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StarOffice 6.0 Beta Available
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.
I served 66-68, various units, and during 68, I was Army Rangers. During My first tour, with the 82nd AB, I had a really good buddy Keith, who was killed, his body was never found. During my days in the Rangers we would do these things called LRRPS, Long Range Recon PAtrols, we would have 2 to 4 or more men, sometimes had Nung Mercenaries, or ARVIN, basically look into things. While we had a 4 man team, 1 guy carried our radio, and a few days into the patrol, we were ambushed and caught in a crossfire, 2 of us got away, the 2 men, 1 who had the radio were dead. The 2 of us, got the hell out of the area ASAP. About 3 days after that, we were supposed to get to the LZ and make our trip home, we missed it, we tried for the secondary LZ, missed it, were were MIA. Now your probably wondering what has this got to do with a ghost, while 5 weeks in the jungle, walking around hoping to god that we would run into an american patrol, but instead, a platoon of NVA regulars had to do, we couldn't run, they were too close, the two of us just laid there and waited until they were close enough so our shots would count, this firefight killed my pal, and shot me up real bad, I lost so much blood, I passed out. When I came to I was in the same place, my dead pal laying there, I knew the NVA went through our pockets and stripped us, my watch was gone, and so were my boots, and our weapons and what ever they could use. Now I should be dead, I was there for a 2 days before a patrol found me, during that whole time, I saw Keith, he watched me, didn't say nothing, just kind of hunkered down. I felt a strange feeling, while he was there I felt safe, like everything was going to be ok. I wasn't spooked, like I said I felt really safe. The doctors said it was a God Damn Miracle I made it. When I went home, I went to Keith's Mother and fathers house, told them the story. His mother and father gave me this looked like she understood everything I said. It was strange and I still don't know if it really happened, it was that strange.
I win. Eat it.
you know the rest...
foist powst!!!
...but it may be my fault.
Granted I'm talking about the previous release, but my fonts all still looked like crap (blocky and hard to read) and the text area just wasn't as smooth as Office.
I kinda wish everyone would stop trying to make Unix a desktop machine when windows and mac do it so much better already. That's the one thing they do very well. There's nothing wrong with having unix servers and win/mac clients.
I have yet to see an OS do both (server and client) very well. Maybe it has something to do with the basic design concepts?
Stand up you spineless chicken-shit nerds
STAND UP OR LET SLAPDASH DIE!
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The girl had listen to him and had declared to him the figure in black robes was a demon aspersion. Now of course, now determined to vanquish what was hurting and haunting the boy, they began to plan how to remove the demon. The entity assumed not wanting to leave attempted at all extents to cease all conversation between the to of them. It would change volume,fuz up, and breath in phone lines. The 2 then would try to talk over AOL (AKA aohell ), but the demon would still, try to stop their conversation by freezing their computars.It then could go house to house and back again as it pleased to assault its victioms.It did this threw slaming,paralyzing,tempature changes, unsettling feelings,ect It had mingled and became entangled in the boys aura a # of times when in attempt to possess him. The foul spirit had oddly known bolth boy and girls weaknesses; the boys back, and the girls ribs-wich gave it yet another advantage. On the third night of torture the boy, without permission of the girl, had taken the demon inside. Why did this entity antagonize them? What was it that let it there? who was it? What was its modives.. that we may never know for now it sleeps, it lays low in the boys body caged and enclosed in the boys body?
When a story submission is rejected, it would be nice to be given a reason. I mean, look at this:
2001-10-02 18:29:08 StarOffice 6.0 Beta released (articles,sun) (rejected)
Talk about being impersonal. Sure I can see the reason was that 753 other people had the same idea as me, but at the time I'm thinking "What, because it's a competing product to KOffice?"
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
Got a really good troll rate going here. Lets see if we can keep the troll to nerd ratio well above 3:1 better yet dare we go for 4:1.
Has anybody that has used Star Office done a comparison review between the new Star Office and the newest KOffice? KOffice looked pretty good, but I don't use office programs much anymore, so I didn't get a chance to work with it for long.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
Wow, you truly are a moron.
This article really is "News for Turds"
jesus, it took over ten minutes for the troll mod. are the moderators all busy wanking today?
I was in a mechanized Infantry company in Germany back in 1989-1991. We use what is called a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, it weighs about 51,000 pounds and looks like a tank. We were doing live fire exercises at night and we finished about 2 am. I was driving a Bradley in a convoy of about 10 other Bradley's, returning to the motor pool. The drivers used a large night vision scopes to see by (it's like watching green TV) and the Bradley commanders use one that attaches to their helmets. While driving a commanders is to stand on his seat so that half of his body is outside of the vehicle, so that he'll have a better view of the surroundings. At about 3 am, I saw a man standing by the dirt road we were traveling on. I figured he was one of the German range patrolman and that he was just waiting for us to pass. Right after the Bradley in front me passed, this (man) walked right out in to the dust of that Bradley. I hit the brakes to avoid hitting him. At exact moment my commander said watch out but it was to late. I new I must have had hit him, I didn't see him come out on either side. My commander then asked me if I had seen a man walk out in front of us too. I said yes, and then he said that he had too. But when he turned around to check for a body, there wasn't one any where on the road. This dirt road was about 50 feet across and when we returned to the motor pool, took a flashlight and checked the whole front end and found nothing, no blood, no piece of clothing there was nothing.
The MSKB had over 400 "issues" upon release of Office XP. It's now well above 2000.
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Exactly. (???)
Is is not installed properly on this system and cannot function (like that's news) Please reinstall Mircosoft frontpage (maybe deinstall).
Does Anyone know what the filenames of the windows binaries are?
(office6.exe, office6beta.exe, sofficebeta.exe)
Thanks