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• OpenOffice 3.2 loads noticeably faster

 by Stanley, January 17, 2010

OpenOffice has been my bread and butter word and spreadsheet editing software since back in version 2.3 days. Loading OpenOffice after booting up the PC, it has always been fairly slow. But that doesn’t really bother me at all as once OO is loaded and cached in memory, it loads quickly thereafter.

At the time I’m writing this, OpenOffice is currently 3.2 RC2. Release Candidates of OO has been pretty solid as far as I’m concerned. So I had no reservations installing 3.2 RC2 for use. It hasn’t give me any problems or crashed in the past few days.

One notable improvement as soon as I start OpenOffice 3.2 is faster load time. It is such an improvement over 3.1, I can feel it. I don’t have scientific numbers to tell you exactly how much faster but I’ll be pretty sure you can feel it too.

Good job, OpenOffice! And thank you for producing a top notch MS Office alternative.

• RAM prices going up

 December 11, 2009
Several of my clients have hold back their RAM purchases. Especially for clients who are on a tight budget. The sweet spot of RAM size nowadays is around 4GB, two sticks of 2GB, but I honestly think they can get 2GB now and wait for prices to drop before getting another 2GB. Unless Photoshopping, video [...]
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• Goodbye Mininova thanks for the happy times

 November 26, 2009
Mininova is no more. It has gone legit and removed all copyright infringing materials. I wager that means more than 75% of torrent links will be removed. Making Mininova’s once thriving repository of torrents a useless torrent site listing content distribution services. In other words, you might as well take Mininova off your bookmarks. I won’t [...]
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• Witnessing SSD do its magic

 November 6, 2009
Yesterday I witnessed first hand how SSD can literally change one’s computing experience. Nothing short of a relevation. I helped a client configure a personal computer from the group up. He wanted middle-of-the-range specs that would handle normal office softwares, non-intensive photo editing and web browsing. For the budget he set aside, I could easily build [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and ATI Radeon 9250 fix

 October 31, 2009
I’m using ATI Radeon 9250 and Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) can’t seem to configure my graphics card properly which makes the entire system so sluggish it’s impossible to use. As a note to self, I’m putting the contents of my custom xorg.conf file in my blog for future reference. Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala installation doesn’t have [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released and I’m pleased

 October 30, 2009
I’ve been using Kubuntu 9.10 release candidate for more than a week now. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, it’s quite good actually. With previous major releases, I’ve encountered numerous problems from the very first day of installation, especially with with KDE 4.2.x versions. But with Kubuntu 9.10 using the latest KDE 4.3.2, it [...]
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• Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate and ATI Radeon 9250 woes

 October 26, 2009
I’ve been satisfied with Kubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 so far. Except for the sluggish and sometimes stuttering graphics with my ATI Radeon 9250 video card. I know my ATI 9250 is an old card, more than five years old to be precise but I doubt it lacks the power to handle mere 2D desktop graphics. [...]
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