I love Speed Download, but it is not free. It is bombtastic though.
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le nubian - May 19, 2009 10:20:24 am PDT #10018 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 10:33:51 am PDT #10019 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It does look pretty impressive.
I don't know what my priorities are--I don't know if that's the sort of thing I'd have paid for if I were liquid.
The two paid for things I had to put back on this pesky little box of mine were Bluephone Elite and Solavant Solitaire. Bless both of them for having the facility for me to re-download the full versions without going through any customer service rigmarole. Lord knows with the number of time I've had to jump through UltraEdit hoops to get it back (especially while I wasn't at the most recent version) I should have my install images locked away somewhere disasterproof.
Gris - May 19, 2009 10:50:54 am PDT #10020 of 25501
Hey. New board.
They have FTP programs embedded in them--you can either open from disc or open from an FTP site.
That is pretty cool, though you could get the same effect by mounting the FTP site as a drive. Go->Connect To Server in the Finder allows this, and you could automate it (I think) by putting a symbolic link to its root folder (or www folder or whatever) in your Home or Documents or something. Then you would open it just like a folder on your drive, and if the server needed to connect it would do so. It's some seriously Unix thinking, but it would work.
Still, probably easier if it's built in to the program.
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 11:38:15 am PDT #10021 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
it would work
I can't even get my Leopard box to connect via SAMBA to my Linux box, so "seriously Unix thinking" is mostly an irritant right now.
Ah! Okay, it worked. Finally. Did Tiger have a "Go/Connect To Server..." option? I don't remember it.
If I create a symbolic link on the hard drive, what happens when I need to log in to an FTP/SFTP location?
probably easier if it's built in to the program.
No probably about it.
amych - May 19, 2009 11:44:22 am PDT #10022 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Did Tiger have a "Go/Connect To Server..." option?
I think all flavors of OS X have had it (I know for sure that Panther did, but before that... well, we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago).
§ ita § - May 19, 2009 11:46:34 am PDT #10023 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
we've seen that I'm fuzzy on the deets of stuff I set up a while ago
Apparently I'm fuzzy on an OS I used daily just a few weeks ago, so really, who looks bad?
le nubian - May 19, 2009 11:53:07 am PDT #10024 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I download a whole lot of stuff on webdav, ftp, and other places (e.g. rapidshare) and speed download has paid for itself over and over in ease of use.
but I understand about the not liquid part.
omnis_audis - May 19, 2009 11:56:15 am PDT #10025 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
sssh. rumor has it, U-verse is coming out with an app and gizmo to transfer recordings to the iPhone.
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2009 5:07:39 pm PDT #10026 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I think I have a virus, but neither AVG nor Malwarebytes find anything fishy with my system. I scanned the HijackThis logfile and didn't see any virus names either.
If I'm using Paint and I go to File -> Open, the program closes the instant the window opens. Sometimes the window will open, but if I scroll down or navigate in the window, the program will crash. The same happens if I do the same thing in IrfanView. Or if I click on the "Attach" button in an Outlook Express e-mail to attach a file. As soon as it opens the window for me to choose my attachment, the program kills itself.
I can drag-and-drop files into the programs; it's not like they're incapable of opening files. So far I can't find a single other program that behaves that way; I can use the File -> Open command with no problem. Windows Explorer also functions fine.
Thing is, I don't even remember the last time I've even used Paint or IrfanView or the last time I sent an attachment in Outlook Express. Okay, maybe the last time was March 27. So I could have it had for a while without noticing. Unless it hopped in on one of the recent Windows Updates.
Do these symptoms make any sense? Sound familiar? I don't really know what to do.
ETA: Uh, motherfucking hell, it's definitely a recent development because I just tried to open a file from My Recent Documents (which I have done a lot recently), and Explorer.exe crashed with this error:
The instruction at "0x77ea01ba" referenced memory at "0x06080007". The memory could not be "read".
Shit shit shit shit. My last weird virus turned out to be a file called aax25F4.tmp.exe and AVG identified it as as a "Trojan horse Generic13.LNA," but that had different symptoms. And it found another Trojan horse and deleted it a week later. And one a week or two ago. But it finds nothing now! It just got an update, so maybe this thing is REALLY new or something. If the new scan doesn't find it...I don't know what to do!!
DCJensen - May 19, 2009 6:46:22 pm PDT #10027 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
I recommend Malwarebytes, P-C.