DatasheetArchive - August Update

All well and good if your server doesn't time out on a slow transfer of a big file like it usually does, leaving a partial file.

Not much use, if you're onsite in some God-forsaken place, with only a laptop and a hinky dialup connection, and you *need* that datasheet,

Well, poor baby! Maybe they shouldn't even bother, if all that people are going to do is bitch about it.

(the point being that they didn't _have_ to provide all of that information to you for free.)

Good Luck! Rich

Our site works well for most people even if sometimes a little slow. I checked our server logs today. So far 36,536 PDF downloads completed successfully, 2132 failures. The 2132 failures include when the user cancels the download.

We are on a limited budget. We have 4 Mb/s SDSL 1:1 which is the fastest available here. Leased lines are too expensive.

Well, if they crow about it, I feel free to criticize.

For free? I doubt it's philanthropic. Nobody commits resources like that for free. Somebody's paying the bill.

TANSTAAFL

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Impressified, indeed, said Yoda

Reminds me of an early Maxim CD, maybe 8 or 10 years ago, where all the pages where html encoded, but only the datasheets were in pdf format, as links, and then they ruined it with the next CD issue

I really hate pdfs with links, just bloatware, simple html for simple things can't be beat.

Maybe links to other pdf readers,say Foxit, rather than the "obligitory" Adobe bloatware link could be incorportated on your site?

martin

Nice work. But whenever I download a pdf datasheet, the saved filename is always "RequiresAcrobat6.pdf"

I'm using Firefox, which sometimes tries to save funny file names, like from the TI site.

John

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martin

We hire students to do data entry, some of them haven't been too good so there is the odd mistake.

Perhaps a "oops we goofed link" for feedback, I havent really investigated your site, since I have the both of my datasheets (TDA1034, TL072) somewhere, locally , maybe even on paper :-(

martin

I hassle, but a very slight one. Just rename it in the "Save As" edit box.

- YD.

Works fine for me, most of the time. Yesterday (Sunday) it seemed to be off-line or overloaded, but other than that I usually get what I need.

Many thanks to those who set it up, I've got data for a lot of obscure ICs through them. I don't mind a few unobtrusive banners and such, they do have to make a living too. Pop-ups and fly-in-your-face adertisements do put me off.

- YD.

With Firefox, you might have to change the settings such that it gives you a dialog window rather than saving to the desktop by default. I've done that, primarily because I don't like to save big files on my desktop.

Good Luck! Rich

Oh, I don't save anything to the desktop. But the filenames are still silly.

John

So put a directory "download" on your desktop and tell Firefox options to drop them in there. I agree that dropping on the desktop messes up things awfully.

It's not about messing up the appearance of the "desktop" it's that I don't like saving data to my system drive, which is where Billy decided to put the "desktop." And my system drive is already full of Windoze.

If I really need quick access to something, I can just drag a shortcut to the desktop.

Thanks, Rich