RE: PDFs, Cyberia, and websites

["Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>]

Stephan et al:

Two brief technical notes concerning PDFs on-line.

Some PDFs or their websites are protected against downloading.
Sometimes, this might be because the site is one that requires a
subscription - or merely, just because. :-)

Secondly, because of the problems often associated with downloading over
most dial-up lines, it would be a good idea to install some sort of
download manager.  This will allow you to continue downloading
something, after you were disconnected.  I mean, if you begin a
download, then you get interrupted (bad phone line, time-out on the
server, time-out by your ISP, power failure, etc.), when you click on
the "Save target as", the download manager will remember at what point
you were interrupted, and pick up the download from there.

Hope this is helpful, if not exactly dinosaurian.

On a minor dinosaurian point, if you go to this site
("http://media.guardian.co.uk/creative/0,9706,468517,00.html";), and
scroll down the page to the paragraph and photo for Volvic.  You'll see
a Real Media Streaming video commercial for Volvic, with a caveman
outrunning an apparent tyrannosaur.  Of course, he can do this because
he's drinking Volvic, which is "mineral water from volcanoes".  It gives
him "volcanicity".  (Actually, the caveman throws a rock at the dino, to
start the chase!).  Yes, yes, the caveman could not have been running
around with dinosaurs, any more than he would have had a plastic bottle
of Volvic.  Fun still, even if it's bad science.
 
Allan Edels 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Stephan Pickering
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:28 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: PDFs, Cyberia, and websites

For those, like me, who have found it sometimes
difficult to access some websites and download papers
(sometimes causing one's computer to "freeze up"), or
open email attachments from Europe and find the
process takes longer than usual...there is an
explanation (courtesy of the technical staff at both
Hewlett Packard and google.com). What one is trying to
view is an optimized PDF file, served in large bytes,
and several internet servers do not handle the data
well (especially if one has a low bandwidth dial-up
connexion, or a slow CPU computer). This can cause, as
it did for me on some occassions at the GAIA website, 
the computer to "freeze up".
The solution is to RIGHT click on the link to the file
one wants, selecting "Save target as". A box will
appear, asking where one wants to save the file. One
is to then select a location one will be able to find
the paper on one's local drive, and click "ok". After
the file is downloaded (regardless of the time
involved), one can find the file in the same place one
selected earlier (one can navigate through "My
computer"). The file will, then, open with Acrobat
Reader when one double-clicks on it.

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