Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Blu-ray discs labels say "25 GB" but the media offer only 25025314816
> bytes, which shows that the thrifty merchants give us not more than 17
> floppies of programmer's rebate.
Same for some memory. It turned out in a system audit, when the team
assigned 16GB of memory to
* Monday, May 08, 2017 7:15AM
> *To:* Debian-user <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Download Manager
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2017 23:37:53 +0530 Ashok Inder
> wrote:
>
> > For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single desce
Hi,
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> So you get what's advertised. What are you complaining about ?
There ain't no gifts any more.
> Do you just miss the old time when 74' CD-Rs were labelled 650 MB but
> actually contained 650 MiB/680 MB ?
Yeah. That was when a whole GNU/Linux did fit on a single CD.
On 05/08/2017 10:19 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> The image 2.png says "91.2 MB (9,11,79,280 bytes)". Ignoring the strange
> commas in the byte number one can compute
That's probably due to the Indian numbering system[0] being used, which
groups digits above 9,999 in twos.
Regards,
/peter
[0] http
On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 11:37:53PM +0530, Ashok Inder wrote:
> For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download Manager.
Have you tried JDownloader? (http://jdownloader.org)
> For eg: I remember back in 2010, downloading a 5-6mb of a single file (mp3 to
> be precise), the wget ende
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On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 11:55:02AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > "Merchant's MB". [...]
> > May I use that quote from time to time?
>
> Sure. It's a translation from ancient german "Verkaeufermeg", an expression
>
Le 08/05/2017 à 11:55, Thomas Schmitt a écrit :
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
"Merchant's MB". [...]
May I use that quote from time to time?
Sure. It's a translation from ancient german "Verkaeufermeg", an expression
from the time when the disks reached gigabyte sizes and the disk sellers
began to
Hi,
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> "Merchant's MB". [...]
> May I use that quote from time to time?
Sure. It's a translation from ancient german "Verkaeufermeg", an expression
from the time when the disks reached gigabyte sizes and the disk sellers
began to count in SI units, which gave them 7.4 perce
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On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:19:47AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
[...]
> That's simply the ambiguity between merchants' and physicists' MB and
> programmers' MiB.
"Merchant's MB". Thomas, you made my day again.
May I use that quote from time to time
Hi,
Ashok Inder:
> Have a look at the attachments, Randomly downloaded a file, 87mb file
> turned out to be 91mb file.
> ... 1.png ... 2.png ...
That's simply the ambiguity between merchants' and physicists' MB and
programmers' MiB.
The image 2.png says "91.2 MB (9,11,79,280 bytes)". Ignoring the
n-user <mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org>
*Subject:* Re: Download Manager
On Sun, 7 May 2017 23:37:53 +0530 Ashok Inder
wrote:
> For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download
> Manager. Its totally possible that none of you may have faced this
> issue ever but
On 5/7/17, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 08 May 2017 at 00:12:18 (+0530), Ashok Kumar wrote:
>
>> > Maybe too much of negative thoughts towards a shell command line ?
>> Not negative thoughts about shell, I'm just not comfortable. It's that I
>> cannot memorise/recall so many codes/scripts all the
On Sun, 7 May 2017 23:37:53 +0530 Ashok Inder
wrote:
> For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download
> Manager. Its totally possible that none of you may have faced this
> issue ever but its a somewhat major issue for me...
>
> First with WGET, I'm not at all comfortable with c
On Mon 08 May 2017 at 00:12:18 (+0530), Ashok Kumar wrote:
> > Maybe too much of negative thoughts towards a shell command line ?
> Not negative thoughts about shell, I'm just not comfortable. It's that I
> cannot memorise/recall so many codes/scripts all the time, I even run down
> track of rem
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On Sun, 7 May 2017 23:37:53 +0530
Ashok Inder wrote:
>For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download Manager.
>Its totally possible that none of you may have faced this issue ever but
>its a somewhat major issue for me...
>
>First
Hi,
Ashok Kumar wrote:
> This is not with respect to wget in shell, where I agree that multiple
> control to heart content is available but was in reference to GUI frontend
> of wget
Then consider to create one or more shell scripts for your various
use cases and to trigger them by desktop icons.
On Sun 07 May 2017 at 23:37:53 +0530, Ashok Inder wrote:
> For past 7 years, Linux does not have a single descent Download Manager.
> Its totally possible that none of you may have faced this issue ever but
> its a somewhat major issue for me...
