More geekery... I am repeatedly appalled by Microsoft's downloading software; Internet Explorer's non-resuming-by-default, Windows Update not only not resuming, but also not even timing out or restarting when the connection has clearly died, and so forth. I wrote a resuming HTTP downloader in a couple of days - it seems insane to not use such a thing for auto-update programs that regularly download tens of megabytes. That they won't allow you to easily take a local copy of the updates is infuriating, too - if I wanted to update ten machines, I wouldn't want to clutter the internet with 300MB of traffic when I only want 30MB of information. Though I suppose I could use some sort of caching proxy if I cared enough.
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