At long last there is a zip-version of my site for
the convenience of my readers. It exists in three formats, as follows.
Here are the sections, and if you are interested
in downloading large parts or all of the site, you probably first should check
out section 6:
1. Zip formats of the site
2. The directory-structure + zipped directories
3. Explanationas + Recipes
4. General advice and helpful remarks
5. Remark on the links on the site and on my copyright
6. Who is it for?
The site as
E-book
1. Zip formats of the
site
First, there is a new directory zip
attached to the starting directory, that contains all the zipfiles, in
standard zip-format, made by the Windows-XP utility for that end.
Second, this new zip contains
in its root a version the whole site zipped in one zip-file
This is the
whole-site-as-zipped-on-13-december-2009,
including directory-structure and zip-files mostly per directory. It mirrors
the directory-structure of the site fairly closely but not completely.
The reason to include the directory-structure
is that you'll need it if you want to keep the links working from one file on
the site, in a copy of it on your harddisk, to another file, in another
directory, similarly located.
Also, it is convenient to have the zips per
directory, so that's what you get in the full version of the site, that indeed
should contain almost all (but not precisely all that's on the site, for I
have left out some files relating to computing, and a few others).
Third, there is a list of zipfiles per
directory that follows, also by way of the directory-structure of the site.
This allows you to pick and choose from
directories and download per directory, which avoids downloading directories
that don't interest you, but has the setbacks that the links in the files to
files outside that same directory will fail and that the images that are used
may not display, which is somewhat inconvenient with the many arrows in files
that leads to the previous and next files in a linked series of files.
(Clicking still works, even if no arrow is displayed.)
Here follows a survey of it all, starting in the directory
zip. Note that I copied the names of the directories, and that if any
of these is a link, it is to a zip-file that you can download (in standard
webbrowsers) by rightclicking and then choosing "download". What you then get
is a zipfile of the contents of that directory on the site, where you
can see for yourself what should be in it - with the proviso that the zipfiles
you can download are from a certain date and that image-files may not work.
(Some may, for I have tried over the last month to put imagefiles in the
directories they work in.)
At present, the date of the zipfiles is:
December 13, 2009 which is to say it contains
the files of the named directories of that day.
For some instructions, click the link
Explanations + Recipes.
2. The
directory-structure + zipped directories
Maartensz
computing
Assembly
Basic
BitsAndPieces
Pascal
Prolog
Smalltalk
squeak
help
map
news
notes
tips
tour
log
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
logic
Clifford
Edwards
Induction
me
meinadam
2008ME
2009ME
buromedisch
CV
galerij
gggd
mein_10j
mein_dam
Nedernieuws
notities
politics
VanTraa
philosophy
aristotle
Ethics
Notes
Politics
Notes
Boetie
Tekst
Text
Burckhardt
Notes
chamfort
English
Notes
French
descartes
meditiations
notes
Dictionary
A
B
books
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
sites
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Epictetus
Manual
hazlitt
Hobbes
Hume
EnquiryMorals
Notes
EnquiryUnderstanding
Notes
James
Principles
leibniz
monadology
notes
NouveauxEssays
notes
maartensz
ideeen
A
B
C
D
PhilEssays
machiavelli
prince
notes
mill
Government
Notes
Liberty
Notes
Utilitarianism
Notes
multatuli
ideen1
ideen2
ideen3
ideen4
ideen5
ideen6
ideen7
specialiteiten
rochefoucauld
notes
text
russell
problems
notes
Swift
wittgenstein
Notes
3.
Explanations + Recipes:
Explanations:
The listing above consists of names of the directories on
the site, as they are on
the site. This is of some importance if you want to preserve links in files
that are in different directories of the site, for these should have the
same names and belong to a directory-structure of the same form.
You can see the file's name in the above list by putting the cursor on it,
and looking at the lowest line in your browser, which is Status Bar and will
display the file-name - if Status Bar is selected to be seen in your
browser. (If it isn't you can also right-click on its name and follow the
sub-menu.)
The above listing doesn't contain ALL
directories on the site, but those it doesn't contain (as in
maartens/ideeen/A, for example) the subdirectories belonging to a directory
are included already in the zipfile.
Otherwise, the listing copies the
directory-names and directory-structures as they are on the site.
