Downloading Connections & The Day the Universe Changed

[roo_ster]

Howdy:

I was a little bored and decided I wanted to download some of these programs (Connections, DUC).

Being the lazy b@st@rd I am, I automated the task after some judicious grep/sed/awk.  Those of you fortunate enough to be running linux or cygwin (under Windows) can download the attached tar file, untar it, chmod a+x the *tcsh files, and execute the tcsh scripts in the background(0).  If you get to the net via a proxy server, man wget to see how to modify the scripts.

To see how things are going, tail -f the *log file(s).

Those of you sadly without useful command-line tools can download the Conections & Day the Universe Changed with the urls below:

http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/yesterday-tomorrow-and-you.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/countdown.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/eat-drink-and-be-merry.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-long-chain.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/thunder-in-the-skies.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-wheel-of-fortune.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/faith-in-numbers.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/distant-voices.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/death-in-the-morning.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-trigger-effect.mp4


http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/worlds-without-end-changing-knowledge-changing-reality.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/making-waves-the-new-physics-newton-revised-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/fit-to-rule-darwins-revolution.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/what-the-doctor-ordered-social-impacts-of-new-medical-knowledge.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/credit-where-its-due-the-factory-and-marketplace-revolution.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/infinitely-reasonable-science-revises-the-heavens-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/a-matter-of-fact-printing-transforms-knowledge.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/point-of-view-scientific-imagination-in-the-renaissance.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/in-the-light-of-the-above-medieval-conflict-faith-and-reason-.mp4
http://clickcaster.com/resource/video/the-way-we-are-it-started-with-the-greeks.mp4


(0) As always, before running a script on your box, at least give it a quick look-see in a text editor to make sure it isn't something harmful.  These are one-liners, fortunately.

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Unix scripts are all well and good, but more important would be a description of what on earth you're trying to download...

[cosine]

Sorry, I don't know Greek. 

[roo_ster]

Unix scripts are all well and good, but more important would be a description of what on earth you're trying to download...

Connections & The Day the Universe Changed are late-1970's short television series that examine the links between history, science, & technology.  I think they are a bit too tidy, but they are entertaining.

This might help, too:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=5782.0
http://clickcaster.com/users/jamesburke
http://clickcaster.com/connections
http://clickcaster.com/daytheuniversechanged

[Frontier509]

Thank you very much for the links JF. It made for a very interesting evening of viewing.