Monthly Archives: December 2023

How to select just the wanted files in an Archive.org torrent

09 Saturday Dec 2023

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How to select the wanted files for a Librivox public-domain audiobook, when downloading via an Archive.org torrent. I’m using the popular free qBitTorrent software.

It’s a bit tricky to get just a certain set of files downloading and not the others. This is how it can be done:

1. Download the .torrent file.

2. Start the entire torrent. In the Content panel, immediately deselect all the torrent’s files.

3. Now filter the file set for “128kb.mp3” or whatever other standard naming you have in the set for the highest-quality audio files.

4. Shift-select all these filtered files, so that they’re highlighted. Don’t attempt to tick them all (there may be hundreds). Instead right-click them as a selected block and set them to priority “Normal”. qBitTorrent will now consider the files “ticked” and active.

5. Start the torrent. You should see that only the desired files are downloading.

Download CSV from any HTML table

05 Tuesday Dec 2023

Posted by in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news

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I could have used this one the other day. Now it exists. A new Userscript to Download CSV from any table on a website. The code looks clean to me, and it works.

Especially useful for re-sorting ‘non re-sortable tables’. Though sadly not working with Github file lists.

You may need to stop it running on some sites, by adding this code to the header.

// @exclude https://www.etools.ch/

Alternatively, just disable it any only turn it on when needed.

Note that the paid Windows utility ABBBY Screenshot Reader can also OCR a table and save it as a .CSV file. Possibly useful for those times when the table is a graphic.

Llamafile – runs LLM AIs as a single .exe

04 Monday Dec 2023

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The Mozilla organisation have released a way to make Large Language AI’s (think ‘ChatGPT’) into normal single-file .EXE files that will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, etc. Llamafile is open source and available now. Sample .EXE files include WizardCoder-Python-13B. Sadly though it won’t run on Windows, as that OS has a 4Gb limit on the size of .EXE files. So near, yet so far.

Blog moved and fixed

03 Sunday Dec 2023

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Ok, well… I think ‘the blog move’ is mostly done. I’ve no idea what happened with the old WordPress.com site. If they won’t tell me what was censorable, and also give me access to fix it, then I guess that version of the blog is gone. Oh well, that’s what backups are for.

JURN’s blog now has a new URL at: https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/ and is restored here. You can make up your own mind if it deserved WordPress.com’s abrupt and total blocking.

The only change you’re likely to see is that the former sidebar URLs are now on their own page.

The new blog is also now linked from the main JURN search tool home-page.

Internal URLs have been corrected via Regex search-replace, including my other blogs. A few of the images on old posts may be broken. But I had a recent haul of images backed up via a Linkbot, in the same WordPress folder-structure, and thus most images should be found when you visit an old post.

URL references have been subject to a Regex search-replace, including on some of my other blogs. My example/demo .XLS files have also been restored here at the JURN blog. There may be a few broken .PDF links, but I hardly upload those… so finding and fixing them can wait.

The new RSS feed is: https://jurn.link/jurnsearch/index.php/feed/