[plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[Christian]

Kenworthy Family wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>     I do not use the staroffice browser/mail  (netscape fan!!) but I already
> have java installed on my machine for a uni subject.  Staroffice picked up that
> it was installed and asked if I wanted this version to be used and then
> continued.  Overall very fuss free and easy.  Registration was also easy -
> worked better than previous versions but that maybe because the numbers did not
> include any "o"'s or zero's - this was easily confused under the old system.
> The point is that the numbers/letters must be entered exactly as per the email
> returned after registration or off the web page or the install will be very
> frustrating until you get past this spot - I have been there in the past till I
> woke up that its very litteral and not very forgiving of typo's.

Of course, once you have it installed it runs like such a dog that you
start to wonder how Star Division ever manage to make a living selling
it.  It takes up 60 odd meg of memory for god's sakes!  (also, anyone
know why it starts 14-odd processes of itself?  ps lists each as taking
up 60 meg of RAM but I assume this is all shared since otherwise it
wouldn't run at all.)

I'm starting to wonder if I seriously should write my thesis in Linux -
WordPerfect is ok but it's graphic handling is very bad and it can't
generate a decent Table of Contents to save it's life.  Star Office has
a marginally better TOC functionality but runs so slowly I'm wondering
if it's seriously worthwhile trying to use it.

Regards,

Christian.

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