Will you send an email to the list when version 5 is available. I would definitely burn it to give to friends and family... John
John Kennedy On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dave. I run the Libreoffice-na.us site. It is not an "official" > download path, but a site for a DVD project with it accessible online as > well as on a physical media. > > I found that the problems I had with downloading from LO's site due to a > problem with the mirror system of downloading. > When you download a file from there, you are actually downloading it from > one of the many mirrors available. I would be one, buy my hosting company > will not allow that to happen. > > Sometimes there are problems with the chosen mirror. > > If you go to the "info" part of the green "button" to download the file, > and click there, you will be given a list of mirrors to choose from instead > of the downloading system to make that choice for you. > > So you may be either having an issue with the "default" mirror, > OR > your dial-up company could be "limiting" the size of file being > downloaded. I know that some do from experience. > > So, here are your option, as I see it. > > 1) try one of the mirrors and start the download before you go to bed. > If it goes, you should have it by morning. > > 2) have your son download the install files [install and help] and have > him send it to you on a CD. > > 3) have you son download my DVD and send it to you. > [version 5 of the 3.5.4 DVD .iso file will be available in a few days > - version 1 is online but not as good] > > 4) I might be able to send you a copy of my DVD via post, but I do not > know how much the post office charges anymore. > > If you want to "talk to me " off the list, you can do so by either my > > [email protected] [default for the lists] > or > [email protected] [default for the DVD project] > > I help dial-up people locally from time to time. I am in central New York > State along the Pennsylvania border. I still have a laptop or two that has > a dial-up modem, but most modern ones do not, it seems. I do not have them > set up for dial-up anymore, but I have a friend that uses a free dial-up > service that limits to 10 hours of work per month. I understand that their > paid service also has a limiting factor on how large of a file you can > download. It is not stated anywhere I have seen, but he has seen it happen > with others with that service. If he needs to download large, either I do > it or he comes to my place to access my home/office network's Internet > access. I also share that access via a private wireless system with > several people in my apartment building. This secured network is part of > my own network with a separate router for their use and will not access my > part of the network due to the IP addresses from one network are different > from the other and you cannot access one part from the other. > > So, hopefully it would be the mirror that is chosen for you. Otherwise you > will need to have someone send you the install files on a CD or a DVD if > you want more than just the basic installs. > > Check out this link to see what my DVD has beyond the basic installs. You > can find these files other places, but I gathered them into one place. > Also I have the largest American English spell checking dictionary for LO, > or as far as I know and have been told. There are in the dictionary > section of the DVD's web site with "kpp" in the titles. > > http://libreoffice-na.us/**English-3.5-installs/index.**html<http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/index.html> > > > On 06/25/2012 02:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi Dave :) >> >> Errr, that was your 1st post to the list! I can guess at your original >> question which appears to have been lost in the ether. >> >> There are a lot of possible different reasons why downloading doesn't >> work. The easiest work-around might be to get yoru son to download >> LibreOffice onto his machine and then make a Cd to post to you as a normal >> small parcel. Even better would be if he would download the North American >> Dvd for you >> http://libreoffice-na.us/ >> >> Tim of Kracked Press at the NA project might be able to post a dvd to you >> but i am not sure how much he would charge. Hopefully he would at least >> recoup costs from whatever he charged you! >> >> As for your own downloading problems. Which Operating System are you >> using? Is it an MS Windows one, maybe Xp? Perhaps not Windows at all, >> maybe Ubuntu? Mac? Something else? >> >> Do you know your hard-drive's size? More to the point how much empty >> space is left on the drive at the moment? It might just be that you need >> to empty your wastebin and the wastebin in your emailing system. >> >> Don't worry if you don't know answers to some or all of those things but >> if you do know it might help us to help you >> Good luck and regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Dave Richardson >> <dave.richardson@mindspring.**com<[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> From: Dave Richardson >> <dave.richardson@mindspring.**com<[email protected]> >> > >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my >> install of Libre Office. >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 17:13 >> >> Thank you for responding. >> I have a dial-up connection and after 5 or 6 attempts over three days I >> never got more then 20 mg download when the mindspring shut me down. >> My son says he can download 208 mg into a CD in less then 10 minutes >> but... >> I am retired now and LibreOffice still lets me play. >> Should I take the computer to Denver and let him try to download into my >> computer? >> Thanks >> Dave >> > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected].** > org <users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
