As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An OpenOffice.org developer, Eike Rathke, has a blog posting about nailing a bug in Calc. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just over a second.

It’s now fixed. Congratulations to the developers, and please continue to report cases like this. The more carefully you explain the bug, the more likely it is to get picked up and fixed. If developers can’t repeat the problem, they can’t fix it!

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