On 5/24/2009 9:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009, David wrote: > and Gene replied: >>> TBT, I only jumped in with the most basic stuff because obviously the OP >>> was not getting the answers he needed. The thread is quite a few messages >>> long now. >>> >>> And since when did winders get religion? I did 4 or 5 dl's on my XP >>> equipt lappy when I was up in MI the last time, and it made a 256k eeprom >>> binary about 410 bytes longer than the eprom and invalid when checked >>> after I tried to burn it to carry it to a piece of transmitter gear that >>> needed an updated OS. >>> >>> What other conclusion could I draw, when the linux firefox, because of >>> miss- placed security on the makers web site that contained the download, >>> was not able to be configured enough like IE to be acceptable and allow me >>> to download the passwd and IE requiring upgrade. I had words that were >>> NOT pleasant with the maker of the gear over that little 3 days wasted >>> time killer. I burnt 5 or 6 cd's before I made it work, each one >>> accompanied by a 3 mile one way trip up the hill to see if it was >>> acceptable to the gear. The copy I actually made work was the one I >>> pulled with linux after I threatened to sue if they didn't give me a link >>> that bypassed the windows IE check. >>> >>> Every time I tangle with winderz, it costs me time and/or money, usually >>> both. In this exact case, it made me money because of the wasted time, but >>> it sure reinforced my hatred for winderz. If every windows box on the >>> planet died yet today, its IMO 20 years past due. >> Then, like Bruno, your problem(s) is PEBCAK or incorrect settings. >> >> Windows does not do that. Users do that. An ISO will download as an ISO. >> If, before the download *you* name the download, say 'something.txt' it >> is still and ISO. And will be treated as one. >> >> Sorry Gene. But you're wrong here. > > The file was in fact labeled as a .bin. And I did not try to rename it. > Their downloading mechanism only gave me one choice, where to put it, I let it > choose the default. I even mounted the XP partition, found it and copied it > to F7/ext3. And it was not 262,144 bytes long as retrieved from the ntfs > partition, but more like 262,566 IIRC for 3 different downloads. The first I > tried to burn with the winderz freebie burner but it BSOD'd twice before it > looked like it worked the third time. The burn was rejected, bad checksum, > which is when I found it was also too long, so that was evidence enough to me > that windows was still up to it old tricks. > > I used XP and IE to pull that file 4 times, and got the same too long and > broken file every time. I was by them also getting aggravated with their one > use only passwds that I had to call them and get another one each time. The > 5th time, I called them up and said this isn't working. The gear as it is, is > not usable, and we have a 5 figure sum in it, you can either let me pull the > update it needs by a direct link, or my next call will be to corporate & we'll > let the courts decide who owes who what. They gave me the direct link, I > pulled it with one of the old FF's, used k3b to put it on the cd, like I had 3 > times before with the IE downloads, and it worked. > > Now admittedly I try to stay the hell away from windows, so maybe there was > some knob to twiddle in IE that might have fixed that, but it was running at > its as installed default settings. If it was supposed to be smart enough to > do it right, it failed that class. This is OT here Gene. Write me off list with the details and I will test this. -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
