[NTLUG:Discuss] system crash

[Koren, Peter A.]

I was on the net. Perhaps you are right. I am a little gun shy about using
StarOffice again. I am not a word processor centric person, so sacrificing
StarOffice is not to too bad of a problem. I was using it to read a work
related Word document while programming and testing code at home (It beats
driving to the office). I just hope that some of the upcoming Open Source
word processors will be able to import Word dotdoc files.

Thanks,

Peter Koren


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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] system crash




On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:50:15 -0600 (CST) Michael Sandfort
<sandfort at post.cis.smu.edu> writes:

<snip>
> 
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Peter Koren wrote:
> 
> > I just had a system crash and it is not the first time.
> > 
> > I'm running Suse 6.3 and I was running netscape and StarOffice 
> when the
> > disk drive suddenly started furious activity that did not stop. 

<snip>

	Peter, an idea I had was java or javascript:  I think the install
defaults, for both Netscape & StarOffice, are with java and javascript
enabled.  Your original post didn't indicate whether you were on the Net
at the time, or otherwise using a java/javascript app.  at the time. 
However, since both apps. use that technology (StarOffice apparently
rather heavily), I wonder if that might contribute to the problem. 
Unfortunately, I'm not much knowledgeable about neither java nor
javascript, so all I can do is speculate.  Every time I fire up StarOfc.
5.1, my disk always starts sounding like it's popping popcorn; It still
seems like a darned fine word processor/ office suite.  Sorry I can't be
of more help. -- Doug
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