More on manuals -- update
On 2011-01-12, DoN. Nichols wrote:
On 2011-01-11, RS at work wrote: Ignoramus12953 wrote: A little update. I found my way around LOGSA. I wrote a perl script, that I called logsa.pl, that pulls manuals from LOGSA given their document number (for example, 5-6115-584-34 for TM-5-6115-584-34). [ ... ] I registered a website, http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/ , which is empty for now, but soon I will have a boatload of technical manuals there. [ ... ] Not being a computer guy like yourself, I am curious why if Uncle Sam already has the manuals on their servers, why not just have an index and link to the govenrment site to download the manual? Seems to me that that would require less hardware than storing the files and tying up your server to distribute the large files. Well ... one reason that I can think of is for the manuals to remain available after the government decides to retire that particular piece of equipment. They pull manuals which no longer apply to things in current use. Hobbyists, however (including people on this newsgroup), are quite likely to get just such equipment, and need to repair said equipment. The government website that I know is called LOGSA and it is very user unfriendly and does not really present links to manuals in a nice way. That's why manuals are so hard to find --- they are all there, but search engines cannot find them. That's what I want to change. i |
More on manuals -- update
Ignoramus12225 wrote: On 2011-01-12, DoN. Nichols wrote: On 2011-01-11, RS at work wrote: Ignoramus12953 wrote: A little update. I found my way around LOGSA. I wrote a perl script, that I called logsa.pl, that pulls manuals from LOGSA given their document number (for example, 5-6115-584-34 for TM-5-6115-584-34). [ ... ] I registered a website, http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/ , which is empty for now, but soon I will have a boatload of technical manuals there. [ ... ] Not being a computer guy like yourself, I am curious why if Uncle Sam already has the manuals on their servers, why not just have an index and link to the govenrment site to download the manual? Seems to me that that would require less hardware than storing the files and tying up your server to distribute the large files. Well ... one reason that I can think of is for the manuals to remain available after the government decides to retire that particular piece of equipment. They pull manuals which no longer apply to things in current use. Hobbyists, however (including people on this newsgroup), are quite likely to get just such equipment, and need to repair said equipment. The government website that I know is called LOGSA and it is very user unfriendly and does not really present links to manuals in a nice way. That's why manuals are so hard to find --- they are all there, but search engines cannot find them. That's what I want to change. Be aware that they track all activity, and may block your IP address if you try to download too much, too fast. Also, there are parts of the website that require a user name and password. -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
More on manuals -- update
On 2011-01-21, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Ignoramus12225 wrote: On 2011-01-12, DoN. Nichols wrote: On 2011-01-11, RS at work wrote: Ignoramus12953 wrote: A little update. I found my way around LOGSA. I wrote a perl script, that I called logsa.pl, that pulls manuals from LOGSA given their document number (for example, 5-6115-584-34 for TM-5-6115-584-34). [ ... ] I registered a website, http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/ , which is empty for now, but soon I will have a boatload of technical manuals there. [ ... ] Not being a computer guy like yourself, I am curious why if Uncle Sam already has the manuals on their servers, why not just have an index and link to the govenrment site to download the manual? Seems to me that that would require less hardware than storing the files and tying up your server to distribute the large files. Well ... one reason that I can think of is for the manuals to remain available after the government decides to retire that particular piece of equipment. They pull manuals which no longer apply to things in current use. Hobbyists, however (including people on this newsgroup), are quite likely to get just such equipment, and need to repair said equipment. The government website that I know is called LOGSA and it is very user unfriendly and does not really present links to manuals in a nice way. That's why manuals are so hard to find --- they are all there, but search engines cannot find them. That's what I want to change. Be aware that they track all activity, and may block your IP address if you try to download too much, too fast. Also, there are parts of the website that require a user name and password. Yes. I will try to do it not too fast. i |
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