Gripe of the day
Aaaagggghhh
Why is it that VMware hide their VMware server downloads behind a password?
Like many I run headless Linux servers without a GUI installed. I’d like to be able to download VMware Server (700MB+) using wget via an SSH session, but I can’t because you need to log in first, and it’s not a vanilla HTTP login that I can work through wget either! I’m expected to log into the site on my desktop, download the installer and then SFTP it up to the Linux box. That would be OK if the server was on the same LAN, but it’s in a data centre and I’m on the end of an ADSL line with a 672Kbps upload. Surely controlling access to the serial numbers is good enough as the installer is useless without it. Still, at least I could use w3m in the end.
By gary | 7. May 2009 | Internet, Linux, Technology | No Comments »