Re: Hostname v buster
BitTorrent is also good when you can use it. The site has to have a
torrent link. The Raspberry Pi site does this for their images. I
used to use Transmisssion as a client, now I use Deluge (It's in the
debs).
If you have cell phone service where you live you can get an
"unlimited" plan from Straight Talk (AT&T towers) with a limit of
50-60 GB/month for about $60/month. This does voice/text/data. It's
at least 10x dialup, maybe 100x, haven't timed it. I've been on
unlimited about a year. Turn on the wifi hotspot option on your phone
and use wifi to connect everything through it. Phones you buy from a
company like Verizon can't do this, they've been crippled at the
factory because the carrier doesn't want you doing it. I've had 4
Motorolas, 2 came from Motorola, 2 from eBay. Same model # as a
contract phone but they aren't crippled. You can also unlock the
bootloader, root it, install Ubuntu Touch instead of Android, etc. I
got my first cell phone to text with, never expected to get on the
internet through it. Straight Talk mostly uses unlocked phones.
On 7/1/19, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/19, grumpy@mailfence.com <grumpy@mailfence.com> wrote:
>>> I had a hell of a time pulling it as I did a google search, and when the
>>> download had started, google was still in the firefox address bar, and
>>> I had to restart a timedout fail several hundred times. So I'm doing it
>>> again, and its coming it at an average of 1 meg/sec this time. I got the
>>> sha512 and info files too.
>>>
>>
>> try wget
>
>
> Oh, my gosh, YES! "wget -c" rocks on dialup!
>
> After a quick search, from "man wget" comes:
>
> -t number OR --tries=number: Set number of tries to number. Specify 0
> or inf for infinite retrying. The default is to retry 20 times, with
> the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found"
> (404), which are not retried.
>
> For the "-c" flag:
>
> -c OR --continue: Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This
> is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous
> instance of Wget, or by another program.
>
> "wget -c" has been a HUGE HERO in last few weeks. For some reason,
> "apt-get install" has multiple times now DELETED partial downloads and
> started over when it's for same upgrade version number. Never had that
> happen before.
>
> That's a pain when it's e.g. 20 or 30MB partials that represent 2 or 3
> hours of download wear-and-tear time. "wget -c" gets in there and
> successfully FINISHES off that exact same partial dotDEB archive
> download now. YES... I've had to learn to... incrementally backup even
> partial dotDEB downloads for moments just like this. You do what you
> gotta do when *IT WORKS!*
>
> PS #ThankYou, Developers!
>
> Cindy :)
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey
> Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>
> * runs with birdseed.. and possibly even a Raspberry Pi sooner than
> later! k/t #OSNews for being the first to get giddy with that news in
> my inbox last week. *
>
>
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