Joao Luiz Weissheimer

I just passed here to say THANK YOU to Cassie, Paul, Jocelyn, Ernie, Erica and all the people that have made efforts to turn the candy's access available to all of us.

I'm part of the 'first wave' of candy access and would like to say that I received all the stuff perfectly on my first download attempt during the midnight between last friday and saturday.
All the .PDF and the .ZIP files opened perfectly.

Just to inform to the others who have had troubles while downloading, I usually use some Download Manager software when downloading such important stuff like that, its very useful to avoid "broken" files during congested traffic downloads or unstable internet connections.

Well, once more, thanks guys! I loved all the material and for me is a pleasure to be able to participate here with you on this journey of knowledge.

ps- The candy are really sweet Paul! Loved the priceless information at the permaculture-playing-cards-ebook, learned things there that I didn't know until now.
I'm still learning about Permaculture and its action strategies, well now I have many more hours of study to dive on.

Big hug to you all, from southern Brazil,
João

paul wheaton wrote:

Joao Luiz Weissheimer wrote:Hello everybody,

I'm one of the backers from last Paul's kickstarter campaign. I'm one of those who are eligible to participate to the 'Secret Inner Circle' here at permies.com, well my doubt is:

- How do I know if I am already able to participate to the 'SIC' once I'm logged in?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Your account has access. Do you see the forum? It should be the very last forum in the list of all the forums.

Yes Paul, I found it now. Thank you!

Greetings from southern Brazil
João

Hello everybody,

I'm one of the backers from last Paul's kickstarter campaign. I'm one of those who are eligible to participate to the 'Secret Inner Circle' here at permies.com, well my doubt is:

- How do I know if I am already able to participate to the 'SIC' once I'm logged in?

Thanks in advance for any help!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for reply Cassie!

Hi Cassie and Paul

- Have you already sent out the messages/emails with the links to the candy?

I'm asking because I just checked my email and didn't found anything about you, neither on my spam box.
Only to confirm, my email account is the same here at Permies and at Kickstarter.

Thank you,
João

Joao Luiz Weissheimer wrote:Hi Cassie,

Well, as you have suggested on today's paul wheaton daily-ish I tried to download the Ernie and Erica Wisner's Rocket Mass Heater Manual again, just for a test and my results are:

I've done two attempts, both downloads completed fast and the file sizes are the same.
On my first attempt I was unable to read the .pdf. Got a message saying "...PDF document is damaged..." by my pdf reader.
But on my second attempt I rename the file (as rocket) before download it, then the file opens perfectly.

I don't know why does it occurs, but I needed to do the same on my successful attempt early this week. This time I didn't cleaned my browser's cookies.

Both downloads were fast for me.
I'm using Firefox and Ubuntu Linux.

Thanks once again!
Greetings from southern Brazil
Joao

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Looking a bit deeper at both files (on its properties) the results are:
- The first attempt (NOT working) the file name / size is: rocket-mass-heater-manual.pdf / 17,3 MB (17.308.904 bytes)
- The second attempt (working) the file name / size is: rocket / 17,3 MB (17.341.647 bytes)

Hi Cassie,

Well, as you have suggested on today's paul wheaton daily-ish I tried to download the Ernie and Erica Wisner's Rocket Mass Heater Manual again, just for a test and my results are:

I've done two attempts, both downloads completed fast and the file sizes are the same.
On my first attempt I was unable to read the .pdf. Got a message saying "...PDF document is damaged..." by my pdf reader.
But on my second attempt I rename de file (as rocket) before download it, then the file opens perfectly.

I don't know why does it occurs, but I needed to do the same on my successful attempt early this week. This time I didn't cleaned my browser's cookies.

Both downloads were fast for me.
I'm using Firefox and Ubuntu Linux.

Thanks once again!
Greetings from southern Brazil
Joao

Well, after many, many tries since yesterday, and after receive many complete but corrupted .PDFs, I now (just few moments ago) have got the file perfect.

I'm using Firefox browser. Follows what I have done:
1º - I cleaned the cookies as Cassie has suggested;
2º - I clicked again on the link received by email from Cassie (Paul Wheaton daily-ish), so I needed to inform again my email account as requested
3º - Also as suggested by another person here (sorry, I forgot who he/she was), I renamed the file before download it. Have done this at the moment to inform where should firefox save the file in my computer.
4º - I have noticed that at this time the download speed is much much better/higher than before, probably because of the hour, should have much less people trying to download the file.

Hope this information may help someone. So Permies don't give up! Keep trying and all of you will get the candy!
Thank you very much Cassie to inform me about this support thread in response to my email message this afternoon. And also thank you for this candy, very very sweet! Wonderful information. Thanks Erica and Ernie too!

Greetings from a southern Brazilian Permie to you all!

paul wheaton wrote:Excellent point Joao. Once you have watched the videos once or twice in the first few months, you are pretty much done. So I raised the price back up. I want to make very sure that people that support the kickstarter get a better deal than people that buy in later.

Thanks for your comprehension Paul.

Perhaps some other people from kickstarter that have supported you could have thought the same way as me.
In other hand I also think that if you had started the prices at $50 since the very begining would be okay too, but at this time, I think that the most fair to everybody is as you've set up for now.

Just one doubt:
- Will you keep offering the Youtube version (with no time limit) for $99.00 and the Vimeo version (1 year limit) for $90.00?

I ask because I may have other friends interested on acquire the streaming version too.

Well....and I would like to say that about the content of the DVDs (at the streaming version that I bought) are very good! Wonderful information for a beginner like me in rocket mass heaters, many doubts answered and possible future mistakes (of mine) avoided.

For future releases my only suggestion would be about the sound, that if possible, please try to make available a personal microphone to each of the speakers/presenters, for me (as non-native English speaker) at some points is imperative to review many times, to understand correctly some "technical" words because of the low sound. (I read that you have already wrote about that at somewhere).
But overall, GREAT VIDEOS!!! Congratulations to you, Ernie, Erica and all the other people who have make this possible!

Greetings from southern Brazil,
Joao

paul wheaton wrote:I just noticed that vimeo puts a limit of one year on this streaming version. So I dropped the price to $50.

The other people that bought the streaming stuff get "many years." I don't mention a specific number of years because I just figure I set it up, connect them to the videos and then it just goes however long it goes.

Paul, I would like to say that I'm a bit disappointed.

Not about the video's content, but the "NEW" price announcement.

- Just one week ago I've paid $99.00 for the streaming version (at YouTube), and now it goes as down as $50.00 (at Vimeo).

If this option was available last week, I certainly would have chosen it.
For me "one year" of streaming would be enough time.

- I really would like to be able to change for this option of streaming (at Vimeo) if it's still available.

Thank you for your comprehension,
Joao