On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:43, Andy Green wrote: >Mike McCarty wrote: >> from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org >> Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom >> of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready >> to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my >> 400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs. > >What does > >cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz > >say on your fast box? If that isn't broken (one laptop here reacts to >cpuspeed by being permanently at the lowest frequency), what's your > HDD like on that box? How many fonts installed? 58 seconds sounds > all wrong. > >-Andy Yeah, 9 slim seconds here on an XP2800 Athlon running at 2 GHZ. And I thought that was slow... -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
