James C. McPherson wrote:
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
James C. McPherson wrote:
[...]
1) why is there no link to the solitary sparc or x86
dvd iso image? People *really* hate having to start
5 or 6 separate downloads when they have the connection
to sustain a single iso download.
As a quick fix suggestion the SUN Download Manager can be
enhanced to start >1 download streams in parallel for the file
segments, unzip and subsequently join them together (and
also verify the checksums).
This should ease the hate factor.
A good suggestion, except that the people who complain to
me about it really do not want to be using a java app in
order to do a download. wget is where it's at for them.
The incrediblylongandwierdlygeneratedrandomdownloadfilenames
are also a significant annoyance factor.
In that case another alternative is to have the download center
generate a shell script on the fly that will have all the wget,
md5sum and sundry with URLs valid for the particular login
session and proxy settings being detected from the browser's
settings.
Regards,
Moinak.
James C. McPherson
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Solaris kernel software engineer
Sun Microsystems
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