Thursday, July 31, 2008

HOW TO SAVE YOU TUBE VIDEOS

No suspicious exe file to download and run
NO adware, spyware, worms and viruses.


a. FOR FIREFOX USERS
0> Go to the youtube site and start a video download in firefox browser. Do not close the browser.
1> Go to C:\Documents and Settings\alex\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Cache
Where:- alex is the currently logged user name, xxxxxxxx are random alphanumeric chars.
2> You will find files with weird names like 958222F0d01 or CDBBAED1d01
3> Right click in an white area of folder , choose arrange icons by modified.
4> Check the files modified most recently, probably near the end. Check to see if they have a file size comparable to a flash video file( >1MB)
5> If so, copy the file to another location, rename with any name with a .flv extension.
6> Play with any flash video player, I use FLV Player (free). Google the keywords ‘free FLV Player’ and download one.

b. FOR INTERNET EXPLORER USERS
0> Go to the youtube site and start a video download in IE browser. Do not close the browser.
1> Go to C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5.
2> You will find 4 weirdly named folders within any of which could be your precious you tube video!
3> The files are named get_video, get_video[1], get_video[2] and so on.
4> Higher the number in the brackets, more recent is the file. The current or last downloaded file should have the highest number.
5> However they could be in any of the four (weirdly named folders), so one do some hit and trial, or do the smart thing and search in the the Content.IE5 folder for files containing ‘get_video’ in their names, then arrange files by modified in the search results.
6> Copy All prospective files (size > 1MB) and rename with .flv extension.
7> Play with a FLV Player of your choice. Keep the ones you want to.

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READ ON, MOST IMPORTANT:-
I conclude: - Knowledge puts us in control. One must rake our brains to get at it, but it is totally worth it. For it keeps us from getting hoaxed by the baddies. There are hundreds of websites where nice innocuous looking pastel download buttons let us download a small application that promises to do all the above. They may save you some effort (if they work), but would certainly fill up your computer with some of the choicest malware (viruses, spyware). Now why would a programmer put in the effort, and spend server bandwidth to make such apps available to you selflessly. Well - they are like the religious priests that have wised up to the fallacy of religion, lost their fear of god, and now go about conning the trusting, innocent (oblivious) people with promises of salvation etc, in return for more material gains, sometimes even to do some real good! They let us ‘download for free’ a lot of untruths into our minds, about believing in a lord (or god) and the lord (or god) will deliver us from our woes, and that might even help a few escape from an occasional hardship that life hands down to us, but do certainly curb our ability to think freely and clearly, and seed us with a bias that has its roots in that most primal attribute of man – FEAR. Many kings and politicians have used this tactic to rule, exploit or subdue, and quite effectively. It is fascinating to see how many people can be fooled and for how long. Why so, you may ask. Oh I think I know-

There shall be fools as long as there are gods,
And
There shall be gods as long as there are fools.
And
As long as there are fools and gods, there shall be a George Bush.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Religion is an offshoot of some vestigial evolutionary instincts that helped us survive adversities before the time of agriculture.

When food was scarce and many other problems faced human clans, only army like blind faith in a superior power would make them bind together and help others at a cost to themselves.

There have been converse effects of any process in a society, but i think we first need to understand the vast benefits of the process of religion which saw humans through at least 5 million years or more.

The Rationalist said...

About the above-
I think they bound together when they found that to be more effective in warding off the big cats etc. Also many heavy tasks were easier when many hands joined together. Further the sexual nature of humans brings at least two people of the opposite sexes together. And then they have children and so on. It is the same for many animals like lions, monkeys etc. I do not think they are religious though, and so I am in variance to the idea that humans are religious from prehistoric times and directly due to some instinctive or primal reason.

Anonymous said...

All animals that live in a society have to have blind faith in their present leader. This is evident from the studies of chimps, other monkeys, dogs and cattle like sheep and horse (herd animals). These animals obey their leader loyally, for defending and for hunting etc.

The same instincts have gotten carried over to humans. But since humans quickly saw that no human is different (actually) from others, (no special powers etc) they created an object of devotion and gave him a whole gamut of powers.

Now humans started enforcing things 'in the name of god'. Also took care of a lot of anxiety of not being in control of situation, which we inherently want to be.

Anonymous said...

It is true that humans bound together because of the benefits you enumerate. But only a handful of individual in a clan would be hunting and another handful would be foraging.

They need to share and even with those who are sick and old. Even when food is still not enough. Whence comes the idea that good karma and bad karma and thus the idea of right or wrong.

Taking care of the old and the sick, unlike in animals has had great evolutionary benefits for humans. Human child takes a long time in being able to take care of itself.

The Rationalist said...

Dear anonymous - The 'need to share' that you talk of, while true (I am in agreement) - HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT OR ANYTHING ELSE BEING AN INSTINCT.
And the fact that the 'need' for sharing / having rules of society / god and religion etc etc was realized by people when they observed general betterment afterward shows that it was learned behaviour and NOT inherent in us humans from birth. Also were it inherent in us from birth as you propose, then humans would not have undergone the rather long learning phase, that periods of ever decreasing barbarism in our history are irrefutable evidence to.

The Rationalist said...

Please read new post on INSTINCTS. Click on the blog title if you dont find it - to show all posts and scroll down.
Click on post title to see the post along with its comments.

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