[K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0

[Glenn Arnold]

Petre,

I agree with you 110%! I will use this argument with the tech
coordinator at the school, but this Business Teacher is going to
complain that she does not have the teaching materials for OpenOffice
Impress and will be insisting on Microsoft Office and if I can not get
this working on ltsp I will be insisting they buy new equipment to run
Microsoft Office.  Because they are borrowing this lab from a vocational
school that was house in their building.

-Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Petre Scheie [mailto:petre at maltzen.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:47 AM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0

I have nothing to offer regarding your load problem.  But I will suggest
this regarding 
your political situation vis a vis Powerpoint and Impress: Casually
mention that, gee, 
MS has a new version of Office out, with a radically different
interface.  That means 
that much of what the kids have been taught about using PP is now
outdated.  Perhaps it 
would be better if the class focused on the conceptual level of
presentations, so that 
kids aren't always learning stuff that's outdated by the time they
graduate.  Most 
people will agree with this.  Then, since it doesn't matter what version
you're using, 
it doesn't matter whether it's PP or OOo Impress, since you're focusing
on the concepts.

Petre

Glenn Arnold wrote:
> Hi everybody!,
> 
> I have Dell Poweredge 2850 with two Dual core 2.8GHZ processors with
8GB
> of Ram and Raid 5 disk setup.  I am running CXOffice pro 5.0 running
> Office 2000.  The problem is at the school there is Microsoft
Powerpoint
> class that has 21 students when they start Powerpoint running top
shows
> CPU 5%-10% utilization, but the load shows up to 116 % fluctuates
> 85%-90%. The server for troubleshooting purposes had only 21 students
on
> at the time with 4 processors I would expect it should handle this
load
> with no problems.  Is their anybody else running Powerpoint with 20
some
> students without any problems?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> If the school would let me have my way we would just run Impress and
> things would just work.  But, this is a political thing and their pcs
> are too old and decrepit and I will  not support the lab running
> Windows!
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> -Glenn
>  
> 
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