It's a shame that it's only available as a Windows download. My 2 PCs are Linux and Apple OSX.55North, IINM Wine (http://www.winehq.org/) is a Windows emulator that one can install on both Opsys.
Many thanks. I'll give that a go later.Please let us know the result, if successful we might want to add a note to the product pages for those in your same situation ;).
Sandro:Thank you, Mark.
This eBook is very well done! I love the navigation. Being able to move through the topics and click on the links to read the supporting strings was a nice touch. I did have to turn off my firewall when first installing it, but once it did, it was great every time after that.
I get the following error when trying to run: "MOTW.exe is not a valid Win32 application"Odd ::). What flavour of WIN are you running?
Does anyone have an idea as to how to run an .exe on a mac OSX without running a separate Windows platform? Surely there is a free quick loadable software or can the book be converted to a different download?
An .exe??? Seriously???
With all due respect, Dan... you have a great forum and I love reading it... and I'd like to take a look at your book... but this choice of format seems odd.
Dan, I think it would be useful to set up a separate thread for comments and suggestions for changes regarding the content of the book, as opposed to the access etc. that is mainly discussed in this thread.
A very good source and I applaud those who have participated in the forming the book, but I was very bothered by some sections and words which I think are misleading to 'newbies' which should be the primary readers.
I agree with the others regarding the format. You've published this is a closed format, rather than something relatively open like PDF, which can do pretty much everything I see in this guide without limiting what platform you can view it on.
If the intention is to reach the widest possible audience then it makes sense to publish this in a ubiquitous format like PDF, since there is a PDF viewer for almost every platform in existence.
I have thousands of e-books that I have purchased and downloaded for free, they are all PDF, except this one.
The properties of the .exe file I downloaded is only about 209 KB. Is it possible that the full file is this small?No, its size is about 4.7 Mb, and probably that is why:
The file will not run on Windows XP.Try unloading again ;).
Sandro,I don't know what is going on with the downloads. I downloaded twice under XP. The exe files downloaded were 140 KB and 234 KB each time. I went to my laptop and downloaded under Vista and the file is about 240KB. There might be something in the binary file that is interrupting the downloads.I just did it again under XP, and the downloaded file is 4,809 Kb. No idea why your downloads break up early. Anybody else experiencing the same problem?
Do you have the source data before it went into your authoring application? It should be fairly easy to make a MS Word or PDF file. If you can send me the sources, I will take a look at it.Doug, of course I still have the source data, but you'll have to ask Dan for that ;).
Sandro,
I don't know what is going on with the downloads. I downloaded twice under XP. The exe files downloaded were 140 KB and 234 KB each time. I went to my laptop and downloaded under Vista and the file is about 240KB. There might be something in the binary file that is interrupting the downloads.
Do you have the source data before it went into your authoring application? It should be fairly easy to make a MS Word or PDF file. If you can send me the sources, I will take a look at it.
Doug
Seems to be an IE bug. If I wait a while (more than 10 seconds) to click the Save option, I get a truncated download. If I respond quickly to click Save it downloads the full file.
The only thing I can think of that you might want to add to new additions would be to describe the superstitions and temperment of FSU women.Doug, there's something about that in CHAPTER 7 - FINAL CONSIDERATIONS ;):
HEALTH, HYGIENE & FITNESS
...You are told that iced tea kills
...The air-conditioners are blamed for a bout of bad health, yet they have been switched OFF ever since
she arrived
...The ceiling fan is going to make her sick
...You are told "I have a headache, maybe we should stop at the ice-cream parlor to make it go away"
...You learn everyday new things about how to lead a healthy life
...You discover new marvels of medicine, such as putting dog fur rather than ice on an inflamed lower
back, or your 23-y.o. son is told to pee on his sunburned legs
...Your sunburn is smeared with sour cream
...Your water bill has more than trebled since her arrival
...The sound of running water in the bathroom brings on erotic thoughts
...You hear she telling you that sex is 'good for organism'
I just finished reading the complete Men of the West, Women From the East inluding the Appendix. Congratulations!! You guys did a fantastic job.
