Carl! Your domain name has expired!
highercomputingforeveryone.com/Posted Mar 10, 2011, 6:46 AM UTC
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highercomputingforeveryone.com
I just decided to get off my ass and start going through the lessons where I left off not a few minutes ago and just as I was closing reddit this caught my eye.
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Same here, just about to start writing tic tac toe D:
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Looks like he's back up!
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He needs a 9000 year lease on his domain like the Guinness brewery
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You didn't slurp at the end!
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So glad too! I just started learning programming using his guide and it was awesome!
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I don't know what was on the website, but I'm sure 95% of the content is also in this subreddit, start with lesson 1 and work through them.
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Just use the next/prev links at the bottom to find all the lessons.
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Easiest way that I can think of.
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Oh shoot! Did anyone archived it?
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You have to manually edit the URL to change lessons since the lesson links point to the old domain name.
184.73.218.212 www.highercomputingforeveryone.com
At the bottom of your hosts file. ;)
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I love both of you so much right now.
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TIL what a hosts file is and how to use it
start at step #2 for anyone else who's lost.
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In case anyone is looking for it, in Linux, it is here: /etc/hosts
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Works perfectly. <3
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i'm willing to donate.
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I would also be willing to donate. I only started going through Carl's lessons and I'm learning from basically nothing. Within the first 10 lessons I could understand binary.
Money for a good cause.
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do you mean within the first 1010 lessons?
seriously, i don't want to lose this resource. please let me know if i can contribute in any way; except for writing code, i'm learning that.
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Guys, Didn't anyone else check? Last time he commented looks to be about 4 months ago. http://www.reddit.com/user/CarlH Something more serious may be going on....
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Yah, but it seemed like he was just taking a break from making content. It didn't seem like he was leaving the net for good.
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I don't know. This is a guy who has been on reddit for four years, who doubtless received several e-mails related to the domain expiring (I got about ten over four months for my last GoDaddy renewal), and who is very active on the 'net as a whole.
Not posting or commenting in four months and no responding to those e-mails could mean something else is up. Let's hope not.
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That seems like a nice idea, but it could definitely be a little pushy. His email address is listed too... shooting him an email would be a bit less intrusive, so maybe that would be a better first step.
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:/ I agree, this seems very bad.
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I've crudely ripped the entire site (I used Firefox to grab the lessons individually and HTTrack for everything else), but I can't get it to correctly link to the lessons themselves without going in and completely messing around with the html. I've tried to automate it as much as I can, but nothing seemed to work. I'd post what I've ripped but I'm blocked from file storage sites at work. If someone wants to take on the task of getting an offline mirror 100% operational let me know and I'll email you the file. It's a little over 5 MB zipped
Edit: I uploaded my mirror to MegaUpload http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZIIG3TO
It still doesn't link to the lessons offline, but you can open them up individually no problem
edit: I just realized I'm missing lesson4.4 I'm going to get it now and take upload a better version when I get home
edit 2: nevermind it's in there I just didn't put an underscore in it like I did with the rest of the lessons, my B
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Carl! There's a dead human in our house!
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Caaaaaaaaarl!
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We cant let him lose this- Anyone know how to contact him?
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4 months is a long time to be away especially from internet. I pray Carl is alright. His contribution will not be forgotten.
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I hope it doesn't ever come to the point where this will be necessary, but here's a zip for an offline mirror of the site, so that people can still follow the lessons in the worst case scenario (the server going offline as well). These lessons are too good to lose if that ever happens.
