Re: Xcode 1.5 available? Not for me
Re: Xcode 1.5 available? Not for me
- Subject: Re: Xcode 1.5 available? Not for me
- From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:28:53 +0100
On 6 Aug 2004, at 7:54 pm, Ken Hawkins wrote:
i am not from apple but let me see if i can help enlighten you here...
On Aug 6, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Jeremy Dronfield wrote:
So Xcode 1.5 is available, is it? Not for those of us with a dialup
connection and a 2-hour timeout. So here's my first question - why
the f--- does Apple bother with segments?
for folks with a dial-up connection i am assuming
Yes, that's what they say. And so I repeat: why do they bother? The
segments don't help.
For people with a fast connection, they're a pointless irritation;
whereas for people with a slow dialup (me), they're too big to
download before the timeout.
sounds like you are requesting maybe smaller segments? yes?
Yes. About 15 MB would be ideal. 20 at a pinch
On a good day I can download about 22 MB within my 2-hour limit. And
make that a 1 hr 50 min limit when you allow for the time wasted
hunting for a server which isn't overloaded. Which leads to my second
question: How come resumable downloading is STILL beyond the wit of
Apple's engineers?
resumable downloading is a product of the client side software.
Firefox 1.1 via ftp can do this for sure and safari 1.2.2 can do it as
well. there are more...
I have ftp client software capable of resumable downloading (I use
Cyberduck mainly). It's no use, because once the download is
interrupted, it cannot be resumed. This appears to be due to the
temporary, "virtual" user access to the server.
here is a list of accelerators that can help you as well if you are
too slow:
http://www.download.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=download+accelerator&tg=dl
-2003&search.x=0&search.y=0&search=+Go!+
hopefully this helps you out. good luck
Thanks, but download accelerators don't really help; the margin of
improvement isn't sufficient. As many have said before me, why can't
Apple redesign their system to allow resuming, or better still just
provide a straightforward, simple http download? I've yet to hear a
satisfactory explanation for this ramshackle, Heath-Robinson system.
Regards,
-Jeremy
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