Carlos, On Sunday 17 December 2006 17:11, Carlos E. R. wrote: > ... > > aria2c, a metalink client, which uses ftp and http protocols to > download from different servers.
Maybe using immature protocols and clients is not worth any savings it seems to offer? > Azureus is a bittorrent client, ... Yeah, I know that... > But, AFAIK, both ftp and http downloads do not have error checking > nor correction capabilities, other than what tcp has. Which is significant. It's very unlikely that undetected packet corruption will pass the TCP checksumming. > ... > > Burning takes some time, the dvd media has a cost - even if it is > relatively cheap -, and I hate to make more coasters, I already have > too many of them. Further, the writer unit wears down, the lenses are > made of some kind of plastic which ends by deforming and inutilizes > the unit. Again. Use R/W (i.e., rewritable) media. The best of both worlds. > And finally, I would hate to reboot the computer with the newwwwww > dvd, and then learn I got a new coaster. I prefer to know where I > stand as soon as possible. There's no need to reboot. YaST can verify the checksum of new release media. > ... > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
