Courtesy Gary North:

Inexpensive Software Allows You to Download Entire Web Sites, Including the Pages They Link To

Category: Personal_Computers
Date: 1999-11-19 21:20:06
Subject: Inexpensive Software Allows You to Download Entire Web Sites, Including the Pages They Link To

Link: http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm

Comment: A friend of mine sent me a CD-ROM last week. I popped it into my CD-ROM tray and closed it. One minute later, my entire Web site as of the day before appeared on my screen. It looked just like my site. The internal links work. The external links work if I'm connected to the Web. It is lightning fast. It's perfect.

I am told that you can set the program to download the pages that the external links connect to. This is copyrighted material, but it's legal for personal use.

This means that you could make a copy of my Web site, or any Web site, and keep it in your computer or on a CD-ROM disk. New computers come with a CD-ROM maker. The disks cost 60 cents at Sam's Club.

Do you think that some crucial site in your life will go down next year? Copy it. Several survival sites should be on your disk. For sake of the historical record, I wish hundreds of you would copy my site and the documents it links to. Y2K reporting is mainly Web-based. It would be cost-prohibitive for even a team of professional researchers to recreate my site. Without the Web, it would be impossible.

Paper-based archives are not indexed well, and no library has all of the journals.

If you want to keep your favorite parts of the Web, buy this program.

Link: http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm

Teleport Pro v1.29 for Windows 95/98/NT/2000

PC Magazine's Editors' Choice for offline browsers, Teleport Pro is an all-purpose high-speed tool for getting data from the Internet.

Launch up to ten simultaneous retrieval threads, access password-protected sites, filter files by size and type, search for keywords, and much more. The most fully-featured and robust webspider available, Teleport Pro handles today's more complex websites flawlessly.

Capable of reading HTML 4.0, CSS 2.0, and DHTML, Teleport is the only webspider that really finds all of the files on all of the sites. And with side image map exploration, automatic dial-up connecting, Java applet support, variable exploration depths, project scheduling, and relinking abilities, Teleport Pro is quite simply the best there is.

Teleport Pro can--

* Download all or part of a website to your computer, enabling you to browse the site directly from your hard disk at much greater speeds than if you were to browse the site online
* Create an exact duplicate, or mirror of a website, complete with subdirectory structure and all required files
* Search a website for files of a certain type and size
* Download a list of files at known addresses
* Explore every website linked from a central website
* Search a website for keywords
* Make a list of all pages and files on a website

No more waiting for slow pages to download. No more clicking on links for hours, only to find garbage at the end of your trail. Read on for a comprehensive list of features, or download a free evaluation version you can try out today!

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-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Answers

We're on an iMac, no $$ left.

But you whizzards who have PCs -- check this out! Maybe it is the solution.

Somebody please make a duplicate of the Forum immediately. It is obvious the trolls will do anything/everything to destroy it.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Mac based too.

Ashton & Leska, why don't you flag Russ on this?

He's a PC'er.

Diane

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

From Russ:

"This looks really cool and might be the answer for the prep forum (TB2K too, of course). Thanks, will check out.

Russ/BD "

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

If this tool can reproduce a website thats stored in a database, then it's a killer app.

If it simply imports the web shell and html pages, then its not doing anything extraordinary.

I'll have to see it recreate this forum before I'm going to get too excited.

Critt

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Instead of just bragging and teasing about your extraordinary capabilities, Critt, please get off your ass and get excited and save the Forum. Whatever software it takes, just do it, or help us figure out how to do it. Time is running out.

Test it out and tell us if it will work. Don't be a wet blanket unless you know. Either way, inform all of us quickly, succintly, factually.

Doesn't anybody realize time is ticking away, never to be retrieved? Are you all closet pollies who feel no sense of urgency?

Gawd if we had the computer skills we'd have saved the Forum by now. If you were our patient dying, screaming in pain, all organs failing, we wouldn't sit around debating or intellectually giving lip service to various pain meds. WE'D ACT AND RELIEVE YOU. Live up to your supposed expertise, computer folks.

Y2K is not the only design flaw.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

A & L,

1) My capabilities that you refer to are really quite average. The things I do with Access and SQL are kid stuff compared to what my working friends create, for fun and for profit.

2) The reason I can't get excited about "saving the forum" is that I don't think the forum is in trouble.

3) OK. I'll bite. I'll do the download and see what it does with the forum.

4) You're right. Y2K is not the only design flaw. In fact, it's trivial compared to what I think is happening now and into the coming months.

5)Let me have administrative rights to delete, and I'll show you how healthy this forum is.

6)And, oh yeah, quit feeding the !@#!#@$!# trolls. Do not post to their threads. Do not start start threrads about them. Nada. Not even in this private space.

Ok, I'm on the case...

Love you guys,

Critt

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Thanks, Critt.

Our blood pressure and temper is HIGH.

We do not feed the trolls OR start threads about them OR contribute to threads about them. UGH !!

We have repeatedly advocated clean excising of trolls for months. Evidence of our position throughout this Mod Forum.

The eMail round-robin today was necessary. After yesterday's Forum shredding, then seeing it start all over again -- we just don't have time for it.

Go to it with the software, Critt. Prove yourself.

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Hmmmm...

I got the top level...

Now let's see if this puupy can get deep...

Hang on to yours butts.

~C~

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Critt wrote:

" ... The reason I can't get excited about "saving the forum" is that I don't think the forum is in trouble ...

... You're right. Y2K is not the only design flaw. In fact, it's trivial compared to what I think is happening now and into the coming months."

OK, there seems to be a huge disconnect there. If Y2K is trivial compared to ??? happening now & into coming months, uh, isn't the Forum in imminent danger?

