It happened to you too? Someone sent you a docx file and you don't have the ability to open it up with the version of Word on your trusty computer? I feel your pain.
I'm writing this after yet another Microsoft Word DOCX file was sent my way without someone asking if that file format would work for me. Sigh.
The first thing I tried was a search for free docx to doc conversion. The sites that ranked for that keyword had poop. One had very nasty comments from people who were angry because they arrived looking for free and two of the links the other site suggested cost money for the conversion, one a lot of money.
I wasted time trying one because they did not try to charge you until after you uploaded your file. Another they suggested just flat out did not work.
So I kept looking. I finally found a solution that was actually free and worked but it was not online.
In a stupefying demonstration of greedy self-interest, Capital One continues to run their Lost-themed television commercial in the aftermath of Air France Flight 447. If you've not seen it, the spot features victims of a massive plane crash grizzled and threadbare on the coast of a deserted island.
The background includes the beach and huge pieces of airliner wreckage, complete with giant jet engine. The commercial pokes fun at this sorry state of affairs and depicts the importance of customizing a credit card ahead of calling for help.
If you've been a cave somewhere perhaps you missed the fact that Air France Flight 447 went missing over the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June with 228 real people aboard. As this is published just 17 bodies have been found.
To: abuse@ google.com (refuses to accept this type of report)
To: abuse#google.com@ devnull.spamcop.net (Notes)
That's right, the "Don't Be Evil" Google hypocrite won't accept spam reports from Spamcop. I'd heard this before but when I went to LART a spamming scumbag this morning, I saw the above in the details after Spamcop finished parsing the spam.
The scum distributing malware are at it again with a new Fourth of July attack using social engineering techniques to lure unwary users to visit websites where malware payloads will infect their PCs.
Delete any message you receive with these characteristics - DO NOT VISIT their links!
Subject: Independence Day firework broke all records
Message body:
Proud to be an American http:// 69.176.42.197 /
The United States is investigating a possible breach of security involving the laptop computer of senior official in the Commerce Department.
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez had a laptop computer with him on a recent trip to China but left it out of sight for some time during the visit. Shortly thereafter, his department's computer network may have been the target of serious and concentrated attacks from China reports say.
