Continuing Google Chrome downloads that have been canceled because of a crashed browser, a Windows bluescreen, or some other reason is quite easy by using the tools available via Linux. The primary tool used to continue downloading files on a Linux computer is called wget and can be obtained for Windows using the information below. If a Chrome download has been cancelled for some reason you can continue downloading the file using wget as explained below. I am surprised there is not a extension that provides a resume feature yet however I imagine one will be coming along in the near future.

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I ran into a silly error tonight during some configuration changes for PostgreSQL that took me awhile to figure out so I wanted to share so it might save others some time in the future. In an attempt to boot the slave server in a PostgreSQL SkyTools walmgr configuration I was unable to get it operational. The server would seem like it was stopping recovery mode however I was unable to login and the recovery process was still showing. Eventually I used the verbose switch to see if I could gain more information about why it was not booting up and the output is below.

Command:
walmgr.py conf/wal-slave.ini boot -v

Error:
2009-04-22 01:24:22,949 3899 INFO Stopping recovery mode
2009-04-22 01:24:22,949 3899 DEBUG Using pg_auth file from master.
2009-04-22 01:24:22,950 3899 DEBUG Execute cmd: ‘cp’ ‘/var/lib/pgsql/walshipping/logs.complete/pg_auth’ ‘/var/lib/pgsql/data/global/pg_auth’
2009-04-22 01:24:22,955 3899 DEBUG Only single loop requested, exiting

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