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Microsoft eBook Giveaway

73 points by dabber 9y ago

AlphaWeaver 9y ago
Here's a pastebin [0] with all the PDF urls concatenated if you want to download them all. [0]: https://pastebin.com/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/H3KsMHW6
- dabber 9y ago
  And Powershell script here: https://pastebin.com/S81DGVg9 https://pastebin.com/S81DGVg9 [Edit] In total everything comes in around 3.4GiB. I found this in /r/homelabs and they've got all the files up on their US and EU FTP servers. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/resources/ftp https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/resources/ftp
  - AlphaWeaver 9y ago
    That is AWESOME! Beat me to it!
  - flukus 9y ago
    Is that the same powershell script linked from the page (I can't access pastebin)? I'm getting the error "unexpected token 'in $books'". If I remove the for loop I get the error "The term 'Invoke-WebRequest $book -Method Head ' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet.
    - dabber 9y ago
      No it's different. It's from the top comment in the reddit post[0]. Seems like others in that thread have had the same issue with the one from the article. The issue seems to be the script doesn't create the directory for you[1] so you need to make it first. However, I'm more of a Bash guy so please take my words/links with a grain of salt. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_free_microsoft_ebooks_approx_300/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_free_microsoft_ebooks_approx_300/dk57a5t/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_...
- was_boring 9y ago
  Thanks for putting this together. Here is a way to grab them all with gnu tooling curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | xargs wget --trust-server-names or if you have parallel installed simply use curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | parallel wget --trust-server-names
tonteldoos 9y ago
This is awesome! For those that want to grab all from the commandline in linux, get either the text file on the site (and remove the first line), or one of the lists posted here, with the following command (will correctly name the files): $ cat <list_file_name> | xargs wget --content-disposition
- codefined 9y ago
  My favourite is $ cat <list_file_name> | parallel -j20 --gnu "wget {}" Downloaded them in a few seconds!
  - tonteldoos 9y ago
    Nice! Right now I'm stuck on an older single core machine with limited bandwidth anyway :(
  - Shorel 9y ago
    I prefer to use aria2c -j 20 -i <list_file_name>
- simcop2387 9y ago
  no need to use cat, wget supports this directly! wget --content-disposition -i list.txt
  - tonteldoos 9y ago
    TIL...
  - deleted 9y ago
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wallst07 9y ago
Torrent from reddit r/datahoarder Currently 50+ seeding Torrent: https://www.file-upload.com/odgawef6qjsu magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4d67e93e58526d1c07d3ccf1b31a2a98826b7fb1&dn=A%20tonne%20of%20free%20Microsoft%20eBooks&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fasnet.pw%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker1.wasabii.com.tw%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.zer0day.to%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fallesanddro.de%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.com%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.dler.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fmgtracker.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.mg64.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.mg64.net%3a6881%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.facedatabg.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fmgtracker.org%3a6969%2fannounce
- abtinf 9y ago
  This method of distribution is explicitly against the terms from the distributor. Edit: Downvote me all you want. HN is not a platform for copyright violation. Edit 2: "Please feel free to share the links to these resources; however, please read #1 above on why you can share the links, but don’t distribute the actual works themselves as an offline resource."
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virtuabhi 9y ago
I downloaded a couple of SQL, data science books. These "books" are white papers or program tutorials. Also the writing style of blog post (with so many FREE in red font) does not inspire any confidence in the quality of these "books".
- mastazi 9y ago
  > Also the writing style of blog post (with so many FREE in red font) I think it was intentional, the way I see it the author was just mocking those "free ebook" marketing pages which are as terrible as common...
  - gruez 9y ago
    You're giving the author too much credit, considering how most of the "ebooks" have less content than a blog post, and that his title is "Director - Sales Excellence".
    - mastazi 9y ago
      You're giving your intuition too much credit, by judging someone's writing based on one single post when the rest of his blog is just one click away :-p
partycoder 9y ago
As interesting as a free AOL installation disk giveaway
- arde 9y ago
  Once upon a time that meant a free diskette ready to format. Still not super useful at the time, yeah.
yawgmoth 9y ago
I highly recommend .NET Microservices: Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications. It's pretty good if you're interested in Microservices at all, the containerization bits are icing.
gruez 9y ago
>BizTalk Server 2016 Licensing Datasheet >Excel 2013 Keyboard Shortcuts >Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Pricing and Licensing FAQs >Office 365 Licensing Brief """ebooks"""
fencepost 9y ago
If people are being the PDFs and find margins that make viewing difficult, I highly recommend the "briss" PDF trimming tool. Scripting it doesn't really work that well, but if you run the .jar, then open 1 file (possibly telling it to skip 1 page /the cover), then pick Actions, Convert it's reasonably quick and gives a nicely trimmed PDF suitable for reading on plenty of screens.
amingilani 9y ago
Any recommendations for a developer that doesn't use any MS tools? :)
flukus 9y ago
The developer section seems to be padded with outdated junk: * Moving to Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 * Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript * Programming Windows® Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2)
TwoNineA 9y ago
Do you think it's a bit extreme when you need to write books to explain product licensing?

