| Time | Nickname | Message | 
    
        | 00:01
            
                🔗 | godane | pc in cardboard box: http://imgur.com/a/wtd4Q | 
    
        | 00:18
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I like | 
    
        | 00:58
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | godane, servers in cardboard boxes: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/fdcservers-colocation-data-center-gives-new-life-to-the-term-boxen/ | 
    
        | 01:23
            
                🔗 | DFJustin | the alienware sticker really makes it | 
    
        | 01:35
            
                🔗 | Panaosnic | http://www.thespaceinvaders.org/ | 
    
        | 03:19
            
                🔗 | underscor | When you say the word "poop" your mouth does the same motion your butt hole does when you poop. | 
    
        | 05:39
            
                🔗 | omf_ | lol | 
    
        | 05:40
            
                🔗 | omf_ | POOP | 
    
        | 06:12
            
                🔗 | * | omf_ throws a pancake at SmileyG | 
    
        | 06:13
            
                🔗 | * | GLaDOS pancakes omf_ back with a SmileyG | 
    
        | 06:21
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I wonder how hard it would be to convince a client to buy me the Jakob Neilson reports | 
    
        | 06:33
            
                🔗 | omf_ | Is the Kindle Paperwhite still the best ereader in terms of legibility? I am looking into finally getting an ereader instead of my laptop | 
    
        | 06:35
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I tried the latest nook out and I was not impressed | 
    
        | 06:57
            
                🔗 | * | BlueMax pancakes omf_ | 
    
        | 06:57
            
                🔗 | godane | so i'm passed 54k videos in my g4video-web collection | 
    
        | 06:58
            
                🔗 | godane | also i will be able to start uploaded the 'g4 unpublic video ids' | 
    
        | 07:38
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | hmmm | 
    
        | 07:38
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | I have forgotton where to get the S3 script | 
    
        | 07:39
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | ah sorted it :P | 
    
        | 07:44
            
                🔗 | godane | uploaded: https://archive.org/details/17Bit_Collection_A | 
    
        | 08:08
            
                🔗 | godane | uploaded: https://archive.org/details/17Bit_Collection_B | 
    
        | 08:20
            
                🔗 | omf_ | So my spare computer fried | 
    
        | 08:20
            
                🔗 | godane | i'm grabing the linux format dvds again | 
    
        | 08:20
            
                🔗 | omf_ | and I need to hook up an internal bluray drive so I pull out my backup from the closet. That bitch is so old it is running windows XP | 
    
        | 08:21
            
                🔗 | omf_ | The last time I used windows XP on a computer was 2003 | 
    
        | 08:21
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I think I need to do some computer upgrades and get a more modern backup machine | 
    
        | 08:22
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I have had more computer failures this year than any year I can remember, it is such a bummer because we all get so used to stuff just working | 
    
        | 08:23
            
                🔗 | omf_ | We always go on about backing up data but what about having spare fulling working computers around | 
    
        | 08:23
            
                🔗 | omf_ | shit I gotta find an IDE hard drive | 
    
        | 08:32
            
                🔗 | BlueMaxim | hey SketchCow, you around? | 
    
        | 08:36
            
                🔗 | godane | so i'm uploading some of the dual side linux format dvds i had | 
    
        | 08:36
            
                🔗 | godane | disk 80, 88, and 138 | 
    
        | 08:54
            
                🔗 | omf_ | The machine is so old it does not have sata on the motherboard and the sata card I have will not let me boot off the bluray drive ugh. | 
    
        | 08:56
            
                🔗 | ersi | boot.. off of bluray? woot | 
    
        | 08:56
            
                🔗 | omf_ | a linux live dvd | 
    
        | 08:57
            
                🔗 | ersi | ah, so not a bluray disc - multi-format drive ftw | 
    
        | 08:57
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I had over 25% of my bluray backup disks fail so I switched up to raid hard drives for backups which works great but I still have more disks to go through | 
    
        | 08:58
            
                🔗 | ersi | I don't have a single unit that can eat bluray | 
    
        | 08:58
            
                🔗 | omf_ | it is not worth it | 
    
        | 08:58
            
                🔗 | ersi | that's what I figured :) | 
    
        | 08:58
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I tried three different brands and they still suck | 
    
        | 08:59
            
                🔗 | omf_ | the media is just too fucking cheap | 
    
        | 08:59
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am just trying to finish wrapping up a multi month media move | 
    
        | 08:59
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I want it over so I can pitch these bluray disks and drives | 
    
        | 09:00
            
                🔗 | ersi | sounds like a plan | 
    
        | 09:00
            
                🔗 | omf_ | never had this problem with cdrs or dvdrs | 
    
        | 09:01
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I tested some dvdr backups from 13 years ago and they still worked 100% | 
    
        | 09:01
            
                🔗 | omf_ | and yet a fucking bluray disc can go bad in under 2 years | 
    
        | 09:01
            
                🔗 | ersi | well, they figure most of the people who wanna back up that amount of data will never check it | 
    
        | 09:01
            
                🔗 | ersi | ;D | 
    
        | 09:02
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I just do not get how bluray can be such an abortion | 
    
        | 09:02
            
                🔗 | ersi | me neither | 
    
        | 09:02
            
                🔗 | danneh_ | well, they probably don't mind if the blurays go bad | 
    
        | 09:02
            
                🔗 | omf_ | then I remind myself that fucking SONY invented that shit | 
    
        | 09:02
            
                🔗 | danneh_ | goes bad? buy another one | 
    
        | 09:03
            
                🔗 | omf_ | HDDVD | 
    
        | 09:03
            
                🔗 | omf_ | how I miss you | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | I just chip my backups into rocks. | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I thought about 32 or 64gb thumb drives but those can be inconsistent as well | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | ersi | I just pour mine into the cloud | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | ersi | I get it back when it rains | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | The cloud <3 | 
    
        | 09:04
            
                🔗 | ersi | I don't always back up my data, but when I do, I put it in The cloud(TM) | 
    
