andre...@icon.co.za
To: Demétrio Soares demetrio.soa...@gmail.com
Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Gabriel Risterucci
cleyf...@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
Users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013, 8:44
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] opening powerpoint files
Good morning,
Using the most recent version of Libreoffice, 4.04
Windows 7, 32 bits, 1500mb Ram, AMD Sempron 2800mhz
Every time one tries to open powerpoint files the pc fails and restarts,
even slow starts.
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Problems?
There is not much stuff (if any) in LO that could cause a reboot of a
computer. Although it's not possible to completely rule out a LO issue, I'd
suggest you run some memory testing program (like memtest86+), as it's much
more likely that your issue is related to faulty memory/hardware.
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Cley
Hello
My two cents worth would rather be to focus on the actual Powerpoint
data file that is the source of the problem, when attempted to being
opened. If it has any corruption in it, or possibly a piece of malware
made to disguise and represent itself as a Powerpoint presentation, then
I
While it's totally true that malicious code might be embedded in anything
(especially ms formats... but we won't talk about this :)), I doubt it
would trigger a reaction as bad as a reboot, especially under recent OS.
Crashing a user program is very unlikely to cause a system reboot, except
if it
Hi Gabriel
I agree, you make some valid points, but the MS hive (collection of the
boot code plus apps running in memory in one big monolith file, unlike
the Linux kernel with separate clients commucating with the kernel,
all separate), is not as robust as we would like to believe, even in
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To: Gabriel Risterucci cleyf...@gmail.com
Cc: Demétrio Soares demetrio.soa...@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Sunday, 21 July 2013, 17:52
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] opening powerpoint files restart the computer
Hi Gabriel
I agree, you make some valid points
