From eminmn at sysmatrix.net Fri May 1 23:17:15 2020 From: eminmn at sysmatrix.net (eminmn) Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 23:17:15 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even plain text couldn't be compressed that much. Thanks, Ed On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: > Just passing this along to those that might be interested. > > Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No > idea when this will end. > > The list of books can be found here > https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 > > This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to download > all 409 books, or subsets of them. > https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books > > Plan on a 4+ hour download window if you want copies of them all, > there's about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the download > speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From o1bigtenor at gmail.com Sat May 2 06:32:00 2020 From: o1bigtenor at gmail.com (o1bigtenor) Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 06:32:00 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:24 PM eminmn wrote: > > Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most > interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), > which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical > size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems > to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even > plain text couldn't be compressed that much. > In my 'grab' of the goodies - - - - I do have a readable (just a quick scan of the pdf seems to have no missing pages) copy. I think it would be appropriate if I were to send you a copy of such file if you so desired. Please advise. From eminmn at sysmatrix.net Sat May 2 09:56:33 2020 From: eminmn at sysmatrix.net (eminmn) Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 09:56:33 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <0d03fd04-a1cb-7eb7-52e1-2fac6536cc1f@sysmatrix.net> Thanks, BT. Are you sure that you are not looking at _406 Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming _ also by John Hunt, 1st ed. 2019-? That one is legible. I just downloaded the Beginners book (#405) again and it shows 13531 bytes for both epub and pdf. Maybe Hunt decided not to give away the Beginners book. Ed p.s. If you really do have #405, I would like a copy. On 5/2/2020 06:32, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:24 PM eminmn wrote: >> >> Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most >> interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), >> which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical >> size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems >> to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even >> plain text couldn't be compressed that much. >> > In my 'grab' of the goodies - - - - I do have a readable (just a quick scan of > the pdf seems to have no missing pages) copy. I think it would be appropriate > if I were to send you a copy of such file if you so desired. > Please advise. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From rhayman at pureice.com Sat May 2 18:58:27 2020 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 18:58:27 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> My  'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB and my  'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing to share also if you can't resolve the issue. On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: > Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the > most  > interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming > (Hunt),  > which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical  > size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it > seems  > to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. > Even  > plain text couldn't be compressed that much. > > Thanks, > Ed > > On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: > > > > Just passing this along to those that might be interested. > > > > Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 > > quarantine. No  > > idea when this will end. > > > > The list of books can be found here > > https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten > > t/17858272/data/v4 > > > > This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to > > download  > > all 409 books, or subsets of them. > > https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books > > > > Plan on a 4+ hour download window if you want copies of them all,  > > there's about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the > > download  > > speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eminmn at sysmatrix.net Sun May 3 16:56:52 2020 From: eminmn at sysmatrix.net (eminmn) Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 16:56:52 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun). Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something like Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful for a shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I did download one at a time about 50 others. Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux (mint 19) and I know almost nothing about python. Thanks, Ed On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote: > My > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - > 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB > and my > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - > 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. > > I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing to share > also if you can't resolve the issue. > > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: >> Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most >> interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), >> which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical >> size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems >> to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even >> plain text couldn't be compressed that much. >> >> Thanks, >> Ed >> >> On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: >>> Just passing this along to those that might be interested. Springer >>> books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No idea >>> when this will end. The list of books can be found here >>> https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 >>> This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to >>> download all 409 books, or subsets of them. >>> https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ hour >>> download window if you want copies of them all, there's about 14GB. I >>> think the Springer site has throttled the download speed, I'm only >>> getting ~2.4Mbps. _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From ryan.coleman at cwis.biz Sun May 3 22:07:38 2020 From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 22:07:38 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> It looks like many of them are incomplete…. I’m running a wget on all the titles right now and many are coming up as 404. > On May 3, 2020, at 4:56 PM, eminmn wrote: > > Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun). > Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something like Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful for a shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I did download one at a time about 50 others. > Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux (mint 19) and I know almost nothing about python. > > Thanks, > > Ed > > On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote: >> My >> 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB >> and my >> 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. >> I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing to share also if you can't resolve the issue. >> On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: >>> Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most >>> interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), >>> which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical >>> size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems >>> to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. Even >>> plain text couldn't be compressed that much. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ed >>> >>> On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: >>>> Just passing this along to those that might be interested. Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No idea when this will end. The list of books can be found here https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to download all 409 books, or subsets of them. https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ hour download window if you want copies of them all, there's about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the download speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chewie at wookimus.net Sun May 3 21:27:20 2020 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom Walstrom) Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 21:27:20 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Old SCSI drive Message-ID: <87imhctoxj.fsf@wookimus.net> TL;DR: Found an old 50 pin SCSI internal drive and would like to extract the data without spending $$$. Would anyone have a SCSI to USB adapter cable, such as were used on the Iomega Jazz or USB2Xchange from Adaptec? My son's computer has a molex connector that we could leach power from and try the scsi->usb trick to pull the data. eBay's $150 just isn't worth it. If you have a spare one that you could ship to me, I'll reimburse you for shipping and whatever you think is reasonable. Alternative is to have my son take a drill to the drive before we recycle it. (Probably do that anyway.) Chad -- Chad Walstrom Blog: https://wookimus.net/ Twitter: @runswithd6s Keybase: https://keybase.io/runswithd6s From ryan.coleman at cwis.biz Sun May 3 23:25:17 2020 From: ryan.coleman at cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 23:25:17 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Old SCSI drive In-Reply-To: <87imhctoxj.fsf@wookimus.net> References: <87imhctoxj.fsf@wookimus.net> Message-ID: <1AF95846-5716-4231-ACCF-B3A73A7660A6@cwis.biz> So there are other options that aren’t $150. I understand not spending money on this but here’s a $50 option: https://www.amazon.com/aCard-LVD-SCSi-Bridge-Adapter-AEC-7722/dp/B00BNHQ3BE/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=IDE+to+SCSI&qid=1588566237&s=electronics&sr=1-8 + an IDE to USB adapter and you shold be in business. > On May 3, 2020, at 9:27 PM, Chad Walstrom Walstrom wrote: > > TL;DR: Found an old 50 pin SCSI internal drive and would like to extract > the data without spending $$$. Would anyone have a SCSI to USB adapter > cable, such as were used on the Iomega Jazz or USB2Xchange from Adaptec? > > My son's computer has a molex connector that we could leach power from > and try the scsi->usb trick to pull the data. eBay's $150 just isn't > worth it. If you have a spare one that you could ship to me, I'll > reimburse you for shipping and whatever you think is reasonable. > > Alternative is to have my son take a drill to the drive before we > recycle it. (Probably do that anyway.) > > Chad > > -- > Chad Walstrom > Blog: https://wookimus.net/ > Twitter: @runswithd6s > Keybase: https://keybase.io/runswithd6s > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chewie at wookimus.net Sun May 3 23:50:13 2020 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom) Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:50:13 