Am 01/29/2013 11:09 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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
OK, to create an own page and write some stuff that could be identified
as advertising is of course not the correct way. But some little text
about what a DL manager can do for you, advantages/disadvantages and a
link to a list of applications like you mentioned is IMHO OK.
Marcus
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/
