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gregjohn wrote:
> Hi. I've noted lately that for me in Firefox, clicking on an MPG file brings up
> the Quicktime [*] symbol, which then ends in a question mark.
>
> Q: what's the quickest and easiest path to fix this?
>
>
> [*] Rant against Quicktime: If you're *that* clueless/ obstructionist as to be
> unable to play one of the more basic formats from since at least the 1990's, why
> would I **ever** pay you money to upgrade?
>
Gah.. This stuff drives me nuts. Depending on the configuration of the
links, I get cases where firefox, due to plugins that are supposed to
"help" me download (and work 90% of the time):
1) Opening pages that should open in the browser, being sent to the
downloads.
2) Wrong file names.
3) The "link" being sent to the download manager, instead of waiting for
the page to load the actual file URL.
4) You name something that can go wrong, someone manages to do it.
None of which would matter, if the built in download managers in these
things, and I mean **all** browsers, could ask for the file size, verify
that all of the file arrived, and, if it didn't, ask the server, if it
supports resumes, to resend, starting where the failure happened. This
is less of an issue no, on broadband, but back on dialup... Back then I
tried downloading from Sony, and ended up with a restart 5-6 times in a
row (this was using the manager, but Sony servers do not support
'resume'), on a multi-disk, like 6 GB download... I finally used their
registration key, but found someone with a bittorrent of their copy, to
get the damn thing onto the machine. 6GB is still large enough for
something to go wrong, if there is a lot of traffic. If the manager
being used is stupid, and all of them seem to be, when in browsers, this
can be chaos for someone downloading. :(
All in all, I hate FTP/HTTP transfers. You have no control over what is
going on, every frakking sight now seems to want to use a redirect to
get you to the file, and neither the built in, not things like FlashGot,
can effectively manage to deal with the bloody stupid redirects
properly, if they use certain mangled forms of it. Its, imho, about time
to abandon these things, for something that can deal with large amounts
of data, reliably, and with the ability to verify, chunk by chunk, if
things worked right, and that all the pieces actually got to you. Now..
what possible system can do that.... lol
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void main () {
if version = "Vista" {
call slow_by_half();
call DRM_everything();
}
call functional_code();
}
else
call crash_windows();
}
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com> wrote: