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| 02-04-09 03:48am - 5800 days | #51 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
That is a bit steep. However, I remember the time when hard drive storage went for $1000 per Mb. | |
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| 01-13-09 02:30am - 5822 days | #22 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
As RagingBuddhist mentioned, those that are extensions of Firefox will not work with IE. DownThemAll! is a Firefox extension for both Linux and Windows. If you need assistance in finding it and installing it, just let me know, and I can PM you the details. I'm never a fan of putting direct links in forums. In any case, it's very easy to install and use. It's free, with no nagware or spyware. Wget is another matter altogether. It's a Linux utility and has been ported to Windows. I find it easy to use, but the commands are a bit arcane and there is a learning curve. If you take the time to learn it, however, you will find it's exceedingly powerful. It is, however, run from the command line, either a DOS or Linux shell, and not from the GUI. | |
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| 01-12-09 04:01am - 5823 days | #8 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
We cannot overlook nubiles. The owner, and his technical support, are both very active in his forums. They help out as required, discuss suggestions, and just hang out and have a good time. | |
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| 01-12-09 02:26am - 5823 days | #18 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I suppose it depends upon how you set up your manager. I use DownThemAll! and wget. DownThemAll can be set up to download only one concurrent chunk and one concurrent file. I cannot see any site having an issue with that, or, for that matter, even detecting that files are being queued or a manager is being used. Wget can operate in the same way. Give DownThemAll! another try. It's well worth the effort. How it's used depends upon the site. I believe it's set to four simultaneous chunks with four simultaneous downloads (i.e. four simultaneous files). You can click on a link and add it to the queue immediately, or have it open the manager and change the download directory, for instance. You can right click and have it download all links on a page, or all links that correspond to a certain file type (i.e. jpegs, zips, movies, etc.). Someone mentioned having trouble with it on TeenDreams. I don't know why. That's the only manager I've ever used there, both for pictures and movies, without a problem. | |
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| 09-13-08 01:45am - 5944 days | #24 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I know you meant the price of websites, not the cost of Windows, but what you save on an OS can go into porn, after all. ;-) Linux is different, and I have spent a lot of time in MS-DOS and other things predating that, even. However different Linux is, I've gotten quite used to it. I get onto a Windows machine these days, and I'm lost. I get rapidly frustrated with the Windows method of adding or updating software, I must say. | |
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| 09-12-08 03:15am - 5945 days | #22 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I've hinted at, in other threads, my absolute hatred for Microsoft. They are a significant factor in the high cost of computing. I'll give you a brief rundown of my system, and I'll tell a bit about the cost, and how I kept things rather cheap. I run a Pentium D, dual 3.0 GHz processors, with 2 Gb of RAM. 19" LCD monitor, 160 Gb HD and a 1 Tb HD. It does seem rather modest, but it was relatively cheap. The computer itself was $300, with about $40 for the RAM upgrade, $100 for the monitor, $120 for the extra drive. I simply don't do Windows, and using a 64-bit Linux kernel, I get performance that far "superior" machines cannot get with Windows. I have never used more than 750 Mb of RAM for anything, so the memory upgrade wasn't needed - Linux is far more conservative with memory that way. My operating system was free. I didn't have to buy or download anything to combat viruses or spyware. I didn't have to buy DVD authoring software, or any software whatsoever. I can watch any movie out there and I can convert it to a DVD to play on any DVD player with a great deal of ease and speed. And, I don't have a bunch of crap running in the background hogging processing resources or memory. Even with my old Pentium III 500, I was getting far superior performance on Linux than my friend was on his P4 2.6 GHz on Windows. To run the latest Windows operating system, you need a rather high end system. To run the latest Linux distros, you can use a Pentium II, if you're so inclined. | |
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| 09-05-08 11:03pm - 5951 days | #11 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
For me, it depends upon the site. DownThemAll! works rather nicely to grab stuff from a page, particularly if there are multiple zips or movies on one page. Some sites don't have a zip file option for pictures, which is a huge nuisance. Assuming that their naming scheme isn't entirely random, I use curl, pointing to the first URL/filename combination and the last for the set, and it does the rest. Wget is another one I use for downloading, mostly for movies and zipfiles. It's very robust and reliable. Where other download managers fail, this utility almost always works. You can toss filenames into a text file, and it will download them all. | |
