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Download a Folder using FTP

From How to download a folder containing multiple files on an ftp server to a desktop?

1. Open an Explorer window. Click on the Start menu, then select My Computer.
2. Type the ftp url in the the address bar. For example:
   

   ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu
   

3. If a login is necessary, a dialog box will appear.
4. A listing of all directories and files of the server will appear.
5. Copy the files just as you would with a normal folder.

Outdated View of Ubuntu

https://www.howtogeek.com/208070/new-to-linux-dont-use-ubuntu-youll-probably-like-linux-mint-better/

Title Doesn't Match Result

How To Save an Old Laptop By Installing This Free OS started out promising until I read this:

Right now the Pixel OS can’t be installed on your laptop, only run from a USB stick or DVD, though this might change in the future.

Wait. The title says you can install the free OS.
But you can't.
Blech.
I still may look into if it supports ripping CDs to MP3 and, if it does, I suppose running it on the same box that has Ubuntu on it would be an option. I haven't returned to that tower to figure out how to get around being asked for a password I don't remember. I have the instructions printed and sitting on my desk.

Learning Always

I've been having a devil of a time getting a linked Word document with a link to a PDF in my RoboHelp project to work in my output. I've been in contact with Adobe Tech Support and, after I requested it, I was sent a link to a sample RH project so I could compare what the Support person said worked for them and what I had in my RoboHelp project that didn't work. The project was placed on a FTP site and when I opened up the FTP site, all I saw was a lot of files. I knew there had to be an easier way than downloading each file individually so I fired up Google.

Here's the procedure I used from How to download a folder containing multiple files on an ftp server to a desktop? to avoid tediously downloading each file.

1. Open an Explorer window. Click on the Start menu, then select My Computer.
2. Type the ftp url in the the address bar. For example:
   

   ftp://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu

3. If a login is necessary, a dialog box will appear.
4. A listing of all directories and files of the server will appear.
5. Copy the files just as you would with a normal folder.

I really enjoy my job on a day like today when I can come in to work and learn something new. I am blessed to be here!

Storing CDs

I'm revisiting the idea of storing CDs and the best way to do it. Right now, thanks to no foresight into the planning of my CD reconversion, I have CD cases that are empty, CD cases that are not empty, 30+ spindles of 100 CDs each, 3 3-ring binders that came with the CDs I bought from at NCYC in Indy back in November 2013, and other miscellaneous piles of music. I need a consolidated way to organize my music because if I wanted to find Metallica's "Death Magnetic" or Lamb of God's "Sacrament" or Van Halen's "OU812", I would have no idea where to look. I thought about using a user-defined field in Windows Media Player, but the problem with that is I don't really want to be tied to a proprietary software. I don't consider myself a likely candidate for using Ubuntu or a Mac on a daily basis so, unless something extremely odd happens, I will continue to use Windows. That said, my fear is that if I do add a user-defined field to WMP, I would lose that information if I needed, for some reason, to switch to a different tool.

I googled "storage for massive cd collection" and read this, but I was underwhelmed. I was equally underwhelmed with this article.

Products don't seem to be jumping out at me either. There's this binder system where you get 6 binders, each holding 48 CDs, for $58.99. That's 288 CDs. I have 4000 CDs. I would need 13.88 (let's say 14) to give me 14 x 6 = 84 of these books.Yeah, that's not going to work. I am glad I didn't have pop in my mouth when I read about this system. Each drawer holds 15 CDs; 20 of these drawers would hold, yep, 600 CDs and would cost $529.80... except I would need 7 orders of 20 of these 2 drawers 7 x [20 x2] = 280 drawers, which would cost $3708.60 to store my 4000 CDs in groups of 15 in 280 drawers.

Just for the record, even if I had $3708.60 laying around, burning a hole in my pocket, I wouldn't spend it on 280 drawers!

I bit the bullet and posted an inquiry to Facebook. My friend Phil replied that he used this product: http://shop.spacesavingsleeves.com/main.sc, which look promising. You can buy 1000 sleeves for $160 (roughly) so I'd need to invest $640 to put all my CDs in this system.