payasam Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Can someone please tell me why, on the same machine, StarOffice 7 should run noticeably slower in Mandrake 10.0 than it does in Windows 98 SE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 (edited) good question. i never found an answer to that question but i noticed that staroffice/openoffice loads a lot faster on e.g. gentoo, slackware, yoper or ubuntu than in mandrake... Edited November 6, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Hamburg has always been known for the strange things that happen there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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payasam Posted November 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Is that pond you have up there as cold as the Arctic, Arctic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 (edited) well, for a person whose one half is spanish, it is very very cold... just take a bath. ;) and its rainiy over here. i do miss the sun and the warm breeze of air. :) Edited November 6, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 faster on win98 SE? a virus/trojan/spyware-free win98 SE? wow. I didn't think such things are still possible. you see, I got the unfortunate job of being the resident "computer doctor" of my friends' computers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 payasam - I don't know if this post by DragonMage is relevant. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 (edited) Arctic: Spain -- hah. You want to be roasted, come to India in May. Or dive into a stream and get boiled. We haven't enough oil to fry you, sorry. Arthur: It's always possible, with a bit of care, to make the best of a bad job. For example, for decades I rode motorcycles up to twenty-five years old and never felt handicapped because I knew their insides and kept them in shape. If we are to be honest, Windows is not such a terribly bad job; besides, there are good people out there who work hard to keep out the nasties you've listed. Spinynorman: If the post turns out to be relevant, I thank you in advance. If it should be utterly useless, I'm terribly sorry - I still have to thank you. These cookies insist on crumbling in their own way, you see. [EDIT] It should be relevant, assuming SO has the same sort of cache that OO does. Only way to find out is to find out. But making the rebuilt cache file read only will cause trouble if founts are added later, won't it? Edited November 7, 2004 by payasam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Hello payasam. Glad to see you are still in good form, literary wise. I also hope you are, other wise. I get loads of enjoyment from your posts. Best wishes. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Thanks, John. We hope to please. If in the process we get others to solve our problems for us, so much the better. Something like a court jester cracking a silly joke for the king and being rewarded with a sack full of gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Arctic: Spain -- hah. You want to be roasted, come to India in May. Or dive into a stream and get boiled. We haven't enough oil to fry you, sorry. don't worry. you don't need to fry me in hot oil as i am not french and i believe that spanish fries would taste awful. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Disloyal to your own potatoes (or half-potatoes), Arctic? Shame on you. Spinynorman: There was a pspfontcache file. I made a copy, then deleted it, started SO, quit SO - and it was back, 5,139 lines long. I have too many type-faces in this box although I don't need more than a dozen or so families. I just tried to delete some but the fo(u)nt management in 10.0 is awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Spinynorman: There was a pspfontcache file. I made a copy, then deleted it, started SO, quit SO - and it was back, 5,139 lines long. I have too many type-faces in this box although I don't need more than a dozen or so families. I just tried to delete some but the fo(u)nt management in 10.0 is awful. I've found some more information here. This suggests creating an empty read-only file in the user/psprint directory of a user installation and/or in the share/psprint directory, as required: rm pspfontcache touch pspfontcache chmod 444 pspfontcache Hope this helps. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted November 7, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 Thanks, Spinynorman. Whether or not this helps solve my immediate problem, it certainly will teach me something about touch and chmod. What, I wonder, is the function of this pspfontcache fellow anyway? Just to be a damn nuisance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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