This book along with the free E-Book from Mark Davis as a supplement is all a newbie needs. There is no reason anyone needs to spend money to purchase anything else.
Whoever wrote the Toilet portion of the appendix needs to be credited with having me rolling on the floor laughing. It describes exactly my experience and fears when using public toilets in Ukraine. Some readers might think it is a joke, but trust me it is real life! How to maintain your balance is a real trick.
The only thing I can think of that you might want to add to new additions would be to describe the superstitions and temperment of FSU women.
Great Job !!!!!!
Re: RWD E-Book in PDF format
For the past hour or so I've been playing with a number of PDF converters, PDF virtual printers, etc. etc.
They work alright on the book .EXE, but the problem is that they will create a .PDF file only for the currently shown page, NOT for the entire book :( , which renders it very impracticable for us to make a PDF version downloadable from RWD - it would consist of a myriad of small files.
Sandro, Word and Open Office has the ability to generate PDF files. It should keep all navigation as well.OK, but the book source is in HTML - as required by the compiler that we used - so that route is not practical, I think ::).
Easy enough to do:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-DMG-File-on-a-Mac
Re: RWD E-Book in PDF format
For the past hour or so I've been playing with a number of PDF converters, PDF virtual printers, etc. etc.
They work alright on the book .EXE, but the problem is that they will create a .PDF file only for the currently shown page, NOT for the entire book :( , which renders it very impracticable for us to make a PDF version downloadable from RWD - it would consist of a myriad of small files.
http://www.randomsupport.com/rs/blogs/index.php?title=howto-concatenate-pdf-documents&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1[/url]Thanks for the link, but that looks too much of a hassle to bother :-\.
OK, but the book source is in HTML - as required by the compiler that we used - so that route is not practical, I think ::) .
If your source is in HTML, did you consider using http://calibre-ebook.com/ (http://calibre-ebook.com/) ?No, it wasn't among the candidates considered at the time.
I've published a couple of ebooks in other forums using HTML as my source and targeting .prc.From a SINGLE HTML file?
If your source is in HTML, did you consider using http://calibre-ebook.com/ (http://calibre-ebook.com/) ? I've published a couple of ebooks in other forums using HTML as my source and targeting .prc. The advantage that the resulting file can be read on virtually everything: kindle, ipad, windows, mac, whatever. Forgive me for saying this, but a win32 binary is a really obnoxious format.
Anyway, I downloaded and started toying with it.
From a SINGLE HTML file?
TBB, What is so "obnoxious" about it?
The question "From a SINGLE HTML file?" doesn't seem to me to be asking the right question since HTML links tend to form a hierarchy of content.The question was right, connsidering the behaviour of the tool that you initially suggested :(:
Sorry, I goofed.
The tool I actually use is Mobipocket Creator (http://"http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscreator.asp").OK, I downloaded it and shall try it out.
If you have images or other files, you normally link to them, and an appropriate ebook compiler will read in the linked filed and compile them as part of the ebook.Obviously ::).
:OK, I downloaded it and shall try it out.Well I did, and the result was not much satisfactory, the book formatting is all messed up and I think it'd require too much rework on the original HTML code for a decent result :-\.
Well I did, and the result was not much satisfactory, the book formatting is all messed up and I think it'd require too much rework on the original HTML code for a decent result :-\ .
Writing good, platform-agnostic HTML takes time, especially if you haven't done it before.Not sure what that means ::). I learned HTML after learning/using in the 1990s the IBM BookMaster, a simplified version of SCRIPT/VS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language) for our mainframes that we had adopted then to produce our manuals.
Many thanks. I'll give that a go later.
Wow. I just read it. 3 + years later.
That's because I've been busy doing it, not reading about it!
Most Mac users will have upgraded everything, as I have - to include a Windows partition, so no problems there.
