On Monday 02 February 2009, Flem D. Williams wrote: >WHAT'S UP WITH THIS DOWNLOAD CRAP? > Why the shouting?
>For more than five hours I've started the download for OpenOffice3. >Each and every time, this damn download hangs, stops, or crashes around 28% > of completion. After this, the whole operation is frozen into a dead state > where everything on the pc and keyboard is immobile, frozen or dead! You have a local problem. I just downloaded that a few days ago. I have no idea if you yourself have hardware problems, or if your ISP in limiting it somehow. >In order to bail out of such a predicament, the only available option is to > press the Reset button because of the preplanned, malicious hacking wrought > on by this listless, academic crackpot who devised and programmed this > damming crap into the system in the first place! To me that confirms that you have a hardware problem. Humm, I see you are sending your message with outlook express, so you are running windows. I suggest, since you didn't state how you were downloading it, that you first download a late version of FireFox for windows, and give its download agent a try. > >Needless to say, this type of shutdown has happened before, causing severe > hard drive damage, resulting in the purchase of several new hard drives. > There is no valid reason for such reckless, wanton behavior in operating a > website There was not anything wrong with the website sir, only the behaviour of your machine or its borked windows install. There is also very little the web site may have to do with your hard drive failures unless you are in the habit of pulling the power plug while a download is in progress. That may trash the filesystem and require a format & reinstall or at least a scandisk run. Very rarely will it actually damage the drive. > >To cut through the chase: This website: http://download.openoffice.org/ > simply sucks, and is doing so all the way up to the gates of hell! I cannot > understand why a big company such as Sun Microsystems would shell out their > products to some unknown, questionable characters who's very intention are > clouded with ulterior motives. The web site is fine, I just used the link you posted, and while it is slow (about 20k/sec) this time of the day, the download is proceeding. Please check your machinery, starting with a check for defective memory, I suggest using memtest86 and letting it run about a day to catch all errors and report them, replacing the memory if there are errors, then check, or have it checked for viri and trojans. Something is assuredly ill. Linux, FWIW, doesn't seem to be very susceptible to the various ills suffered by windows users. That, and the zero cost of linux are why I run it exclusively on 4 machines here. >For the reasons stated above, I will simply get a copy of OpenOffice3 from > my neighbor. Be our guest, that is absolutely, perfectly legal to do, and in fact is encouraged. Put it on as many machines as you can. >Thanks for the hassle! No, thank you! For showing yourself as quite childish with your profanity decorated post. My reply may be the only one you get as this is not a 'company site' but one maintained entirely by OpenOffice users, with some moderation for those who are not members of this mailing list. All answers you see here, are answers not from OpenOffice.org employees, but only from other users exactly like you, except we are a bit more restrained in our use of the profanities. The moderator, if it continues, may take appropriate measures, it has happened. >Flem -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. -- Linus Torvalds --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
