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: "David \"Pita\" Kopp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:41:20 -0600
Ken Hawkins wrote:
i am not from apple but let me see if i can help enlighten you here...
Let me enlighten you in turn...
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
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?
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...
There has to be server side support, too. The client needs to support
it, but so does the server. I'd bet that he has tried, and just can't
get it to work because the server won't support it.
As an aside, I haven't been able to connect to any of the servers at
all, even over DSL.
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!+
Download accelerators usually work by caching data. There is no way to
really make a modem download anything faster, other than
compressing/decompressing text on each end, and that should be done
transparently already if it's possible.
hopefully this helps you out. good luck
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David
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