I'm a mac user and usually fairly prolific but, I gave up on it. What did you do?
Hi FP.
When I last read this thread 3 years ago, my 'surfin' Safari was a Tiger I think, on a half-football. Now, I'm surfin' Safari on a Lion with a duo core under the bonnet and a 27" windscreen. In order that my wife's Xperia Mini can speak to its mothership, I had to load VM Fusion and Windoze 7. (iPhone for me, of course).
I simply downloaded the infamous exe file to my (Apple) desktop, hit open, and hey-presto, my Mac opened Windoze on top of my Apple perfectly displaying the tome.
(Did you do iCloud yet? Bit the bullet and made the crossing yesterday. Interesting! That you can shoot a photo anywhere out there, and Alla can immediately see it on the screen at home is, as we used to say, pretty far out.)
Considering the proliferation of e-readers and other mobile devices, it would've made far more sense to release this as an epub and/or mobi file. Any chance of this happening anytime in the near future?OmegaSupreme, after your post I did try out the Mobilpocket Creator on our HTML source files, and the result is rather messed up compared to the original :(.
It shouldn't be that difficult to do, and would guarantee wider distribution than an .exe file.No walk in the park, though ;). So, unless somebody comes up with some not-too-cumbersome fixes, no joy :wallbash:.
Admittedly, those who run on Apple platforms will see things differently - but as we looked at our demographics back then - and even now - that is not a very large proportion of our member community. Further, we were under the impression that OS emulators exist for non-Windows platforms that would enable all our members to utilize the output.
- Dan
What is it about this "book" that it needs to be in a Executable wrapper?]It was the only alternative available at the time.
Is it simply a collection of thread posts with commentary or something more?More, thread posts are only offered as references for further reading in the topics covered.
Is it possible to set up a thread to display the book?I guess that'd cause the same problem, it being an .EXE ::).
If your goal is to reach a wider audience, IMO it will not happen in this current format. :(With all the time and effort put into this project, It is a shame to see it un-available to so many of us who want to read it while still maintaining a safe computing environment.I've tried converting it to a .PDF before, and to a .MOBI today, with the same unsatisfactory results :(.
Have you given any thought to solving the .PDF conversion problem? Perhaps by asking Adobe or one of our forum experts on Adobe products. Since it is so much trouble to fix the HTML code, perhaps Adobe has an answer that would make it easier than rewriting the code. It might be in Adobe's interest to make it work.I doubt they'd be interested in such small fry. IIRC, I tried 3 different conversion tools, all giving more or less the same formatting problems. My SUBJECTIVE impression is that a text rather than HTML input file might give better results ::).
Downloaded instantly with no problems - Windows7 and IE9.
Newjason, I think you can trust the book even without a certificate/signature, I can assure you that we put nothing harmful in it, as your AVAST confirmed ;). As for your BSOD, what OS platform are you running it on?
It was the only alternative available at the time. More, thread posts are only offered as references for further reading in the topics covered.I guess that'd cause the same problem, it being an .EXE ::).I've tried converting it to a .PDF before, and to a .MOBI today, with the same unsatisfactory results :(.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that all who claim it'd be easy to change it to a different, better format did not actually experience such a conversion process themselves :-\.
Had to chuckle--the PC crowd is a good nickname for a lot of the RWD Heroes that post. I am a Mac user, so I will look forward to checking out the book on my platform. Let you know how it looks.
It's not you or this site that I have trust issues with. It is the unscrupulousness of individuals who can take such a file like your e book and modify and re-distribute it and make it do all kinds of nasty things. If It were modified, we would have no way of knowing that it was or was not safe.Yes, but they'd have to upload it to the RWD server for a wide distribution, and I don't think it'd be that easy ;).
P.S. Any thoughts on why there are so few downloads?No idea, it's a bit disappointing - and IINM the counter only measures the views of that page, not the number of actual downloads ::).
I am still running on WIN XP SP3 with all updates and patches current.I'm also still on Win XP, and never experienced a BSOD with the book.
