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Re:_why's site updated again by WestCoastJustin on Thursday April 18, 2013 @01:14PM (#5571799)

  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/DISCLAIMER
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/URGENTLY
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/JERKS
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/BRICKS
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/EXPERTS
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/WHATSUPDOC
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/PIRATEO
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/NOTHIN
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/TRIALS
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/READING
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/BURN
 
  http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gpcldnld.html
  http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/binaries/ghostpcl-9.07-linux-x86.tgz

  $ tar zxvf ghostpcl-9.07-linux-x86.tgz 
  $ cd ghostpcl-9.07-linux-x86
  $ ./pcl6-907-linux_x86 <file you downloaded>

Here is what I got: http://imgur.com/a/VSzu0

UPDATE #1:

  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/YOUGETIT
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/EYES 
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/FAREWELL 
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/FIRELESS

Here is what I got: http://imgur.com/a/4V38q

UPDATE #2:

  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/TORN
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/AMANDA
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/REVERSE

Here is what I got: http://imgur.com/a/MR90W

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:01PM (#5572371)

Slightly nicer PDF versions versions of all of them: http://www.scribd.com/collections/4230124/-why-s-return

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Re:_why's site updated again by WestCoastJustin on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:24PM (#5572519)

Just checked this out and it is much nicer! How are you producing these pdfs? I'm using the very low tech method of "print screen" ;)

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Re:_why's site updated again by dphase on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:27PM (#5572533)

Get the pcl6 utility.

    pcl6 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf infile

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:57PM (#5572714)

dphase got it. i'm updating with new ones within 5-10 minutes at the moment to this collection : )

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @09:23PM (#5574230)

Sorry guys got way behind. Updating with all of the new ones now

EDIT: Updated all the way to the most recent. This is crazy that it's still going...

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:48AM (#5576600)

Friday morning: looks like the spree is over, I'm going to compile them all into a single pdf and post that as well. Will be up in a few minutes

EDIT: nvm, someone else did already. no need to repeat!

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:56PM (#5574127)

jenius, if I provide a VPS, would you be willing to set something up that fetches his spools, turns them into PDFs, and then uploads to that Scribd collection automatically? Or even lets you manually upload them? That would be fantastic.

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @09:16PM (#5574206)

That would be sweet. I'm not sure if scribd has some sort of api, but I would happily set them to convert and drop them in a public folder, could be a lot easier

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:14PM (#5574371)

Here, never mind. I set something up by myself. Here's the link to the folder: http://why.apps.hypeno.de/

If that link doesn't work, then use http://why.attendance.hypeno.de or http://why.dev.brightswipe.com/

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:41PM (#5574437)

ah nice work! the only issue here is the upside down ones, which i fear takes a bit of human touch...

either way, when they are all done, i'll compile them all together into a pdf and post that so it's easy to read through. like a little book : )

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:58PM (#5574482)

Ah, shucks. Right now I'm having some trouble tracking which ones have already been downloaded... so it re-downloads and re-compiles each time. Can I email you to help figure this out?

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Re:_why's site updated again by kyrias on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:16AM (#5575167)

The simplest solution would be to just add the filenames of the files that's been already downloaded to a file and it checks the file before downloading anything.

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:32AM (#5575212)

Ah, that's true. Oh well! It's working now. Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575210

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Friday April 19, 2013 @02:32AM (#5575214)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5575210

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:23PM (#5574574)

Aaaaaand I figured it out again. We're all good!

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @09:50PM (#5574312)

That would be great. I can make Apache point at a blank folder for downloads. How can I reach you to send you credentials?

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Re:_why's site updated again by jenius on Thursday April 18, 2013 @04:12PM (#5572799)

imperson up: http://www.scribd.com/doc/136764612/Im-Person

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Re:_why's site updated again by WestCoastJustin on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:18PM (#5572478)

UPDATE #3:

  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/LOOKUP 
  wget http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/FLIPPED

Here is what I got: http://imgur.com/a/LN2vi

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Re:_why's site updated again by aidenn0 on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:24PM (#5572187)

You're the top comment; minde adding the two new ones?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572115

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Re:_why's site updated again by techpeace on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:36PM (#5572594)

http://www.scribd.com/collections/4230081/-why-s-print-spool

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Re:_why's site updated again by techpeace on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:36PM (#5573269)

I'll attempt to compress everything into one file after he finishes up.

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Re:_why's site updated again by shubb on Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:10PM (#5573979)

Thanks for doing this. You made my night. Along with ~600 others at last count.

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Re:_why's site updated again by josephjrobison on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:35PM (#5573264)

Is there anyway to download the entire collection as a pdf?

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:14PM (#5574374)

Hi, hijacking the top comment: here's a live-updating folder of all the PDFs!

http://why.dev.brightswipe.com

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Re:_why's site updated again by molecule on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:53PM (#5572315)

https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/tree/master/SPOO...

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Re:_why's site updated again by tekknolagi on Thursday April 18, 2013 @08:58PM (#5574132)

WestCoastJustin, if I provide a VPS, would you be willing to set something up that fetches his spools, turns them into PDFs, and then uploads to that Scribd collection automatically? Or even lets you manually upload them? That would be fantastic.

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Re:_why's site updated again by doki_pen on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:23PM (#5572175)

apparently `lp -o raw -d "<yourprintername>" <FILE>` should print the pcl to your printer. I couldn't get it to work though. Maybe you're printer has to speak pcl. I tried cups-pdf (virtual printer) with no success.

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Re:_why's site updated again by makomk on Thursday April 18, 2013 @02:59PM (#5572355)

Yeah, your printer has to speak PCL for that to work.

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Re:_why's site updated again by pyre on Thursday April 18, 2013 @03:31PM (#5572559)

For grabbing / building the files.

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Re:_why's site updated again by timcameronryan on Thursday April 18, 2013 @05:21PM (#5573177)

Forked and made to support OS X: https://github.com/tcr/_why-spool-osx

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