On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:08:43 +1300
Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It will
> be a cold day in hell before I knuckle under to the monopoly abuse by
> telecom of the asdl sector.
>
> Big ISO to download? Just leave your modem running all night with
> wget and go off line when you get up. It may take several nights to
> get the ISO, but who rings in the middle of the night.
I like your attitude!
Seems to me that the underlying assumption that if you're serious about
computers you must have broadband is simply propaganda spread by vendors
who wish to ease their workload.
You lucky sods in Christchurch with cheap cable etc. quickly forget that
it's not available to all.
Linux was born, raised and thrived in an atmosphere where MODEMs were
king. I'm sure that there are many tricks out there that I've never
heard of that can help us in the current world of big downloads.
Those of us who are still on dial-up - for whatever reason - need some
pointers!
a very few come to my mind, though I don't yet know how to maximise
benefit from them.
wget
rsync
More, anyone? especially including case studies and examples. I would
like to know how to do the above job unattended. Say, set up a cron job
to connect (say at 1 am), chug through a list of downloads, and
disconnect at, say, 6:00 am, finished or not, to be continued the next
night unless manually stopped or run out of downloads.
Another task is to wit till the wee hours to download all email, but
that's a whole other topic . . .
--
Alasdair Tennant
Dunedin
New Zealand
