Ok, I’m doing it too:
$ wget 'http://news.boulder.ibm.com/sdfdl/v2/regs2/jank/nd8beta/Xa...
=> `notes8standard_w32_beta2_np.exe'
Resolving news.boulder.ibm.com... 207.25.253.14
Connecting to news.boulder.ibm.com|207.25.253.14|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 638,182,400 (609M) [application/octet-stream]
0% [ ] 5,689,249 69.93K/s ETA 2:39:14