When browser downloader fails to download ftp files

Have you ever have the experience of not being able to download a file from ftp? Well, I have. The error message seems to be the same - ‘server not found’.

A friend I met the other day told me to download a third party download manager. He suggested that I download a free download accelerator manager. Hence I searched through the Internet and found one. Now I am able to download any file, even though those from ftp. Here is the free download manager that works well as it supports resuming unfinished file downloading.

Sweet potatoes are nutritious

According to my reading, sweet potatoes have 10 times more protein and vitamin B1 than apples. The food also contains three and a half times more vitamin C than the apple. As for vitamin B2 and iron, the contents in sweet potatoes are three times more than apples. Besides, the sweet potato has two times more phosphorus than the apple. It has the same amount of sugar and calcium as the apple.

Sailors in the past took sweet potatoes to prevent scurvy because they contain a lot of vitamin C.

60 per cent of potassium is found on the skin of the food. Hence taking sweet potatoes with the skin intact will lower the blood pressure. However those with renal problems should not take sweet potatoes as the accumulation of potassium will worsen the condition of the disease.

How to be a good Buddhist

Buddhists believe that all beings are capable of attaining Buddhahood. Hence he will practise the teaching of Buddha as best as he can to get rid of three things that cause suffering. These are avarice, hatred and delusion.

A good Buddhist will try not to be greedy and avoid taking things that do not belong to him or resorting to cheating others to gain more money. Donating things and money to the needy is another way of practising not to be greedy.

As for cutting down on hatred, he will try to forgive others and treat others as if they are his close relatives in past lives.

Getting rid of delusion needs the understanding of the true nature of things. If he can always remind himself that all things are in constant flux and nothing is constant and that every phenomenon involves cause and effect, he will have got rid of delusion.

Meditation is one way of achieving peace of mind, leading to enlightenment. For those who have too many things to trouble their mind, chanting the name of Amita Buddha is a good way of calming themselves paving the way to enlightenment too because Amita Buddha in His vow has promised to take those who chant His name to his world – the Realm of Ultimate Blisss when they pass away. There attaining Buddhahood will be much easier because of the good environment there.

The difference between 'water' and 'waters'

Water is the liquid that forms the seas, rivers, and wells. We also drink it to quench our thirst.
The following sentence shows the usage of this word.

The travellers drank river water when he was very thirsty.

On the other hand, waters is an area of sea regarded as under thr juristiction of a particular country.

The sentence below shows how 'waters' is used.

Our government cannot do anything when the pirates are in international waters.

Bad habist die hard

Bad habits are difficult to be changed. Being late to functions are very common because it has become a habit for most people. That explains why a wedding dinner which is scheduled to start at 7.30 p.m. can only begin at 8.30 p.m. because most of the guests only arrive five or ten minutes before the stipulated time.

Most workers also have the bad habit of waiting for a day or two before dateline to complete what they have to do. Hence some do their job sloppily of the rush to finish it.

Paying of bills just on dateline is also a bad habit. The payment counter will be full of people who pay their bills on the last day allowed.

If we change our bad habits, things will go smoother. Punctuality will avoid letting other people wait for us. There will also be no congestion at the payment counter if we pay our bills earlier.

Mens' slippers?

I went shopping at two supermarkets and coincidently noticed similar grammatical errors.

In one supermarket, the display card reads 'Mens' Slippers' and in the other, 'Mens Pants' were written on a cardboard. Both are wrong grammatically.

To show possession for plural nouns such as men, women, we just add apostrophe s. Hence the above two mistakes can be rectified as 'Men's Slippers' and 'Men's Pants'.

DVD Writer that writes only DVD-R

I bought a Liteon 20x DVD Writer yesterday. I tried out various brands of DVD and found something strange about this writer. It failed to burn all DVD+R even Verbatim DVD+R.

However, it had no problem burning DVD-R.

I wonder whether other readers have encountered similar problems.