That is good to hear!twistero wrote: PSREF is on Lenovo's new support site: http://www.lenovo.com/psref/psrefs_withdrawn.shtml so that's probably going to be around for some time.
I have grabbed a few things, but I have no way to automate anything.twistero wrote: As for other things, download them while you still can from these two sites http://download.lenovo.com/express and http://support1.lenovo.com
All of the ThinkPad HMMs and most recent drivers have been secured (which I do very much appreciate!), but nothing for other IBM PCs or peripherals. As I said earlier, I understand those are beyond the scope of this forum, but I'm just surprised at the lack of interest! I guess ThinkPads must be nearer and dearer to most people's hearts than regular old IBM PCs. I personally think that most IBM products are generally special because of their superior design. I have gotten the most basic stuff that pertains to my own machines, such as HMMs and P/S Reference Books. It's just too bad that the rest of that stuff will be lost forever!Johan wrote:First: All the HMM's have already been secured , and are now being hosted by this wonderful forum! You will find a link at the top of this page
With much difficulty, I did finally get Wget32 working on my system, and able to download SOMETHING, namely the link with the videos you provided, but there are not actually any videos in any of the downloaded directories. I don't know how I could get them.Johan wrote: To repeat myself (from the above post):Then, how to download these video'es? Go play with "wget32" - see e.g. this post for a suggestion (provided by twistero at the end of the post).The various instructional ThinkPad videos, which I have found on this link, would also be very, very useful to have available (after no longer being available from Lenovo), but these video's will obviously be taking up a bit more diskspace, compared to HTML-files...
I now have a few directories but I don't know how to get to the original page that I just archived! There is no simple "index.htm" or anything in any of the main or sub-directories.
[A word to n00bs like myself: To get Wget (which is a command-line utility) to work on Windows, you first have to add "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin" (or wherever you installed it) as a PATH environmental variable, and if the URL is weird, then it must be put in quotation marks! Documentation of GNU programs always seems to expect an awful lot of the user!]
Twistero: I also just saw your python script, and had a look (thanks for the tip about renaming as .txt and viewing it in a browser for line breaks!)
I want to download all of the NetVista stuff from http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html, but I know nothing about python, and I read through your script, but I didn't see anything obvious I could modify to make it download that. By the time anyone reads this, the sites will likely be gone, but if it's not, then please do reply, because it's going to be very helpful.
In the meantime, I've given up on Wget and fancy scripts, and am just manually downloading what I think is most critical until the site is taken down.
I'm also trying good ol' HTTrack, but not having a lot of success, though more success than with Wget!