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00:16
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SmileyG |
SketchCow, payment in bitcoin, I'm interested in your view. |
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02:15
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joepie91 |
It's the opposite of a traditional automated teller that dispenses currency. Instead, these Bitcoin ATMs will accept dollar bills -- using the same validation mechanism as vending machines -- and instantly convert the amount to Bitcoins and deposit the result in your account. |
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02:15
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joepie91 |
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570925-38/need-bitcoins-this-atm-takes-dollars-and-funds-your-account/ |
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02:15
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joepie91 |
cc SmileyG |
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07:59
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SmileyG |
joepie91: hmmm |
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07:59
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SmileyG |
so they are buying bitcoin from the market, interesting |
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08:50
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omf_ |
archiveteam is the only non-scummy scraping group |
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08:51
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omf_ |
when you find a forum or site about scrapers it usually has SEO and other nonsense as the uses |
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08:51
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omf_ |
they put the value on making money, not on solving the problem |
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09:13
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ersi |
glad to hear |
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09:13
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ersi |
in a way, sad in another |
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09:15
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omf_ |
screen scraping has a weird stigma to it |
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09:15
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omf_ |
Like it is bad |
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09:18
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SmileyG |
its bad for a infomation collection purpose |
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09:18
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SmileyG |
however thats not what we are doing. |
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09:20
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omf_ |
I think the deep problem is very simple |
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09:20
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omf_ |
People need to understand that when you put something on the internet it is for EVERYONE |
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09:20
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SmileyG |
nod |
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09:20
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omf_ |
That is the core problem |
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09:20
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SmileyG |
5th dimention. |
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09:21
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omf_ |
We see these programmers writing about how big websites just need APIs |
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09:21
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omf_ |
reddit has a great api |
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09:21
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SmileyG |
indeed, heard a stupid story about how someone at my wife's work posted photos of her baby info (scan date, etc) on instagram |
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09:21
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omf_ |
take any url |
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09:21
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SmileyG |
people started talking about, and she went bonkers about how people were talking about her at work |
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09:21
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SmileyG |
:/ |
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09:22
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omf_ |
add /.json to the end and bam |
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09:22
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SmileyG |
xbox.com is one which people screen scrape |
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09:22
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SmileyG |
they DO have a api, but its limited by number of requests and they only allow some people access each year. |
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09:22
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omf_ |
well that is fucking MS for you |
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09:22
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SmileyG |
;) |
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09:22
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omf_ |
destroyer of everything |
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09:23
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SmileyG |
i thought that was IGN ;) |
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09:23
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omf_ |
shit IGN was a couple of website |
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09:23
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SmileyG |
Cannot write to 'planetcivilization.gamespy.com/index.html?start_from=11' (Connection timed out). |
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09:23
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SmileyG |
FINISHED --2013-02-24 09:17:48-- |
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09:23
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omf_ |
MS killed encarta |
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09:23
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SmileyG |
Total wall clock time: 6m 55s |
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09:23
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SmileyG |
Downloaded: 110 files, 4.2M in 58s (74.6 KB/s) |
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09:23
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omf_ |
MSN, hotmail and hundreds of communities |
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09:24
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GLaDOS |
You're making Yahoo sound good.. |
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09:24
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SmileyG |
:D |
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09:24
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omf_ |
scary isn't it |
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09:24
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* |
SmileyG sets MS speed to 1082mph |
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09:24
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omf_ |
what about all the MSDN data that now only lives on stacks of cds in the back rooms of offices |
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09:25
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omf_ |
they killed xda, how long till those forums are gone |
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09:26
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omf_ |
we come down harder because Yahoo is an internet company and they should "know" better |
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09:26
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GLaDOS |
Maybe we should get an insider into Microsoft and Yahoo, and get archives that way.. |
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09:28
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omf_ |
Yahoo just killed all remote jobs and I am not moving |
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09:28
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omf_ |
for MS it would have to be system admin at redmond |
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09:28
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omf_ |
well easier would be to find someone who has all the MSDN cds |
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09:29
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omf_ |
my old job had hundreds upon hundreds of them |
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09:30
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omf_ |
a research university with data partnerships would be easest |
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09:45
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S[h]O[r]T |
if your looking for old M$ or msdn stuff i know someone. its a lot of stuff though |
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09:46
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omf_ |
I know |
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09:46
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omf_ |
it is important stuff |
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09:46