        | 09:05
            
                🔗 | omf_ | Anyone ever seen a 24 hour computer parts store? we need that | 
    
        | 09:05
            
                🔗 | ersi | It's called the Internet and globalisation | 
    
        | 09:06
            
                🔗 | omf_ | they cannot get me the parts today so they fail | 
    
        | 09:06
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I can *walk* down the street and get 24/7 groceries or 24/7 pharmarcy | 
    
        | 09:07
            
                🔗 | ersi | Well, I'm technically correct since you didn't specify that's what you wanted :) | 
    
        | 09:07
            
                🔗 | omf_ | true ersi | 
    
        | 09:07
            
                🔗 | ersi | but yes, that would be awesome | 
    
        | 09:07
            
                🔗 | ersi | I bet they'd be expensive though :) | 
    
        | 09:08
            
                🔗 | omf_ | 24/7 works in large cities. I live in a city that has close to 2 million people, I would like to think it could support 1 store like that | 
    
        | 09:08
            
                🔗 | ersi | Stockholm has about the same population | 
    
        | 09:08
            
                🔗 | ersi | the transit system shuts down at midnight | 
    
        | 09:08
            
                🔗 | omf_ | There is at least 10 24/7 groceries in town, hell we got 24/7 bowling alleys | 
    
        | 09:09
            
                🔗 | omf_ | buses shutdown here at midnight too | 
    
        | 09:09
            
                🔗 | ersi | Yeah, but fuck driving a car in Sweden | 
    
        | 09:09
            
                🔗 | omf_ | but the road is empty so bicycles all the way down :) | 
    
        | 09:09
            
                🔗 | ersi | ah, heh | 
    
        | 09:09
            
                🔗 | ersi | Figured that might be silly if buying electronics | 
    
        | 09:10
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I got two bicycles. One of them has the rear carrying brackets so I can haul shit | 
    
        | 09:10
            
                🔗 | ersi | I've been thinking of making a bike cart for my bike | 
    
        | 09:12
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am going to buy two of these adapters since they are only $9.99 each | 
    
        | 09:12
            
                🔗 | ersi | What's a "cash call"? | 
    
        | 09:14
            
                🔗 | ersi | Sounds like a "thing", saw fifty names looking like 1800cashcall<variation> in my LJ-scraper | 
    
        | 09:14
            
                🔗 | ersi | 1800 makes me think "1-800" like US phone numbers | 
    
        | 09:15
            
                🔗 | omf_ | they are a mortgage loan shit house | 
    
        | 09:15
            
                🔗 | ersi | ah | 
    
        | 09:15
            
                🔗 | omf_ | spam from them is not surprising | 
    
        | 09:16
            
                🔗 | ersi | One title from CashCallMortages; "American Dream Special" | 
    
        | 09:16
            
                🔗 | ersi | I laughed | 
    
        | 09:20
            
                🔗 | omf_ | lol I just found my copy of "The Dark Half" in this old dvd drive | 
    
        | 09:20
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | heh backup on blu rays? | 
    
        | 09:20
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | hell, back up on optical media? | 
    
        | 09:21
            
                🔗 | omf_ | quality dvdrs you get more than 10 years | 
    
        | 09:21
            
                🔗 | omf_ | but now they are too small for most things | 
    
        | 09:24
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am definitely going to drop some serious coin before the end of the summer to have working backup machines | 
    
        | 09:24
            
                🔗 | omf_ | then again for most backup purposes a raspberry pi is enough | 
    
        | 09:51
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I do not even have a 32bit linux cd anywhere | 
    
        | 09:52
            
                🔗 | omf_ | fuck it, I'll just wait for the store to open to do more, at least I will have most of this wrapped up by the end of the day | 
    
        | 10:05
            
                🔗 | godane | what brands of bluray are you using? | 
    
        | 10:06
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I tried all the verbatim types, windata and one other I cannot remember. I also used 3 different bluray burning branded drives. I have extensive data I plan on publishing once I finish up this last stack of disks | 
    
        | 10:07
            
                🔗 | godane | i have some verbatim | 
    
        | 10:07
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I burned over 500 disks over the course of two years | 
    
        | 10:08
            
                🔗 | godane | i also use memorex also | 
    
        | 10:08
            
                🔗 | omf_ | If I had losts of spare money I would go back to tape | 
    
        | 10:09
            
                🔗 | godane | i don't have that option | 
    
        | 10:09
            
                🔗 | godane | if i'm luckly i can buy another 2TB usb drive  in 3 to 4 months | 
    
        | 10:09
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I ain't got no money either | 
    
        | 10:22
            
                🔗 | ersi | Oh yeah, by the way: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/195148/dwarf_fortress_in_2013.php?print=1 | 
    
        | 10:22
            
                🔗 | ersi | Full of good gems | 
    
        | 10:28
            
                🔗 | godane | we may need to start archiving this guy's work: http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan-davis-1979-2013/1100-4685/ | 
    
        | 10:30
            
                🔗 | godane | his twitter account: https://twitter.com/taswell | 
    
        | 10:39
            
                🔗 | godane | so i'm mirroring the gaint bombcast podcast | 
    
        | 11:13
            
                🔗 | godane | so i got some good news on the giant bombcast podcast | 
    
        | 11:14
            
                🔗 | godane | all mp3s are one rss feed | 
    
        | 11:14
            
                🔗 | godane | page | 
    
        | 11:14
            
                🔗 | godane | and i can sed it to have keywords, title, desciptions and dates | 
    
        | 11:15
            
                🔗 | godane | so it will be like when i was uploading cbc spark | 
    
        | 11:21
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hey, jason was on cbc spark | 
    
        | 11:22
            
                🔗 | godane | here is the collection: https://archive.org/details/spark_cbc | 
    
        | 11:35
            
                🔗 | omf_ | the facebook graph search is the easiest stalking program I have ever used | 
    
        | 11:36
            
                🔗 | omf_ | yeah they are doing wide release of it now | 
    
        | 11:39
            
                🔗 | omf_ | never mind. This query did not work "My friends who like photos of Cats" | 
    
