Che_Night_Soil said:

Hey, Vulture. Thank you very much for putting this guide together . I have a quick question about Transmit 1.7 for you . I cannot seem to get to ftp://gdlive.com/shn w/out a name and password and was wondering if you knew what to enter for these. Thanks again.
-Che
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it should have the login/password as anonymous. For the FTP anyways if thats what you were talking about.

Ripple said:

Hey Vulture have you ever used GetRight for segmented downloading? It was working well for me but now I need something else because it's not working any more.

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FlashGet... it works wonders. Only annoying part is when downloading from FTP sites, you have to open the site in your browser, right click on each individual file, say properties, copy the location of the file... then FlashGet will pop up a window where you can save the file. But it really works much better than GetRight ever did for me.

http://www.amazesoft.com/download.htm go here for the file

If you have troubles getting it to work with ftp://gdlive.com/dead send me a PM or hit me on MSN messenger and I can try to help you out.

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FileZilla: Free and Secure FTP

If you create websites, own a server, or maintain a system in the next office or halfway around the world, you're probably familiar with file transfer protocol (FTP). FTP lets users transfer files from one system to another. It's an old protocol by Internet standards.

FileZilla is a powerful FTP client for Windows 9x, Me, NT4, 2000, and XP. It is designed to support as many features as possible while remaining easy to use, fast, and reliable.

Why FileZilla is so popular

Although there are a number of FTP clients available for Windows, FileZilla has become very popular over the past two years because of its ease-of-use, low price (free!), and high-end feature set.

These features include all of the following.

-Ability to resume uploads and downloads if the server supports it
-A folder-based SiteManager with drag-and-drop functionality
-The KeepAlive system, which ensures the connection isn't idle long enough to be automatically terminated
-Time-out detection
-Firewall support
-SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, and HTTP 1.1 proxy support
- Upload and download queues
-Multi-language support
-GSS (generic security service) authentication and encryption using Kerberos
-Secure SSL (secure sockets layer) connections
-SFTP support

More secure than most FTP clients

Historically, a major problem with FTP is that the protocol is unencrypted. All data sent in a file transfer, including the password(!), is sent in the clear. This makes it very easy for a hacker to "sniff" a password and break into the system.

FTP's inherent insecurity is one reason why many system administrators don't support the service on their systems.

FileZilla, however, supports not only the standard FTP protocol, but also SFTP (secure FTP). SFTP uses encryption to transfer files securely over the Net. To handle the encryption, SFTP incorporates SCP (Secure CoPy), part of the SSH (Secure Shell) package available on most Unix/Linux systems.

If you're transferring files to a server that supports SSH, then SFTP is the best way to transfer the files. FileZilla handles file transfers very transparently, and the server doesn't have to have an FTP server or FTP daemon running. If the server supports SSH, you can connect to it using FileZilla and start transferring files with its easy-to-use interface.

The rise of FileZilla

FileZilla is an excellent open-source success story. The program was started two years ago in Germany by a computer science student named Tim Kosse. While working on his degree, Kosse started to write a simple FTP program for a class assignment. After the class was completed, Kosse continued to improve upon the code base. Eventually he chose to host it on SourceForge.net. With feedback and support from the open-source community, Kosse's code and FileZilla's feature set continued to improve.

Today, FileZilla has a thriving user base and a large community of devotees around the world. The project is now ranked in the top 15 of 70,000 open-source projects on SourceForge.net. It regularly has more than 4,000 downloads daily.

As is the case with all open-source projects on SourceForge.net, FileZilla is free and available for download. The source code is also available to download and modify.

Kosse has recently been writing a FileZilla FTP server for Windows. This project lets any Windows server be an FTP server. The FileZilla server program is also available for download on SourceForge.net.

Patrick McGovern is the director of SourceForge.net, a development and download portal with more than 70,000 software projects. SourceForge is the world's largest open-source development website.

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