[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-24 Thread Richard
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Pierre wrote: Richard wrote: I have been a champion of OOo for more years than most of you have even used the programme. There are serious issues with OOo 3 and that's a fact and NOT ONE OF THE AH's REPLYING HERE CAN GIVE ME AN ANSWER AS TO WHY IT SAVES SLOW ONTO A

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-13 Thread Per
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov 1976. Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra. I also used cassettes with it, but later was able to use paper tape on my M35 ASR Teletype

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Post davep...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-13 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Gene Heskett gene.hesk...@verizon.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. On Thursday 12 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-13 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:15 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. *A kit consisted of bare boards and bags of parts that had to be soldered to the boards. The whole thing

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:37 PM Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:27 PM Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Robert Hodgins ehodg...@telusplanet.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder My Timex Sinclair saved to a tape recorder. Never could get

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Dave Post davep...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: JOE Conner joeconner2...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov 1976. Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Gordon wrote: Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder Better known as a Commie 64. ;-) So

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Robert Hodgins wrote: Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder My Timex Sinclair saved to a tape recorder

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 22:12, David B Teague wrote: and the Pascal System editor to type my papers

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread JOE Conner
I have this cool ad of William Shatner peddling a Vic-20 My son called it the Victim-20 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 March 2009, JOE Conner wrote: I have this cool ad of William Shatner peddling a Vic-20 My son called it the Victim-20 I looked at it. I think your son was correct. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Dave Post davep...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Robert Hodgins wrote: Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder My

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 12/03/2009 22:14, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:27 PM Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread James Knott
Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov 1976. Everything

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Barton
, 2009 2:27 PM Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use for OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-10 Thread jonathon
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 22:12, David B Teague wrote: and the Pascal System editor to type my papers. There is one feature of that editor that I haven't seen on any other text editor, or word processor, that I really miss. jonathon

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-10 Thread David B Teague
jonathon wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 22:12, David B Teague wrote: and the Pascal System editor to type my papers. There is one feature of that editor that I haven't seen on any other text editor, or word processor, that I really miss. jonathon I am intrigued. What is that feature

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Gordon
David B Teague wrote: I tried the memory settings mentioned in the link. These settings are consonant with settings mentioned in other posts. After a reboot, or after not having OO.o loaded for a while (not measured, but longer than a half hour), the OO.o start time for a 50K odt file is 17

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Gordon
Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb Memory per

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Gordon
Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Hodgins
Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder My Timex Sinclair saved to a tape recorder. Never could get the thing to load a program, though. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Dave Post
Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd record programs

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread JOE Conner
Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:51 -0400, Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2!

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread James Knott
Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread James Knott
Gordon wrote: Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder Better known as a Commie 64. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread James Knott
Robert Hodgins wrote: Hmmm. My Commodore 64 had a tape recorder My Timex Sinclair saved to a tape recorder. Never could get the thing to load a program, though. Write only storage? ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread James Knott
Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread James Knott
Robert Hodgins wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:51 -0400, Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:18 -0400, James Knott wrote: Robert Hodgins wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 14:51 -0400, Dave Post wrote: Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang programmable

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread David B Teague
Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: I tried the memory settings mentioned in the link. These settings are consonant with settings mentioned in other posts. After a reboot, or after not having OO.o loaded for a while (not measured, but longer than a half hour), the OO.o start time for a 50K

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-09 Thread David B Teague
Barbara Duprey wrote: Gordon wrote: Ugly Me wrote: - Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-07 Thread Gregory L. Forster
WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb Memory per object - 128 mb OpenOffice really sizzles now. I have an AMD Athlon X2 dual core 64bit CPU at 2.6 Ghz with 4Gig memory and WinXP Pro SP3. I have to try that on my Ubuntu machine (1.6Gig Celeron with 512Meg)

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-07 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Gregory L. Forster gforst.1...@sbcglobal.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. WOW! I tweaked up the memory as suggested: Use for OpenOffice.org - 256mb Memory per object - 128 mb

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-06 Thread Gordon
David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts as fast if not

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-06 Thread Pierre
Richard wrote: I have been a champion of OOo for more years than most of you have even used the programme. There are serious issues with OOo 3 and that's a fact and NOT ONE OF THE AH's REPLYING HERE CAN GIVE ME AN ANSWER AS TO WHY IT SAVES SLOW ONTO A FILE SERVER and OPENS SLOW FROM A FILE

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-06 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Pierre wrote: Richard wrote: I have been a champion of OOo for more years than most of you have even used the programme. There are serious issues with OOo 3 and that's a fact and NOT ONE OF THE AH's REPLYING HERE CAN GIVE ME AN ANSWER AS TO WHY IT SAVES SLOW ONTO A FILE SERVER and OPENS

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-06 Thread David B Teague
Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread Gordon
David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts as fast if not faster here than Office 2007 on Vista...

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread David B Teague
Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts as fast if not faster here than Office 2007 on Vista... The behavior is

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread Gordon
David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts as fast if not faster here than Office 2007 on

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: snip (a) You have no idea how long anyone here has been using OOo. I've been using StarOffice for years before there was an OpenOffice. In 2007 your first post stated you'd been using OOo for 4 - 5 years. That means you started in late 2001 at the earliest; I

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread Christina Godinez
I like the new ver. 3... It can open MS docx files... Save a lot of money, didn't have to buy MSO 2007... Great product.. --- On Thu, 3/5/09, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com Subject: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. To: users@openoffice.org Date: Thursday, March 5

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread Graham Bowden
Thanks for this - the Windows memory settings below make it quick to load on Win XP too. G - Original Message - From: David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:46 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. Gordon wrote

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-05 Thread David B Teague
Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: Gordon wrote: David B Teague wrote: OO.o 3.0.0 was slow on startup, and 3.0.1 is also slow to start, slower than 2.4, even with the QuickStarter -- Have you tweaked the memory settings in Tools-Options? 3.01 starts as fast if not faster here than

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-02 Thread Richard
Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7 machines, I have used OOo since ver 1 but can no longer support its very slow operation, my staff

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-02 Thread Richard
Twayne wrote: Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7 machines, I have used OOo since ver 1 but can no longer support its very slow operation,

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:49:40 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by Richard to my mailbox: Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7

Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7 machines, I have used OOo since ver 1 but can no longer support its very slow operation, my staff are

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-02-28 Thread Ugly Me
- Original Message - From: Pierre openoff...@finalfiler.com To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:23 AM Subject: Re: [users] ver 3 is rubbish. Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7 machines, I have used OOo since ver 1 but can no longer support its very slow operation, my staff

[users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.

2009-02-27 Thread Twayne
Richard wrote: OOo3 is the worst version ever and like Netscape ver 4 a complete disaster that will loose countless users and loyal supporters. I am officially removing OOo 3 from my office 7 machines, I have used OOo since ver 1 but can no longer support its very slow operation, my staff