        | 11:39
            
                🔗 | omf_ | that is fucking basic | 
    
        | 11:42
            
                🔗 | omf_ | and I get pinterest style photo pages | 
    
        | 11:42
            
                🔗 | winr4r | oh shit no | 
    
        | 11:42
            
                🔗 | omf_ | what the fuck am I seeing here | 
    
        | 11:42
            
                🔗 | winr4r | pinterest-style unaligned columns are a cancer | 
    
        | 11:43
            
                🔗 | omf_ | it is psychological warfare | 
    
        | 11:43
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i start to doubt myself, like if that's just me spergin' the fuck out, given how eeeeveryone is doing it now | 
    
        | 11:44
            
                🔗 | omf_ | most websites have shit ux and no taste | 
    
        | 11:44
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hey guys, github or bitbucket | 
    
        | 11:44
            
                🔗 | omf_ | INFINITE SCROLL | 
    
        | 11:44
            
                🔗 | omf_ | we got most or stuff on github | 
    
        | 11:45
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I like looking at photos sorted by region where the person lives | 
    
        | 11:46
            
                🔗 | winr4r | okay github it is then | 
    
        | 11:46
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am a super huge graph database nerd | 
    
        | 11:46
            
                🔗 | omf_ | https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ | 
    
        | 11:48
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am now going state by state because I can | 
    
        | 11:48
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I bet they have freebase tied into this | 
    
        | 11:48
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i suppose if you're all using git, then it makes sense to use git, and github is the obvious choice for a repo | 
    
        | 11:48
            
                🔗 | winr4r | so there it is | 
    
        | 11:49
            
                🔗 | omf_ | well look what I found. Slutty Halloween pictures. | 
    
        | 11:49
            
                🔗 | omf_ | ^_^ | 
    
        | 11:51
            
                🔗 | Baljem | hmm.  does it recognise 'big knockers' as an attribute when searching for slutty Halloween pictures?  ;) | 
    
        | 11:51
            
                🔗 | omf_ | let me try | 
    
        | 11:51
            
                🔗 | omf_ | this search just popped up in autocomplete | 
    
        | 11:51
            
                🔗 | omf_ | " Photos of my friends who have liked ArchiveTeam " | 
    
        | 11:52
            
                🔗 | omf_ | fucking skynet | 
    
        | 11:52
            
                🔗 | Baljem | hah | 
    
        | 11:52
            
                🔗 | Baljem | that's curious phrasing.  "have liked" as opposed to "like"... | 
    
        | 11:53
            
                🔗 | winr4r | yes | 
    
        | 11:53
            
                🔗 | omf_ | "liked" is a facebook flag | 
    
        | 11:54
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I "liked" Rage Against the Machine | 
    
        | 11:54
            
                🔗 | webjunkie | they are trying to make the search "natural" language | 
    
        | 11:54
            
                🔗 | omf_ | most people this shit is still too hard but I think it is pretty simple to use | 
    
        | 11:55
            
                🔗 | omf_ | then again I am a programmer | 
    
        | 11:55
            
                🔗 | webjunkie | Yeah, I've had the preview for months and I found it super easy | 
    
        | 11:56
            
                🔗 | webjunkie | like you said...if you want to creep on people it makes it insanely easy | 
    
        | 11:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | mm, I can understand why they use that as the flag, but they use the "like" form a lot too; "So-and-so likes Something You've Never Heard Of", etc. | 
    
        | 11:57
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I am going to write a program to login as me and markov chain the fuck out of that search | 
    
        | 11:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | which does it use in results, if any? | 
    
        | 11:57
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I can search by state but not by region of the country | 
    
        | 11:58
            
                🔗 | omf_ | they must not be using freebase because it has identifiers for regions and the like so it is possible to use that as a search criteria | 
    
        | 11:59
            
                🔗 | godane | holy crap | 
    
        | 11:59
            
                🔗 | godane | i may have figured out how to do muliable line descs now | 
    
        | 12:00
            
                🔗 | godane | add this for link brake: 

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        | 12:03
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | o_O???? | 
    
        | 12:03
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | Sent 3156111360 bytes (1%) | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | lolololol | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | omf_ | yeah | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | godane | i only found out about it cause i'm using a older version of cbc podcast desc page | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | i can't remember where to view the S3 stats | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | omf_ | I hope the store has the raspberry pi power adapters in stock | 
    
        | 12:04
            
                🔗 | omf_ | SmileyG, that page is offline due to security issues | 
    
        | 12:05
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | omf_: doh! | 
    
        | 12:05
            
                🔗 | omf_ | nevermind they put it back up | 
    
        | 12:05
            
                🔗 | omf_ | must have fixed it. http://archive.org/stats/s3.php | 
    
        | 12:05
            
                🔗 | omf_ | http://home.us.archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/ is back too | 
    
        | 12:06
            
                🔗 | winr4r | https://github.com/lewiscollard/mwlinkscrape | 
    
        | 12:22
            
                🔗 | ersi | http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-twitter-uses-to-deal-with-150m-active-users.html | 
    
        | 12:23
            
                🔗 | ersi | Holy moley | 
    
        | 12:30
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | At any given time there’s about 1 million sockets open to the push cluster.  :O | 
    
        | 12:30
            
                🔗 | ersi | 22MB/s data on ze firehose | 
    
        | 12:30
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | yah | 
    
        | 12:31
            
                🔗 | ersi | 176Mbit/s~ | 
    
        | 12:31
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | 1 million sockets, so even if we presumed consumers like... google, have 1 per server for a large part of what ever process they are sucking them down via.... DAMN thats a lot of people listening | 
    
        | 12:36
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ersi: very interesting | 
    
        | 12:39
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | heh, awesome for testing our line here :D | 
    
