re: [gutvol-d] entire Gutenberg ebook collection on a flash drive
brandon said:
that d.v.d. has less than 10,000 e-texts on it. it was up-to-date in december of 2003, when i helped michael pass out copies of it in berkeley, but it's outdated now, to the tune of 7,000 files. considering its capacity, the c.d. is phenomenal. *** aaron said:
well, that u.r.l. seems to be timing out right now. perhaps it's because i put in "1-17000" as a range of .txt files for it to fetch, which might've overwhelmed it. at any rate, since i would think this might be a relatively common request, it might be nice to provide a constantly updated version of it, without pestering that iso-creator... -bowerbird
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 04:57 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
that d.v.d. has less than 10,000 e-texts on it. it was up-to-date in december of 2003, when i helped michael pass out copies of it in berkeley, but it's outdated now, to the tune of 7,000 files.
True, but stay tuned. It will be updated soon, now that we have the iso creator up to date. Possibly the CD as well.
considering its capacity, the c.d. is phenomenal.
Not really. A lot more could be on there if we had added ZIP files instead of uncompressed text, but that wasn't really the point.
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aaron said:
well, that u.r.l. seems to be timing out right now.
perhaps it's because i put in "1-17000" as a range of .txt files for it to fetch, which might've overwhelmed it.
Yeah. It can tend to time out on huge groups of books. Until we get that fixed (if it can be fixed) I'd recommend feeding it smaller chunks of requests, like 1-5000, and then 5001-10000. Otherwise you will end up waiting a long long time, and depending on your browser and other factors, may end up timing out completely. We will have an FAQ up there in a couple days which will answer such questions.
at any rate, since i would think this might be a relatively common request, it might be nice to provide a constantly updated version of it, without pestering that iso-creator...
You're probably right and I imagine that that will be the case eventually. Sincerely Aaron Cannon - -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 Comment: Key available from all major key servers. iD8DBQFDJivsI7J99hVZuJcRAtJjAKDBppX9zJUOF1rhdp6RuFsax3KFmACgunAm fHtndpUyGljVILI9H/lsZF4= =QhaR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Aaron Cannon wrote on 9/12/2005, 6:25 PM:
We will have an FAQ up there in a couple days which will answer such questions.
Yes, we will :) I am helping out with the FAQ and questions and will be working on an HTML version of the original text that Aaron and I did. I would think we can have it up on the ISO Creator site at some point this weekend. That, of course, is Aaron's call. Jared
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