[wplug] new kid in town

Lance Tost ltost at pobox.com
Tue Jun 17 13:34:18 EDT 2003


pebkac :)

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, John Harrold wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:48:27 -0400
> From: John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] new kid in town
> 
> Sometime in June Bill assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | I'm with Lance on this...I've seen a lot of folks diss OpenOffice, and I
> | just don't get it.  Half my company uses linux and half Windows with
> | OfficeXP.  I have had few issues exchanging files with the Windows
> | folks, and these problems have been more a product of my own ignorance
> | than any technology shortcomings.
> | 
> | And for the record, my box is a frankenstein monster of legacy parts,
> | nothing particularly modern or fast.  OpenOffice takes a few seconds to
> | start, but I've never had it lock my box.
> | 
> | Might the issues others are experiencing be jvm related?  I'm using the
> | standard Sun version.
> 
> disclaimer: i don't normally use word processors and spreadsheets.
> 
> so i write mainly in latex using vim, but i do get that random word or
> excel attachement. so i use open office to view/convert them. it works well
> for this, but in my expirence oo is slow and buggy. i'm not using it on
> particularly slow computers either. however, this might be a function of
> the version i'm using. i've only used what redhat included, so it might be
> an old, poorly compiled version. i tried once to compile it on my own,
> right after 1.0 came out, but i was unsuccessful.
> 
> 
> 

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>




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