Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-29 Thread James McKenzie
Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Tom wrote: Kirill S. Palagin wrote: I'm not knocking MSFT Office. I'm simply applauding OpenOffice. I support it, and look forward to the developers optimizing it further, and hammering out the bugs. I'm not knocking Open Office Office. I'm pointing out problems

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-29 Thread RBL
Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: I completely agree with you. First impression is EXTREMELY important and this needs attention in OO. I mostly use Staroffice 8.0 and I have observed that its start time after cold boot is lesser than the corresponding start time of OO. I have no idea what Sun is doing to

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-29 Thread James Knott
RBL wrote: Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: I completely agree with you. First impression is EXTREMELY important and this needs attention in OO. I mostly use Staroffice 8.0 and I have observed that its start time after cold boot is lesser than the corresponding start time of OO. I have no idea what

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-29 Thread James McKenzie
RBL wrote: Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: I completely agree with you. First impression is EXTREMELY important and this needs attention in OO. I mostly use Staroffice 8.0 and I have observed that its start time after cold boot is lesser than the corresponding start time of OO. I have no idea what

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
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[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
The other major point: OpenOffice is OPEN. It supports open standards better--MUCH better--than MSFT Office. Every try to write or edit a blog post in MSFT Office, and then cut and past it to a blog? The resulting POLLUTED hidden markup text chokes Feedburner. Take that same polluted text,

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
I appreciate that sentiment. But people looking for stark comparisons between the two just might find this intellectual discourse of value. My 2c. Shutting up now ... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
Thomas w. Cranston wrote: RBL wrote: Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How much RAM are you using? I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-27 Thread RBL
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:53 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck Kirill S. Palagin wrote: -Original Message- From: James

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread RBL
Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How much RAM are you using? I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate having to wait on it to start, load, etc.

[users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread RBL
Kirill S. Palagin wrote: I also find many things are simply easier to do in OpenOffice. Calc is tighter and faster. Are you nuts? Excel is faster in every respect - starting, opening documents, recalculating, saving. I have cases where save/load in time Calc (with native formats) is 50 TIMES

RE: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RBL Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:18 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck That said, the OOo development team should strive to beat Excel performance

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Dan Lewis
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:18 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck That said, the OOo development team should strive to beat Excel performance at every turn. Yep. Perhaps there needs to be an optimization effort

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
Tom wrote: Kirill S. Palagin wrote: I'm not knocking MSFT Office. I'm simply applauding OpenOffice. I support it, and look forward to the developers optimizing it further, and hammering out the bugs. I'm not knocking Open Office Office. I'm pointing out problems in OpenOffice that need

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas w. Cranston
RBL wrote: Thomas w. Cranston wrote: Are you happy w/how fast it starts up. How about how fast you can open a document. If so, what OS are you running it on. What kind of tweaks? How much RAM are you using? I would like to be able to speed up OO. I really hate having to wait on it to start,

RE: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Kirill S. Palagin
-Original Message- From: Thomas w. Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:07 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck I run OO on 2 identical computers. One w/FC5, the other w/Win 98SE

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Howard Sallee
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Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck

2006-10-26 Thread Ganesha Bhaskara
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RBL Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:18 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: OpenOffice ROCKS: was: Re: Openoffice suck That said, the OOo development team should strive to beat Excel performance at every turn. Yep. Perhaps there needs