{"id":611,"date":"2006-03-07T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/07\/openofficeorg2-you-unstable-horse-poo\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T04:07:30","slug":"openofficeorg2-you-unstable-horse-poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/07\/openofficeorg2-you-unstable-horse-poo\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org2 frustrates me like paper cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possibly Ubuntu’s fault too for shipping the not-latest un-bugfixed release. But either way, it’s really annoying seeing the “Document Recovery” screen more than the edit text widget.<\/p>\n

Copy and Paste slides in Impress is not flakey – it’s damn right crushed to pieces. Occationally it does something useful – like paste and not crash.<\/p>\n

update: <\/strong>yes, i am just using it to put together presentations for our upcoming devconf – as well as the user conference. Why these things are so hard to do is beyond me. A simple app that didn’t crash *cough* magicpoint *cough* is looking rather superior at the moment.<\/p>\n

update part 2<\/strong>: yes, the title changed. arguably i like this one better. although adding “right under the fingernail” is tempting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possibly Ubuntu’s fault too for shipping the not-latest un-bugfixed release. But either way, it’s really annoying seeing the “Document Recovery” screen more than the edit text widget. Copy and Paste slides in Impress is not flakey – it’s damn right … 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":[18,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-mysql","category-work-et-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-9R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":392,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/15\/stillhqcom-stat-on-the-command-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":611,"position":0},"title":"stillhq.com – Stat on the command line","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-04-15","format":false,"excerpt":"stillhq.com - Stat on the command line So Michael pointed out there is one.... in recent versions of coreutils at least. 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