A few strange things with 8.10 Ubuntu.

[Alfred]

Hi All:

1) Back in Ancient times with 7.10, I could download a very big file,
like 300 Mega-Bytes over several days, and each evening, start from
where I finished the day before. Strangely in 8.10, that ability does
not seem to be there anymore. 10 times I tried to download a 110 MB
file, but an hour or so into the Download on Dial-up the modem was
dialling again, and upon reconnecting, it just sits there, doing not
much. When I open the Dialogue box for downloading again, it starts
right at the beginning, even though,
in /var/cashe/apt/archives/partial/* there is the partially completed
download, but it starts over from the beginning. Is there some sort of
Config file I need to adjust for this, or is there some program I need
to add to my Confuser to get this "Resume" function to work?  

2) Sometimes I try to add some programs with ADD/REMOVE, and it says
that my Confuser is an i386, except that I know it is an ATHALON XP. Is
there a Kernel for AMD ATHALONS, like in Ubuntu's early days. I had one
at the time, but then Kernels started going GENERIC. :(

3) I looked at some Download Accellerators, but they seem to make
Running a Nuclear Power Plant all by myself, just so much easier, than
running one of them. :) Is there one of these that is easy to use with
dial-up, that does not require Post Doctoral work, to try to get
working?

4) In 7.10 Evolution started off in OFF-Line Mode, and it was a constant
bother! Now that is fixed, but FireFox starts off in Off-Line Mode. Is
there some way of setting this up so it starts in ON-LINE Mode. Some
program that allows me to make tweaks to hidden Config files of FireFox
Perhaps? Something I've Overlooked perhaps?

To the person responding to these Questions, you may respond to just one
of them, or all of them if you like. I'm not sure these are bugs just
yet, if there are answers for them, then why BUG the Bug list, if there
are no Answers then I'll make bug reports.

Tia

Alfred!