Mewtamer and Didier.
I am using wget as the instructions say. And the download just keeps hanging.
Wondering if it has something to do with increased internet traffic due to
people having to work at home etc.
Regarding my mom. The covid19 and flu test came back negative.
My mom however sounds worse today. Rather than better.
I wish she would stop worrying so much. She needs to get to feeling better not
worse.
But thanks both of you for best wishes.
The thing is something definitely went around this house. Most of us had
symptoms of one thing or another.
Ctorrent. Mewtamer. I think I remember it yes. Those clients are so well I just
never really used them as they can be so confusing.
So thanks for the info.
I admit I haven't read through all of each post. But I will later after I get
some rest.
It could like I said be just the internet around here is overloaded. Maybe if I
try during the night I might have more luck.
I can't use lynx because it will complain the download is too big.
One thing I haven't done successfully is tried to download a big file or any
file for that matter. As that is an area of edbrowse I know very little about.
And yes you can copy and paste from tty's in linux using speakup. I don't know
about fenrir. But I am guessing you can.
About email list activity. Ok smiles. Good to know.
I will try again later to download slint. I think I need to relax for a bit.
Jessica
@Didier: I don't know what software Jessica is using to try to
download the iso(my guess would be edbrowse with how much she's been
talking about it), but I've started the download in Firefox and have
gotten an estimated download time of 1 hour, which in my experience is
plenty of time for something to go wrong. Admittedly, Aptitude informs
me wget has autoresume(why that isn't a stndard feature in all major
web browsers, I have no idea), but that relies on either handtyping
those long urls(error prone) or copy and pasting(can that even be done
in an actual terminal instead of a terminal emulator?).
Have you considered offering a torrent for Slint? In addition to built
in download resume and file integrity checks, end users would just
have to download one small file from the Slint website, and the strain
of serving the iso could be spread acroos many users instead of
centered on the single server.
@Jessica: Fast recovery to your mom, and don't worry too much about
the list's drop in activity. We frequently have long lulls until some
newbie introduces themselves or one of the regulars either asks advice
on some new project or posts some Raspberry Pi related news. If
anything, your introduction actually kicked off one of the biggest
surges in activity in months, perhaps even since I first joined the
list.
Oh, and since I brought up the possibility of offering torrents for
downloading Slint to Didier, I should probably add that I'm a fan of
ctorrent. It's small(about 250k), written in C++, only depends on core
libraries already present on most systems, can be run as a deamon, has
a very simple commandline interface, and can be ran from basically
anywhere in the directory structure. Each instance can only handle a
single torrent, but a for file in *.torrent loop with a single
ctorrent command within the loop is enough to start every torrent in
the working directory, and putting that loop in a bash function
followed by a series of cd commands and calling said function let me
put together a seed.sh to resume seeding of every torrent on my data
drive after each reboot.
Probably the most important of ctorrent's commands are:
ctorrent torrentFile
to start in interactive mode.
ctorrent -d torrentFile
to staret in deamon mode
ctorrent -c torrentFile
Which will do a check of the downloaded files and print out the number
of completed chunks out of total chunks.
There's also the -f option, which will skip an initial data
check(useful when seeding very large torrents as the check can take a
long time and should only fail due to external file corruption., and
-e num for overriding ctorrent's default seed for 72 hours behavior(I
do -e 1000 in my seed.sh, which effectively makes ctorrent seed
forever since going nearly 42 days without a reboot is rather
unlikely.
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