SillyDog701

[Don_HH2K]

The file never downloads it to the desktop...This is what happens when i click the link.

I never would've guessed... it's a server problem. It's sending out the MIME type wrong and Firefox is just de-gzipping it and outputting the raw data... I'm getting the same problem within Donzilla for Windows as well...

So the real question is... how can I tell .htaccess to serve /bin/Donzilla_08PR2.iso.gz as application/octet-stream so that it will download and not just dump the file to the browser window? This'd be one for Antony, I suppose.

TK19, in the meantime, try downloading it from Safari and not Firefox, maybe Safari will get the MIME type right and download the whole thing to your drive like it's supposed to. Otherwise you're just going to get 50MB worth of an ISO written to the screen.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Donzilla/0.8 (WML/1.3)

[Pu7o]

Context-clicking and choosing "Save target as..." should also work well. If not, Don should use .iso.bz2 instead, since gecko doesn't de-bzip2 anything.

EDIT: Changed wording, Mac users don't like "right click", they prefer "context click".

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r5; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)

[Don_HH2K]

Right-clicking and choosing "Save target as..." should also work well. If not, Don should use .iso.bz2 instead, since gecko doesn't de-bzip2 anything.

...is this supported by OS X?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Donzilla/0.8 (WML/1.3)

[Pu7o]

Yes, although Antony doesn't like it since it's slow at decompressing. But think about this: You only decompress it once, and Donzilla is not that big. Unless you're decompressing it on, say, an iMac G3, the speed difference will probably not be very big.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r5; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)

[Antony]

Right-clicking and choosing "Save target as..." should also work well. If not, Don should use .iso.bz2 instead, since gecko doesn't de-bzip2 anything.

Please don't use [tt].bz2[/tt].
In terms of compression, it might be better then those popular ones (.gz, .zip), but it takes too much system resources to decompress it.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5

[Pu7o]

For big stuff, I agree, bz2 is too wasteful of resources, but Donzilla is not big enough for bz2 vs gz to make a difference.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r5; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)

[Don_HH2K]

For big stuff, I agree, bz2 is too wasteful of resources, but Donzilla is not big enough for bz2 vs gz to make a difference.

I don't see any real slowdown using BZ2 vs GZ; I compress nearly 200MB of homework for a backup every week using .tar.bz2.fca; it takes less than five minutes to do all three operations (tar = archive, bz2 = compress, fca = encrypt).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Donzilla/0.8 (WML/1.3)

[Antony]

You only decompress it once, and Donzilla is not that big. Unless you're decompressing it on, say, an iMac G3, the speed difference will probably not be very big.

Pedro,

I only have 2GB of RAM on my dual 1.42GHz G4. I always run multiple applications at same time... iTunes, iChat, Mail, Safari and usually Photoshop Elements. Sometimes I am exporting movies to H.264 format.

I want to keep the music playing smoothly

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5

[TK19]

Downloading

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/312.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.3

[TK19]

It works and has a cool icon

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Donzilla/0.8 PR2 (WML/1.3)

[Don_HH2K]

Wow, talk about friendly and fast service and support!

Hi Don,

Thanks for your interest in using BitRock InstallBuilder. I apologize for the slight delay in responding to your inquiry; we are currently participating in the Open Source Business Conference in Boston and it is consuming much of our time at the moment. We would be happy to provide you with a free license for your project. It will be sent to you shortly.

Best Regards,

Erica

Wouldn't have even considered it delayed, especially after dealing with MSN's awful support that took two weeks to get a response. And I've never actually had somebody actually respond to a support request, more often than not I just get a system-generated stock answer from everywhere else.

Well, now I've got an installer system, so I guess we're in business on all three (four if I do BSD) fronts.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Donzilla/0.8 (WML/1.3)

[Pu7o]

I told you they were fast at answering, and had great support

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r5; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)

[Don_HH2K]

Unfortunately my laptop's powerpack died last night, so now I have no way of getting at the files I need to develop DZ packages. The battery's dead too so I can't even go burn them all to a CD and do everything on a different computer. Furthermore, since my other two machines connected to my XP laptop by means of ICS, now I don't even have an Internet connection except here at school!

So unfortunately, expect major delays until I get a replacement. Being as broke as I am, this could take awhile.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (Don@BCH)

[Pu7o]

hmm... isn't there any way to directly connect one of your two computers to the Internet?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r5; X11; i686; en_US) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko)

[Don_HH2K]

hmm... isn't there any way to directly connect one of your two computers to the Internet?

Not at the moment. I'd buy more wireless gear that's compatible with both of those computers but that'd defeat the purpose, since I need to save up for a power cord, not more wireless gear.

I suppose I could use the computer in the basement for awhile...

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (Don@BCH)