CAIB Working Scenario - Anyone been able to download this yet?

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 00:16:30 -0600, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

...I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
.pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?


OM

I have Surewest DSL and was able to download all three sections of
the report in a few minutes at 10:55pm PDT. So CAIB's server seems to
be working.


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....I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
..pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?


OM

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I've got it down, now I'm doing a high-quality print-out. This is a terrific
product on a horrible project.




"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...
...I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
.pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?


OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On or about Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:35:53 GMT, James Oberg made the sensational claim that:
I've got it down, now I'm doing a high-quality print-out. This is a terrific
product on a horrible project.
"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...
...I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
.pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?

I had to d/l it 3 or 4 times because it ended up corrupted. On windows and
freebsd, each, before I ended up with a "good" file.
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In article ,
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy... _facility.org says...
...I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
.pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?

Downloaded the full PDF on Friday, no problems. 189 pages, most
of it pretty interesting. I just pulled it down again to save a
local copy, so I've successfully downloaded into Acrobat reader
and also direct to my hard drive.

Bruce noted that it says "PDF 1.5" which is Acrobat 6. Try getting
the newest reader from Adobe, and download again. Download size
was 12.4 MB.

Diane

James Oberg wrote:

I've got it down, now I'm doing a high-quality print-out. This is a terrific
product on a horrible project.

It's an interesting and (yes) horrifying read. I'm amazed the vehicle
continued to fly as long as it did with the damage they deduced must have
been occuring inside the wing.

I have to wonder if the vehicle could have been made more failure-resistant
if the wing had been made of, say, composites, or if there had been a backup
system to inject coolant into the wing interior in case of a penetration.

Paul

Ok, it seems right clicking and choosing "save link target as" using
netscape/mozilla (I'm assuming this covers Firebird as well) results
in a corrupted file pretty much every time. Netscape 7 gives me a 16k file,
mozilla 1.4+ and netscape 7.1 give me a 25 meg file. Netscape 4.8 didn't
have a problem with right clicking, but shat itself trying to open the file
within the browser.
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In article ,
OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

...I've tried unsuccessfully for the past 12 hours to download the
.pdf of the CAIB's working scenario. It gets about 128K downloaded,
then freezes. I've tried this on four systems so far, and same result
each time.

Anyone happen to have the same problems?


OM

Got the whole thing Friday evening in one fell swoop. Downloaded
cleanly at an average of 1.8 Mbps (gotta love cable on a underpopulated
node!). It opens and displays just fine in Apple Preview 2.0 (for Mac
OS X) and in Acrobat Reader 5.1 for OS X. Haven't tried to open it in
XP Pro or Linux (man, do I have enough OS's in my life or what?)

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:32:40 GMT, LooseChanj
wrote:


Ok, it seems right clicking and choosing "save link target as" using
netscape/mozilla (I'm assuming this covers Firebird as well) results
in a corrupted file pretty much every time. Netscape 7 gives me a 16k file,
mozilla 1.4+ and netscape 7.1 give me a 25 meg file. Netscape 4.8 didn't
have a problem with right clicking, but shat itself trying to open the file
within the browser.

....Same issues with IE. Gets about 128K or so, and then chokes, with
the estimated download time simply increasing by 3 to 5 minutes every
30 seconds or so. I fired off a note to the admin for the CAIB site,
but I don't expect anything from it until at least Monday.

Considering his traffic load, I'm not going to guess at *which* Monday
that will be...


OM

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:48:51 -0400, Diane Wilson
wrote:

Bruce noted that it says "PDF 1.5" which is Acrobat 6. Try getting
the newest reader from Adobe, and download again. Download size
was 12.4 MB.

....I don't think it's the Acrobat version here. I'm simply doing a
right-click-save, which should dump the PDF itself to my hard drive as
it's not any kind of protected link.


OM

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poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

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