Or rather, it was my computer that lost its virginity. You see, I had a nice, pristine, clean computer, without any open source software on it whatsoever. It was a completely commercial experience. I loved it. And MSDN Subscriber Downloads ruined it.
You see, Microsoft has started to use the Akamai Download Manager for distributing files. I wanted to download SP1 for Vista, but Akamai refuses to play nice on Vista, and can't save files because it seems IE won't let it (at least on Vista). I'm sure this can be fixed somehow, but I didn't figure out how. It's really nice how they use a program that doesn't work well under Vista to distribute SP1 for Vista.
So what I ended up doing in order to get the beastly Akamai to work was to install Firefox, and use it to download SP1. I will never hear the end of this at work.
Oh but i know you secretly like to be... dare i say it... dirty :) Next you'll be downloading Vista service packs with wget and rtorrent (again).
Posted by: llaurén | Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 11:40