Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread deloptes
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
at's important: Does uget satisfy your definition of a "decent' download manager? Does it do what you need it to do? B > > > > *From:* Patrick Bartek <mailto:nemomm...@gmail.com> > *Sent:

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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.

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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),

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 >

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-08 Thread Ashok Inder
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Patrick Bartek
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread David Wright
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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Charlie Kravetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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...

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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.

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Brian
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 no

RE: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Ashok Kumar
over wget itself. Regards, Ashok Kumar -Original Message- 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

Re: Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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

Download Manager

2017-05-07 Thread Ashok Inder
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 cli, the other being that even with effort when I try to use

Re: download manager

2011-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-05 Thread ZHAO Lina
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. > >> >

Re: download manager

2011-03-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-04 Thread ZHAO Lina
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-04 Thread Darac Marjal
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 c

Re: download manager

2011-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-04 Thread ZHAO Lina
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

Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Ron Johnson
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? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: D

Re: download manager

2011-03-03 Thread Artur Frydel
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. -- Artur 'bzyk' Frydel Tam gdzie deamon m

download manager

2011-03-03 Thread hamed hosseini
i need best download manager in linux ,like Internet Download Manager in windows?

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi Mathias! Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can restore the XUL-based dialog again by setting > "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" in about:config to "false". That solved my problem. Now saving is *really* fast, even in a large folder! Great. Hope developers will leave us with th

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Andreas. Andreas Goesele, 14.04.2007 00:52: > Earlier versions of firefox had their own "save as" dialog - giving > for instance the choice whether the just the html page, or the whole > page should be saved. > > But now at least I get something which looks like the standard gnome > "save as"

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Goesele
"Andreas Goesele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the > browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow > or even makes the browsers hang: I should have written "saving a page" is incredibly slow. Now it's clear that

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Goesele
Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps you can edit the Download Preferances in Gecko-Based w/e to > download to a differant directory? Try /tmp or even /home/you/download/. > If it has to do with your home directory being very large, this may help. I tried this: But I can't change

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Andreas Goesele
macondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ananda Samaddar wrote: >> I heard somewhere (can't remember where) that it may be to do with >> ipv6 support in Mozilla. Try disabling it. Typing 'about:config' >> in the address bar will get you to the configuration options. You >> should be able to find t

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread macondo
In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home directory - which is huge - and

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Goesele wrote: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > >>> having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the >>> browsers in the subject line: Downlo

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
gt; > In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and > saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a > freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. > > My suspicion is that the download manager reads first my home

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Goesele wrote: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > >>> having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the >>> browsers in the subject line: Downlo

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Andreas Goesele
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: >> having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the >> browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or >> even makes the browsers hang: > > Try dow

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Andreas Goesele
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Close previous iceweasel processes. Start iceweasel without loading any > extensions and see if it helps. I tried this, but it didn't help. But thanks anyway! Andreas Goesele -- Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datu

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the > browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or > even makes the browsers hang: > > In all case it takes a long time f

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andreas Goesele wrote: > Any suggestions? > Close previous iceweasel processes. Start iceweasel without loading any extensions and see if it helps. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Michael Pobega
e browsers hang: > > In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and > saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I once experienced a > freeze, galeon and epiphany freeze with every attempt to save. > > My suspicion is that the download manager reads fir

iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-12 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or even makes the browsers hang: In all case it takes a long time for the download manager to start and saving too is very slow. With firefox (iceweasel) I

Re: Iceweasel download manager problem

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:32:06PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Running latest available Iceweasel on Debian unstable, when trying to > save a link the download manager never opens, and the destination file > is simply created with size 0 and downloading don't progress.

Re: Iceweasel download manager problem

2007-01-11 Thread Kent West
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Running latest available Iceweasel on Debian unstable, when trying to > save a link the download manager never opens, and the destination file > is simply created with size 0 and downloading don't progress. > Clear your cache. Restart Icew

Re: Iceweasel download manager problem

2007-01-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Running latest available Iceweasel on Debian unstable, when trying to save a link the download manager never opens, and the destination file is simply created with size 0 and downloading don't progress. Any ideas welcome. Cordially, Ismael I run Mozill

Iceweasel download manager problem

2007-01-11 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Running latest available Iceweasel on Debian unstable, when trying to save a link the download manager never opens, and the destination file is simply created with size 0 and downloading don't progress. Any ideas welcome. Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres m. +34679156321

mozilla plugins and download manager

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Tod
ozilla to use prozilla as its download manager but can't any documentation on how to play around with the download manager setup. Help appreciated. Thanks.. Simon. = --- Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Ever

RE: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread Joyce, Matthew
List' 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

Re: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen
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

Re: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread csj
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 s

Re: Download manager

2002-10-15 Thread Klaus Imgrund
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 ? > > >

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
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>

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
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

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Matthias Szupryczynski
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

RE: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
27; 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 -- "It

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Gran
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 -- "It is the creationists who

Re: Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
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

Download manager

2002-10-14 Thread Joyce, Matthew
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]