Hi :) Mac is based on Bsd which is unix-based and practically a brother or sister to Gnu&Linux anyway. Sticking with Mac makes sense. It gets you nearly all the way without having some of the painful bits.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Carl Paulsen <[email protected]> >To: >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 14 December 2012, 14:05 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results > >OK, having now rebooted, LO seems to be displaying the results of the >formulas again. That's a relief, and no doubt it's the reboot that >solved the issue. Wish I understood why such things happen, but in any >case, thanks for pushing me in that direction. > >As for: >> Also with Mac i think updates and even installing stuff seldom demands a >> reboot? >Correct. In some cases with OS updates, reboot is required, but not >usually. Mac may also have a way to re-open all the last work after a >shutdown, but I haven't looked into it yet (Safari browser does this, so >maybe Apple thought about it for the entire OS). I do hope to look into >Linux and the like one day... > >Cheers, >Carl > >> >> With Ubuntu there is some setting that allows you to make the start-up >> procedure open up everything that you had open when you shut-down. There >> might be something similar on Mac but i don't know of good places to find >> out. There must be forums or soemthing worth asking. >> >> >> Apols and regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Carl Paulsen <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Thursday, 13 December 2012, 12:25 >>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results >>> >>> It's not the downtime but rather all the work that's open that I have to >>> keep track of, decide how to save and then close. It's hard to explain >>> but given I work 3-4 different jobs at once and am working on new tools >>> that I don't know very well yet, I'm always reluctant to reboot. >>> Obviously I'll have to change that. >>> >>> And I too can shut down processes individually on my Mac, but I don't >>> always know what ones apply to what programs. Sounds easier than it is... >>> >>> I'm still wondering why it's happening, and why LO is now opening the >>> CSV files (no re-start or re-boot yet). In the latter case, obviously >>> re-starting or re-booting didn't matter. This is all a lot more >>> complicated that just re-booting. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carl >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12/13/12 1:39 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>> Hi :) >>>> Lol, +1 >>>> >>>> >>>> Even on Gnu&Linux distros (mainly Ubuntu ime tbh) it's a good plan to do a >>>> reboot to ensure that services that are normally on haven't been stopped >>>> temporarily without you really being aware of it. Of course in Gnu&Linux >>>> you could restart individual processes in order to avoid any down-time at >>>> all but on a desktop or mobile machine a couple of minutes of downtime is >>>> unlikely to matter much. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards from >>>> Tom :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> ________________________________ >>>>> From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 22:21 >>>>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Formulas in Calc not showing results >>>>> >>>>> At 16:35 12/12/2012 -0500, Carl Paulsen wrote: >>>>>> Restart the software or reboot the computer sometimes helps these odd >>>>>> glitches. >>>>> You mean that you didn't try this before asking your question?! >>>>> >>>>> Brian Barker >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Problems? >>>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>>> deleted >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> -- >>> >>> Carl Paulsen >>> >>> 8 Hamilton Street >>> >>> Dover, NH 03820 >>> >>> (603) 749-2310 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >>> >>> >>> >>> > >-- > >Carl Paulsen > >8 Hamilton Street > >Dover, NH 03820 > >(603) 749-2310 > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
