The Thursday 2005-04-28 at 18:59 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
A few versions back, it was even easier, because there was an rpm to get our local SDB server. Alas, it no longer exists. :-/
Maybe they think that every body has a full-time internet connection!
Shortsighted, isn't it?
Ah, but somethings, like update deltas for YOU are a very good idea. They started using inclremental patches in 8.something, but they didn't always create them: aparently they were not inmediate (easy) to make.
There is one very intelligent site I have come across (and which I use when necessary) which is LEADTEK in Taiwan. The application for the TV cards I have is nearly 30Mb big so what Leaktek have intelligently done is to archive the program using RAR and also break it up into 5Mb chunks. They did this, as they state on their site, for those who don't have broadband and can, therefore, using dial-up, download one part at a time at their convenience, and after they have all the parts they run the first chunk (an executable) which then merges the other 5 chunks into the one complete application. Wish there were more sites with brains around.
Well, I'm content if I can stop the ftp transfer, and continue another time. I do that with big download, like kernels, spread over dozens of connections on several days. I have seen some sites compressing with two different compresors, one on top of the other. Surprisingly, sometimes they get a noticiable size reduction (even if one of them was an autodecompress file, with a .exe stub). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson