driver's license. The vehicle meets school bus safety requirements.

With safety and practicality as primary concerns, Butler and Headden offer advice to churches rethinking their transportation options.

They suggest churches adhere to current vehicle and driver safety requirements, analyze their transportation needs before buying, consider who will be traveling and for how long and what type of luggage space is needed. A school bus may be the best option for churches transporting daycare students according to safety and liability standards, while senior adults may prefer more luggage capacity and seating options.

Churches should also consider funding, operational costs, driver license requirements, vehicle storage/security and insurance before purchasing a new church vehicle.
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For more information on church vans, buses or to discuss your church's transportation needs and safety issues, call or email LifeWay at 1-800-464-2799; terry.butler@lifeway.com or Henry Headden of Carpenter Bus at 1-800-370-6180; cbsisale@carpenterbus.com.

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How much is that dead doggie in the window?

Petco Animal Supplies Inc. may not sell dogs in San Francisco, but the city is charging the No. 2 U.S. pet supply store with stocking plenty of other dead, diseased and disfigured animals, ranging from a moldy turtle to a toad that had been boiled to death in its own cage.

In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera accused Petco of numerous health and safety violations at its two San Francisco stores and seeks to block the chain from doing business in the city.

Complete Story: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON Supreme Court says students cannot use a federal privacy law to sue schools that divulge their personal information.

http://news.yahoo.com/

If need a web comic similar(not exact) to Mega Tokyo try Mac Hall.

Server Briefing Announced last autumn, Intel's Hyper-Threading technology has finally made it to market, courtesy of the latest Xeon processors. Hyper-Threading is a clever way of making a single chip operate like two separate devices without implementing two cores on one die. That, claims Intel, makes for higher performance without having to resort to significantly larger chips or even adding a second processor to the system.

So how does it work? HT is Intel's implementation of a technique known as Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT), a technology originally mooted for the cancelled EV8 Alpha processor. It's also going to be implented in IBM's Power5 processor, due 2004. Programmers have long known that some applications will run more efficiently if they're coded into a series parallel tasks, called threads. Modern multi-processing operating systems can then schedule those threads to operate on each of a system's two or more CPUs, just as it schedules the applications and other processes themselves.

Complete Article: theregister.co.uk

Following Microsoft Corp.'s announcement this week that it will move more quickly to retire old code in its Windows operating systems, industry analysts have been left wondering how it will affect users' legacy applications, as well as security.

Steve Lipner, director of security assurance for Microsoft, said in published reports that Microsoft will ax old Windows code if it poses security problems.

Complete Article: itmanagement.earthweb.com

A worm that recently hit the Internet is another reminder that the new generation of viruses and worms at hand is building in complexity and potential for damage.

Frethem.E is the latest variant on a worm designed to take advantage of a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. The worm, which only attacks Windows systems, is roaming around the Internet but few companies have been hit, say security experts, who have given the worm various grades of potential threat. The worm hasn't caused much mayhem because a security patch that Microsoft recently released in response to the Klez virus also will take care of the Frethem worm.

What makes the worm interesting is its ability to propagate itself.

Complete Article: esecurityplanet.com

Having conquered the consumer desktop space, Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to muscle in on the enterprise market. With the release of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Redmond hoped to have finally evolved a server operating system that could mount a serious challenge to the dominance of the big UNIX vendors. Yet after its release in 2000 it failed to catch fire.

That may well be changing, however, due to the marriage of Windows 2000 Datacenter server and the Unisys ES7000 Server. For the first time, Windows has found a hardware partner that can give it the scalability, reliability and availability to rival Sun and IBM systems, and at about half the cost.

Source: http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

By Matthew A. Peretz
Senior Editor
allNetDevices.com

Opera Software announced it now supports mobile browsing standards in a record-small 1.3MB package. Smartphone manufacturers can customize their products for resource-constrained environments with a full-featured browser that is both scaleable and modular. The support for the new standards, XHTML (WAP2/Mobile Profile) and cHTML (i-Mode), means that smartphones only need one browser, according to the company.

In May 2001, Opera was selected as the default browser in the reference design for smartphones made by Symbian, provider of an open operating system for data-enabled mobile phones. Opera was also included as the default Web browser in the new Nokia 9210i Communicator launched at CeBIT in March, and in the Nokia 9290 Communicator launched last week in the United States.

"Opera is a great tool for smartphone manufacturers and end users," says Lars Boilesen, VP Embedded Products. "Opera can support all their Web browsing needs, be it HTML, c-HTML or XHTML surfing, while keeping the browser itself down to less than 1.3 MB. As a result, smartphones can now offer up to a full Internet experience rendered beautifully on even small screens."

"Unfortunately, most Web sites do not follow the HTML standards, but instead write what we call 'Street HTML'" says Hakon Lie, CTO, Opera Software. "Thanks to the feedback over the years from the millions of desktop users, Opera can display Street HTML, as well as standards-compliant pages made especially for embedded devices."

"Opera is a great tool for smartphone manufacturers and end users," says Lars Boilesen, VP Embedded Products. "Opera can support all their Web browsing needs, be it HTML, c-HTML or XHTML surfing, while keeping the browser itself down to less than 1.3 MB. As a result, smartphones can now offer up to a full Internet experience rendered beautifully on even small screens."

"Unfortunately, most Web sites do not follow the HTML standards, but instead write what we call 'Street HTML'" says Hakon Lie, CTO, Opera Software. "Thanks to the feedback over the years from the millions of desktop users, Opera can display Street HTML, as well as standards-compliant pages made especially for embedded devices."