[wplug] Re: MISM mentor program

[John Harrold]

Sometime in February Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

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| On Monday 10 February 2003 09:15, Bill wrote:
| > Alex
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| > As far as you know, is there anything 'unusual' in this word doc?  My
| > OpenOffice has never-ever crashed when opening any M$ documents.
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| > I know I've successfully opened 97, 2000 and XP docs.
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| Russ' screenshot shows what they tried to achieve:
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| http://www.zhrodague.net/~russ/doc.png
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| That's the problem, as soon as the "features" are there, people can't 
| seem to get enough of them, so you get combo boxes and backgrounds and 
| frames for what could have been done with simple text...
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| I've OpenOffice.org freak out on me once before, with a 7MB PowerPoint 
| presentation that consumed 100% of CPU when opened, created a ~150MB 
| temp file, and generally put an impossible strain on the machine. It 
| wasn't an immediate crash, it was something like an endless loop in 
| this case. I just had to kill it after a while.
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while i dislike "the man", i think this is an open office problem. if their
filter cannot handle the file, it should give up and trigger an error
message. some things are out of their control (eg the office spec), but some
things are under their control (eg knowing when to give on opening a file).

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