Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: > If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use > "getbinnews" instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I got it. Will give it a try. I just wis

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-05 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:27:42 +, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I deleted the ~/.openoffice folder which contains my personal > OpenOffice configuration. Whenever something gets messed up, > one of the first things I normally do is delete the personal > config files. Do a "ls -a" to see all

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + > Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and > > a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it > > I just (re)installed it in

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and > a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it I just (re)installed it in 10.0. I have an Athlon 1000 mhz box, with 768 megs of RAM (I rece

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread rhein
B McKee wrote: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in you

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread B McKee
Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in your home folder w

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 01 May 2004 10:53:46 +0300 schreef rhein: > Thanks now I get it :-) > But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software > with it? Thanks > Christphe Only if you installed the entire OO-software in .openoffice. I suppose you didn't. Paul -- "Isn't it a pity that the fr

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-30 Thread robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as much, 256 RAM and it is the s

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Ariestao1
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:09 pm, Miark wrote: > Certainly it is the slowest program to kick in on my > > > machines. 4 seconds by my watch if nothing else is being loaded as well. > > This machine has 512 MB RAM, but I just timed it on the one with half as > > much, 256 RAM and it is the same. I don't

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 19:41, Miark wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: > > > SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag > > on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ > > pages manual very well done. > > Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pr

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:32:32 +0300, robin wrote: > > 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and > > a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it > > starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing > > running at the time was top itself at abo

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Marc Lijour
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: > >> >4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a >> half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it >> starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing >> >running at the time was top itself at ab

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread robin
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I sometimes open

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:22:21 +0300, rhein wrote: > >4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and > >a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it > >starting with top running, and the most CPU intensive thing > >running at the time was top itself at about 1

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread rhein
Miark wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else experienced this? No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it up. I some

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:05:51 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there any reason that OO would gradually become slower > > over a period of a couple months? Has anyone else > > experienced this? > > No, but you might have something running in the background when you open it > up. I sometimes

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Marc Lijour
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: > >> SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag >> on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ >> pages manual very well done. > > Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty > annoyed lately with OO because of its slow

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Ariestao1
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:41 pm, Miark wrote: > Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty > annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I seem > to remember it starting, loading and saving files, and > other operations being faster when my 9.2.1 was fresh. > But it could be my imagi

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-29 Thread Miark
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:43 -0400, Marc wrote: > SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag > on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ > pages manual very well done. Not to lose sight of your question, but I've been pretty annoyed lately with OO because of its slowness. I s

[newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-04-28 Thread Marc Lijour
I have downloaded StarOffice7 from SUN website, which by the way is free for education (read the license). SO is way faster than OOo which was beginning to lag on my machine. SO is cute and it comes with a 500+ pages manual very well done. I use SO at school to teach my computer courses. THANKS