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All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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Post by davvid »

philfreo wrote: post #10
_ques wrote: post #6

for i in `seq -w 19`; do echo "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip"; done | xargs wget

In parallel: for i in `seq -w 19`; do wget "http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0"$i".zip" & done wait

Let's not forget GNU parallel, that would be naughty ;-)

    seq -w 19 |
    parallel wget http://hackermonthly.com/xmas/hackermonthly-issue0{}.zip
;-)

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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Post by roryokane »

EwanG wrote: post #93
artursapek wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're just distasteful and annoying. Check out Kim Kardashian hanging out on their home page. They make you wait for a download. And I've had problems with downloads always stopping at the same point no matter how many times I tried.

At the risk of appearing to be a fool, I can suggest that if you are doing enough DLing that the wait is a problem for you, you might want to go the Premium route. I'm an anime buff (as well as other stuff), and have a yearly subscription with them and with Fileserve. Blistering fast DLs, no waits or ads, YMMV...

The whole point of the wait on various download sites is to throw advertising for Premium on you. They also make you scroll past “buy premium” buttons and such to reach the download button on some sites. I think you can assume that if someone is complaining about the wait time for a download site, they have already considered and rejected buying Premium.

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

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Post by roryokane »

mappu wrote: post #48
artursapek wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire. http://www.mediafire.com

Why do you say that? Mediafire is usually my first choice too, but megaupload is a close second (mostly since you can use tessaract on the captcha, either manually or via jdownloader/plowshare) with all the ReCaptcha sites (filesonic/fileshare/wupload...) trailing behind.

One reason is that MegaUpload (and a few other download sites) blocks certain countries from downloading from it. The two countries I have personally experienced blocking in are Egypt and Malaysia. In Egypt, the page always said that the number of download tickets for my country has been exceeded, no matter what time I tried to download at. In Malaysia, the site doesn’t load at all.

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#104

Post by fauldsh »

fauldsh wrote: post #84
kinkora wrote: post #64

Hope this takes some load off his servers: Edit - changed links to the s3 servers Issue 1 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issue 2 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issue 3 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issue 4 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwithclaws.baconfile.com/hackermo... Issue 5 - http://s3.amazonaws.com/bearwith…

Everything in one zip: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?klj42fqmnwx0xtr

I removed this because this was only a single day offer and I am uncomfortable with leaving everything up in the public domain without the owner's permission. Besides which the official site appears to have recovered.

Re: All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours

#105

Post by J_Darnley »

artursapek wrote: post #37
MikeCapone wrote: post #23

Maybe there's a way to put the archive in a file locker (like Megaupload) and delete it after 24 hours.. It's pointless to make the files free if /everybody/ tries to download them but /nobody/ actually gets to read the zine because the files time out..

Megaupload is terrible. Please encourage people to use Mediafire. http://www.mediafire.com

I used to agree with you. Then Mediafire started requiring javascript to download. Now they're all terrible.
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