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StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the for-small-values-of-available dept.

Lumpish Scholar and 753 other people wrote in to let us know that Sun has released its beta of Star Office 6. CNET has a blurb about the release as well. I was hoping that Sun's site might be unclogged enough to try it out myself, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards today.

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  1. Re:Simple answer: Simple text! by anomaly · · Score: 5, Funny

    With all due respect, doesn't it seem a bit odd that a person demanding ASCII format would have a .sig that's an ideogram?

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  2. An easy doc - txt filter by Starship+Trooper · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hey, this filter even comes bundled with every Unix distribution! Check it out:

    $ strings WordFile.doc > WordFile.txt
    $ less WordFile.txt

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  3. How long before free CD's appear by rleyton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, don't you just hate it:

    * Day 1 - You must register to download product, but server overloaded due to demand and /. effect.

    * Day 2 - You must still register to download product, but server takes ages to allow you to download. Give up.

    * Day 3 - You've forgotten your password, re-register, to find that server's been misconfigured by some Sun intern SA who doesn't know his apache rewrites from his linux rawrite.

    * Day 4 - You get registered, get the software, and find the file got corrupted in the download.

    * Day 5 - Internet connection down, so nothing to do but work.

    * Day 6 - Internet connection up, remembered password, downloaded product, ran of out of disk space.

    * Day 7 - Having mentioned the product was out to your colleagues, a week ago now (without having seen it), you are ridiculed when they realise
    you're still using MS-Office on the sly.

    * Day 8 - Hurrah! Downloaded, installed and running. Success. Treat yourself to visit a conference that's on in town. Some bloke hands you a "special edition CD", featuring beta of staroffice 6. Go home to weep.

    *WHY* is there this damn registration. *WHY* aren't there loads of mirrors (sunsite!!!!). You know they'll be dishing out the damn CD's eventually.

    And they say the network is the computer....

    and after all that, my downloads working, on day one.

    strange things are afoot at the circle-k.

    (no, i don't work weekends these days)

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