Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-19 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 03:02, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go?

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-18 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go? That's an iptables

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-18 Thread Frank Bax
At 09:21 AM 6/15/03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go? That's an iptables rule (a firewall rule). It goes in whatever file you use to save

[OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...)

2003-06-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:13:21 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: But Blackbox?! Not even nice pixmaps to play with? Bah! == I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Best, Mike -- The man who views the world the same at 50 as he

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-16 Thread Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
It's worth having if you're using 1.0 and have the spare RAM. 1.1 Beta seems to be quicker. From the command line soffice on its own opens the program without a document (this may change back to the 1.0 default of opening with a blank document). It takes 12 seconds on my home machine

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-16 Thread eric huff
So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? I 15 2003 07:33, / Greg Meyer : On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start.

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? Interesting: Athlon 1200, 256Mb RAM and it takes exactly 22 seconds also. Also MDK 9.1 and OO 1.0.2. Paul -- Modern

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you leave it open and open another file about 5-6 sec. 15 2003 10:49, / Paul : On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:20:57 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: 22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you leave it open and open another file about 5-6 sec. 19 seconds for initial launch on

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
Strange results for the initial launch Why it take so time to load? 15 2003 14:08, / Michael Scottaline : On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:20:57 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: 22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 12:48 pm, manolis wrote: Strange results for the initial launch Why it take so time to load? Because it has as much to load as microsoft office, but instead of part-loading at boot, as M$O does, it loads at first use. After that it doesn't need to load the whole

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:14, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:49, Paul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 ,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 02:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? Not to start a my computer is better than your computer war, but, Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb -

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to load so fast - it's because most of

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in 4 seconds. Holy sweet Jesus...what desktop are you using tho, in Gnome I believe it preloads OO at startup, therefore a

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance 15 2003 18:42, / JoeHill : On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site, there is an FAQ which I *believe* explains

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:42, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in 4 seconds. Holy sweet Jesus...what desktop are you using tho, in Gnome I

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:15 am, manolis wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox, Blackbox, beats em all by a country mile! Faaast! You can see some

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:33, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start. This machine is a Pentium 2, 400 mhz. OO would take about 50 seconds to start, which was bearable, but now, no

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
It's only cheating if you are doing a comparison and don't tell that you are doing this, which is what MS likes to do. LOL good point! by the way where I can find the quickstarter you mentioned? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter the fields of battle at ...

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:48:09 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 4:15 pm, manolis wrote: My opinion is that I don't think this is cheating, it's a good idea to pre-launch many usable parts of libraries in boot time in windows. I don't close the system many times, so as many things are in the memory cache as better it is But you

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:05:19 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But I don't think it beats ratpoison by a country mile in terms of speed. Not certain it beats it at all, in that department. Ratpoison has a smaller foot print, BTW. To each. ;o) Well, ok, Ratpoison or

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:13, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM a 56Gb SCSI RAIDed disk subsystem, and a TNT2 M64 32MB Video.

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:48, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox, Blackbox, beats em all by a

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 20:55:47 up 21:35, 1 user,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:56:33 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars. I like a taskbar but I do not

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:13:16 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:05:19 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But I don't think it beats ratpoison by a country mile in terms of speed. Not certain it beats it at all, in that department.

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 16 Jun 2003 07:46:43 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:48, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:56:33 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars.

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:06:28 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: `course, we could all just use emacs as our OS/wm and be done with it, no? ;) Time for a Homer quote: Donuts...is there *anything* they can't do...? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:04:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Don't ya just LOVE having *choice*! Long Live Linux!! That is why I fall in love every day that I use it. I remember a quote from long ago (man is this thread hijacked): When using Windows, 30 minutes feels

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 15 June 2003 05:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:13, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM a 56Gb

[newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-14 Thread Damian Gatabria
In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start. This machine is a Pentium 2, 400 mhz. OO would take about 50 seconds to start, which was bearable, but now, no matter what i do to it, it just stalls for about 5 minutes. Once i have one instance sunning, opening

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start. This machine is a Pentium 2, 400 mhz. OO would take about 50 seconds to start, which was bearable, but now, no matter what i do to it, it just stalls for about 5