OK - in an attempt to get *something* into PDF...Dan, your attempt produced a better result than mine, as far as formatting is concerned :clapping:.
I suspect most readers will find the PDF version both difficult to navigateYes, both internal and external links do not work.
Sandro, was this created with Mobipocket creator?Yes, I added an extra L unwittingly.
Sandro, if you send me your source documents I'll work on compiling it for you in mobipocket creator. I'll give you an opportunity to review the result and make the final choice about whether you're happy with the final product.TBB, thanks for your offer, but I'll have to obtain Dan's permission for that.
Sandro, any images on that page?Yes, 2 JPGs and 2 GIFs, quite less than on most other 160+ pages that give no trouble ::).
Yes, 2 JPGs and 2 GIFs, quite less than on most other 160+ pages that give no trouble ::) .
I did a quick search on your problem and there isn't a lot of info.So I gathered, I found nothing relevant on their Forum & FAQ, but sent an email to their Support, anyway - just in case.
What I did see was an error that resulted from image names. You may want to try and rename the images.I could, but I doubt it'd make any difference :-\.
I don't know how this software works. Is it taking html pages and making a exe book?It's supposed to turn them into a .MOBI file.
I could, but I doubt it'd make any difference :-\.I did, it didn't - no surprise.
The myriad e-book formats are sometimes collectively referred to as the "Tower of eBabel"
Sandro, Any idea of how many times the E-Book has been downloaded?None, and I, too, would like to know ::). Maybe Dan as SysAdmin can access some SWF data that reveal that figure.
None, and I, too, would like to know ::). Maybe Dan as SysAdmin can access some SWF data that reveal that figure.
I have looked for the link to download the book for 10 minutes. Why not just put the link in the post about it turning into a free download?? Instead, "See post below" is pretty vague.I agree, it's pretty counter-intuitive ::), the link at top leads to a thread for comments rather than to the download page.
firstly, thanks for the site and the free ebook, just joined. As a highly literate computer professional, I cannot urge you enough not to have anything in .exe format! It is an absolute no no on the internet - it is the way most viruses are spread andKuteguy - not the most felicitous choice of nickname around here ;D - welcome to RWD.
Am I ... :deadhorse:
The PDF someone posted earlier looks good - hell ANYTHING is better than a .exe file. I bet people come to the first post in the thread, see an .exe file and dare not touch. Perhaps, put the PDF link on the first post as well..
thanks once again
The URL to the PDF is also mentioned upthread .. but not on the download page. Hrm.. Should it be ?By all means, if it's really readable. In that case, the download page should be amended to read something like this:
Warning: this E-Book was written in 2007. Many things have changed since then, particularly in Russia, therefore its content now is not entirely up to date.
The book is downloadable in 2 versions:
1. A .EXE file: this link will allow you to download it as an executable file with a .exe extension. Save it to the directory of your choice on your local hard drive,d then click the saved file to view it.
2. A .PDF file: this link will allow you to view or download it...
(News:points to the comments thread, not to the download page :(. It should be viceversa.
RWD E-Book, Men of the West - Women From the East, Now Available as
FREE Download! More Information HERE)
We've also made it available in PDF format for non-Windows users, although this conversion had the side effect of breaking the navigation links.But that is not much useful without a link ;).
Warning: this E-Book was written in 2007. Many things have changed since then, particularly in Russia, therefore its content now is not totally up to date.
The book is downloadable in 2 versions:
1. A .EXE file for Windows users: this link will allow you to download it as an executable file with a .exe extension. Save it to the directory of your choice on your local hard drive,d then click the saved file to view it.
2. A .PDF file for non-Windows users: this link will allow you to view or download it...(navigation links to relevant RWD topics not operative in this version)
After you have read the whole book, or parts of it, we should be grateful for your posting any comments at THIS http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=9568.0 (http://www.russianwomendiscussion.com/index.php?topic=9568.0) link.
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