        | 12:40
            
                🔗 | ersi | SmileyG: Testing your line? | 
    
        | 12:40
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | ersi: at work | 
    
        | 12:40
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | 500Mbit | 
    
        | 12:40
            
                🔗 | godane | does anyone know about the cbc spark missing podcasts yet? | 
    
        | 12:41
            
                🔗 | godane | there are still missing podcasts on there from what i can tell | 
    
        | 12:41
            
                🔗 | winr4r | nope | 
    
        | 12:41
            
                🔗 | winr4r | also: http://officialpiczoblog.piczo.com/ | 
    
        | 12:42
            
                🔗 | winr4r | this has been "soon" since october 2012 | 
    
        | 12:42
            
                🔗 | ersi | SmileyG: You won't get access to the Firehose | 
    
        | 12:43
            
                🔗 | ersi | So dream on | 
    
        | 12:43
            
                🔗 | winr4r | wat do? | 
    
        | 12:45
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | ersi: Oh I know that | 
    
        | 12:45
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | just saying it'd be neat. | 
    
        | 12:47
            
                🔗 | Baljem | the line "Internal clients use roughly the same API as external clients" amuses me somewhat | 
    
        | 12:48
            
                🔗 | Baljem | didn't Microsoft try that excuse with the DoJ a while back?  ;) | 
    
        | 12:48
            
                🔗 | ersi | roughly usually means "does not use anything similar to the public APIs" | 
    
        | 12:48
            
                🔗 | ersi | Baljem: Uh? What? | 
    
        | 12:49
            
                🔗 | ersi | It's usually a good idea to use the same API for external as well as internal things, you get a lot better quality cover | 
    
        | 12:49
            
                🔗 | ersi | not always, but usually | 
    
        | 12:49
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I seem to recall one of the MS anti-trust claims revolved around internal APIs allowing MS apps to do things that 3rd party apps couldn't | 
    
        | 12:49
            
                🔗 | ersi | Kind of different when you're installed on every damn computer | 
    
        | 12:50
            
                🔗 | Baljem | which is why there's now a slew of MSDN pages warning about the functions they document being subject to random breakage, etc. | 
    
        | 12:50
            
                🔗 | Baljem | well, sure, but the hype behind social media would suggest that it's not all /that/ different ;) | 
    
        | 12:50
            
                🔗 | Baljem | (I'm not *entirely* serious here, you understand, just musing randomly) | 
    
        | 12:50
            
                🔗 | ersi | It's not all that different from Operating Systems? | 
    
        | 12:51
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ... no, it's not all that different from the point of view of blocking competitors apps | 
    
        | 12:51
            
                🔗 | Baljem | which, as I recall, Twitter has recently been doing with quite some glee | 
    
        | 12:52
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I mean, OK, from one point of view it's just a load of whining about ephermal nonsense that nobody cares about | 
    
        | 12:52
            
                🔗 | Baljem | but on the other hand, Twitter /is/ fairly big and dominant in its sector, isn't it? | 
    
        | 12:52
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: so was myspace, so was friendster, so was geocities | 
    
        | 12:53
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ah, but did they provide an API and (initially) encourage 3rd party developers to write competing client apps? | 
    
        | 12:54
            
                🔗 | winr4r | yes | 
    
        | 12:54
            
                🔗 | winr4r | they don't owe anyone else a business model | 
    
        | 12:54
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i mean it's crappy and awful to punch your ecosystem in the face, but it's not antitrust material | 
    
        | 12:55
            
                🔗 | Baljem | well, no, I suspect the entire thing is too frivolous.  but it seems to be the same arguments, just a matter of degree | 
    
        | 12:56
            
                🔗 | Baljem | (NB: not thinking about the abusive-monopoly part of the MS antitrust suits, but the unfair-advantage-over-ISVs part) | 
    
        | 13:04
            
                🔗 | winr4r | eh, i don't know | 
    
        | 13:05
            
                🔗 | * | ersi just shrugs and ignores the conversation | 
    
        | 13:06
            
                🔗 | Baljem | yeah, sorry, I just have a weird sense of dry humour at times.  I'll shut up ;) | 
    
        | 13:07
            
                🔗 | * | winr4r pets Baljem | 
    
        | 13:08
            
                🔗 | ersi | Humour? Anti-trust and abusive-monopolies? Mmmh. | 
    
        | 13:09
            
                🔗 | Baljem | well, my initial comment was a tongue-in-cheek "where have we heard that before?" type joke.  it kinda spiralled out of control when I started over-thinking it ;) | 
    
        | 13:11
            
                🔗 | ersi | Right | 
    
        | 13:19
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | Baljem: how much did you pay for twitter again? | 
    
        | 13:19
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | Thats the big thing everyone seems to forget about windows _ALL THE TIME_ | 
    
        | 13:19
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | you paid for it, if it came with your PC. | 
    
        | 13:20
            
                🔗 | ersi | You pay with brain cells, when using Tweetarh | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | winr4r | is this horse dead yet folks best beat it to make sure | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | ersi | Let's | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | winr4r | whack whack whack | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | ersi | You fuckin' horse! | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | * | ersi kicks it about | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | * | ersi sends his dwarf army to beat up the horse | 
    
        | 13:21
            
                🔗 | * | GLaDOS horses the dead horse around with a bit of horse | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | YEAH, LETS HORSE THIS DEAD HORSE | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | ersi | HORSE IT REAL GOOD | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | Baljem | heh.  I'm not touching it.  I apologise unreservedly for dragging the horse into the ring in the first place ;) | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | * | ersi brings another horse into the ring | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | ersi | The game is ON! Go living horse, beat that dead horse! | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | Baljem | is it pre-dead? | 
    
        | 13:22
            
                🔗 | Baljem | oh | 
    
        | 13:24
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I don't think your horse understood your instruction, ersi :( | 
    
        | 13:25
            
                🔗 | ersi | Yeah, it killed itself | 
    
        | 13:26
            
                🔗 | Baljem | skills! | 
    
        | 13:26
            
                🔗 | ersi | so now, two dead horsies | 
    
        | 13:26
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | It was all like "NEIGH I'M A HORSIE" and then died. | 
    
        | 13:26
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | Rather spectacular | 
    
        | 13:27
            
                🔗 | winr4r | spooky thing: there's a drama on TV *right now* that i'm not following, and someone just euthanised his horse | 
    
