From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 13:23: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A03B3152F5 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 11bUvQ-0006ob-00; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:23:04 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA00627; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:22:51 -0700 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:22:51 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 - the sequel To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19991013193654.C317@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13-Oct-99 at 12:06, Mark Ovens (mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) wrote: > ... > > On the one occasion I allowed it to finish (~10 mins) it took me > to the registration page. I select the OS (Linux :( ) and language > then clicked the "register" button. After many more minutes of slow > data transfer it just returned to the same page, no mention of > having successfully registering. > > So, questions. > > Is the info you enter during the install supposed to be for automatic > registration? In the pre-Sun days when a registration key was required, the info you sent to generate the key had to match the info in the running SO. But the info is also automatically included or used as defaults in various other places. (Basicly, it fills in your entry in your AddressBook.) > Why are the data transfer rates so slow? (I'm not using Netscape > or anything else at the same time). You might get better answers to this in the staroffice newsgroups at starnews.sun.com. They readily admit that the browser is somewhat crude and completely unoptimized at this point. (Several of the list members have expressed the hope that Sun will replace the StarOffice browser core with the Mozilla core when it becomes sufficiently stable.) It is also possible that there's some interaction with the Linux mode that is exacerbating the problem. > Does the fact that "Register SO" is still on the task list mean > that I have not successfully registered it? It probably just means that you haven't manually checked it off as having been done. This might have been handled automatically in the pre-Sun versions that actually required a registration key. But now that registering is optional I suspect that it doesn't actually have any good way to tell whether you've registered or not. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message