EDIT: Hm. Pages don't seem to load quite right. The content's all there, but it's doing something with javascript that doesn't work at all right when it's stored offline. I'll see what I can do about that; it's not a very good emergency offline copy if it doesn't work offline. -__-
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Yeah the way the site was coded made it hard for conventional Site Rippers to pull the lessons. I have everything, lessons included in my mirror, but I can't get the html to point to the lessons easily (Read: Without editing every single href tag by hand instead of automating it)
Here's my Mirror: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZIIG3TO
edit: I just realized I'm missing lesson4.4 I'm going to get it now and take upload a better version when I get home
edit 2: nevermind it's in there I just didn't put an underscore in it like I did with the rest of the lessons, my B
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Well, the links are fine in mine, but it loads individual pages with some Ajaxy magic, which isn't gonna work offline. Currently working on a script to automate converting them all into full pages, so that the Ajax is unnecessary.
EDIT: Actually, automating a cleanup of your version seems easier. Working on that instead.
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awesome, let us know when you finish that. I know the discussions are here on reddit, but sometimes my job hates reddit and will block them for a day or two
edit: I just realized I'm missing lesson4.4 I'm going to get it now and take upload a better version when I get home
edit2: nevermind it's in there I just didn't put an underscore in it like I did with the rest of the lessons, my B
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I'm downloading atm, but is it mainly changing full links to local links?
edit: wow, that html is extremely obnoxious towards offline viewing
edit2: found an easier way out
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yeah, I tried to fix it, but there's so many tags and trying to do it with the replace function in Notepad++ wasn't helping. I tried a lot of my old school tricks but there were too many tags to make sure I wasn't clearing something that should probably stay (anything besides previous/next lesson/unit links).
I could do it myself looking at every single tag but for me it would take a few days and my patience hasn't been the best as of late.
edit: Just so you know I kept two versions of my mirror, the clean one, and the one I messed around with trying to get the links to work offline. This is the clean one
edit2: I just realized I'm missing lesson4.4 I'm going to get it now and take upload a better version when I get home
edit3: nevermind it's in there I just didn't put an underscore in it like I did with the rest of the lessons, my B
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Context please? :)
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CarlH started offering free programming tutorials.
They turned out to be fucking awesome (hit next for more or turn your prefs up to 100 links).
Carl asked the community for a favour (google ranking); some total idiots called him a scammer as he was accepting, occasionally, donations to cover bandwidth costs. Against pleas from the community he shut down donations.
Hopefully he'll open them up again as he really shouldn't have to be the one to pay for tuition that he's taken the time to write.
Edit: Typo and grammatical fix.
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I hope he's alright.
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It's been 6 months since I started these lessons and I am still coming back to look at things. I am willing to donate! Also I am willing donate even more if he decides to start up another tutorial regarding other material, whatever it maybe. Carl can teach better than my professors at school and I am willing to get my hand in my pocket for a person who's more capable than someone who I pay 100 bucks a lesson to.
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I found an easier solution for the short term at least. It appears that the site is still up under 184.73.218.212/ However, most links still go to highercomputingforeveryone.com so manual substitution is needed at the moment.
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yeah it was pointed out the day this thread was created. But for clicking the links you're going to have to change your hosts file like they showed in the thread I linked.
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I'd just like to say that I'm also willing to donate to keep these lessons maintained and continuing. I started going through these threads last week and am up to lesson 90. I've been a professional engineering manager for most of my adult life, managed and trained more than 100 engineers, and I have never seen programming lessons as good as these. I hope Carl and his family are OK and would like to let him know how much of an impact this has already made on me. I hope he can get back to making the world a better place with his incredible teaching talents and earn some money while doing so. Thanks Carl.
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I guess the whole "No more donations. Content still free." model didn't work out?
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Although this is troubling, I've always thought that the domain name was shit anyways.
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You're not helping...
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Does anyone know what happened? Does he need funds? I got 5 bucks with his name on it if he needs it!
Somebody tell carl! I'll buy him a year on godaddy .COM for $7.49* per year!
*Save 37%
Also, get the domain you realy want with a .co!
EDIT: Seriously, how do I buy him an extra year on godaddy.com ?
You're not the only one willing to be his sugar daddy.
you can't. It must be donated to him.
Well, he's not replying to any of my pm's etc... yet...