Thank you Andavari , it is done .I guess something is not quite right with the java download site...or maybe my machine is just being reluctant to download from there.....
I guess something is not quite right with the java download site...or maybe my machine is just being reluctant to download from there.....
I dunno, I remember someone posting way back about it being listed on two different Sun Java sites, one didn't update as quickly as the other. Maybe that's the one you visited, don't know really. When I used to use Java I'd always just get it from FileHippo.
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And that update issue about the installed update checker telling you your version was already up-to-date, that thing never found any new updates on my system, not even once!
All the mods here keep a sharp look out for spam. Some just gets deleted without comment, others are left ( with the spam links removed) so folk can see we do notice this problem.
Also we rely on other forum members to report any spam via the !report button.
As Andavari points out, we are lucky here having a strong mod team to try to keep the forum free of spam.