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Old SCSI drive In-Reply-To: <1AF95846-5716-4231-ACCF-B3A73A7660A6@cwis.biz> References: <87imhctoxj.fsf@wookimus.net> <1AF95846-5716-4231-ACCF-B3A73A7660A6@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <87mu6owbga.fsf@wookimus.net> Ryan Coleman writes: > So there are other options that aren’t $150. > I understand not spending money on this but here’s a $50 option: > https://www.amazon.com/aCard-LVD-SCSi-Bridge-Adapter-AEC-7722/dp/B00BNHQ3BE/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=IDE+to+SCSI&qid=1588566237&s=electronics&sr=1-8 > > > + an IDE to USB adapter and you shold be in business. Brilliant! I have an IDE/SATA->USB adapter already for just this occasion. Perfect. -- Chad Walstrom Blog: https://wookimus.net/ Twitter: @runswithd6s Keybase: https://keybase.io/runswithd6s From rhayman at pureice.com Mon May 4 12:22:26 2020 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 12:22:26 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> Message-ID: <389561db5966193d2a4713bccd73a171f1f0f703.camel@pureice.com> I re-ran the full download suite this morning, using a different method and 18 books were unable to be downloaded but 390 were successful: On a different Ubuntu box (18.04) I did the following$ pip3 install pandas $ pip3 install wget $ pip3 install requests $ pip3 install xlrd $ mkdir -p springer-python/download $ cd springer-python $ cp ~/Downloads/Free+English+textbooks.xlsx . $ cat download-textbooks.py import requests, wgetimport pandas as pddf = pd.read_excel("Free+English+textbooks.xlsx")for index, row in df.iterrows(): # loop through the excel list file_name = f"{row.loc['Book Title']}_{row.loc['Edition']}".replace('/','- ').replace(':','-') url = f"{row.loc['OpenURL']}" r = requests.get(url) download_url = f"{r.url.replace('book','content/pdf')}.pdf" wget.download(downl oad_url, f"./download/{file_name}.pdf") print(f"downloading {file_name}.pdf Complete ....") $ python3 ./download-textbooks.py The 18 books that failed showed up in the output as (sorted)-1 / unknowndownloading A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming_1st ed. 2019.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Algebra_3rd ed. 2002.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Clinical Neuroanatomy_2008.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Data Science and Predictive Analytics_1st ed. 2018.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Electricity and Magnetism_2014.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Geomorphology of Desert Environments_2nd ed. 2009.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy_3rd ed. 2006.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Integrated Neuroscience_2003.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Introduction to Partial Differential Equations_2014.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Java in Two Semesters_4th ed. 2019.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Pharmaceutical Biotechnology_5th ed. 2019.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Plant Anatomy_1st ed. 2018.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Plate Tectonics_2011.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases_13th ed. 2008.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy_3rd ed. 2006.pdf Complete ....- 1 / unknowndownloading Principles of Physics_2012.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Robotics, Vision and Control_2nd ed. 2017.pdf Complete ....-1 / unknowndownloading Robotics, Vision and Control_2011.pdf Complete .... I ran this a second time with just the 18 failed books in a new Free+English+textbooks.xlsx fileand they failed again with the same error. Fortunately I believe my initial downloads last Thursday grabbed good copies of these 18 files as the original downloads were significantly larger in size. Unfortunately I don't yet have Google drive set up at the moment. On Sun, 2020-05-03 at 22:07 -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > It looks like many of them are incomplete…. I’m running a wget on all > the titles right now and many are coming up as 404. > > > On May 3, 2020, at 4:56 PM, eminmn wrote: > > Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun). > > Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's > > Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K > > preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB > > according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something > > like Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful > > for a shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I > > did download one at a time about 50 others. > > Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not > > likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux > > (mint 19) and I know almost nothing about python. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed > > > > On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote: > > > My > > > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. > > > 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB > > > and my > > > 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. > > > 2019 - 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. > > > I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing > > > to share also if you can't resolve the issue. > > > On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: > > > > Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of > > > > the most > > > > interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming > > > > (Hunt), > > > > which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of > > > > identical > > > > size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs > > > > it seems > > > > to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 > > > > pp. Even > > > > plain text couldn't be compressed that much. