From: "G. Roderick Singleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: Phil Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Downloading
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:20:12 -0500
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 17:49 +0000, Phil Knight wrote:
> I am not currently using any version of OpenOffice - because I can't
> download it. I am running a 1GHz Dell with Windows 2000Pro, and am on a
56k
> dialup (which runs at about 31k in fact) with a two hour cutoff. The
> downloading file is going to take 6 hours 30 mins to download. I came to
the
> two hour cutoff, clicked pause, reconnected, and clicked resume. And was
> told that the download had finished. Of course, it hadn't. So what do
those
> of us not on broadband do to get your product? Not everyone lives in a
> broadband compatible area, and there those who don't want it anyway. Any
> chance of it being made available in more manageable chunks - or
compressed?
> I don't need the maths bit - or possibly even the drawing module,as I
have
> enough artwork programs already.
I suggest you try a download manager that can be restarted. While not
on the page you get to by clicking the graphic on www.openoffice.org to
download, the download does offer some more info. I have pasted it here
for you:
Download Managers There are several download managers that
enable you to resume downloading after an interruption. Most of
these are for Windows. For a general survey of the best download
managers, go to:
*
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/articles/download-managers.html
See also:
* Free Download Manager
* Downloader for X
* GetRight
* Go!Zilla
* Download Accelerator Plus
* NetAnts
* ProZilla (Linux)
*
*
As to the various modules, these are an install time option. As an
integrated suite, OOo has a largish core and small modules that do not
work without the core. Savings by eliminating modules is not, in my
opinion, worth the extra work for the little space savings one gets. To
put this in perspective MSO is about the same size if not bigger.
There is a project, http://distribution.openoffice.org/sets/ , whose
work will eventually result in small packages that can be downloaded bit
by bit and reconstituted at the receiving end. If you look you will see
some experimental files that attaempt to do this.
Hope this helps
--
PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST.
OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead
http://documentation.openoffice.org/
Thanks for the link to the article. I have a great respect for Patrick
Kolla. But I was surprised to see Go!Zilla in your list. I've removed that
and eZula from more than one machine when sorting out spyware problems for
people who have been running their original antivirus for three years
without updating, or even running on broadband for two years with NO
antivirus at all!
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