[12:36] http://www.worldwizzy.com/ [13:59] http://imgur.com/9F8hwU1 [14:26] http://imgur.com/7WG6pb3 [17:03] so good news [17:04] i'm getting a new hard drive this week [18:03] DOGECOIN GIVEAWAY [18:03] message me your dogecoin address [18:04] D5PRiVsr2eQ7wz1hJuxqWbRUWjUz4s5JDk [18:04] i have no idea what id use xdg for anyways but i have like 1000 of them lol [18:09] DBjLY9N4Rq2YoxNSMXtYd9JFkDWpahwRia [18:12] private message, people, how hard can it be [18:15] ITS SO HAR ;-; [18:15] HARD [18:15] typing is hard too [18:17] to the moon! [18:21] much receive [18:21] thank [18:21] s [18:25] * Schbirid shares the happiness [19:07] y u guyz screem so much [19:09] Did any of you jump at that chance to get a free xbox one or ps4, iphones, ipads? [19:19] enocare [19:19] I did [19:19] I got ipad spam for years [22:55] hmmm free doge? :O [23:32] ran accross some pretty esoteric DOS floppies today. If I can find a drive, should I dump an .img file or just make a .zip of the contents? Both? [23:36] do both- an .img is a permanent record, but a zip file of everything will let you get to playing stuff faster, and if there's problems on sectors not currently occupied by files, you'll avoid that as well [23:37] if you think your stuff is likely to not be a normal format, you may need to use some additional hardware tools to properly archive them [23:40] there's hardware options on main page here: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Talk:Rescuing_Floppy_Disks , software options on the talk page [23:41] yeah magnetic dump [23:42] yeah, the disks are probably in a regular format [23:42] what I've found so far is old scientific sotware [23:43] like, software to interface with scientific equipment [23:43] some of it probably only works with a dongle [23:44] here's a really hacky script to extract a decent amount of metadata off of the floppy and the files: http://paste.archivingyoursh.it/laxoqeroqi.bash [23:45] it requires 7zip and mtools [23:47] this is a pretty cool gadget as well for floppies: http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html [23:52] that's a pretty cool little snippet [23:53] I really appreciate that [23:55] somebody was cleaning out an old office at work and brought a whole box of old floppies. A lot of it is data, but there is some commercial stuff in there. I'm going to see if I can pick through it before it all gets binned. [23:55] if you can, just grab all of it, and sort it out later [23:56] always possible to downsize, but you can't bring back what you don't have [23:56] of course, this is all contigent on me getting my hands on a pc with a floppy dive. [23:56] re: grabbing it all... true [23:57] but I fear that my empoyer might have questions about what I was doing with 20 years of one of our scientist's data