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| 09-05-08 03:10am - 5952 days | #5 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
1. Eye of Gnome. 2. Mplayer and my DVD player, after conversion with tovid. 3 & 4. DownThemAll!, curl, and wget, depending upon the site. 5. bash shell, Nautilus. | |
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| 08-28-08 07:05am - 5959 days | #31 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I agree that the naming scheme used on Nubiles gets a bit repetitive, but it doesn't bother me much. You noticed the "dress" one; I noticed how many "kitchen" sets there are. In any event, I just download each model's sets into one directory with her name, then unzip each set into a separate subdirectory. Wget or DownThemAll! works great there. I just use a shell script to unzip, and I'm away. I find Nubiles to be about the perfect site for zip set naming. They're numbered chronologically, so a date incorporated into the filename is unnecessary. Since I download each model into separate directories, I don't miss the model name, although it would be nice; I agree. The high resolution sets indicate that in the filename, which is great for organizing, too. I suppose if we wanted to have the perfect site for ripping, they would have ideal file names for their zips, including name, date, and a brief description, and have them all on one page so something like DownThemAll! could go to town, but that might be a little unwieldly for some. | |
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| 08-27-08 09:12am - 5960 days | #29 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I agree with what badandy400 said. It's a good idea, but it depends upon what means by DLM compatible. Like he said, some sites work with DLMs, but butcher the filenames. Others work well, but let you download only one stream at a time, which precludes you from even browsing the site while downloading one file - inthecrack is an example of a site that does this, but is otherwise wonderful. Other sites say DLM use is prohibited, but have given me no problems when using them. Others encourage their use. Only the flash-based sites have ever caused me grief. Every other site has allowed me to set up queues, even if I had to do some fiddling. With DownThemAll!, curl, and wget, I can usually find something that works. | |
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| 08-27-08 09:08am - 5960 days | #28 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
That sounds like a bit of a pain. I hate it when sites are like that. As I've said before, the flash-based sites really annoy me, particularly when it comes to trying to get pics. Does Windows have curl or any equivalent? It works rather nicely if you just want to grab an entire set of pics. I find that handy if: first, the pics links can actually be found without great difficulty; two, if the zip files are a nightmare (especially if they're split up); three, if the gallery is rather large. You just enter the command on the command line and it takes care of the rest. I find a site like Nubiles has almost the best setup for downloading zip sets. I wish other sites would do the same thing. | |
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| 08-26-08 09:24am - 5961 days | #24 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I would agree with that, but it's not too bad. If each imagine on several pages is a proper link to a real image, then one can accomplish that task rather quickly. If it's something a little more complex than that, I just use curl. Being on Linux, my options for download managers are a little more limited, but I seem to do okay. Depending upon the site, I'll use wget and curl, but DownThemAll! works for most things I do. I've gotten all of ALS Scan using wget and all of nubiles with a combination of DownThemAll! and wget. | |
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| 08-20-08 06:32am - 5967 days | #20 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
DownThemAll! is a good one - it's a Firefox addon that can be found at the Firefox site. I use Linux, so often use wget and when sites don't have zip sets, I use curl. | |
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| 08-04-08 02:16am - 5984 days | #20 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I would agree with that. I also, however, agree with TBP's decision to disregard cost. It might be difficult to objectively reconcile cost with content in a review. Obviously, some sites are garbage and cost a fortune, and others are the reverse. I take cost and content into account when joining a site. I don't mind paying a premium price for what I really like, but a good price for a slightly poorer site is okay, too, within limits. I tend to be a "collector," looking to make as complete a collection as possible of a site that I've joined. With some sites, that is obviously next to impossible. Some are absolutely huge, and have large daily updates. There's no way to keep up. On the other end, we have sites we could download in five minutes, and then we wonder what we paid for. I certainly will pay better attention to PU reviews, particularly where customer service comes into play. I would suggest that professional reviewers have often been given the kid-gloves experience, while the rest of us get the peasant treatment. | |
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| 08-03-08 01:43am - 5985 days | #17 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
