#archiveteam-bs 2014-11-08,Sat

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02:17 🔗 godane i'm at 268,500 uploads now
03:06 🔗 godane i'm starting to upload more m.wsj.net
03:09 🔗 joepie91 SketchCow: congratulations, you were faster in darking that item than I was in telling the individual in question that it'd be darked in 24-48 hours
03:09 🔗 joepie91 lol
03:12 🔗 SketchCow It's depends when you get me
03:12 🔗 SketchCow I'm trying to keep the inbox clear
03:12 🔗 SketchCow I'm also listening to standup and trying to pack up boxes to go to an archive
03:13 🔗 joepie91 hehe
03:14 🔗 * SketchCow is shoving in arcade games
03:18 🔗 tfgbd IA claims I can't upload more than 2GB with Firefox
03:18 🔗 tfgbd I'm using 33
03:18 🔗 tfgbd is this still the case?
03:18 🔗 SketchCow You're uploading a 33gb item?
03:19 🔗 tfgbd No, Firefox 33
03:19 🔗 SketchCow I could give you an FTP and I can shove it in for you.
03:19 🔗 tfgbd An FTP that IA owns?
03:19 🔗 SketchCow I own it, on IA property
03:20 🔗 tfgbd That would be nifty. I hate this primative "modern" stuff ;P
03:20 🔗 tfgbd I'll see how it goes this time and bother you again if I need it.
03:20 🔗 tfgbd good to know, though
03:20 🔗 tfgbd I was just wondering if that 2GB limit still applied to the latest Firefox or it's something that has been there for 5 years
03:21 🔗 SketchCow I can't answer. I do everything by command line.
03:23 🔗 SketchCow I'm cruising at Inbox 3
03:28 🔗 tfgbd Is there any kind of GUI python upload tool out there?
03:28 🔗 SketchCow I use no gui
03:28 🔗 SketchCow internetarcade in pip
03:28 🔗 tfgbd obviously
03:28 🔗 SketchCow Take a look
03:28 🔗 tfgbd Yeah, installed it already
03:28 🔗 tfgbd do you mean internetarchive?
03:28 🔗 SketchCow yes
03:29 🔗 SketchCow Sorry, arcade on the mind for some reason
03:29 🔗 tfgbd internetarcade sounds like something else :P
03:29 🔗 tfgbd surprised nobody wrote a GUI for that app
03:29 🔗 joepie91 SketchCow: gosh, I wondder why
03:29 🔗 garyrh >some reason
03:29 🔗 joepie91 wonder *
03:29 🔗 joepie91 :P
03:29 🔗 garyrh heh
03:29 🔗 tfgbd bias, I'd imagine
03:31 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: pretty sure the 2GB limit only applies to the flash uploader, no?
03:31 🔗 tfgbd I'm using the shitty javascript one that doesn't show any progress
03:32 🔗 aaaaaaaaa firefox used to (still does?) give wrong content lengths above 2GBs
03:32 🔗 joepie91 aaaaaaaaa: really? that's bizarre
03:32 🔗 aaaaaaaaa Probably an overflow or something
03:32 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: um, the javascript ("HTML5") one *does* show progress
03:32 🔗 joepie91 perhaps you're using a shitty browser? :D
03:33 🔗 tfgbd It's called Firefox?
03:33 🔗 joepie91 (yes, yes, I know, all browsers are shit, I fully agree, but some more than others)
03:33 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: well, see above :P
03:33 🔗 tfgbd Yeah, I kind of hate browsers and the way.
03:33 🔗 joepie91 apparently it can't handle uploads correctly...
03:33 🔗 tfgbd especially that dynamic shit
03:33 🔗 joepie91 well, I really like browsers and where they're going
03:33 🔗 joepie91 I'm just frustrated by some of the stupidity going around
03:33 🔗 tfgbd Even as a kid if was concerned it would be hard to archive ;P
03:33 🔗 joepie91 but comparatively, there's less stupidity than elsewhere, so there's that
03:33 🔗 tfgbd Like confusing version numbers?
03:33 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: ?
03:33 🔗 joepie91 Red Hat would like to talk to you
03:34 🔗 joepie91 :p
03:34 🔗 tfgbd How Firefox 33 is really just Firefox 5 or something ;P
03:34 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: shitty versioning has been around *forever*
03:34 🔗 tfgbd Yeah, but it's gotten worse with these modern browser wars
03:34 🔗 joepie91 you'll find that the JS ecosystem is actually one of the very few where people almost religiously follow semantic versioning for that reason
03:34 🔗 joepie91 not really
03:34 🔗 tfgbd Though, it seems MS at least hasn't fallen victim to it yet
03:34 🔗 joepie91 there's just more people shouting at it
03:34 🔗 joepie91 anyway, as far as I can tell, Chrome's versioning is more or less reasonable
03:35 🔗 tfgbd I dunno, it's still a preeeety high number
03:35 🔗 joepie91 not quite semver
03:35 🔗 joepie91 but not far off
03:35 🔗 joepie91 yes, but high numbers are meaningless
03:35 🔗 joepie91 the number doesn't matter
03:35 🔗 tfgbd Browsers didn't used to do crazy high version numbers until Chome popularized it
03:35 🔗 joepie91 it's about what you can *derive* from the number
03:35 🔗 joepie91 again, this is not a problem
03:35 🔗 joepie91 high version numbers don't break or complicate anything
03:35 🔗 joepie91 complaining that they're "too high" is complaining for the sake of complaining
03:36 🔗 joepie91 as long as the version numbers *tell* you something, it's perfectly fine
03:36 🔗 joepie91 and the Chrome version numbers do tell you something
03:36 🔗 tfgbd Like?
