Some Macs running Linux hang when waking up from sleep if the Ethernet port was connected. Fix this problem by automatically disabling/reenabling the drivers when the machine goes to sleep.
I recently had to copy a very large file (>4GB) from a remote Windows share to my Windows 7 machine, over a very finicky connection (frequently-failing VPN over a slow Internet connection). A GUI copy didn't work because the connection dropped frequently. I tried Free Download Manager, which was the recommended tool for the download, but surprisingly, it wasn't always able to restart the download after connectivity dropped.
