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		<title>Why do they have to make patching so hard?</title>
		<description>Discuss Why do they have to make patching so hard?</description>
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			<title>hga says:</title>
			<link>http://www.backupcentral.com/mr-backup-blog-mainmenu-47/13-mr-backup-blog/45-why-do-they-have-to-make-patching-so-hard.html#comment-15</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow, your "best" is very good indeed! I'll let sites force me to do it their way, I haven't experienced bad downloads with Firefox in this. WRT VMWare, I pulled down VM Server for XP a few weeks ago before I found another solution, and to my memory wget sufficed. One would hope that companies selling to sysadmins wouldn't play these tricks; maybe they can be trained.... ^_^ - Harold]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hga</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>jpv says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I try my best not to use a GUI to download anything. I use wget from an SSH session on a Linux box and find it's much faster than using the GUI (especially from Windows). So sites that like this annoy me to no end, and I'll go to great lengths to defeat them. VMware used to be really annoying with this, but they changed (or at least, I think they did, since I can't recall being irritated by them lately). One method I've used is to install http://wireshark.org/ (used to be Ethereal) to sniff the HTTP session and see if I can figure out the URL, then document and extrapolate downloads now and in the future (e.g., same URL but newer package name) where possible. Of course you are out of luck using HTTPS, but I'd say I have about a 50% success rate on regular HTTP. It depends on how the site "works." I also use the Refresh Blocker Firefox plug-in, which "breaks" many mirror site automatic redirects, so I can just grab a URL and paste it into my SSH/wget session.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jpv</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>hga says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Very obnoxious indeed. And, yeah, even to my XP SP2 desktop, I'm &#34;old school&#34; (REAL old school is FTP and nothing but :-) and use wget by preference. - Harold]]></description>
			<dc:creator>hga</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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