Normally I don't respond to your type of emails, but I get the impression that you have some legitimate questions, amongst the immature name-calling.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119 no wonder it sucks.
I agree OOo in some circumstances is slower than M$ Office. There are plenty of people on this list however that will provide plenty of evidence to the contrary. Speed does depend on the OS and what you're trying to do with the application along with normal stuff (i.e., processor, memory load, etc)... However what OOo does do well is improve over time. The article you reference is dated October 2005. There have been major releases since then, both of which have improved the speed of OOo in all areas. Does this mean that the latest release is as fast as all competitors - probably not, but it is improving. If you are going to use Google try to get relevant stuff.
You know the download for a previous version wasnt on your site like it used to be, thanks, and last time I tried to post a bug it was f***** impossible to figure out how, much like idiotic wikipedia's layout. God, you shouldn't have to be a massive nerd to post a bug or to get a freakin reply.
Reporting a bug/issue/enhancement is a little tricky for new people. However if you follow the below link it will walk you through the stages (when you get to the scary page, just enter the information into the "description" box) : http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/submission_gateway.html
But anyways, Windows XP media edition. Does OO rely on a good amount of memory? I have 512 and a lot of things running.
512 should be fine. However it depends on "a lot of things running" means. Do you have 500M of stuff running? If you do, then (as you may already know) a lot of swapping will occur that will slow things down. I have OOo2.1 on winXP loaded and it uses anywhere between 16M - 35M. Opening fairly large word documents can spike it to ~80M. You're the only one that can answer whether your machine has the capacity. The official system requirements can be found here: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_20.html
But things are going fast right now, so I will test it and let you know in this email if it will open a document... nope, nothing happened except seeing that little hour glass thing appear a few times. Strange because I was able to open them in the beginning. The type of doc I tried to save was an XML one. No, like I said, document recovery doesn't work, I guess you forgot I said that.
Your original rant did not make it clear that document recovery did not work. I assume the stream of consciousness your referring to was "and was unable to recall what I had been working on". The time frame for document recovery is set using tools>options>load and save>general. The default, I think, is 10 minutes, so if your document hasn't been open for that long, then nothing will be saved for recovery. It hangs when you open a document - does it hang when you try to load a blank document? What happens when you try a non-XML document - same thing? Check the memory usage - what's happening?
bye and damn, thanks for not posting the freakin link to the download. ass.
Now there was no need for that sort of stuff is there.... Remember this list is only volunteers giving there time to answer users questions. Questions such as yours do not assist the process. Have a look at this link before posting again: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I do have to agree with you on one point. It's not that easy to locate previous OOo versions. There is of course the legacy 1.1.5 version here: http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.5/index.html However if you want a range of versions to select from use the following link (one of OOo's mirror sites): http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/stable/?fl= I personally think however you would be best to uninstall 2.1 and reinstall - then give it another go. Post to the list, not to me. /paul -- Try Torpark; a small portable, open-source, built on Firefox browser that enables anonymous browsing. Requires no installation : http://www.torrify.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