Isn't everything in grave danger then? Especially computer-based databases? Or are you saying the immediate future is bright and rosy with undreamed of prosperity and unlimited progress, with nary any bumps in the road?

How we wish that were the case! Speak and say if this is what you have concluded!

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Stop the presses!!!

I seem to be getting the top level of all the Greensupn forums.

I'm stopping the transfer to explore what's going on...

~C~

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Critt sent this to Diane, Ed, Chuck, Arnie, Brian, Patrick, Old Git, Robert, A&L, Michael, Kevin, Tom, Andy, Russ, Arlin, and Rick Cowles:

" Killer App!!! It works...

Sheesh. It works like a champ.

Ok, I've got some mix and match with the other Greenspun forums, so....

Bottomline is this. I'll download the Y2K forums tonight.

Email me if you want a zipped copy. If you need WinZip, tell me. Html is html, this ought to work for Mac users.

Critt "
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-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Ok, here's the deal...

I downloaded an evaluation copy.

I seems to work fine ( this is one fast movin, hungry spider).

Constraint #1 This spider goes a huntin wherever Greenspun's links leads it. That means I'm also getting the top level of all the other Q&A forums (maybe more than that, dunno)

Constraint #2 This spider knows its only showing off (remember, this is an evaluation copy)and quits hunting after 500 files.

Constraint #3 490 copied files = 17megs. If the math holds up I can only put about 43,000 files on what's left of my hard drive.

That being said, I ain't jumping through no more hoops this weekend.

Anywho....

We now know the forum can be downloaded and converted to html files. That means that creating a CD of the forum (which can be read by any browser)is problematic.

OK, now, just sit still there. Need to conserve energy, you know?

Aummmmm... Aummmmmm...

First I have to get a licensed copy of SpiderMaster (or whatever it's called). My wife, who guards the VISA card, still has me on a very short Y2K leash. (BD's seen her first hand. Don't mess with her.)I'll figure out something. Just give me a few days.

And keep your $100, A&L. This is too easy. Besides, you turned me on to a very useful tool I can use in my new job.

Going to sleep now,

Critt (who having just visited DC (Barnett) and Fort Meade is far more concerned about terrorist acts, cyber and otherwise, than the inevitable FOF disruptions from broken code.)

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

oopsy doopsy...

in my new job.

Going to sleep now,

Critt (who having just visited DC (Barnett) and Fort Meade is far more concerned about terrorist acts, cyber and otherwise, than the inevitable FOF disruptions from broken code.)

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

This was the rest of Critt's post (came thru in eMail):

"And keep your $100, A&L. This is too easy. Besides, you turned me on to a very useful tool I can use in my new job.

Going to sleep now,

Critt (who having just visited DC (Barnett) and Fort Meade is far more concerned about terrorist acts, cyber and otherwise, than the inevitable FOF disruptions from broken code.)
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Everybody lately seems to be talking about Fort Meade. Gotta do a Sherlock search on it -- no idea what it is.

We still think Y2K is plenty to worry about.

Critt, you gotta put the second " in your HTML

-- Anonymous, November 20, 1999

Sort of like Y2K remediation. Confident programmers, strut their experience, blow it off, take a look around, pronounce it easy, fiddle with it, get involved in other things, think it's no biggie, they'll get around to it, minimize it. Meanwhile the clock ticks ever forward, and the task, the mission, is not accomplished.

No terrorists could ever inflict this type and amount of damage upon the world. It takes procrastination, bombastic over-confidence, greed, selfishness, stupidity, sloth, mockery, and disconnection from reality, conscience, morality, and God to precipitate the castastrophe the globe is about to enter. The enemy is right in front of your screen.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 1999

Check List

Test it out and tell us if it will work.

Did that, told ya it works.

Don't be a wet blanket unless you know.

I know it works. I know a few constraints. I'm going back to wet blanket mode.

Either way, inform all of us quickly, succintly, factually.

Quickly? Well, from pooh-poohing the original notice to the composing the "can't get there tonoight" thread was half a day. That's quick for me.

Succcinctly? I hate to write, but I did number the constraints.

Factually? Yes, and somewhat entertaining.

Gawd if we had the computer skills we'd have saved the Forum by now. If you were our patient dying, screaming in pain, all organs failing, we wouldn't sit around debating or intellectually giving lip service to various pain meds. WE'D ACT AND RELIEVE YOU. Live up to your supposed expertise, computer folks.

Since you sounded like you were dying, screaming in pain, all organs failing, , I didn't sit around debating or intellectually giving lip service to various work arounds. I acted.

Whether or not relief comes to you is your responsibility.

Sort of like Y2K remediation. Confident programmers, strut their experience, blow it off, take a look around, pronounce it easy, fiddle with it, get involved in other things, think it's no biggie, they'll get around to it, minimize it. Meanwhile the clock ticks ever forward, and the task, the mission, is not accomplished.

Which why I quit my salaried job at We have no problem with Critt personally, but he does exemplify the kernal of what we're coming across in the real world, only more so.

Nuff said. We can't get any clearer. Our intent by starting this thread was to alert any PC programmer mods to the possibility of software that could download and preserve the Forums. We still believe that the Forums (TB2K, Prep, Humpty) are invaluable historical archives giving a unique, comprehensive, rare glance at a Preview of a monumental Catastrophic Event.

We still care about Community Prep, sharing, helping each other with skill pooling, and trying to survive Y2K. It has been painful to see our ideals shredded, even by long-time members of the Forum, but it just drives home the point that too many individuals have lost sight of Divine Laws and a Correction eventually must come.

-- Anonymous, November 21, 1999