[geeks] What is a good download manager for Linux

[Nadine Miller]

Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> On May 7, 2008, at 11:24, hike wrote:
>> I would like to be able to restart the DVD image download at the point 
>> that
>> it was stopped by Comcast.
> 
> The first thing that comes to my mind is bittorrent. Encrypted, 
> fuck-you-and-your-packet-sniffing-too bittorrent. IIRC some clients have 
> encryption on by default now, so even users connected to non-infringing 
> torrents may have it enabled.
> 
> I mean, besides the obvious ditching of your shitty ISP, which I know 
> isn't always an option.
> 
>> (It happens that OpenSolaris & Ubuntu have come out the same month and 
>> I am
>> upgrading my workstation to RHEL 5.
> 
> Maybe the simplest answer is to download from work? Unless they use 
> Comcast, too, in which case, I'm so very, very sorry.

That will only work if you are DL'ing bittorrents, not if you are trying 
to seed.  Comcast is well-known for using technologies to send hang-ups 
to the leechers for any seed connections you have.

For the files mentioned, probably not an issue, but it isn't a panacea 
to the problem.

I hope to bloody hell I never have to use Comcast for an ISP.

=Nadine=