On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 01/25/2013 11:54 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: > >> It seems we've had a number of requests for CDs lately due primarily to >> slow/metered internet connections from users. >> >> TJ's post below is good. >> >> Until we determine a way to supply CDs, I'm wondering if we should >> provide either a local page or a link to information about some decent >> download managers under "Additional Resources" on >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html >> >> Thoughts? Good resources for something like this? >> >> I know some browsers provide this type of service as an add-on etc. also. >> >> Maybe add after the 3.4.1 re-spin in a week or so. >
I don't think we want to start recommending specific 3rd party download managers. There are good ones free, open source, as well as commercial. But we should not become advertisers for 3rd party products. But saying that a "download manager" is useful in many cases, and pointing the user here might be good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_download_managers -Rob > > Yes, great idea. To restart where the previous download stopped is not known > by the most people, I guess. How to do this actually could be described in a > little extra page in the download area. > > Unfortunately, I've no experience with this as nowadays my Internet > connection is too good. ;-( > > Marcus > > > > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Open Office CD >> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:27:32 -0500 >> From: tj <t...@apache.org> >> Reply-To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> CC: jfdi...@wmconnect.com >> >> On 1/21/2013 14:27, jfdi...@wmconnect.com wrote: >>> >>> Hello I live in a area where the only internet I can get is dial up and >>> everytime I try to download Open Office i get kicked offline and have >>> to start >>> all over again so I was wondering if you have Open Office in CD form. >>> Thank >>> you for your time. >>> >>> Joe Dills</HTML> >>> >>> >> Let me heartily recommend what worked for me, when I used to have this >> problem: Firefox browser, plus the DownThemAll (DTA!) add-on, both free. >> When my download was interrupted (always at least once), DTA popped up a >> notification. One click on the stream name activates the DTA controls. A >> second click on "Resume", and away it goes, picking up right where it >> left off. On a bad day, this might happen several times, but it worked >> so well that I don't recall ever having to repeat a download. >> >> (With a 10 Mb broadband, the time went from 8 hours to 4 /minutes/. >> Dial-up is a PITA.) >> >> HTH, >> /tj/
