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