On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 11:56, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > Maybe in, say, DDR. > > > > 256 megs ddr = 80 euro. Reason my box has 256 meg :) I'll upgrade once I > > have a game that needs more for textures. > > Well, I'm talking Australian dollars. There was a reason why I still had > the PII when I *maintained* KDE.
Ugh... Must be painful to compile c++ code on such a box. <SNIP> > > OOo is also ridiculous. It should share nore with the other available > > open source software - such as widgets. I'd be delighted to save my files > > with those gorgeous QT dialogs instead of the pathetic built-in windows > > ui clone they use now. I wonder why Sun hasn't used Motif for the > > Staroffice UI actually. > > OOo is ridiculous in so many ways, including a 15min startup time on > lower-end machines. It's the worst benchmark of anything you could > possibly pick. Yes... bad design, bloat, redundant code, all the horrors in one... We use it at home because of the good support for MS office formats though. > > > BTW, KGhostView posed no difficulties with huge PDFs, either. Not even > > > image-laden ones, on my laptop. > > > > KGhostview is still buggy. The first pdf my dad tried to open with it > > showed up sideways, off course the rest of the page in place. Grmbl... > > Did you report a bug? :) IIRC, the data was confidential. -- Frank Van Damme | "Saying 8MB of RAM doesn't do as much anymore is http://www. | like saying a gallon of water holds more than it openstandaarden.be | did in 1988." --George Adkins
