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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Whoever submitted this is a ***** idiot. This is the sort of thing that would immediately get pulled as soon as they find out that half the world is downloading it. Further, whoever is doing this is probably doing it for himself and some friends, so of course the smartest thing to do would be to let the whole world know and let them drive up his bandwidth costs.
The submitter should have mirrored the site, rar'd it, and then distributed the rar via a la bittorrent and linked us to the torrent.
Thanks to him, either the data has been removed, access blocked, or the site choked. Now nobody can get the books. Good job, wandm.
This is exactly why digg is retarted.
Now go ahead and mod me down for one of the several things I said that you do not agree with, despite agreeing with the rest of them. - Phocion55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30You've obviously never set foot in a bookstore.
Can't say I'm shocked. - lazka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21just use google.. they are everywhere: http://debian.yaako.org/books/
- wandm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17The "***** idiot" responds.. ;-)
Admitted, I'm surprised of the popularity of the submission, given that I've seen similar sites before. These books are all over the net, see for example bit torrent searches, or for example this:
http://debian.yaako.org/books/
even though books there are a bit older. But even on that site you can find for example the 1500+ page "Unix Power Tools", which is a great classic.
And by the way, I don't think there should be any "moral code" about what to submit, because
---~~~~=== INTERNET IS A PUBLIC SPHERE ===~~~~---
If you put ANYTHING online, expect the good news to spread.
- handband2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Some are in the .chm format. Here are some sites to help convert .chm to .pdf:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304155&highlight=.chm
http://madphilosopher.ca/2006/09/how-to-convert-chm-files-under-linux/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compressed_HTML_Help - khedoros, on 07/31/2009, -2/+11I think I shall make a backup of this data...for the sake of historical records only, of course....
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Only 20 of them, but I'd managed to get this small backup of the site. I've removed links to the ones I didn't manage to get.
http://www.sirdaz.com/lin - sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://www.sirdaz.com/lin
Only 20 of them though :( - DigitalJester, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Use xChm. I downloaded a bunch of eBooks a couple days ago and this seems to handle them just fine.
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10we broke it
- IceVapour, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Great resource for Linux newbies like me. And for those who say that they're amazed there are that many books for Linux because they didn't think there were that many users...try going to a library or a bookstore!
- msikma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Uh. Before you bury it because you think that it's illegal to post them on another site, you should actually do some research into the licenses that those books use. The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is licensed under the Open Publication License ( http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ ) and lots of open source books are released under the GFDL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ).
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6OK maybe a little late here... but for you late comers here's a full mirror..
http://sirdaz.com/lin/ - ISVDamocles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@haackers: That would be because .chm is a non-standard MS format, while the PDF format is open and on Linux has *good* performing PDF viewers (Evince, KPDF, XPDF).
Even in Windows there's an alternative to Adobe's PDF viewer: Foxit. - Grimboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh well, the next course of action is pretty obvious, but hey, might as well state outright:
http://isohunt.com/torrents/%28linux+OR+unix%29+AND+%28book+OR+ebook+OR+books+OR+ebooks%29?ihp=1&iht=-1&ihs1=2&iho1=d - geeshock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4CHM Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3235/ - pjacob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5People hunger for knowledge are terrible... :P
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@greldenax:
Yep. They will jump up and down with happiness knocking there coffee over, and give you a medal. But don't be surprised when they ask for it back when they find out my server has nothing to do with them. - YHCIR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Coral cache works for me.
http://www.900i.me.uk.nyud.net:8080/
http://www.900i.me.uk.nyud.net:8090/
Well, it got some of the books.
Get them with http://www.downthemall.net for firefox, but probably best to limit to one connection so you don't kill the cache too. :) - PixelVision, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Rightclick > FlashGot All
- mr1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone want to volunteer to get a torrent started for this collection?
- kaph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Arghh.... I wish I had of checked this out before I went for tea...... Thanks for the other links though.
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2chm viewer for linux xchm
just fyi - tommmo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5cool
- flibblesan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nice! Wget likes the site ;-)
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Looks like it was a fly-by-night site, all that is left is them purty icons....
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not down yet, but just incase it does die I'm creating a mirror now. Be a good test for my unlimited bandwidth at the same time.
edit.. its slowly dieing so I hope i manage to get them all in time!! - jello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Fantastic! Thank you for those 20.
- DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This Account Has Been Suspended
Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.
OK, it's official. It's dead.
(All of the "it's dead" claims up until now were wrong, I was accessing it fine until about 30 seconds ago!) - lilricky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, they may not have been wrong, hosting companies are now throttling connections based on IP geography, if several hits are coming from a certain area, the company can throw up a 403/404/etc page on those connections. As a matter of fact, I am able to get that page now, even though you cannot. IP geography is not perfect of course, so some people from an area maybe able to connect, while others from the same area may not.
- PirateFSM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wget -r http://debian.yaako.org/books/
- MannaPC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The books are back!
http://debian.yaako.org/books/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Dugg for the use of "Holy smoke!"
- doolittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the mirror, and a second thanks for the high-bandwidth ;)
- stepanstas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool, but i think ill only look at 3 at most
- deanshultz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thank you
- kinglenster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome digg. Got some great Perl, Java and Oracle stuff.
- anarchistuk, on 08/11/2009, -5/+6Better than *AMAZING*
- dugem1, on 01/20/2008, -0/+1That's great find
http://www.nasavo.com
http://www.nasavo.com/acne
http://www.nasavo.com/forex
http://car.nasavo.com
http://www.jurugan.com
http://health.jurugan.com
http://www.vrid.net
http://laptop.vrid.net
http://projector.vrid.net
http://tire.vrid.net
http://hyip.ej.am
http://car.ej.am
http://health.bryansoft.com
http://hyipnews.freehostia.com
http://hyipnews.freehostia.com/hyip - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is a brand new domain on the face of it. I wonder if people will/should 'wget -r' the whole thing while it lasts (assuming it's an illegal filedump). It sure was necessary when it comes to Iowa's lawsuit Web site, with all the exhibits that disappeared after the settlement.
- Daniel0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Down already.
- streamfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I will setup a mirror today of the site and post back in a few hours with the address. I have a few tb's of bandwidth to spare.
- BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Appears to be even worse then downed now! All you get now is a directory listing and none off the ebooks appear on there! Oh well, guess thats an excellent way to kill a site!
- majinboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I know some of the O'Reilly books are available via O'Reilly's openbook project: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ , but I am not sure you can post them on your website. And others esp. Advanced bash script guide are taken from tldp.org: http://www.tldp.org/index.html , again I don't know if you are allowed to post them on your website.
buried. - wandm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mod parent up!
That's a pretty good alternative site. - kr1mson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks for the mirrors, they seem to work, but are crawlin @3k/sec !
- condormcs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1another great site is ebookshare.net!
although u need to have a torrent client - Malarie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the links guys.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you want even more free books, alt.binaries.e-book.technical
- zagi1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.chmpdf.com/archives/ebooks/linux/
has lots of linux books (registration requires) wget dont work here!
also you can do a simple google search (I saw this on another post)
-inurl:htm -inurl:asp -inurl:html (“index of”|"last modified"|"parent of") ("ebook"|"ebooks"|"book"|"books") (pdf|chm|doc|txt|zip|rar) "linux" -
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