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Herb Schaltegger - 28 Oct 2003 17:40 GMT

Anyone else pissed that there's no link to easily download each
individual Volume as one huge file? I've got a 2 Mbps DSL connection at
work and I'd like to take a little better advantage of it!

Maybe some enterprising geek (OM?) could make .torrent files out of
these volumes for some p2p sharing and much more efficient downloading .
. .

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Herb Schaltegger - 28 Oct 2003 18:28 GMT

And while I'm griping at the CAIB . . .

I understand not wanting to overstate certain matters and I understand
not wishing to sensationalize or over-dramatize the actual deaths of the
crew, but can ANYONE explain putting the Crew Surivability Report into
Book 2 of Volume V, just after two Foam Application and Production
Charts and behind such other technical gems as the "CAIB Charter with
Revisions" and "Contracts, Incentives and Safety/Technical Excellence"
(among others, all contained in Book 1 of Volume 5).

Sheesh.

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Diane Wilson - 29 Oct 2003 20:23 GMT

> Anyone else pissed that there's no link to easily download each
> individual Volume as one huge file? I've got a 2 Mbps DSL connection at
> work and I'd like to take a little better advantage of it!

Having just downloaded them all over DSL, it's doable. Where's that
"can do" attitutde when you need it?

BTW, my folder with the CAIB report is around 400MB. Some of those
"itty bitty" chunks are less than 400K; one of them is over 100MB.
Yes, they could have done a better job of packaging. Don't know
about one file per volume, though; all execpt volume 6 are in
the 50MB range or more, and volume 5 is over 200MB.

Diane

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Herb Schaltegger - 29 Oct 2003 20:47 GMT

> > Anyone else pissed that there's no link to easily download each
> > individual Volume as one huge file? I've got a 2 Mbps DSL connection at
> > work and I'd like to take a little better advantage of it!
>
> Having just downloaded them all over DSL, it's doable. Where's that
> "can do" attitutde when you need it?

Buried under a mountain of paperwork at the office, that's where! It
would have been nice to right-click, "Download to disk" and be done with
it instead of having to come back and get it piecemeal. And part 7 (the
working scenario) of Vol II kept timing out on me about two-thirds in
but I finally got it.

I ended up getting all of Volumes II and III and parts of V yesterday.
I haven't yet gotten around to getting the rest. I'm at home today
waiting for the guy to come fix my TV (thank goodness I got the extended
warranty!) I might as well get back to it. My cable connection isn't as
fast, on average, as the work DSL but it's pretty quick nonetheless.

> BTW, my folder with the CAIB report is around 400MB. Some of those
> "itty bitty" chunks are less than 400K; one of them is over 100MB.
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> Diane

Once I've gotten them all onto the laptop, I'll burn 'em onto CDR or
ship 'em over the LAN to the desktop and burn 'em to a DVR (if the
collection ends up too big for a single CD).

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David Higgins - 30 Oct 2003 01:45 GMT

> Once I've gotten them all onto the laptop, I'll burn 'em onto CDR or
> ship 'em over the LAN to the desktop and burn 'em to a DVR (if the
> collection ends up too big for a single CD).

    Don't forget the six Quicktime *.mov's which can be
    found on NASA's mirror of the CAIB documents:

    http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html

    .. click on "Read All Volumes" -> Volume 1 -> Movies

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Herb Schaltegger - 30 Oct 2003 02:12 GMT

In article
<kaZnb.20086$Ec1.1799588@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,

> > Once I've gotten them all onto the laptop, I'll burn 'em onto CDR or
> > ship 'em over the LAN to the desktop and burn 'em to a DVR (if the
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> .. click on "Read All Volumes" -> Volume 1 -> Movies

Yep, got them, too. All told, my collection of the various stuff
released since February 1 is about 1.6 gigabytes. Looks like it's a DVR
for me.

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CAIB Report Vols II - VI