{"id":563,"date":"2006-01-20T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/openofficeorg-barely-usable\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:15:00","slug":"openofficeorg-barely-usable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/openofficeorg-barely-usable\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org barely usable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to fiddle with my linux.conf.au<\/a> presentation in OpenOffice.org2 (the version that comes with Ubuntu Breezy).<\/p>\n

It’s as buggy as all hell.<\/p>\n

At the moment, after pasting in some slides from another presentation (if it doesn’t randomly crash some short time afterwards) I can’t save the file. Really useful.<\/p>\n

grrr….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to fiddle with my linux.conf.au presentation in OpenOffice.org2 (the version that comes with Ubuntu Breezy). It’s as buggy as all hell. At the moment, after pasting in some slides from another presentation (if it doesn’t randomly crash some short … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-95","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":182,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/01\/added-final-presentation-slides\/","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":0},"title":"added final presentation slides","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-11-01","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/honors\/final_presentation_html\/ Enjoy.","rel":"","context":"In "hons-project"","block_context":{"text":"hons-project","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/hons-project\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/23\/practice-presentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":1},"title":"practice presentation","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2003-10-23","format":false,"excerpt":"got some feedback regarding the practice presentation i gave today - although it was about 8 mins over time (meant to be 15), i know where i can cut out some stuff. comments and notes below: clarity of Walnut better than unix, problems with walnut explicitly state BeFS, maybe before\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "hons-project"","block_context":{"text":"hons-project","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/hons-project\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":646,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/16\/final-prep-on-uc-presentation-and-new-toy\/","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":2},"title":"final prep on UC presentation (and new toy)","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-04-16","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a new toy yesterday (and about time I did). 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