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: > > > > > Just passing this along to those that might be interested. > > > > > Springer books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 > > > > > quarantine. No idea when this will end. The list of books can > > > > > be found here > > > > > https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 > > > > > This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script > > > > > to download all 409 books, or subsets of them. > > > > > https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ > > > > > hour download window if you want copies of them all, there's > > > > > about 14GB. I think the Springer site has throttled the > > > > > download speed, I'm only getting ~2.4Mbps. > > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing > > > > > List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn- > > > > > linux.org > > > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesotatclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rclarksean at arvig.net Mon May 4 13:51:22 2020 From: rclarksean at arvig.net (Randy Clarksean) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 13:51:22 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <20ae9a85-882b-83de-40b2-4030053916d1@arvig.net> FYI ... main.py was updated just this morning and it fixed a few of the issues I was having in downloading some of the books. If you only want one or two books the URL for the title is listed in the XLS file and you can just use that to access and download the books. Randy On 5/3/20 4:56 PM, eminmn wrote: > Hey Man, thanks for the offer! (that's a pun). > Another member of tclug was kind enough to send me the Beginner's > Guide. The other one that would download only some kind of 13K > preamble was "Plant Anatomy," but that one is huge (about 150 MB > according to the first good Samaritan). If anyone has something like > Google Drive that they could upload it to, I would be grateful for a > shareable link. Otherwise, I could get along without it. I did > download one at a time about 50 others. > Now I would like to know why this glitch cropped up but I am not > likely to figure it out. I am only an occasional user of linux (mint > 19) and I know almost nothing about python. > > Thanks, > > Ed > > On 5/2/2020 18:58, r hayman wrote: >> My >> 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 >> - 978-3-030-20290-3.epub' is 27.2 MB >> and my >> 'A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - John Hunt, 1sr ed. 2019 >> - 978-3-030-20290-3.pdf' is 30.5 MB. >> >> I'm not sure what happened to your download, but I'd be willing to >> share also if you can't resolve the issue. >> >> >> On Fri, 2020-05-01 at 23:17 -0500, eminmn wrote: >>> Thanks for this. There are many useful volumes here but one of the most >>> interesting to me was A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming (Hunt), >>> which unfortunately is illegible. Both epub and pdf are of identical >>> size as reported by the system (about 13K). Looked at in Emacs it seems >>> to be some kind of binary index file. The hard copy book is 433 pp. >>> Even >>> plain text couldn't be compressed that much. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ed >>> >>> On 4/30/2020 17:03, r hayman wrote: >>>> Just passing this along to those that might be interested. Springer >>>> books released for free during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. No >>>> idea when this will end. The list of books can be found here >>>> https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4 >>>> This GitHub repo has more info (links) and a python script to >>>> download all 409 books, or subsets of them. >>>> https://github.com/alexgand/springer_free_books Plan on a 4+ hour >>>> download window if you want copies of them all, there's about 14GB. >>>> I think the Springer site has throttled the download speed, I'm >>>> only getting ~2.4Mbps. >>>> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List >>>> - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Randy Clarksean, Ph.D., P.E., CFEI, CFII 50685 330th Street Ottertail MN 56571 Phone: 1.218.385.3750 Mobile: 1.218.371.1967 From iznogoud at nobelware.com Mon May 4 14:13:54 2020 From: iznogoud at nobelware.com (Iznogoud) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 19:13:54 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <389561db5966193d2a4713bccd73a171f1f0f703.camel@pureice.com> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> <389561db5966193d2a4713bccd73a171f1f0f703.camel@pureice.com> Message-ID: <20200504191354.GA6527@nobelware.com> I first tried to setup the download automatically, so that I can trim it down to get what I wanted. I had some issues, but that is not the point. I realized that it was completely wasteful to do the full download just because it was possible. I found that going through the list and pasting the 2nd URL to a browser and manually getting the books I wanted worked great. I got most of the maths and stats on the list, some QM and some in other topics that interest me. I a mgrateful for this. I encourage you to not be wasteful either, and not download 450 books you will not end up reading. From eng at pinenet.com Mon May 4 22:14:53 2020 From: eng at pinenet.com (Rick Engebretson) Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 22:14:53 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <20200504191354.GA6527@nobelware.com> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> <389561db5966193d2a4713bccd73a171f1f0f703.camel@pureice.com> <20200504191354.GA6527@nobelware.com> Message-ID: <6197eb4f-f7f1-7ae1-4bd4-9a1af0fdaad3@pinenet.com> I don't know if there are books on this, but I presume your "QM" means Quantum Mechanics. If