Carlos, On Sunday 17 December 2006 17:11, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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aria2c, a metalink client, which uses ftp and http protocols to download from different servers.
Maybe using immature protocols and clients is not worth any savings it seems to offer?
Azureus is a bittorrent client, ...
Yeah, I know that...
But, AFAIK, both ftp and http downloads do not have error checking nor correction capabilities, other than what tcp has.
Which is significant. It's very unlikely that undetected packet corruption will pass the TCP checksumming.
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Burning takes some time, the dvd media has a cost - even if it is relatively cheap -, and I hate to make more coasters, I already have too many of them. Further, the writer unit wears down, the lenses are made of some kind of plastic which ends by deforming and inutilizes the unit.
Again. Use R/W (i.e., rewritable) media. The best of both worlds.
And finally, I would hate to reboot the computer with the newwwwww dvd, and then learn I got a new coaster. I prefer to know where I stand as soon as possible.
There's no need to reboot. YaST can verify the checksum of new release media.
... Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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