____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 02 November 2007 16:54 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:04:58 +0000
> <1252108.fG5DYnlMfv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 01 November 2007 16:14 : \____
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:59:27 +0000
>>> <3411414.cUvSyD4jLC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> <posted & mailed>
>>>>
>>>> ____/ Jerry McBride on Thursday 01 November 2007 14:39 : \____
>>>>
>>>>>> The copy process may stop responding when you try to copy files from a
>>>>>> server on a network to a Windows Vista-based computer
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> | On a Windows Vista-based computer, when you try to copy files from a
>>>>>> | server on a network, the copy process may stop responding (hang), and
>>>>>> | you may receive a message that resembles the following:
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> | Calculating Time Remaining
>>>>>> |
>>>>>> | 0 minutes remaining
>>>>>> `----
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/931770
>>>>>
>>>>> What a laughable excuse for crappy programming...
>>>>
>>>> Progress bars. Computer science 201.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think there are multiple issues here. Presumably, one
>>> issue is in fact the progress bar (there's another bug
>>> somewhere that shows more than 43000 days remaining!), but
>>> another might be that the copy service and/or underlying
>>> communications is disrupted or stuck. The fact that it's
>>> an intermittent also does not help in diagnosis.
>>>
>>> Maybe they should borrow some of the wget code...? :-)
>>
>> There was something to do with curl getting into wget or
>> something in the news the other day. Also, the maintainer
>> of GNU wget is setting up mailing lists or something...
>> I can't recall the details, but wget is a Swiss army knife
>> that I use a lot.
>>
>
> Very useful, although I don't know all of its capabilities. However,
> I've used it for:
>
> - simple web fetching -- mostly to see what server a site is running
> - mirroring part of a site for my own use
> - fetching and caching web pages for later presentation in an
> experimental Web browser
I use wget to drop nightly backups of some blogs (other than doing a mysqldump
as a cron job, which puts the backups as a stack _on the server_). Other
things I've done with wget is a little tool that makes a pseudo-RSS feed out
of any Web page which does not have RSS feeds. It tracks changes and uses diff
with an index. It's on my site under "Utilities".
> That only scratches the surface, really. Can I do this with IE?
> Maybe some of it with WinInet or WinHTTP, and only if I do some
> C/C++ development.
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