Hi Jim, Try LibreOffice instead. I find that it starts up a lot quicker than Open Office.
Cheers, Willem Op 7 sep 2011, om 20:21 heeft Jim Christiansen het volgende geschreven: > Hi David, > > OK then. I spent $300 of our non-existent budget money and just bought 4 1 > gig switches and borrowed 2 others. I started off with the 2 borrowed > switches and things were so dramatically better I bought the other 4. The > computers all boot quickly and maybe our troubles have been resolved by just > upgrading the switches. It seemed a few people felt that gig lans were > necessary and this I could check out quickly. > > I may still have some wierd issues with the iptables commands so I'll need to > sort out what is going on there. > > Logons work quickly but Openoffice takes an uncomfortable length of time to > start. Is this lag- starting programs- typical with fat clients? > > Thanks everyone for the help. > > Soooo... onto my last hurlde. Does anyone know how to publish a bottle > using Crossover, inside a fat client image??? I have one splendid old CAD > package I use that I've always run using Crossover and I still need to get it > up and running. > > Thanks again > > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:33 AM, David Groos <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Jim Christiansen wrote: > >> Good morning, David. Thank you for the help and any ideas. My clients are >> (year 2006) Dell GX620s with 3.6 ghz p4s and all with 1 gig ram. > Better than anything I've got! > >> >> I've never used two nics in any of my other LTSP setups as I had always kept >> them behind IPCOP firewalls. I haven't had to apply iptable rules for years >> and really don't understand what the 1st history command, #49, is doing. >> There is no mention of eth0 or what ever. > >> >> I don't know who Alkis is, but is he running his setup on a 100 megabit lan? >> Could the fat image be slimmed down I wonder? > If you ever visit either irc: #edubuntu or #ltsp during the hours of 6 AM > and Midnight or beyond, Greek time, you probably have seen 'alkisg' there, > and if you have asked for help either place, chances are good that he spent a > good bit of time helping you. He's both a dev and a teacher. > > About the fat image being slimmed, he runs regular Ubuntu (I just asked him > on the #edubuntu irc). About the server he says: > alkisg:For fat clients, any 5 year old pc with a bit of ram + disk will do > [5:17pm]alkisg:The network speed is the greatest asset there > [5:17pm]alkisg:For thin clients, you need cpu, ram, network, etc etc > [5:18pm] > [5:20pm]alkisg:So, if he has some money to spare, tell him to go for 3 gb ram > + 2 pci-e gigabit nics for the fat server. > [5:21pm] > :(for fat server) > >> >> I've just talked to the VP and he says that money is tight to purchase gig >> switches. I had been thinking of yanking the 20 100 mbit switches and >> swapping in new gig switches. > > There really needs to be at least 1, gig port, to connect the switch to the > server. alkis says of their setup: > alkisg:We use switches either with 1 or 2 gigabit ports, or full gigabit > switches > >> >> I'll be in a pickle here pretty soon. Thanks again, Jim > > Good luck! > David > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
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