Beta 2 update method

Will the beta 2 update be pushed to us or a downloadable update? Is there a time table you are working with that is sharable with your beta testers?

Grrrr....search library for impatience now...I've gotta kick this :-)

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Bob Pritchett

It will appear as if by magic... you'll know it when you have it, and (of course) we'll discuss it here, too, so if for some reason you don't get it automatically, you'll know to report it and help us find out why.

spitzerpl

It will appear as if by magic... you'll know it when you have it, and (of course) we'll discuss it here, too, so if for some reason you don't get it automatically, you'll know to report it and help us find out why.

Great! Just to let you know...I don't have it yet :-)

Wes Saad

It will appear as if by magic...

Hmm now I should boycott Logos for trying to stir interest in the occult? Once we are on this slippery slope it's just a matter of time until we start seeing books like Harry Potter and Sleeping Beauty!

Robert Pavich

You beat me to it Chris!!

TCBlack

I guess for my part the most intriguing part of the question is "Will I get my DVD before the beta is over?"

;-)

Nigel Cunningham

Will we be able to say "Not yet"?

If it's released on September 24 and I have 500MB left on my download limit, I'll be wanting to wait until my new 'month' with my ISP starts (the next day).

Regards,

Nigel

Bob Pritchett

Just to get some perspective... what kind of charge do you pay for extra megabytes? We are designing for lots of downloading -- background updates of the app, resources, etc. -- so it'd help to know if this puts an extra $5 burden on people or a $500 burden...

Damian McGrath

Just to get some perspective... what kind of charge do you pay for extra megabytes? We are designing for lots of downloading -- background updates of the app, resources, etc. -- so it'd help to know if this puts an extra $5 burden on people or a $500 burden...

Bob,

If I am on mobile broadband, which I often am on my netbook when away from home/office. I pay 10c a megabyte when I exceed my monthly 5 GB. I was actually considering dropping to a lower capped plan because I only use this for email (Gmail so less downloading) and for the web. I never use it for uploading programs and I do have my netbook set to not download any updates automatically.

So, what's the maths (or math as you say in the US)? How much data are you hoping to push on us each month?

Nigel Cunningham

Well, it's only $AU3/GB for me, but there are other plans people are on that charge much more like a wounded bull than my plan does (eg: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/isp-1-2/telstra-bigpond-adsl.htm - Telstra charge $150/GB if you're on a low plan). I shopped around for the cheapest plan and am still being frugal

It's not just download limits - the user might want to use the bandwidth for something that they consider more important or at least more urgent.

The ideal from my perspective would be

a simple trayicon with a tooltip saying "I'm downloading 375MB of updates from Logos" (perhaps with a little more detail);
an option to pause the downloading and automatically resuming from where it was (ala v3) if you restart / hibernate;
a dialog (accessible from the tray icon) wherein you could optionally disable downloads (eg Don't update that resource because I never use it anyway).
and the ability to still use v4 while the downloading is being done.

Regards,

Nigel

Dave Hooton

Just to get some perspective... what kind of charge do you pay for extra megabytes? We are designing for lots of downloading -- background updates of the app, resources, etc. -- so it'd help to know if this puts an extra $5 burden on people or a $500 burden...

$AU0.15 per MB or $150/GB. After $300 my download slows to dial-up speed! My plan is 4 GB / month.

Don't forget, people, that an unconditional download policy will apply to every machine and OS where v4 is installed!