That was my mistake. I didn't pay enough attention to the PU reviews, applying to much weight to TBP review. I certainly now pay a lot more attention to customers' reviews, particularly as far as customer service is concerned. I can live with her site not updating, due to the amount of content. I cannot, however, live with having virtually no access and being shrugged of by customer service. | |
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| 08-01-08 11:33am - 5986 days | #15 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I think it's about time that review sites do an updates review on Brooke Skye. Her good reviews on various sites helped make my decision to join. I'm willing to overlook a lot of flaws, but being virtually unable to access the site and being patronized by customer support are not flaws I can accept. A site no longer being updated is bad, but it does happen. Her site has a lot of content, so I could have lived with that. When the site is clearly not being maintained and it's technically falling apart on the server side of things, that cannot be accepted. If you're willing to take my money, you had better be sure that the site is working, regardless of the age of the content. | |
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| 07-31-08 02:28am - 5988 days | #7 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
See my comments on her site on her review page. It certainly has gone down the toilet. As for Karen Dreams, that is a nice site. The harder stuff, unfortunately, costs extra. | |
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| 07-29-08 03:14pm - 5989 days | #48 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
Perhaps you should be. Here's my take on DRM. I'm one of those people who would never join a site with DRM. I have no problem paying for sites. I'm not into piracy. I'm not into it from a moral standpoint, and besides, piracy isn't worth the hassle. Browsing sites to find content I like is difficult enough. Browsing torrents, newsgroups, and IRC to find content I like is exponentially more difficult. To make matters worse, it's just like looking for MP3s. Invariably, someone's messed with something or the quality simply isn't there. There is no free lunch. Piracy is a huge waste of time, from my perspective. If there's good content and a nice layout, I'm willing to pay. Some aren't. Obviously, though, there are enough paying customers to justify the sites that do exist. Take a look at basic economics. What is really making sites fail? Is it because there is piracy? Or, is it because, perhaps, there are too many sites, or some are just crappy? Some high quality sites have been around for years, and likely will remain. Some of these have been around since I started on the net a decade ago. They didn't succeed by treating all their customers as potential thieves. I agree with the notion, however, that all customers are potential thieves, but you simply don't treat people like that. Would you patronize a store that patted you down on the way out, every time? | |
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| 07-27-08 03:33am - 5992 days | #4 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
Nice posts. There are certain things about user reviews that are exceedingly helpful. I tend to like to see what a user's experience has been with customer service. We all know that we each have different preferences of what we like to see for content; some list softcore content as a con, others a pro - it's obviously a matter of one's own preferences. However, it is useful to know how far a site's staff will go to remedy problems or assist users. A reviewer may hate a certain site's content, but had a glowing opinion of customer service. If it's content that I might like, those comments on customer service may make the sale. The customer service aspect is where I find user reviews exceedingly important, and not paying attention to them has bitten me in the ass. My suspicion is, although unproven, of course, is that official reviewers may be treated by site staff with kid gloves. After all, who wants to annoy someone you know is going to review your site to the masses? It's how they treat the average user that really counts. | |
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| 07-24-08 04:32am - 5995 days | #10 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
DownThemAll! works great. I haven't found a problem with it yet. Before that, I was using wget and curl exclusively, and still use them. If you haven't guessed, I'm using Linux. I found of all of these, wget gives the most error-free downloads. Curl has given me a couple problems, and DownThemAll! has given me a couple corrupt files, but nothing I can't live with. | |
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| 07-24-08 04:23am - 5995 days | #18 | |
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jr2375 (0)
Active User Posts: 21 Registered: Jul 23, '08 Location: North America |
I use a prepaid Mastercard, and have never had any problems. The card has never been declined. I use a prepaid Mastercard since it seems to me to be a little bit safer. I've never been declined using it with either CCbill or Epoch. I was kind of concerned, too, with them wanting your mailing address. I have a post office box set up for that kind of thing. It's security for the card processors, since your submitted address must much the card address. Otherwise, it could be anyone using the card. I've never received any spam from these companies, be it email or snail mail. Nothing untoward has come to me by mail. Set up a post office box, if you're concerned about that. | |
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