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Open Office 3.0 update news – Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate Shane O’Gorman
The main site for open office located at http://www.openoffice.org/ has been down most of the day. Good news is that they have managed to get a splash screen up which shows the following:
Apologies – our website is struggling to cope with the unprecedented
demand for the new release 3.0 of OpenOffice.org. The technical teams are
trying to come up with a solution.
Thank you for your patience.
OpenOffice.org download
So you can download the new open office 3.0. I am currently downloading it now. An alternative method is if you open up open office you can see a spot on the upper right to start downloading the new version. I tried this earlier but that too crashed. I am still planning to update everyone once it gets more stable. I really cant wait to see this!
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Uncategorized Thought those annoying phone calls were over when the do not call list was established? Starting to get calls to your cell phone?
Just sick of getting solicitated by unwanted callers who will stop at nothing?
Check out this story. It seems there might be hope yet.
E-mail spam is bad, but phone spam is worse—and it used to be downright awful. How many of us in the US remember the incessant telemarketing calls that made picking up the phone a dicey proposition, back in the dark days before the Federal Trade Commission’s Do Not Call list largely put an end to the practice of commercial telemarketing? But that action—arguably the most popular government decision of the decade—didn’t put a total end to the problem, and that’s where CallerComplaints.com comes to the rescue.
The site launched earlier this year and has seen phenomenal, organic growth of 15-20 percent a month. 350,000 unique visitors a month now drop by to file complaints about phone calls and to figure out what company is behind them. Caller Complaints just picked up the FTC’s internal Do Not Call complaints database as well, merging those three million complaints with its own user-generated complaints to create a massive, searchable database of phone numbers.
User complaints are fairly typical. “Just like everyone else, it starts out with $1,000,000 loan offer,” says one. “They hang up when you ask questions or ask to be taken off their list. Has called my business 12 straight days. Shows up as different numbers, but all with the same message. Now I push #1, wait to talk to a person and then say ‘F–k You’ repeatedly until they hang up. Nothing else to do but get down and dirty.”
You can read the rest of the article here.
It really can be frustrating. I know. Unfortunately people in my business must be public. I have to publish my phone number, email, website etc. there is no end to the spam that I receive and the number of calls I get a day. It is astonishing. But at least this website might offer some hope and some help.
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Uncategorized Eau Claire Wisconsin Real Estate with Agent and Realtor® Shane O’Gorman
I was originally intending to write a post about the new release but there is a bit of a snag. It seems the release has become so overwhelmingly popular that their website keeps crashing. I am unable to download a copy and unable to find an official press release for the software. I have been testing different release candidates and I can say that you are safe installing Microsoft Office for good. I have no intention of ever installing that software again.
So here is news of the server crash instead!
OpenOffice 3.0 release hit by server crash
The OpenOffice.org servers have crashed, apparently under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite.
OpenOffice 3.0 was uploaded to the organisation’s servers at 10am BST on Monday. According to OpenOffice.org’s marketing lead, John McCreesh, “the servers seem to have collapsed under the load” of download requests.
McCreesh pointed out that the “vast majority” of downloads of the suite take place through local mirrors, but said “the fact that our central site can’t even run the bouncer [to divert requests to those local mirrors] must mean it’s… our biggest-ever download”.
“We’ve never had this kind of outage before,” McCreesh added. At the time of writing (mid-afternoon Monday), the servers were still not back up.
OpenOffice 3.0 is a significant update to the suite, which includes free, community-led alternatives to Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel. The new version includes native Mac OS X support for the first time, and is also the first iteration of OpenOffice to be able to read the .docx Office Open XML (OOXML) documents that are created in Office 2007. OOXML is the chief rival to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) specification that has been used in OpenOffice for some time.
As you can see the biggest news is that it is Mac compatible and Office 2007 compatible! So you can use this on any platform. It was funny seeing the server crash because the first article I read today warned of the crash and was wondering why they would host the software themselves. I guess hindsight is 20/20.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 officially released
Then scroll down to the comments to see the early speculation. It is no wonder because many people in the industry have been patiently waiting this release for years. It is the first time that I am aware of that a free product could truly replace Microsoft Office and not only replace, be better. It took me 30 seconds to switch from using Word to Writer. Give it a try, I promise you wont be sorry!
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