73 points by dabber 9y ago

Here's a pastebin [0] with all the PDF urls concatenated if you want to download them all. [0]: https://pastebin.com/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/H3KsMHW6

dabber 9y ago
And Powershell script here: https://pastebin.com/S81DGVg9 https://pastebin.com/S81DGVg9 [Edit] In total everything comes in around 3.4GiB. I found this in /r/homelabs and they've got all the files up on their US and EU FTP servers. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/resources/ftp https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/resources/ftp
- AlphaWeaver 9y ago
  That is AWESOME! Beat me to it!
- flukus 9y ago
  Is that the same powershell script linked from the page (I can't access pastebin)? I'm getting the error "unexpected token 'in $books'". If I remove the for loop I get the error "The term 'Invoke-WebRequest $book -Method Head ' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet.
  - dabber 9y ago
    No it's different. It's from the top comment in the reddit post[0]. Seems like others in that thread have had the same issue with the one from the article. The issue seems to be the script doesn't create the directory for you[1] so you need to make it first. However, I'm more of a Bash guy so please take my words/links with a grain of salt. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_free_microsoft_ebooks_approx_300/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_free_microsoft_ebooks_approx_300/dk57a5t/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_...
was_boring 9y ago
Thanks for putting this together. Here is a way to grab them all with gnu tooling curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | xargs wget --trust-server-names or if you have parallel installed simply use curl https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 https://pastebin.com/raw/H3KsMHW6 | sed s/\;/\\n/g | parallel wget --trust-server-names

tonteldoos 9y ago

This is awesome! For those that want to grab all from the commandline in linux, get either the text file on the site (and remove the first line), or one of the lists posted here, with the following command (will correctly name the files): $ cat <list_file_name> | xargs wget --content-disposition

codefined 9y ago
My favourite is $ cat <list_file_name> | parallel -j20 --gnu "wget {}" Downloaded them in a few seconds!
- tonteldoos 9y ago
  Nice! Right now I'm stuck on an older single core machine with limited bandwidth anyway :(
- Shorel 9y ago
  I prefer to use aria2c -j 20 -i <list_file_name>
simcop2387 9y ago
no need to use cat, wget supports this directly! wget --content-disposition -i list.txt
- tonteldoos 9y ago
  TIL...
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]

wallst07 9y ago

Torrent from reddit r/datahoarder Currently 50+ seeding Torrent: https://www.file-upload.com/odgawef6qjsu magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4d67e93e58526d1c07d3ccf1b31a2a98826b7fb1&dn=A%20tonne%20of%20free%20Microsoft%20eBooks&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.pirateparty.gr%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fasnet.pw%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker1.wasabii.com.tw%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.zer0day.to%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fp4p.arenabg.com%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.internetwarriors.net%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fallesanddro.de%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2f9.rarbg.com%3a2710%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.dler.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fmgtracker.org%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.mg64.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2ftracker.mg64.net%3a6881%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.stealth.si%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.facedatabg.net%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=http%3a%2f%2fmgtracker.org%3a6969%2fannounce

abtinf 9y ago
This method of distribution is explicitly against the terms from the distributor. Edit: Downvote me all you want. HN is not a platform for copyright violation. Edit 2: "Please feel free to share the links to these resources; however, please read #1 above on why you can share the links, but don’t distribute the actual works themselves as an offline resource."

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virtuabhi 9y ago

I downloaded a couple of SQL, data science books. These "books" are white papers or program tutorials. Also the writing style of blog post (with so many FREE in red font) does not inspire any confidence in the quality of these "books".

mastazi 9y ago
> Also the writing style of blog post (with so many FREE in red font) I think it was intentional, the way I see it the author was just mocking those "free ebook" marketing pages which are as terrible as common...
- gruez 9y ago
  You're giving the author too much credit, considering how most of the "ebooks" have less content than a blog post, and that his title is "Director - Sales Excellence".
  - mastazi 9y ago
    You're giving your intuition too much credit, by judging someone's writing based on one single post when the rest of his blog is just one click away :-p

partycoder 9y ago

As interesting as a free AOL installation disk giveaway

arde 9y ago
Once upon a time that meant a free diskette ready to format. Still not super useful at the time, yeah.

yawgmoth 9y ago

I highly recommend .NET Microservices: Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications. It's pretty good if you're interested in Microservices at all, the containerization bits are icing.

gruez 9y ago

>BizTalk Server 2016 Licensing Datasheet >Excel 2013 Keyboard Shortcuts >Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Pricing and Licensing FAQs >Office 365 Licensing Brief """ebooks"""

fencepost 9y ago

If people are being the PDFs and find margins that make viewing difficult, I highly recommend the "briss" PDF trimming tool. Scripting it doesn't really work that well, but if you run the .jar, then open 1 file (possibly telling it to skip 1 page /the cover), then pick Actions, Convert it's reasonably quick and gives a nicely trimmed PDF suitable for reading on plenty of screens.

amingilani 9y ago

Any recommendations for a developer that doesn't use any MS tools? :)

flukus 9y ago

The developer section seems to be padded with outdated junk: * Moving to Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 * Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript * Programming Windows® Phone 7 (Special Excerpt 2)

TwoNineA 9y ago

Do you think it's a bit extreme when you need to write books to explain product licensing?