        | 13:27
            
                🔗 | Baljem | apropos of nothing, I have just learned of the existence of 'Fizzy Pepsi Cola' flavoured corn snacks.  uh, what. | 
    
        | 13:27
            
                🔗 | winr4r | so how about that | 
    
        | 13:27
            
                🔗 | Baljem | is that a euphemism for something, winr4r?  ;) | 
    
        | 13:27
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | A horse is a horse, euthanized of course | 
    
        | 13:28
            
                🔗 | Baljem | "excuse me a minute, I'm just off to, uh, euthanise my horse, if you know what I mean" | 
    
        | 13:28
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | And nobody shoots a lame horse of course | 
    
        | 13:28
            
                🔗 | winr4r | morning SketchCow | 
    
        | 13:28
            
                🔗 | godane | hey SketchCow | 
    
        | 13:28
            
                🔗 | godane | i'm starting to upload more linux format dvds | 
    
        | 13:29
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | Bed delivery here in NYC | 
    
        | 13:29
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | Before heading north | 
    
        | 13:30
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | We turned the heat up on the internet archive digitizer upstate | 
    
        | 13:33
            
                🔗 | ersi | Hmmm, wouldn't one say "zed" to the Z character? Not "C" [see]? Heard several say "see"/"C" instead of zed ;o | 
    
        | 13:33
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ersi: "zee" in american english | 
    
        | 13:33
            
                🔗 | winr4r | "zed" is british/commonwealth english | 
    
        | 13:33
            
                🔗 | ersi | Wow, alright | 
    
        | 13:34
            
                🔗 | ersi | 'cause "zee" sounds a lot more like "C" | 
    
        | 13:34
            
                🔗 | godane | SketchCow: i'm going to be uploading giantbombcast podcast | 
    
        | 13:34
            
                🔗 | godane | one of the guys died at 34 | 
    
        | 14:00
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hey, does anyone know what format this is in: http://archive.org/details/2013_common_crawl_index_urls | 
    
        | 14:00
            
                🔗 | winr4r | when uncompressed | 
    
        | 14:01
            
                🔗 | winr4r | (can't download 21gb of stuff here) | 
    
        | 14:02
            
                🔗 | ersi | I'm sure ivan` does, since he made it :) | 
    
        | 14:02
            
                🔗 | ersi | I guess it's just a textfile with URL\nURL\n | 
    
        | 14:03
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ah okay | 
    
        | 14:04
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i'm writing a page on teh wiki, i'd like to know for sure | 
    
        | 14:05
            
                🔗 | Baljem | hmm.  is there a trick to downloading that file with curl?  I can grab it from the browser but I don't want the whole thing, obviously, just want to pipe it into bunzip2 | head... | 
    
        | 14:07
            
                🔗 | winr4r | curl --no-buffer thing | bunzip2 | head ? | 
    
        | 14:09
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ah, got it - right-click, copy link gives a redirector link, I think, grabbed the actual file URL from the Web Inspector and that worked | 
    
        | 14:09
            
                🔗 | winr4r | oh! i misunderstood the question | 
    
        | 14:09
            
                🔗 | Baljem | want me to paste the first few lines in query as an example, winr4r, or is that not going to be particularly useful? | 
    
        | 14:10
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | pastebin that stuff babbbby | 
    
        | 14:10
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: yup, pastebin pl0x | 
    
        | 14:12
            
                🔗 | Baljem | http://pastebin.com/zfqwbPRW | 
    
        | 14:12
            
                🔗 | Baljem | sorry for the delay, brain went dead and I couldn't remember where the ArchiveTeam pastebin thingy was - so used the boring one ;) | 
    
        | 14:13
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | those look weird. | 
    
        | 14:13
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | ..it's flipped them around | 
    
        | 14:13
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | but just split on : | 
    
        | 14:13
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | GLaDOS: non. | 
    
        | 14:13
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hm! | 
    
        | 14:14
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | what | 
    
        | 14:14
            
                🔗 | winr4r | maybe the ones at the top are malformed ones | 
    
        | 14:14
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | actually maybe it has | 
    
        | 14:14
            
                🔗 | winr4r | and the rest are all normal | 
    
        | 14:14
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | winr4r: ones at the top are mailto's | 
    
        | 14:15
            
                🔗 | winr4r | SmileyG: right, but if it's *normally* flipped around, then why would there only be two .coms at the top? | 
    
        | 14:16
            
                🔗 | ersi | lool, why does it start with tld and end with protocol | 
    
        | 14:16
            
                🔗 | ersi | shrug | 
    
        | 14:17
            
                🔗 | Baljem | shades of JANET addressing there! | 
    
        | 14:17
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ersi: yeah, that makes me think that those ones are outliers in the set | 
    
        | 14:17
            
                🔗 | winr4r | at least on the count of starting with the tld | 
    
        | 14:18
            
                🔗 | ersi | haha, nice URLs :D #15 -> http://www.meatmembers.com (Yes, it's as NSFW as it sounds) | 
    
        | 14:18
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I was disappointed by the apparent content of http://www.bindher.com ;) | 
    
        | 14:18
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | dear lord :D | 
    
        | 14:18
            
                🔗 | * | SmileyG doesn't click either. | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | That's why the second one sucks. | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | "<meta name="generator" content="Quick 'n Easy Web Builder - http://www.quickandeasywebbuilder.com">" | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | Anyone want to help me moving 50kg racks containing 30kg powered on, live servers? | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | winr4r | SmileyG: yes | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | GLaDOS | SmileyG: yeah sure why not | 
    
        | 14:19
            
                🔗 | Baljem | OK, a handful taken from around line 2,500,000 look the same | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | Baljem | e.g. "ar.com.elsurhoy/:http" | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | don't ask why the racks weigh so much, no one seems to be able to answer other than "Like their servers, dell racks weigh far more than thought possible). | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: hmm | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | someone needs to for x in ./list; do wget $x; done these. | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | * | SmileyG looks at underscor | 
    