It is indeed totally possible not to have experienc
over wget itself.
Regards,
Ashok Kumar
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From: Thomas Schmitt [mailto:scdbac...@gmx.net]
Sent: 07 May 2017 11:59 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Download Manager
Hi,
Ashok Inder wrote:
> First with WGET, I'm not at all comfortable with cli, the other
Hi,
Ashok Inder wrote:
> First with WGET, I'm not at all comfortable with cli, the other being
> that even with effort when I try to use wget, the file most of the time
> downloaded ends up a corrupt file.
wget works for me where a web browser would work too.
I quite often download ISOs with a fe
In , ZHAO Lina
wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM,
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In , ZHAO
>> Lina
>> wrote:
>>>http://www.springerlink.com.ezlibproxy1.ntu.edu.sg/content/23j63676550n0q45/fulltext.pdf
>>>This is the link,
>>>which need username and password.
>>>when I use kget, it's just
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In , ZHAO
> Lina
> wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM,
> >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
> >> >I tried the kget.
> >> >
> >> >can it be interactive.
> >>
>
In , ZHAO Lina
wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM,
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
>> >I tried the kget.
>> >
>> >can it be interactive.
>>
>> Yes. But, I think you might try being less terse (and consequently more
>> verbose). Asking questions a
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
> >I tried the kget.
> >
> >can it be interactive.
>
> Yes. But, I think you might try being less terse (and consequently more
> verbose). Asking questions about spe
On 2011-03-04 02:40:35 ZHAO Lina wrote:
>I tried the kget.
>
>can it be interactive.
Yes. But, I think you might try being less terse (and consequently more
verbose). Asking questions about specific interactions will probably get you
more useful information.
>such as some webs needs username
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 01:45:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/04/2011 12:27 AM, hamed hosseini wrote:
> >i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in
> >windows?
> >
>
> What exactly does a download manager do that Firefox and wget can't?
* Download a file in mu
On Vi, 04 mar 11, 09:57:53, hamed hosseini wrote:
> i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in
> windows?
$ apt-cache search download manager
has some interesting stuff. You didn't specify more concrete features
that you are looking for, so here is a quick selection
I tried the kget.
can it be interactive.
such as some webs needs username and passwd for authentication,
how to set up this?
thanks,
lina
On 03/04/2011 12:27 AM, hamed hosseini wrote:
i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in
windows?
What exactly does a download manager do that Firefox and wget can't?
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In , hamed
hosseini wrote:
>i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in
>windows?
Probably don't need one. I use KGet.
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Day Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:57:53 +0330, you wrote:
> i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in
> windows?
It's all depends from your windows manager. What enviroiment do you use?
For me the best is wget.
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Subject: Re: Download manager
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> This feature requires support on the server as well. (gtm support
> pause/resume, I assume wget does also if the proper arguments are
> given to it)
Just add t
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:17, csj wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:16:38 -0400
> "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> > |
> > | Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
> >
> > gtm
> >
> > | I would
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:16:38 -0400
"Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> |
> | Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> gtm
>
> | I would like to schedule late night downloads.
>
> This can be scr
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:54:05 +1000
"Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> Preferably with a pause/resume feature.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
>
>
> Matt
For a gui tool you can try d4x aka nt.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> Preferably with a pause/resume feature.
Example:
$ at 2300
at> wget -cw15 -t0 http://urls/go/here/
at> ^D
job 230 at 2002-10-1
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:16:38PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> This feature requires support on the server as well. (gtm support
> pause/resume, I assume wget does also if the proper arguments are
> given to it)
Just add the line `continue=on' to your ~/.wgetrc.
-rob
msg06991/pgp00
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:54, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
>
> Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> Preferably with a pause/resume feature.
>
> Any ideas ?
apt-get install prozilla
or
apt-get install prozilla-gtk
if you want to use th
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Subject: Re: Download manager
This one time, at band camp, Joyce, Matthew said:
>
> Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> Preferably with a pause/resume feature.
>
> Any ideas ?
cron + wget?
Steve
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This one time, at band camp, Joyce, Matthew said:
>
> Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
>
> I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> Preferably with a pause/resume feature.
>
> Any ideas ?
cron + wget?
Steve
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
|
| Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
gtm
| I would like to schedule late night downloads.
This can be scripted quite nicely with cron and 'wget'.
As an example, I have this cron job :
# every day, do an apt-get
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