Downloading Sysinternals

[Terry Russell]

I wonder, why nobody seems to use good old FTP:

[...]
probably because noone found the magic words on the website
and something not mentioned on the site could be anywhere

I first had a look at the download links on the website; like:

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Filemon.zip

After that, the first address to be tested seemed quite obvious. ;-)

It is, if it was, but it wasn't

on 19/7 the link pointed to http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Filemon.zip
on that day it did respond to ftp, with a message that anon ftp was
explictly denied
It seems to have been changed when they moved servers.

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

on 19/7 the link pointed to http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/Filemon.zip
on that day it did respond to ftp, with a message that anon ftp was
explictly denied
It seems to have been changed when they moved servers.

Ah, I see. Seems a sensible move to reduce the website access rate,
but may also be just a side effect not really intended.

What somewhat upsets me is that Mark still didn't write a newsletter
on the new situation of Sysinternals. When signing up a couple of
years ago, I did so to get first hand information, timely. And not,
to remind me half a year later on "ancient" events... :-(

BeAr

 

[Phred]

I wonder, why nobody seems to use good old FTP:

ftp://download.sysinternals.com/Files

That's direct access to all files, reasonable fast and a download
which absolutely complies with the Sysinternal licenses.

Out of curiosity rather than current need, I went to that site and
downloaded 133 files totalling 23,764,898 bytes. This is somewhat
less than the "150+ files" mentioned elsewhere, and a LOT less than
the total download of >200 MB mentioned in a different "elsewhere".

I'm pretty confident about the "150+ files", but I may have screwed up
that aggregate file size -- or maybe the OP got it wrong when posting?

Dunno why I'm bothering to broadcast this to the world at large, but
WTH.

Cheers, Phred.

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

ftp://download.sysinternals.com/Files

[...]
Out of curiosity rather than current need, I went to that site and
downloaded 133 files totalling 23,764,898 bytes. This is somewhat
less than the "150+ files" mentioned elsewhere, and a LOT less than
the total download of >200 MB mentioned in a different "elsewhere".

Maybe, the other numbers include the *.html pages? And to get near
200 MByte just include the vids:

ftp://download.sysinternals.com/Video

BeAr

 

[Phred]

ftp://download.sysinternals.com/Files

[...]
Out of curiosity rather than current need, I went to that site and
downloaded 133 files totalling 23,764,898 bytes. This is somewhat
less than the "150+ files" mentioned elsewhere, and a LOT less than
the total download of >200 MB mentioned in a different "elsewhere".

Maybe, the other numbers include the *.html pages? And to get near
200 MByte just include the vids:

ftp://download.sysinternals.com/Video

Yeah. That could explain the difference. Also, I think the original
Sysinternals included source code; but this "new" stuff with the
Microsoft EULA (dating from 19 Jul 2006) doesn't seem to have source
code. I could be wrong here as I only had a quick squiz at a couple
of the individual ZIP file contents.

Incidentally, that EULA speaks of permission to TRIAL the utilities to
see how they would work in your specific system. It doesn't seem to
give permission to USE them, as I interpret the wording.

Cheers, Phred.

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

I think the original Sysinternals included source code; but this "new"
stuff with the Microsoft EULA (dating from 19 Jul 2006) doesn't seem to
have source code. I could be wrong here as I only had a quick squiz at
a couple of the individual ZIP file contents.

Only a couple of tools were accompanied by source. You still find
these sources (inside additional archives).

Incidentally, that EULA speaks of permission to TRIAL the utilities to
see how they would work in your specific system. It doesn't seem to
give permission to USE them, as I interpret the wording.

Hm:
| You may use the software only to internally evaluate and test it.

Doesn't sound like freeware, anymore. It's been a bad year for the
Sysinternal users. Despite their claim at the beginning of the year
when they first accompanied their tools with an EULA, the tools had
been free for commercial support use, at the beginning. And now even
the personal free use seems to be banished. I'm very glad that I was
up to date with all tools before that last change... :-(

BeAr