        | 14:20
            
                🔗 | Baljem | mind you, line 2,500,000 is only 20.2MB into the file | 
    
        | 14:21
            
                🔗 | * | winr4r does magic spell, summons underscor | 
    
        | 14:21
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: yes, exactly | 
    
        | 14:21
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | yey my S3 upload is 2% done. | 
    
        | 14:21
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | use this to build markov chains. Instantly know all websites ever? | 
    
        | 14:21
            
                🔗 | Baljem | the machine I was doing that from pull it down at about 1MB/sec so if we wanted to pick a suitably huge number I could try again...  just can't save it because it doesn't have enough disk space | 
    
        | 14:22
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: thanks for helping anyway :) | 
    
        | 14:22
            
                🔗 | Baljem | holy shit, 28MB free on /?  I need to shuffle some VMs around.  turn the old host crate into a Warrior machine perhaps | 
    
        | 14:22
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i think it may well be backwards as you suspect | 
    
        | 14:25
            
                🔗 | Baljem | would seem a curious format to provide results in though | 
    
        | 14:26
            
                🔗 | Baljem | well, apart from it allowing sorting by TLD, that is | 
    
        | 14:26
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ... whether that's a useful thing to make easy is another matter | 
    
        | 14:32
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: i'm throwing together a set of tips for finding sites on a soon-to-be-dead host | 
    
        | 14:32
            
                🔗 | winr4r | (related to what i threw up on github earlier) | 
    
        | 14:32
            
                🔗 | winr4r | so, making it easy is not a concern | 
    
        | 14:32
            
                🔗 | Baljem | *nods* | 
    
        | 14:33
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I was just trying to think of motivations for reversing the FQDN, really, and coming up short :) | 
    
        | 14:33
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ohh, gotcha | 
    
        | 14:34
            
                🔗 | winr4r | sorry misunderstood | 
    
        | 14:34
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I really need to stop musing out loud *grin* | 
    
        | 14:35
            
                🔗 | Baljem | some sets of hints and tips certainly sound useful though.  when I got involved with you crazy lot a while back, it was a case of pestering people for help and hoping not to piss anyone off with total ineptness | 
    
        | 14:35
            
                🔗 | ersi | Probably for sorting on TLD, like you said earlier - I wouldn't find that super weird, albeit maybe a little | 
    
        | 14:36
            
                🔗 | ersi | Or maybe the common crawl people got Java in their brains and made them look like packages | 
    
        | 14:36
            
                🔗 | Baljem | yeah, it just seems a bit of an edge case to optimise for | 
    
        | 14:36
            
                🔗 | ersi | com.oracle.utils.lols.FinderCakeFactory | 
    
        | 14:36
            
                🔗 | Baljem | heh, yes | 
    
        | 14:37
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ersi: yup | 
    
        | 14:37
            
                🔗 | ersi | or maybe ivan` sorted it that way :) I know he did a top-list per TLD | 
    
        | 14:38
            
                🔗 | Baljem | right, line 50,000,000 is "be.zoover.www/griekenland/lefkas-levkas/hortata/sitemap:http" | 
    
        | 14:38
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I think it's probably safe to assume there aren't that many 'weird' entries, and that is in fact normal | 
    
        | 14:38
            
                🔗 | Baljem | (that corresponds to about 392MB into the file) | 
    
        | 14:38
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: thanks man :) | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: 392mb into the uncompressed or compressed one? | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | Baljem | compressed | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: alright yeah, it probably is backward-ordered then | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | Baljem | so approximately the 2% mark | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | winr4r | thanks :) | 
    
        | 14:39
            
                🔗 | Baljem | no worries.  it was a welcome distraction from the horrors of Other People's Code ;) | 
    
        | 14:40
            
                🔗 | winr4r | haha | 
    
        | 14:41
            
                🔗 | Baljem | seriously.  just found a file full of MFC code, with a comment buried in the middle "this is a workaround for an issue with Borland Turbo C++ 1.0" | 
    
        | 14:41
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ... wat. | 
    
        | 14:41
            
                🔗 | winr4r | wat | 
    
        | 14:42
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ... it was supposedly written in 2003! | 
    
        | 14:42
            
                🔗 | Baljem | it doesn't help that this project wasn't under source control until mid-2005 when I took over from the ex-boss :( | 
    
        | 14:43
            
                🔗 | winr4r | :( | 
    
        | 14:59
            
                🔗 | winr4r | http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Site_exploration | 
    
        | 15:04
            
                🔗 | SmileyG | good job :) | 
    
        | 15:06
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i'll probably clean that bing script up into something worth releasing soon enough | 
    
        | 15:11
            
                🔗 | ivan` | ersi: Baljem: the commoncrawl data is unmodified (using their strings as-is) | 
    
        | 15:11
            
                🔗 | godane | i found a lost episode of CBC Spark: https://archive.org/details/spark_20070919_3346 | 
    
        | 15:11
            
                🔗 | ivan` | I have a Python script that turns it into real URLs but note their data is sometimes ambiguious | 
    
        | 15:12
            
                🔗 | ersi | ivan`: ah :) | 
    
        | 15:12
            
                🔗 | ersi | ivan`: See any point in their format? | 
    
        | 15:13
            
                🔗 | ivan` | it is useful for sorting domains properly but they did not do it right (can't tell port apart from :n at the end of a URL) | 
    
        | 15:16
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ivan`: can you shove that script into paste.archivingyoursh.it please? :) | 
    
        | 15:16
            
                🔗 | winr4r | godane: good job :) | 
    
        | 15:17
            
                🔗 | ivan` | I just pasted to https://www.refheap.com/16448/raw | 
    
        | 15:17
            
                🔗 | ivan` | Baljem: ^ | 
    
        | 15:17
            
                🔗 | ivan` | hastebin is bad software and I try to avoid it | 
    
        | 15:18
            
                🔗 | winr4r | yeah, but on the other hand, it's run by us | 
    
        | 15:18
            
                🔗 | winr4r | or rather, GLaDOS i think | 
    
        | 15:18
            
                🔗 | ersi | indeed | 
    
        | 15:19
            
                🔗 | ersi | ivan`: Guess they assume everything either runs on :80 or :443 and just care about the end being http:// or https:// | 
    
        | 15:19
            
                🔗 | ivan` | https://github.com/trivio/common_crawl_index/issues/12 | 
    
        | 15:19
            
                🔗 | ivan` | there are other bugs | 
    
        | 15:20
            
                🔗 | ivan` | https://github.com/trivio/common_crawl_index/issues | 
    
        | 15:20
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ivan: nice - I was just fiddling with a really nasty Perl one-liner to do it, but wasn't liking it at all | 
    
        | 15:21
            
                🔗 | ivan` | no warranty, doesn't handle some of their broken stuff | 
    
        | 15:21
            
                🔗 | ivan` | at least it doesn't crash ;) | 
    
        | 15:22
            
                🔗 | Baljem | well, it saves me making a pillock of myself by suggesting a hack that only handles the test cases I threw at it ;) | 
    
        | 15:23
            
                🔗 | winr4r | ivan`: thanks, updated the page :) | 
    
        | 15:35
            
                🔗 | godane | we may have a problem: http://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-says-130708/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29 | 
    
        | 15:37
            
                🔗 | DFJustin | archive.org does the same backwards thing with domain names if you look at the index files they generate https://archive.org/download/archive.pdp11.org.ru-20130504/archive.pdp11.org.ru-20130504.cdx.idx | 
    
        | 15:37
            
                🔗 | DFJustin | they seem to automatically fold example.com and www.example.com into the same wayback machine entry so it probably facilitates that | 
    
        | 15:38
            
                🔗 | winr4r | oh uh | 
    
        | 15:39
            
                🔗 | winr4r | we've *had* a problem: apparently piczo actually disappeared | 
    
        | 15:39
            
                🔗 | winr4r | piczo.com returns a "we're dead", but subdomains (on which the sites were hosted, and where all the shit was) still work | 
    
        | 15:40
            
                🔗 | winr4r | and there's lots of other pages that still seem to work | 
    
        | 15:40
            
                🔗 | winr4r | (piczo: like geocities but more so) | 
    
        | 15:42
            
                🔗 | winr4r | or "social geocities" | 
    
        | 15:42
            
                🔗 | Baljem | "There.s actually been more downtime for the site due to drunk admins, than downtime due to raids." <- heh.  my servers always wait until I'm well oiled to demand attention, too | 
    
        | 15:42
            
                🔗 | Baljem | is piczo another one we only hear about on the day it actually dies?  :( | 
    
        | 15:43
            
                🔗 | winr4r | Baljem: it was announced a while back as "closing down soon" | 
    
        | 15:43
            
                🔗 | Baljem | ah, OK.  first I'd heard of the site was someone linking to that 'closing soon' blog post earlier today | 
    
        | 15:44
            
                🔗 | winr4r | yeah, that was me | 
    
        | 15:44
            
                🔗 | winr4r | it actually happened earlier this year some time | 
    
        | 15:45
            
                🔗 | winr4r | they seem to be keeping the sites themselves up though | 
    
        | 15:45
            
                🔗 | winr4r | for how long, who knows | 
    
        | 15:47
            
                🔗 | winr4r | https://www.facebook.com/Piczo | 
    
        | 15:47
            
                🔗 | winr4r | the posts here are a fascinating mix of "nooooo why did you close piczo" and "please delete my site" (aka "oh shit, this still shows in search results for my name") | 
    
        | 15:55
            
                🔗 | Baljem | I'm not sure whether to be worried that, scrolling down that page, the thing that jumped out at me was "is that a Canonet she's using?" | 
    
        | 15:56
            
                🔗 | Baljem | but I think it isn't because I don't see a photocell at the top of the lens.  bah. | 
    
        | 15:56
            
                🔗 | winr4r | https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/418000_10150556564238479_643127632_n.jpg ? | 
    
        | 15:56
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hm, good question | 
    
        | 15:56
            
                🔗 | Baljem | yep | 
    
        | 15:57
            
                🔗 | winr4r | definitely late-60s/early-70s rangefinder styling | 
    
        | 15:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | it looks a lot like the Canonet 28 I just refurbed, except that would have a chrome barrel and I think a wider RF glass | 
    
        | 15:57
            
                🔗 | winr4r | take off the lens and it could be an olympus trip 35, but the writing on the lens is too big | 
    
        | 15:57
            
                🔗 | winr4r | oh! | 
    
        | 15:58
            
                🔗 | winr4r | olympus 35 RC | 
    
        | 15:58
            
                🔗 | winr4r | compare: http://kenrockwell.com/olympus/images/35rc/D3S_6137-1200.jpg | 
    
        | 15:58
            
                🔗 | Baljem | yes.  nice spot! | 
    
        | 15:58
            
                🔗 | winr4r | fuck, we're nerds :( | 
    
        | 15:59
            
                🔗 | Baljem | haha.  I did say it could be a worry *grin* | 
    
        | 16:45
            
                🔗 | godane | uploaded: https://archive.org/details/cdrom-linuxformatmagazine-80 | 
    
        | 16:47
            
                🔗 | Baljem | huge piles of <3 to whoever decided the Wayback Machine needed to take a nibble at Adaptec's downloads site -- it's been offline for months, and I only just thought to look at archive.org for the updated drivers... | 
    
        | 16:49
            
                🔗 | * | DFJustin salutes the kindly wayback robots | 
    
        | 16:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | welp.  turns out it wasn't my imagination playing tricks on me - my RAID array is actually degraded, despite the controller BIOS claiming the drives are healthy and the mirror is resyncing | 
    
        | 16:57
            
                🔗 | winr4r | :< | 
    
        | 16:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | now I've got the Storage Manager installed again, it tells me drive 1 has failed and the array is degraded.  *thumbs up* | 
    
        | 16:57
            
                🔗 | Baljem | might be a good excuse to upgrade from a pair of 1TB drives though | 
    
        | 16:58
            
                🔗 | Baljem | aww crap, if I'd realised that a fortnight ago I could have snuck it into the last financial year for general taxation goodness | 
    
        | 16:59
            
                🔗 | winr4r | aw | 
    
        | 17:34
            
                🔗 | balrog | http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/487583/20130708/valve-hardware-ellsworth-management-firing-half-life.htm | 
    
        | 17:40
            
                🔗 | balrog | http://jenesee.com/?p=941 | 
    
        | 17:41
            
                🔗 | winr4r | hey, it's jeri ellsworth | 
    
        | 17:42
            
                🔗 | winr4r | jeri is pretty awesome by any measure | 
    
        | 18:39
            
                🔗 | godane | win4r: Here is Jeri Ellsworth interview on Triangulation: https://archive.org/details/Triangulation_3 | 
    
        | 18:59
            
                🔗 | godane | the new GTA V game looks awesome | 
    
        | 19:02
            
                🔗 | underscor | what's a fortnight again? | 
    
        | 19:02
            
                🔗 | underscor | two weeks? | 
    
        | 19:02
            
                🔗 | godane | yes | 
    
        | 19:06
            
                🔗 | ersi | I wouldn't want to stay in a fort, over night | 
    
        | 19:07
            
                🔗 | winr4r | godane: hey thanks! | 
    
        | 19:08
            
                🔗 | winr4r | i really do admire jeri ellsworth | 
    
        | 19:08
            
                🔗 | winr4r | any company culture that ends up getting rid of a jeri ellsworth is really, totally fucked and doomed | 
    
        | 19:18
            
                🔗 | godane | now this is interesting: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Apple-Computer-Power-Mac-G4-In-Store-Demo-CD-ROM-v-2-Holiday-1999-Tower-/290713049363?hash=item43afd91913 | 
    
        | 19:19
            
                🔗 | godane | its sadly $109.99 | 
    
        | 19:41
            
                🔗 | godane | SketchCow: IBM PC Demo Reach For The Skies By Virgin: http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-PC-Demo-Reach-For-The-Skies-by-Virgin-/400515188547 | 
    
        | 19:42
            
                🔗 | godane | i think you would want to get it | 
    
        | 19:46
            
                🔗 | DFJustin | http://archive.org/details/ReachfortheSkies_1020 | 
    
        | 21:03
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | SketchCow: if you ever plan on giving a talk somewhere in the Netherlands (or Belgium), be sure to let me know | 
    
        | 21:04
            
                🔗 | ersi | joepie91: Are you coming to OHM? | 
    
        | 21:11
            
                🔗 | ersi | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE | 
    
        | 21:19
            
                🔗 | arkhive | http://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-says-130708/ | 
    
        | 21:23
            
                🔗 | ersi | Well, I think I understand what he's saying and I guess I sort of agree with him | 
    
        | 21:23
            
                🔗 | ersi | But it's not shutting down just yet | 
    
        | 21:24
            
                🔗 | balrog | he's saying that it needs to be replaced | 
    
        | 21:29
            
                🔗 | ersi | In order for something better, more secure, to pop up and really get developed and continously maintained | 
    
        | 21:29
            
                🔗 | ersi | Well, I guess I agree. But he's not involved with the operational part of TPB anymore, so it's just a statement - not a "We're shutting down!"-notice | 
    
        | 21:37
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | ersi: I wasn't planning to, why? | 
    
        | 21:38
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | arkhive: I think he's missing a vital point. | 
    
        | 21:39
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | being that by shutting down TPB, it would just drive traffic to other sites. | 
    
        | 21:39
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | using their audience to promote an alternative would be much much more effective | 
    
        | 21:40
            
                🔗 | dashcloud | I think they want something to grow or promote itself out of the void | 
    
        | 21:40
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | goes to show that ideas are not always compatible with reality | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | the chance of something just magically appearing with no backing at all and gaining a critical mass while no flaws in the current system are obvious to the majority of users | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | is close to zero | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | "why would I use that complicated thing? TPB works fine!" | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | if TPB goes down | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | "why would I use that complicated thing? kat.ph works fine!" | 
    
        | 21:41
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | etc | 
    
        | 21:50
            
                🔗 | antomatic | Have to agree - new things get created and thrive because they're better than the old thing - not because the old thing has gone | 
    
        | 21:51
            
                🔗 | antomatic | No-one believes, for example, that Google could not have come along until Altavista shut down. And we know the reverse is true. | 
    
        | 21:54
            
                🔗 | antomatic | Could probably have phrased that better. | 
    
        | 21:55
            
                🔗 | antomatic | "Google didn't happen just because AltaVista shut down." | 
    
        | 22:05
            
                🔗 | ivan` | existing supply can crowd out new supply | 
    
        | 22:05
            
                🔗 | ivan` | people rightly perceive switching costs | 
    
        | 22:09
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | Here's a conversation I've gotten sick of. | 
    
        | 22:10
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | 1. "We should scan in _____ because all the online copies suck." | 
    
        | 22:10
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | 2. 'But wait! Copyright! We will all go to jail." | 
    
        | 22:10
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | 3. "You're right, which is a shame, I have all the copies right here." | 
    
        | 22:10
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | 4. <5000 lines about how to scan things "right"> | 
    
        | 22:10
            
                🔗 | SketchCow | Rather sick of said conversation. | 
    
        | 22:14
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | SketchCow: whenever I end up in such a conversation, I usually just say "hey, I have this nice VPS in Romania where the host doesn't give a shit about what's hosted on it, if you'll just give me a pile of scans I'll make sure they end up somewhere nice" | 
    
        | 22:14
            
                🔗 | joepie91 | it works most of the time. | 
    
        | 22:56
            
                🔗 | underscor | Man, there really is something nice about a file downloading at 27MBps at your desk | 
    
        | 22:57
            
                🔗 | underscor | Makes a sexy spike in the bandwidth graph for the switch, too | 
    
        | 22:57
            
                🔗 | DFJustin | >:( | 
    
        | 23:00
            
                🔗 | underscor | <3 |