Recipes:
It is probably best to download the zip of
the whole site, and there are a few more helpful remarks after the following
recipes.
1. To get the whole site (or large parts of it):
Download from the above link.
Unzipping it produces all directories with their zipfiles,
with the
proper directory-structures and -names and all.
To get the files in a directory, unzip the directory zipfile
in the same
directory (if you want to maintain links from and to files in
other
directories).
If you do this with Windows Explorer's utility for zip-files,
it offers you
automatically to attach a directory, but this you have to
delete.
(See General advice and helpful remarks.)
2. To get a directory from the site:
Find its name in the above list, rightclick, and click
"download".
To get the files in a directory, unzip the directory zipfile.
You may not get the image-files that are not in the same
directory.
3. To get several directories with
preserved links:
Either: Copy the directories as under 2.
Copy the directories + structures you wish from the above list
somewhere on your harddisk.
Unzip the directories in the same-named directories.
You may not get the image-files that are not in the
same directory.
Or else: Do as counselled under 1.
Delete the directories you directories you don't want.
4. To get a file or several files form the site:
Simply download them using your browser (File/Save As)
The above recipes should enable you to easily
get what you want from the site, provided you can unzip the standard zipfiles
you downloade, for which purpose there are many fine free - and some insanely
expensive - utilities on the Web and some in Windows. (The files have been
zipped with the standard zip-utility that comes with Windows XP.)
The main reason to include steps 2 and 3 is that
step 1 involves a considerable download, which will may take several hours on
a slow telephone-modem, if it works at all.
4. General advice and
helpful remarks:
- If you do have a fast connection (ADSL or
better), all you need is recipe 1 and delete whatever you don't want. This
also will - eventually: see the next points - include the image-files
properly.
- If you do have a fast connection recipe 1
is the recommended way to get the whole site or large parts of it. The other
recipes are there to help those with slow internet-connections.
- Note that recipe 1 is a zipfile of the
directories the site with zipfiles of the files that belong in each
directory, so that you have to unzip these as well, as explained in the
following point.
-
To get the files in a directory, unzip the directory zipfile in the same
directory (if you want to maintain links from and to files in
other
directories). Note this little inconvenience: If you do this with Windows
Explorer's utility for zip-files, it offers you automatically to attach a
directory, but this suggestion you have to delete. Thus, if you have
proceeded by step 1 all the directories will be in place when you have
unzipped it to whatever directory you chose, starting from "Maartensz", but
you have to unzip all directories still AND take care it unzips in its own
directory. Windows Explorer's zip-utility will offer e.g. when you want to
unpack Maartensz/images/images.zip to unpack it in
Maartensz/images/images but here you have to delete the last to
Maartensz/images/ and then unzip it, and it will be done properly.
- If you are following recipe 1, the best way is to unzip the large file
where you want it (probably not very many directories away from the root of
your hardddisk, by the way) and the unzip the Maartensz.zip and images.zip
files in the directories Maartensz and Maartensz/images. The first will get
you the site-index, and the second will give you most of the images in the
files when these have been unzipped.
- If you are not following recipe 1 but 2 or 3, the same applies, and you
have to take care the above directory-structure and directory-names are
maintained.
- To get (virtually) the whole site on your harddisk, you do have to
download and unzip all directories as indicated above, in the proper
directory.
- If you really want the whole site and have a really fast
internet-connection, you can download it as a whole (to preserve structure
and links), but you should realize that
- apart from the zip-files the site is almost 150 MB of text + images
- the zip-files in the new zip-directory sum to another 80 MBs
5. Remark on the links on the site
and on my copyright
There are over 250.000 links of the site, and
some 9000 files, and by far the most links are to files on the site: The site
really is one very strongly interlinked and interrelated hypertext, with many
more internal links than most sites.
If the
directory-names and -structures have been preserved as outlined above, the
links should work also in and to the copies of files of the site on your
harddisk, also the ones (about 1% in all) that are to other sites, if you're
internet-connection is working.
It should work, if you have followed the above recipes, because the files on
the site have relative URLs and the files not on the site have absolute URLs.
If things don't work in any major way (a few links may fail), you can
e-mail me, provided you proceed as explained as in
E-mails.
Finally - and although I'm rather sure some
Ph.D.s have been founded on the material on my site - please note that the
texts on this site which are not in the public domain, which is true of
the philosophical
classics on this site, do have my copyright, as explained in
Copyright.
