Mick wrote:
> You people don't know what pain means! :-))
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> [ebuild  R  ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.4.0
>
> Estimated update time: 5 minutes.
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> [ebuild N   ] app-office/openoffice-2.4.0
>
> Estimated update time: 23 hours, 12 minutes.
> ----------------------------------
>
> The funny thing is that this PIII laptop is *significantly* faster than the
> PIII desktop that had its MoBo blow up on me. The irony of course is that
> the compiled from source is most needed on those machines that take the
> longest to emerge.
>  


Yeh, I know that. My first install was on a laptop Toshiba Tecra 8100.
But it _always_ works fine.

W. Canis