Guy Macon wrote:
> No_One wrote:
>
>>Realto Margari*BLAM!*
>
>
> (That's the sound my delete-to-end-of-document key makes.
> It's the shotgun sound from DOOM with a lot of extra reverb...)

Fat, Fat, Fat, Fatboy. Macon Bacon, fatboy, fatboy!

When was the last time you saw your feet, you big fat pig? Hell, when
was the last time anybody, except your doctor, saw your tiny little
penis, eh, Fatboy?

Fat, fat, fatboy, Guy Macon Bacon.

All you talk about is trolls. All you do is complain about the trolls
that are supposed to be in your imaginary killfile.

You're a fat fuck. A pure hog. You have nothing to offer beyond being
walking, talking, comedy material.

cordially, even to the grossly huge fat fuck,

rm

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:58:51 +0000, No_One wrote:

> Given today is a wash, Thanksgiving and all, I decided to download the
> newest OpenOfice.
>
> Christ!!!!
>
> 100 megs binary and 230 megs source....does anyone in the opensource
> community know the meaning of the term "bloatware?" [trademark - Microsoft]
>
>
> ken

Assuming you usually only need a word processor and spreadsheet, you might
want to try abiword and gnumeric.

Ian Bell wrote:

> What's the problem. It has a word processor, spread sheet, presentation,
> database, drawing package, html creator, a huge bunch of documentation and
> graphics do dah thingies and it still fits into less than 100 Megs. I bet
> the M$ equivalents are bigger in total.


Back in the day, of course, people used to cram a GUI OS and a GUI
WP/DB/SS/Comm program onto two 800K floppy disks. Mmm, classic 1980s
technology...

No_One wrote:
> Not to be rude, but OO 1.1 was a 65 meg compressed download and installed
> to
> 206 megs uncompressed. If OO 2.x is 40% larger than the install has to be
> larger than 206 megs.....besides if the compressed download OO 2.x is 103
> megs how is the install 100 megs ?
>
> ken

270Mb installed on my box.

Fran

Leo (Bing) Whiteway wrote:
> No_One wrote:
>> On 2005-11-23, Thomas Ronayne wrote:
>>
>>>No_One wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Given today is a wash, Thanksgiving and all, I decided to download the
>>>>newest OpenOfice.
>>>>
>>>>Christ!!!!
>>>>
>>>>100 megs binary and 230 megs source....does anyone in the opensource
>>>>community know the meaning of the term "bloatware?" [trademark - Microsoft]
>>>>
>>>>ken
>>>
>>>Well, you *could* buy the CD-ROM (and help support OpenOffice), eh?
>>
>> That would be the Microsoft way, buy the bloat then test it. I prefer to
>> test it first then purchase. However, at 100 megs, OO is unlikely to ever
>> see the inside of my hard drive.
>>
>> ken
>
> They (OO) must have hired a bunch of MS programmers.

I read in slashdot that Google has taken on the task of making it smaller
while keeping all the frills. Now that is a lot of code to look at and
follow! Hope they left in the pertinent comments.
--

On 2005-11-23, Guy Macon <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:

>
> And I vote...
>
> *plonk*
>
> Buh-bye, trollfeeder.
>

I'm always mystified my plonkers who feel a compelling need to advertise their
plonks to the plonkee.

Oh well!

ken

On 2005-11-24, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
>
> Assuming you usually only need a word processor and spreadsheet, you might
> want to try abiword and gnumeric.
>

Yeah, I've started using abiword for most business letters. Abiword doesn't
get the pr it deserves.

ken

Guy Macon <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> writes:

> I don't see his posts because of my killfile and I don't see replies
> to his posts because of my delete-to-end-of-document key.

Hells bells Guy, you are beginning to sound like Alan "touch me not"
Connor! :-)

Fair point though .........!


atb





Glyn
--
RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-)
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
JFGI http://jfgi.us/

Fran <spam@mobilecomputing.co.nz> writes:

> No_One wrote:
>> Not to be rude, but OO 1.1 was a 65 meg compressed download and installed
>> to
>> 206 megs uncompressed. If OO 2.x is 40% larger than the install has to be
>> larger than 206 megs.....besides if the compressed download OO 2.x is 103
>> megs how is the install 100 megs ?
>>
>> ken
>
> 270Mb installed on my box.

Indeed! Not unbearable, and it works pretty well. It was also the one
thing I needed to make this a totally Linux (Slackware!) household - with
the arrival of OpenOffice my wife was prepared to relinquish MS for
good. Some folks need this kind of application, I guess. KWord was
unstable for me; Abiword was not in the same league when I last looked,
but may have improved.

Now myself, for document production, I use XEmacs, LaTeX (TeTeX) and the
Gimp for imagey stuff. If I add Gnumeric for spreadsheet stuff (yes I
know it can be done in XEmacs, but no thanks!!) then how big is _that_
parcel? Well over 100MB I would guess. But then some (the
unenlightened) think that XEmacs is bloatware .......

atb

Glyn
--
RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-)
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
JFGI http://jfgi.us/

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:29:57 +0000, No_One wrote:

> I'm always mystified my plonkers who feel a compelling need to advertise their
> plonks to the plonkee.
>
> Oh well!
>
> ken

Depending on how you read newsgroups, killfiles can be a requirement.
Particularly if you are on dial-up and download groups for offline
reading. I must admit to being equally mystified by the notification issue.

It seems to be the usenet equivalent of someone slamming the door
and locking themselves in the bathroom in the middle of an argument with
their significant other.

Of course, if I actually did that right now, no one would know I had
slammed the door and locked myself in the bathroom unless I actually TOLD
them that I had slammed the door and locked myself in the bathroom.
Doesn't really have the same effect does it

I suppose this is the reason for the "PLONK" - besides what the letters
stand for of course.

I don't think I ever thought of this analogy until I saw Guy go to such
lengths to actually describe the sound in detail.

I'm sure Guy is just trying to be creative.

I'm equally certain there are people who interpret it differently.