On 05/09/2007 08:20 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 22:55 -0700, Rocky Cooper wrote: >>> Greetings: >>> >>> I had lost my OEM version of Corel's office suite of products when >>> my PC suffered a horrendous crash due to a corrupted driver >>> downloaded from nVidia. For some unknown reason, my system did not >>> care for the new motherboard chipset drivers. My master CD for >>> Corel would not reinstall, as it asks for a Registration Code, and >>> how can you have one when it was installed at Dell during the >>> manufacture of my PC? > > > > Just a thought .......... wouldn't a question like "how safe is my > > operating system" posed to Microsoft be a more relevant question ? > > > > -G > > > > I like this answer. I think it should be a standard answer to anyone > asking about Windows and security in the same breath. :) > > I have forwarded this to the OP as he doesn't seem subscribed to the list. > >
I wonder about the wisdom of using that as a standard answer to anyone. If you download StarOffice & patches from Sun you'll find that their files *are* signed. I seriously doubt that Sun have any Windows servers (except in the test lab). Example: StarOffice 8 Patch Id Updated Download Size Readme R/S Description 120185-10 Apr/04/07 HTTP 254.2M Readme S StarOffice 8 (Solaris): Update 6 Signed HTTP ^^^^^^ 120187-09 Apr/17/07 HTTP 195.2M Readme S StarOffice 8 (Windows): Update 6 Signed HTTP ^^^^^^ 120184-09 Apr/04/07 HTTP 368.8M Readme S StarOffice 8 (Linux): Update 6 Signed HTTP ^^^^^^ Perhaps a better one would be: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s03.html ==== How can I verify that the downloaded file is OK? You can verify that the downloaded file is error free by doing an MD5 checksum validation. The MD5 checksums for each release can be found on the specific download page for that release. Navigate to the latest release information via the Download tab visible at the top of most OpenOffice.org web pages. ==== and adding: See:http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