so, please recall we discussed the "Center for Quantum Molecular Design" at Stanford University and how it might pertain to process chemistry of "biomass." You referred to some U of M prof doing similar. Now, Michael Moore has a free movie, "Planet of the Humans" on you tube. Apparently, money is chasing biomass looking for a process technology. My guess is the money already knows the winning ticket in the "renewable energy" game. "Solar Biofuel." I'm way too old to read this stuff. Just working like a man 40 years younger. Maybe apply your skills to a very different line of work?? Iznogoud wrote: > I first tried to setup the download automatically, so that I can trim it > down to get what I wanted. I had some issues, but that is not the point. > > I realized that it was completely wasteful to do the full download just > because it was possible. I found that going through the list and pasting > the 2nd URL to a browser and manually getting the books I wanted worked > great. I got most of the maths and stats on the list, some QM and some > in other topics that interest me. I a mgrateful for this. > > I encourage you to not be wasteful either, and not download 450 books you > will not end up reading. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From rhayman at pureice.com Tue May 5 08:04:39 2020 From: rhayman at pureice.com (r hayman) Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 08:04:39 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] FYI: Free for a limited time - ebooks from Springer In-Reply-To: <20200504191354.GA6527@nobelware.com> References: <9997280ce4d33408e66a933e3723607696a0b2e9.camel@pureice.com> <1588463907.3044.12.camel@pureice.com> <9922C14C-286E-438E-8548-8133DFE8D1C9@cwis.biz> <389561db5966193d2a4713bccd73a171f1f0f703.camel@pureice.com> <20200504191354.GA6527@nobelware.com> Message-ID: Haven't you ever gone to a book store or library to browse for interesting books? I bet most of us have since we're typically life-long learners on this mailing list. How would I have known Semiotics was something interesting enough to read about had I not browsed the download collection and found "Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things_3rd ed. 2018.pdf"? It's much easier to browse the collection locally and purge what I find uninteresting or purge a reference I'm not interested in keeping. On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 19:13 +0000, Iznogoud wrote: > I first tried to setup the download automatically, so that I can trim it > down to get what I wanted. I had some issues, but that is not the point. > > I realized that it was completely wasteful to do the full download just > because it was possible. I found that going through the list and pasting > the 2nd URL to a browser and manually getting the books I wanted worked > great. I got most of the maths and stats on the list, some QM and some > in other topics that interest me. I a mgrateful for this. > > I encourage you to not be wasteful either, and not download 450 books you > will not end up reading. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: focal sshd doesn't answer VX Connectbot. no idea why. no problem with bionic sshd, even if invoked on the focal kernel. tried to simply substitute bionic /usr/sbin/sshd into focal, wouldn't start. works in a bionic chroot on focal, but from there tunnels don't connect. i submitted a bug , but i'm not holding my breath for a resolution. so next i thought i'd try to install the bionic openssh-server package in focal. perhaps can be done with dpkg, probably pretty straightforward, but not very robust. what i'm wondering is if there might be a way to specify the most recent available bionic version of openssh-server, satisfying dependencies from bionic as needed but preferring focal for most of everything. any apt-get experts here? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I initially tried OpenWRT with it's DNS inspection feature, but that ended up blocking many other Google services that the kids needed for school, like Google Drive. I concluded that I needed a firewall that supported forced tls inspection without decryption (so I wouldn't have to push root certificates to all the devices), and after digging around, ended up using the free version of Sophos XG. It's been working well so far; the inspection works as desired, and it's easy to override if needed. It is also handling WAN load balancing and failover between cable, DSL, and LTE nicely. I wish it was open source.. but I'm willing to live with it for now. (When Encrypted SNI becomes widespread, this method won't work anymore, and you'll have to use a proxy that requires pushing a root certificate to the client. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > focal sshd doesn't answer VX Connectbot. no idea why. no problem with > bionic sshd, even if invoked on the focal kernel. tried to simply > substitute bionic /usr/sbin/sshd into focal, wouldn't start. works in a > bionic chroot on focal, but from there tunnels don't connect. i submitted > a bug , > but i'm not holding my breath for a resolution. > > so next i thought i'd try to install the bionic openssh-server package in > focal. perhaps can be done with dpkg, probably pretty straightforward, but > not very robust. what i'm wondering is if there might be a way to specify > the most recent available bionic version of openssh-server, satisfying > dependencies from bionic as needed but preferring focal for most of > everything. any apt-get experts here? > well in focal i added bionic defs into /etc/apt/sources.list and ran apt-get --auto-remove --purge install openssh-server/bionic openssh-sftp-server/bionic which did as asked. but sshd wouldn't start. well it was worth a try. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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