[clue-tech] Ubuntu lock-up problems

[Michael Riversong]

Open Office has a feature that makes it log on to the network occasionally.  The purpose is to bring up a web page that solicits donations.  Apparently that's necessary to keep the program going.  I just exit from the browser immediately -- delays things for a couple of seconds, no harm done.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
>Sent: Jan 31, 2009 12:49 PM
>To: CLUE tech <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Ubuntu lock-up problems
>
>On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 10:31 -0700, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
>
>Related to that, this whole process was to give a talk on WordPress at
>the Open Source Meetup here in the Springs.  When I tried to start up
>OpenOffice 3 to load the presentation, it hung.  When I shut off the
>unauthorized network connection (service network stop) OpenOffice
>started working.  What the $%^$&^#$ is OpenOffice doing at startup that
>requires it to want to go out on the network!?!?
>
>-- 
>Michael J. Hammel                               
>mjhammel at graphics-muse.org / http://www.graphics-muse.org
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Michael Riversong

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