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omf_ |
take directx for example |
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09:46
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omf_ |
they documented the shit out of that |
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09:47
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omf_ |
now as a side project I would be interested in mapping feature growth in it vs opengl |
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09:47
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omf_ |
and factor in how game consoles slow api development |
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09:47
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omf_ |
and the result would be some valuable information for graphics programmers now |
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09:48
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omf_ |
graphics programming as a whole still seems like all black magic to most programmers |
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09:49
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omf_ |
When I get the right job I am going to do all kinds of science stuff to help build up our computer knowledge |
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09:49
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omf_ |
the discipline is so young and we have so much data. It is a unique opportunity |
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09:59
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DFJustin |
http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/africa/how-timbuktu-s-heritage-was-saved-in-rice-sacks-and-canoes |
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10:01
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omf_ |
they need to scan that shit in |
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10:03
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omf_ |
they talk about saving the books, and re-cataloging but what about digital |
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10:03
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omf_ |
you want to save information. Take a high res picture of each page |
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10:03
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DFJustin |
well they had a building doing that but it's a giant target |
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10:03
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omf_ |
I didn't see that in the article |
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10:04
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DFJustin |
the newly built south african one that got ransacked but luckily only had a small percentage of the collection |
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10:06
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DFJustin |
there's a little bit here but most of it is behind a registration wall http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/db/ |
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10:09
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DFJustin |
I think everybody involved knows it needs digitizing but it's much easier said than done when dealing with thousands of fragile documents (no speed-scanning) and an african country with no money and difficult logistics |
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10:09
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omf_ |
yeah I see the whole thing as a logistics problem not a people problem |
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10:09
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omf_ |
we are here, they are way over thre |
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15:17
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chazchaz |
For the videos on archive.org, is there a way to tell which encode is the one that was originally uploaded and which are re-encodes? |
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15:19
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chazchaz |
For example, I'm looking at http://archive.org/details/Quicksand_clear and I don't want to download the 1 G MPEG2 if the 592 M Cineoack is the original. |
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15:26
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chazchaz |
Never mind. I found the answer in the files.xml |
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15:51
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godane |
looks like i have 710.4gb of g4tv.com video so far |
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15:51
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godane |
thats about the about of video i still have to upload |
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15:52
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godane |
i moved the older stuff thats uploaded to another drive |
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16:42
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dashcloud |
hi folks, back from vacation- anything new and exciting happen over the past week? |
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16:44
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godane |
dashcloud: ign is going down |
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16:44
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godane |
g4tv is going down |
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16:44
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dashcloud |
the whole site? |
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16:44
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dashcloud |
that's a pretty damn big site |
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16:45
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godane |
i got maybe over 800gb of videos from g4tv.com so far |
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16:46
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godane |
good news is i may have almost all non hd videos from there |
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16:46
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db48x22 |
that's a lot of video |
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16:46
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godane |
i have uploaded over 9000+ so far |
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16:47
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godane |
i'm trying to grab the bigger hd videos |
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16:47
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godane |
like pressconfs |
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16:47
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godane |
podcast stuff |
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16:48
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godane |
also guys i have the first 4 episodes of conan late night show from 1993 |
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16:49
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godane |
there are also 3 tapes of conan from 1997 |
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16:49
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godane |
on myspleen |
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17:34
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godane |
so i found something interesting |
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17:36
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godane |
flvhd videos for e3 2010 don't exist but for some reason microsoft had one |
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17:36
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omf_ |
2010 wasn't the year e3 skipped? |
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17:37
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godane |
no |
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17:37
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godane |
i have e3 2010 |
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17:37
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godane |
just the hd videos don't exist |
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17:37
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omf_ |
does e3 self host the videos? |
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17:37
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godane |
but when i tryed grabing the flvhd for microsoft it was the same video non-hd flv |
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17:38
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godane |
md5sum is the same |
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18:52
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omf_ |
A sha256sum of 2tb worth of files took 15 hours to complete |
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18:53
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omf_ |
finally done |
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20:41
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omf_ |
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-02-24/ - sometimes the code wins |
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22:20
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db48x22 |
omf_: heh |
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23:49
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dashcloud |
http://www.epiclol.com/cdn/pictures/2012/06/monopoly-com-edition-circa-2000-weve-come-a-long-way-baby_1338542678_epiclolcom.jpg |