From luomat at gmail.com Sun Apr 1 17:24:45 2007 From: luomat at gmail.com (TjL) Date: Fri Apr 6 07:57:07 2007 Subject: [X-SW] Resuming of HTTP Downloads after a failure In-Reply-To: References: <786C1CFE-642E-4AEA-B6CC-C943A3C9D61C@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > When attempting to download the new Parallels file at www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/>, it has been repeatedly > failing due to a server overload. If I purposefully press the Stop > Downloading button in Safari's Downloads window, I can then Resume > the downloading of that same file. But if the download fails due to > the server overload, the partial file that exists can not be > resumed. This is a tough deal since many of the dozens of attempts > have gotten more than 80 or 90% complete. Fortunately it did work > for me late last night. :-) I always use wget at the commandline, as it will automatically resume a "broken" download. wget isn't part of the standard OS X installation, but curl is: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/05/monday-man-page-curl/ TjL ps - checkout the Parallels forums, there are almost always people who announce mirrors of the new download From apple.mail.list at oryx.cc Fri Apr 6 08:09:52 2007 From: apple.mail.list at oryx.cc (Jerry Kemp) Date: Fri Apr 6 12:48:10 2007 Subject: [X-SW] Resuming of HTTP Downloads after a failure In-Reply-To: References: <786C1CFE-642E-4AEA-B6CC-C943A3C9D61C@gmail.com> Message-ID: <461662C0.5090009@oryx.cc> If you are looking for a GUI/non-shell based method, I recommend Sun Download manager. This is the download page. http://www.sun.com/download/sdm/download.xml It has saved me many times from having to restart a http download. Jerry Kemp TjL wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote: > >> When attempting to download the new Parallels file at >> , it has been >> repeatedly failing due to a server overload. If I purposefully press >> the Stop Downloading button in Safari's Downloads window, I can then >> Resume the downloading of that same file. But if the download fails >> due to the server overload, the partial file that exists can not be >> resumed. This is a tough deal since many of the dozens of attempts >> have gotten more than 80 or 90% complete. Fortunately it did work for >> me late last night. :-) > > I always use wget at the commandline, as it will automatically resume a > "broken" download. > > wget isn't part of the standard OS X installation, but curl is: > > http://www.tuaw.com/2007/03/05/monday-man-page-curl/ > > TjL > > ps - checkout the Parallels forums, there are almost always people who > announce mirrors of the new download > > From aaron at macuser.fastmail.fm Fri Apr 6 14:29:22 2007 From: aaron at macuser.fastmail.fm (Aaron) Date: Fri Apr 6 14:29:50 2007 Subject: [X-SW] Messages were held by server since March 12 till ~0300 GMT today! Message-ID: <20070406212930.8B18D7B58@heartbeat1.messagingengine.com> All these macintoshguy lists (I'm on four of them!) seem to have been down from March 12 till about 0300 GMT today, April 6! I checked the 'Received:' headers on a bunch of messages to verify that the problem was internal to listserver.themacintoshguy.com. It received the messages when they were sent, but internally transmitted them today (GMT), and then finally sent them out! - Aaron From peterstj at earthlink.net Fri Apr 27 06:10:52 2007 From: peterstj at earthlink.net (Peter Saint James) Date: Fri Apr 27 06:11:02 2007 Subject: [X-SW] Mail message display Message-ID: <4FE00156-449A-46FA-8626-23C3F04974BC@earthlink.net> Mail is trying to do me a service but screwing up. I'd like to get it to stop trying. Mail will sometimes display a message already scrolled down to new material, skipping the quoted material above. To see the quoted material, I have to scroll back up again. I don't like this. Often I want to see the quoted material first to know what the person is talking about. Even if I wanted Mail to do what it's trying to do, it's doing a lousy job and makes all kinds of mistakes about where new material is. Is there a preference somewhere that I can change to keep it from doing this? If not, is there a way to change some file so Mail will quit trying to be so helpful and let me do my own scrolling? TIA Peter