What's the best way to download a current TV show from the web? I'd watch it at home but we live in the country and have cellular internet, which means data limits. I'd like to save the show at work and take it home to watch. Since it's at work, I'd rather not use shady methods to acquire it. In particular, it's the season finale of The Vampire Diaries season 6, episode 22. The only reason I want it is my son is an extra in it. Any ideas?
I thought the $1.99 Amazon purchases were downloads. Also, CW has a "watch episodes" app, so I don't know your data plan is like, but you could stream it on mobile device.
Yeah, I'm Canadian, and extremely cynical. I guess that doesn't help, but at least in Canada there are no options.
Bring your laptop to work, hook up to the WiFi, download utorrent, go to https://kat.cr/ , search for the episode and download it. Easy peasy.
Uh, he said "it's at work, I'd rather not use shady methods." Work will identify a torrent and the DNS lookup for a torrent site in about a nanosecond, if they even let it get started. @zzr I mostly roll my own VPNs now so I don't know much about the available services, but the best way to avoid work seeing what you're doing is to subscribe to a VPN service and use that while you download the torrent. That said, it's a small file so I'll just download it and post it for you. Check your PMs in about an hour.
Wasn't sure if I should throw this in the automotive thread but I feel this thread gets more views. Just got a new car and I didn't splurge for the leather upholstery because it was several grand more. So I want to get a set of seat covers for the cloth. Can anyone recommend a good company to go to or a good material to use? I see neoprene used a lot, but I think its weird to use wetsuit material in the car. If it works well though, I would consider it.
I know I used to sell FIA seat covers, but for some reason I remember them being pickup only, but look at them. Go to your local parts store, must of them deal in places that make them to order and usually will have lots of different types of cloth samples.
I used the neoprene on my Jeep, and they worked great, but that was also for a vehicle that I could expect the seats to get wet when the top was off. I'd be tempted to hit up a custom upholstery shop to see what they could do for you. A friend of mine went to a boat cushion place and they whipped up some awesome covers for him for stupidly cheap. It was almost "while you wait" service. I would have thought the custom work would have been crazy expensive, but it was the exact opposite.
To answer your question, no the neoprene didn't feel weird... it was more "clothy than rubbery", if that makes sense. It caused less sweating than leather would... it was just weather resistant.
So randomly, I stopped being able to access a bunch of websites (espn.com, cnn.com, deadspin, netflix etc) but I can still access facebook, twitter, gmail, and this message board, oddly. I did the whole "unplug the modem" thing and the websites did come back, but only for about half an hour. The same issue happens on chrome, firefox, and internet explorer. I have century link and called technical support. They said everything looks fine on their end. Does anyone know what the issue could be with my connection?
If it temporarily fixed itself by rebooting your firewall/router, your DNS could have been hacked at your firewall/router. Typically a DHCP setup uses your firewall/router as the local network's DNS, so if it gets hacked, it can change values and send you anywhere but where you want to go. Try manually setting your DNS on your router/firewall and your computer to be Google's public DNS of 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 Also be sure that your router/modem has the latest firmware installed. Likewise your computer. Failing all of that, it could be your ISP is trying out some fucking evil "don't mind us while we redirect you to who pays us money and add shit to your web sites" technology. See if you can force HTTPS for those sites and if they work that way... much harder to inject ISP-related content that way.
Thanks for the help! Weirdly, i was momentarily able to access other sites but now the same issues are occurring. I really know very little about computers so when it starts working again, I'll have to google how to do everything you suggested. When you say hacked, do you mean someone is specifically trying to access my computer, or is this a broader hack not targeting me specifically?
Your router/firewall sits on the wild wild west of the Internet... EVERYONE in the world can reach your firewall/router. Even though your firewall is designed to protect you from people gaining unauthorized access to it, sometimes flaws are found in the software that runs it and it can be hacked into. Some attacks basically hijack your DNS. DNS is what says "hey, it looks like you want to go to google.com, and google.com is at the IP address of x.x.x.x, so I'll tell you google.com is at x.x.x.x, and that's where you'll go". What bad people can do, sometimes, is hack into your firewall through a fault/crack, and replace your firewall/router's DNS service tell you bullshit addresses.. .basically hijack you. So you say "I want to go to google.com", and it says, "that's at x.x.x.x". Well, it might actually be at y.y.y.y, but they redirect you you x.x.x.x in the hopes of scamming you or just getting traffic for ad revenue. It can also point you to evil websites that try and get you to log in to fake websites that you think are legit, and then can grab your username/password as you try to log in. By not relying on your router/firewall for DNS resolution (that "domain name to IP address" lookup), you can fall prey to that attack. By setting your computer's DNS to use Google's DNS directly, you can help mitigate that risk.
That explanation makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarification. In my case, the webpages just don't load and my browner will say "Webpage not available, connection reset.'
I wound up resetting my router and so far, that seems to have done the trick. It was affecting all devices, not just my computer, so i plugged an ethernet cable directly from the modem to my laptop and the internet worked fine, just to isolate the problem to the router. Thanks all for your help.
Anyone have any experience working for a startup? What are things to watch out for?I don't want to get burned but I am very interested in getting involved, so I'd like to know what to look for or ask to cover myself.