On 2008-06-09, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> * Sinister Midget peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> On 2008-06-09, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>>
>>> Great. Windows/Microsoft-only projects in Sourceforge... that's where it
>>> starts.
>>
>> That isn't new. I was looking through a lot of their stuff a few years
>> ago and found lots of stuff that was Windwoes. I thought it was odd at
>> the time.
>>
>> I used to play with and test software a lot. I always hated sourceforge
>> for their redirectors. I'd click a link off of freshmeat that would
>> take me to a list on sourceforge, which would take me to another list
>> on sourceforge, which would redirect me to the download page where it
>> would fail to download about 60% of the time, and it would take me to
>> another page to tell me it failed. I'd either have to back up from the
>> failure page to select another download site that stood a 60% chance of
>> failure, too, or I'd select one on the failure page, making the
>> resulting path back to where I started even longer. Then I'd back up 3
>> or more pages to get back where I was before that crap started.
>
> Often you can just copy the auxilary link they provide to the X
> clipboard and paste into a wget command in a console window before
> the sourceforge server starts sending the file.
That is fine. But often the auxilliary link didn't work. It does now,
but it used to fail a lot. So you still had to end up waiting to see if
the download would start or you were going to have to select another
server where the file might exist.
Thankfully the downloads are a lot smoother than they used to be.
I usually use d4x because I can drop multiple links on it and continue
on, still knowing the status of each download as I go. That's
particularly good for isos and large files.
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