Re: Displaying an alert box
Re: Displaying an alert box
- Subject: Re: Displaying an alert box
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:45:04 -0200
At 11:31 -0700 10/15/01, Scott Herz wrote:
Just so everyone knows (I didn't at first) is that ADC's FTP servers
support the resumption of downloads. I don't know how OmniWeb does
it (or if it does it), but in IE, double clicking on an unfinished
download causes it to resume.
Omniweb doesn't seem to do it, or at least I was too angry to look
overly for it ;-)
What you say works only if you try resuming immediately, and have
accessed the ADC web page in the last 10 minutes. Otherwise the ftp
password becomes invalid, and you have to login again, get a new one,
and start downloading from the beginning.
After my download was aborted, I started downloading the 19-segment
version of the Tools. Every segment took me between 30 and 40 minutes
(on a modem... remember modems? ;-)), so unless I remembered to
reload the web page every 5 minutes or so, resuming wasn't an
option...
Actually I was downloading with Omniweb because for some reason IE
decided to use Omniweb as ftp helper, despite the fact that it wasn't
configured in the preferences. Go figure.
BTW, while doing any ftp download - IE, Omniweb, and Interarchy all
did this - CPU loading was very significant, much higher than http
downloading. Running top attributed 50 to 90% to the ftp application!
Debugging anything with project Builder while downloading meant
impossible startup times - in one case, 5 minutes instead of the
usual 20-30 seconds. Or is it just me?
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Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"Originality is the art of concealing your sources."
http://www.brockerhoff.net/ (updated Oct. 2001)