Yuk, top-posting. Reformatted. On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tue, June 14, 2005 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. You may also find <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> enlightening... > Subject: Setup.exe > > > [snip irrelevant message] ...especially since the content of that message was completely irrelevant to what you said. > I used cygwin for the first time since three years ago when it seemed > quite different from now. It could have been longer. > > I find the intention of the interface commendable but its implementation > confusing. > > Normally, I choose FTP over HTTP for downloading. That's a mistake here, > because the cygwin setup UI made me spend 15 minutes choosing and > unchoosing. The FTP connection timed out a few times. Setup.exe would > not renew the connection. I had to restart setup.exe. So it's pointless > to have FTP mirrors when setup.exe make them (to use an oft overused > adjective/adverb, virtually) inaccessible. I put on a computer gaming > warrior attitude trying to race my selecting/deselecting download items > against the FTP time-out (How to play computer games in the office under > your bosses' noses without them realising). I finally admitted defeat > and switched to HTTP download to enable me to continue towards a more > responsible life-style in the office. Though I did enjoy the writing style. As for renewing FTP connections -- <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. Same goes for rsync. > If you had used real.com starz movie download, you could unselect/cancel > items while the download is going on. I had to stop and restart > setup.exe a few times yesterday because, I suddenly realised I didn't > want gnomes or ghosts which would have increased my download time by a > quarter. A HTML set of forms with explanatory links to select/unselect > items and then a final checkout list. The checkout list has dependencies > listed, with unselected dependencies warnings. Also with file sizes so > that I could return to select/unselect to meet my total download size > budget I had in mind. Heh, a Cygwin shopping cart, with a checkout? Might actually work. Who's first in line to implement the "Add to Cart" button? ;-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT