#archiveteam-bs 2013-11-13,Wed

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00:00 🔗 odie5533 is there any way to just use less RAM?
00:00 🔗 dashcloud do less things
00:00 🔗 odie5533 gotta run less programs I guess
00:00 🔗 mistym Or switch to less RAM hoggy programs, if you use anything that's infamously piggy
00:01 🔗 dashcloud there's probably a way to force less caching and read-aheads if you really want to do that
00:01 🔗 yipdw remove RAM from the machine
00:01 🔗 yipdw that'll use less
00:01 🔗 odie5533 I think default windows installs use a lot of RAM just to idle =/
00:01 🔗 balrog browsers tend to hog RAM
00:01 🔗 yipdw well
00:01 🔗 yipdw what metric are you looking at for "used"
00:02 🔗 pft windows has a tendency to use ram as a file cache
00:02 🔗 yipdw Windows uses a lot but a lot of it isn't actually wired
00:02 🔗 yipdw or active
00:02 🔗 balrog you should be looking at free+inactive RAM (or the equivalent)
00:02 🔗 balrog as well as swap usage
00:02 🔗 balrog in OS X, inactive RAM is RAM used as cache
00:02 🔗 balrog and in any OS, increasing swap usage means you're running out of RAM
00:02 🔗 balrog Windows will always use some swap, and won't work properly without a page file
00:04 🔗 touya also applications would start much slower
00:05 🔗 godane i'm going after a website of church i went to
00:05 🔗 godane i think i can saved 3 years of old files on there
00:10 🔗 odie5533 balrog: how much RAM do you have?
00:10 🔗 balrog 16GB
00:11 🔗 odie5533 jesus christ.
00:11 🔗 odie5533 yeah I probably should get more then.
00:11 🔗 odie5533 damn
00:11 🔗 balrog how much do you have?
00:11 🔗 odie5533 4 GB
00:11 🔗 balrog 8GB is enough for most people
00:11 🔗 mistym odie5533: I recently upgraded to 8GB from 4GB on my laptop and it was a huge improvement
00:11 🔗 balrog my machine would hang when doing a -j9 compile with 8GB though
00:11 🔗 odie5533 it's always a full bar when I go to Performance in task manager.
00:11 🔗 balrog well, not hang as much as slow down
00:12 🔗 balrog 16GB fixed that... and when I got the RAM, it was only $100
00:12 🔗 odie5533 I think it's Firefox that uses most of my RAM.
00:12 🔗 balrog RAM went up in cost since then... now, 16GB is more like $160
00:12 🔗 balrog odie5533: firefox is a memory hog.
00:12 🔗 balrog also got a really good deal on this SSD
00:12 🔗 balrog REGULAR SSD prices have gone way up since
00:13 🔗 odie5533 Is any browser less of a memory hog?
00:13 🔗 balrog unfortunately, not really
00:13 🔗 odie5533 I constantly close and re-open firefox, because when I do that it unloads all the tabs and then only loads tabs when I click on one again.
00:14 🔗 yipdw firefox isn't that bad
00:14 🔗 odie5533 would having more memory help this?
00:14 🔗 yipdw at least it works fine for me on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM
00:14 🔗 balrog do you run other programs as well?
00:14 🔗 balrog if so, then yes
00:14 🔗 mistym Firefox got a lot better in recent versions - it used to be really bad, but within the past year it's gotten better than the other browsers
00:14 🔗 balrog SSD prices are about $1/gb these days, maybe somewhat more
00:14 🔗 balrog mistym: the version of Safari that came with 10.8 would leak HORRIBLY
00:14 🔗 odie5533 Yes, I do. An IDE, an Email client, and an RSS Reader all seem to eat up more RAM than they should.
00:15 🔗 balrog I actually was running WebKit nightlies for a while because of that
00:15 🔗 mistym balrog: Eww :( Didn't use it much in that era
00:15 🔗 balrog the latest version finally fixed it
00:15 🔗 mistym I upgraded to a hybrid-SSD in my laptop - fairly cheap, good performance (if not as good as a full SSD)
00:15 🔗 balrog yeah, Facebook and Twitter especially would cause it to leak
00:15 🔗 balrog I have a 480gb Intel 520 in here
00:15 🔗 DFJustin some firefox stats https://areweslimyet.com/
00:15 🔗 odie5533 I stupidly bought an SSD but don't have SATA3 so it's basically useless.
00:15 🔗 balrog got it for... $370
00:16 🔗 balrog 77 cents per gb for a massive SSD guaranteed for 5 years ... good luck with that today :/
00:16 🔗 balrog odie5533: false, it's not "basically useless"
00:16 🔗 balrog the main benefit of an SSD is the nearly nonexistent seek times
00:17 🔗 odie5533 ah, that's true
00:17 🔗 balrog hard disk seek times are measured in ms, while ssd seek times are measured in ns
00:17 🔗 balrog that's a 10^6 difference
00:17 🔗 BiggieJon when 16GB ram and a sata2 480GB SSD arent enough . . . .
00:17 🔗 balrog BiggieJon: one of my friends has a system with 96GB of RAM and multiple SSDs
00:17 🔗 balrog for video editing and encoding
00:17 🔗 BiggieJon if you do video work sure
00:18 🔗 odie5533 I sorta need to upgrade my whole computer. But it's too expensive and time-consuming...
00:29 🔗 odie5533 balrog: what is -j9? an optimization setting?
00:42 🔗 * balrog runs make with 9 jobs to keep the CPU busy
00:42 🔗 balrog (-j9 that is)
00:43 🔗 odie5533 ah
00:43 🔗 odie5533 I never have to run make. Just another one of the benefits of using Windows.
00:44 🔗 mistym balrog: An old work machine of mine ran builds with -j24 because of its unreasonable number of CPUs
00:44 🔗 balrog haha... nice
00:44 🔗 odie5533 I think my computer doesn't even need to have 'make'.
00:44 🔗 balrog you probably use visual studio
00:44 🔗 mistym balrog: But it was running Snow Leopard, which is when Apple's process limit was pretty low
00:44 🔗 balrog ...which uses nmake behind the scenes.
00:44 🔗 mistym ...and I was using Chrome at the time
00:45 🔗 balrog ouch! yeah I can see where that would end up
00:45 🔗 mistym Yeah! It took me awhile to figure out what was causing the random build failures
00:46 🔗 balrog have they really raised the limit that much in newer versions?
00:47 🔗 balrog I still seem to run into it on occasion
00:52 🔗 mistym Not sure by how much exactly. I think it was roughly doubled - I'm seeing references to kern.maxproc being 532 on 10.6, while it was raised to 1064 in 10.7
01:03 🔗 joepie91 <odie5533>I never have to run make. Just another one of the benefits of using Windows.
01:03 🔗 joepie91 you generally only need to run make (or another compiler) when you're developing things
01:03 🔗 joepie91 no difference in that sense between Windows, OS X and any sane Linux distro
01:04 🔗 odie5533 joepie91: or running gentoo or arch I think.
01:06 🔗 joepie91 :p
01:06 🔗 joepie91 odie5533: hence "sane Linux distro"
01:07 🔗 odie5533 harsh
01:09 🔗 touya there are other reasons for compiling, though
01:09 🔗 touya some software is only provided as source
01:18 🔗 mistym ...and probably that software isn't going to give you compiled versions on Windows
01:22 🔗 M1das and dutch net neutrality failed again.
01:26 🔗 joepie91 M1das: net neutrality? NL? good joke!
01:27 🔗 joepie91 :P
01:28 🔗 M1das yeah
01:28 🔗 godane uploaded: https://archive.org/details/www.d-addicts.com-forum-viewtopic-20131112
01:28 🔗 godane about half of that is just images
01:28 🔗 M1das and now we are defending it in the eur-shitter
01:29 🔗 godane and uncompressed its about 10gb of html and 1.6gb of images
01:32 🔗 joepie91 M1das: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/92538/overheid-spoort-onlinekopers-zwaar-vuurwerk-op.html
01:32 🔗 joepie91 all my what
01:33 🔗 joepie91 now
01:33 🔗 joepie91 sleep
01:33 🔗 joepie91 night!
01:35 🔗 M1das Wat houdt dit doel in?
01:35 🔗 M1das WRONG Midas WRONG!
01:36 🔗 M1das night joepie91
01:42 🔗 godane i'm uploading Fact Or Fictional now
01:42 🔗 godane thats another 6gb series from rev3
02:49 🔗 yipdw heh
02:49 🔗 yipdw http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/craig-cobb-white-supremacist-black_n_4256360.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
02:50 🔗 dashcloud saw this on OSnews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0 QNX 1.4 megabyte floppy disk demo- with OS, HTML 3 browser, and GUI interface (from 1999)
02:51 🔗 yipdw I used to have a copy of the QNX demo disk
02:51 🔗 yipdw can't find it anymore though
03:21 🔗 balrog yipdw: :/
03:21 🔗 balrog yipdw: I know that Lord_Nigh emailed someone about it and that person told him that the disk was misplaced...
03:21 🔗 yipdw yeah
03:21 🔗 yipdw that disk came out when I was, like, 16
03:21 🔗 yipdw :P
03:22 🔗 yipdw it never occurred to me to save a copy away
03:24 🔗 balrog was this the 90s disk or the 80s disk
03:24 🔗 balrog ?
03:24 🔗 balrog I asked Lord_Nigh and he said he has the 90s disk and even the source code but he's after the version from the 80s
03:27 🔗 yipdw the 90s disk
03:27 🔗 yipdw I don't think I ever saw the 80s one
04:05 🔗 Lord_Nigh theres iirc 6 versions of the 90s qnx disk
04:05 🔗 Lord_Nigh 3 network versions
04:05 🔗 Lord_Nigh 3 modem versions
04:05 🔗 Lord_Nigh i have images of all 6 iirc
04:05 🔗 Lord_Nigh somewhere
04:39 🔗 godane i'm grabbing the download files from d-addicts.com
04:39 🔗 godane more images, zip files, and subtitle files to come to IA
05:24 🔗 Lord_Nigh yipdw: ftp://212.160.170.220/pub/demo/QNX/ HAD the qnx demo disks
05:52 🔗 Lord_Nigh i have a local mirror
05:56 🔗 Lord_Nigh https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79094972/212.160.170.220.tar.gz
05:58 🔗 Lord_Nigh w00t the big transfer of bpmmicro ftp is done
17:43 🔗 pft when you guys pull a WARC do you browse it to ensure it's decent before uploading to ia?
17:45 🔗 * yipdw does
17:51 🔗 * joepie91 doesn't
17:51 🔗 joepie91 generally when I WARC something it's just before it goes down
17:51 🔗 joepie91 :P
17:51 🔗 joepie91 so even if it isn't decent, there's no way to fix it
17:54 🔗 pft ahahha fair enough
18:15 🔗 odie5533 I'm working on writing tools to make it easier to check that they are decent.
18:15 🔗 pft good deal
18:15 🔗 odie5533 https://github.com/odie5533/WarcQtViewer
18:16 🔗 pft nice
18:16 🔗 pft i've used the warc proxy before
18:16 🔗 odie5533 Sadly, my WarcQtViewer doesn't work with large files yet.
18:17 🔗 odie5533 A problem I'm currently addressing.
19:45 🔗 xmc just introduced my company's attorney to RECAP, he says "this is awesome!"
19:59 🔗 w0rp I left Firefox on while I was out... 90% of RAM consumed by it, on a 16GB machine. ... Fucking Mozilla.
21:03 🔗 DFJustin http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/11/26410-victims-backer-scam-vent-kickstarter-forum-allege-150-campaigns-affected/
21:15 🔗 M1das DFJustin: sweet way to get some money:/
21:17 🔗 balrog that's fraud
21:19 🔗 BlueMax I joined at the wrong time didn't I
21:20 🔗 DFJustin <DFJustin> http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/11/26410-victims-backer-scam-vent-kickstarter-forum-allege-150-campaigns-affected/
21:33 🔗 godane you guys are getting 69975 download ids from www.d-addicts.com
21:34 🔗 godane this should cover the links in the forum viewtopic dump
22:26 🔗 dashcloud w0rp: there's big improvements on the way, and if you've got higher amounts of memory usage then normal, you could try resetting the firefox profile- that seems to help
23:07 🔗 w0rp https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1/videos I happened upon a YouTube account of a guy recording videos of 90's computer viruses and stuff. This is great.
23:11 🔗 dashcloud here's one where they track down the creator of the first virus, Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnedOWfPKT0
23:12 🔗 w0rp Oh hey, I remember that guy. I watched a Defcon talk from him on the history of computer viruses where he mentioned this.
23:22 🔗 mistym Reading about early viruses brought me to this 1988 NYT article on MacMag: http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/business/a-virus-gives-business-a-chill.html (I was curious about the story about MacMac infecting Freehand floppies)
23:26 🔗 w0rp Early PC viruses were great, because they were all, "You have been hacked by the 1337 hacker FlameLord," with ASCII art and shit.
23:27 🔗 w0rp I remember having one on my Windows machine that moved icons slightly away from where the cursor was, like a repelling magnet. That's all it did.
23:28 🔗 xmc hahaha
23:28 🔗 xmc good one
23:28 🔗 w0rp You could still, say, use the arrow keys and hit return to get around it till you removed it. Once you stopped having fun with it, that is.
23:31 🔗 godane uploaded: https://archive.org/details/www.d-addicts.com-download-1-to-69775-20131113
23:32 🔗 dashcloud I remember reading about ransom viruses that made you play a game of chance for your data
23:33 🔗 joepie91 http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/sandwich-com-and-other-domains-yahoo-has-held-back-from-greatness/
23:33 🔗 joepie91 yahoo has a garage sale
23:35 🔗 DFJustin nice, the subtitles in particular are excellent to archive because it's a lot of work and for the vast majority of the material it's the only translation that will ever be done
23:41 🔗 w0rp Time to raise money for donations so Archive Team can ironically buy raging.com from Yahoo and then use it to host the Geocities backup.
23:42 🔗 w0rp <h1>Yahoo is Bullshit!</h1><p><a href="/geocities.bak">Oh look, Geocities</a></p>
23:42 🔗 godane DFJustin: just know alot of images files in the download dump maybe in the viewtopic dump of d-addicts.com
23:43 🔗 w0rp Penn and Teller assure me that "is Bullshit" is wording that keeps you free from lawsuits.
23:43 🔗 godane this is cause images are displayed but also may have a download.php?id=# url
23:45 🔗 phillipsj Is Yahoo keeping the geocities domain?
23:48 🔗 xmc unfortunately that's not for sale this time
23:49 🔗 underscor yipdw: we respect robots.txt at crawl time
23:49 🔗 underscor and check it on every page load at render time

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