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Small Script to Download Multiple Files in a Sequence

Here’s a small script I wrote to download all fifteen issues of INSECURE magazine. You can easily adapt this to download anything you like, magazines, podcasts, etc., as long as they are in a known sequence.

#!/bin/sh
for i in $(seq 1 15)
do
`wget http://www.net-security.org/dl/insecure/INSECURE-Mag-$i.pdf &`;
done;

To download all episodes of Security Now, just change the end of the sequence to be 131 instead of 15, and change the URL to:
http://media.grc.com/sn/SN-$i.mp3

To get all episodes of Pauldotcom Security Weekly, use a high value of 97, and a URL of
http://media.libsyn.com/media/pauldotcom/pauldotcom-SW-episode$i.mp3

Microsoft, Google, and KDE Have Killed Version Numbers

I’m steamed at the fact that version numbers, and the words “alpha” and “beta” used to have meaning. Now, thanks to the intrepid efforts of Microsoft, Google, and now the KDE development team, they are practically meaningless. Continue reading Microsoft, Google, and KDE Have Killed Version Numbers…

Fiber for Every Home… in the Country

The good folks at the East Central Fiber Network and Burlington Telecom aren’t alone. As reported by Ars Technica, there is a plan to bring fiber to every home in this great nation of ours.