This means in particular
that you can do with the texts of the philosophical classics as you please,
but not with the extensive notes I wrote for most of them.
If you do wish to have
some of my own texts on your site, you can always ask and explain for what
end. Unless your site is commercial, or requires payment or a registration fee
to be entered, chances are that you will get my permission, if you first ask
and identify my texts as mine on your site.
6. Who is it for?
By and large, the zip-files are there to help
people who want large parts of the site or all of it and who do not
have a fast internet-connection or who do not have to download 250 MBs
onto their harddisks and then delete what they don't want.
So this suggests there may be two groups of
such folks, that may overlap: Those who lack a fast internet-connection, and
those who want largish parts of the site without having to download the whole
site unzipped. Here are a few remarks to each group, preceded by a remark what
it is good for.
The site as E-book
The site as a whole is considerably more impressive than parts of it and is in
fact one large hypertext that is best seen as one large E-book. (For a survey
a.k.a. overview see the Tour
of the site.)
It is in many ways rather different from most
sites, also most large site, because the files are very much interlinked, and
because much of the content is radical in some ways.
This is notably so in the following sections
-
The philosophy section is special in that it contains
many classical texts
in fairly good html-editions, with my extensive notes, in their own files,
that often are collectively as long or longer than the texts they comment
on. One special part in it is the following:
-
The Multatuli-section
in the philosophy-section is a
good edition of the seven books of Multatuli's ideas, all with my
extensive notes. It is all in Dutch, but it is one of the popular parts of
the site.
- The
ME in Amsterdam section is a
long Dutch hypertext on my trials and tribulations in Amsterdam
with ME and on
the
enormous decline of civilization and education in Holland over the
past 45 years, while during the same time Holland and
especially Amsterdam grew into the
Colombia of Europe - mafia-paradise for drugsdealers,
maintained and protected by the
Amsterdam mayors and councilmen.
Note that I have been the only person
to have been removed from a Dutch
university since 1945 "because of your outspoken opinions" shortly
before taking my M.A. in philosophy, which I was not allowed to take
for the quoted reason; that I
have the best possibly M.A. in psychology (but mostly not on psychology,
because I consider much of that not really scientific); and that I have 32
years of M.E. without getting any help everyone with other serious diseases
in Holland do get. (This last bitter immoral and illegal discrimination does
not only hit me, but very many with ME, inside and outside of
Holland: It saves a lot of money, and only costs human lifes, of useless
people who are to ill to decently contribute to society, you see),
- The
Nedernieuws + Nederlog
section (in Dutch for the most part) contains many megabytes of radical
cricitism and reporting of contemporary events, mostly but not only in
Holland, and also extend ME in Amsterdam. I do not know of anything remotely
like it, at least not in Dutch.
- The
Philosophical Dictionary is mostly in English, with some Dutch
entries, and gives my own definitions and explanations of many terms
relating to logic and philosophy, as I use them. Again, it is radical in
that I know of very few philosophers who have clearly given their own
preferred usage of philosophical terms in their own words, and it also
outlines some of my own ideas in philosophy and logic.
I suppose these sections of the site are
interesting for some to download as one section and indeed they will probably
will teach almost anyone who reads them rather a lot, even if they do not
agree with me at all, while in general my own texts are at least fairly well
written (if usually in haste and with health-problems).
This is the reason to put a rather fair
amount of work in providing the zips of the directories of the site. Finally
then, what if you want any of the above or something else that is on the site,
and that takes more than a few files?
A. You do not have a fast internet
Proceed as outlined above in Explanations
+ Recipes, depending on what you want.
I have tested it selectively, and things work
for me as outlined - with Windows XP in my case - but it may be wise if you
work piece-wise and test first whether it works for you before you download a
lot.
B. You do want some large parts but not
download all unzipped
If your internet-connection is tolerable,
recipe 1 is best, because you get everything zipped. Otherwise recipes 2 or 3
will do it also.
C. You do have a fast internet
If your internet-connection is fast and you
have plenty of disk space, it is best to download the whole site - no
zip-files: just as is, from the opening directory all-inclusive - and then
delete what you don't want from it. The reason this is best is that it
preserves the link and the images, and that it takes the least work and time -
if you have a fast internet.
