Well, THAT'S moderately annoying
Apr. 29th, 2006 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichelefSo I'm downloading a bunch of articles for my summer class (Sociology 235: Sexuality and Society - current enrollment: 4). These are things that I have hard copies of from last time I taught the class but I really don't want to have to make all of them electronic (for putting on e-reserves) myself - scanning to a reasonable .pdf file is a three-step process and I have far better things to do with my time. Fortunately, many of these articles are online. Hooray.
Except that stupid Haworth Press (publisher of The Journal of Homosexuality) has the most ASININE file download system ever.
First off, the files download as .asp files. By default, my computer thinks that .asp files should be opened by system profiler. This means that every time you download one, the computer launches System Profiler to tell you that it doesn't know what to do with the file. Despite the .asp extension, they are readable by Preview or Acrobat. I just had a smart moment and remembered how to tell the computer to always open .asp files with Preview, so that annoying part of it is solved. However...
You can only download one of them at a time. They all come down with the same filename, but for some reason it won't just append a number onto the filename like it usually does when there are duplicate download names. (I haven't cared enough to figure out what happens if you don't delete one before you download the next - but you definitely can't be downloading two of them at a time.) So here I sit waiting for the files to download so I can rename them and then grab the next one.
Man, I lead an exciting life.
ETA: I forgot the bonus. In all this stupidness, I did find a fun article about JenniCam. Which is actually legitimately classifiable as real academic work (since I'll be referring to the webcam phenomenon in my diss).
Except that stupid Haworth Press (publisher of The Journal of Homosexuality) has the most ASININE file download system ever.
First off, the files download as .asp files. By default, my computer thinks that .asp files should be opened by system profiler. This means that every time you download one, the computer launches System Profiler to tell you that it doesn't know what to do with the file. Despite the .asp extension, they are readable by Preview or Acrobat. I just had a smart moment and remembered how to tell the computer to always open .asp files with Preview, so that annoying part of it is solved. However...
You can only download one of them at a time. They all come down with the same filename, but for some reason it won't just append a number onto the filename like it usually does when there are duplicate download names. (I haven't cared enough to figure out what happens if you don't delete one before you download the next - but you definitely can't be downloading two of them at a time.) So here I sit waiting for the files to download so I can rename them and then grab the next one.
Man, I lead an exciting life.
ETA: I forgot the bonus. In all this stupidness, I did find a fun article about JenniCam. Which is actually legitimately classifiable as real academic work (since I'll be referring to the webcam phenomenon in my diss).