03:36 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: okay, so, Chrome has three different branches
03:36 🔗 joepie91 stable, beta, dev
03:36 🔗 tfgbd ahh, like linux distros
03:36 🔗 joepie91 beta is stable+1, dev is stable+2, in terms of major version number
03:36 🔗 joepie91 (always)
03:36 🔗 joepie91 the major version changes when the featureset or underlying architecture changes
03:37 🔗 joepie91 minor version only indicates patches or small implementation changes that should not cause a difference noticeable to the end user
03:37 🔗 joepie91 basically, upgrading to a new major version means "you're probably going to notice it being different, as an end user"
03:37 🔗 joepie91 whether visually or technically
03:37 🔗 joepie91 can be a change of rendering engine, can be a new "accounts" feature
03:37 🔗 joepie91 can be sudden support for a new HTML5 video codec, etc.
03:38 🔗 joepie91 minor versions, only a small subset of end users who were encountering a particular bug/issue/shortcoming will notice a difference
03:38 🔗 joepie91 that's more or less the meaning of Chrome's versioning
03:38 🔗 joepie91 and it's not *quite* as nice and descriptive as semver, but it's definitely consistent
03:38 🔗 joepie91 Firefox, I don't know enough about, but from what I've gathered they follow similar versioning
03:39 🔗 tfgbd IMO, baking the codecs in the browser is the stupidest idea
03:39 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: in fact, IE follows the same process - the problem is that IE barely ever releases new features or architecture changes (which is why it's always behind)
03:39 🔗 joepie91 and that's why the version number isn't as high
03:39 🔗 tfgbd But that's a good thing for some people
03:39 🔗 joepie91 Microsoft follows a more traditional release cycle
03:39 🔗 joepie91 it really isn't
03:39 🔗 joepie91 that's a myth
03:39 🔗 tfgbd They usually release a new version with a new OS
03:40 🔗 joepie91 it's perfectly possible to introduce new features or architecture changes without breaking backwards compatibility - that Microsoft is apparently unable to do so doesn't magically make their shitty release cycles "a good thing for some people"
03:40 🔗 joepie91 those "some people" just need a better browser vendor that actually knows wtf they're doing
03:40 🔗 joepie91 you build something for Chrome, Firefox or any other standards-compliant browser, it's not going to break with the next major update
03:40 🔗 tfgbd Really, Microsoft is excellent with backwards compatability elsewhere
03:40 🔗 joepie91 in fact, you can expect it to work for the next $long_time
03:40 🔗 joepie91 lol
03:40 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: ehhh
03:41 🔗 joepie91 I'd dispute that...
03:41 🔗 tfgbd Windows 10 still runs DOS and Win16 programs pretty well.
03:41 🔗 joepie91 no, it doesn't
03:41 🔗 tfgbd Well, it obviously depends on the app
03:41 🔗 joepie91 windows 8 doesn't anyway, so unless they;ve SPECIFICALLY implemented new crap for that...
03:41 🔗 joepie91 yes, exactly
03:41 🔗 joepie91 and that's the problem
03:41 🔗 tfgbd But it sure beats the competition
03:41 🔗 joepie91 that's not what I call "good backwards compatibility"
03:41 🔗 joepie91 the competition being?
03:41 🔗 tfgbd Linux and OSX
03:41 🔗 joepie91 eh
03:41 🔗 joepie91 I can grab an arbitrary Linux thing from 25 years ago, compile it on my current desktop
03:42 🔗 joepie91 and be reasonably certain that it'll run
03:42 🔗 tfgbd Linux has awful binary (and even source) backward compat
03:42 🔗 joepie91 it'll probably look like shit and need old libs
03:42 🔗 joepie91 but it will /work/
03:42 🔗 tfgbd Could a CHROOT help?
03:42 🔗 joepie91 binary backward compat is not an issue at all if it's statically compiled
03:42 🔗 joepie91 (which is the equivalent of shipping a pile of DLLs with your app)
03:43 🔗 tfgbd OSX seems to even have not so great backward compatibility even with versions from a few years earlier
03:43 🔗 joepie91 OSX, I can agree with
03:43 🔗 tfgbd Not really.
03:43 🔗 joepie91 iOS is also shit, as is Android
03:43 🔗 joepie91 for backwards compat
03:43 🔗 tfgbd static compiles are static compiles
03:43 🔗 tfgbd You can do it on Windows too
03:43 🔗 joepie91 but Linux and the *BSDs, not at all
03:43 🔗 tfgbd Like compiling MFC in your app, etc.
03:43 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: I'm not saying they're *technically* equivalent
03:43 🔗 joepie91 I'm saying they're *practically* equivalent
03:43 🔗 tfgbd Android seems okay but I've seen some problems, yeah
03:44 🔗 joepie91 (Android backwards compat is terrible, even forwards compat is)
03:44 🔗 joepie91 (just a lot of devs work around it)
03:44 🔗 tfgbd Isn't that my point?
03:44 🔗 tfgbd android is linux
03:44 🔗 joepie91 ... no, Android is Android
03:44 🔗 tfgbd I'm sure it's worse if it isn't just a java app.
03:44 🔗 tfgbd Like using linux libs that break on a newer kernel
03:45 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: that is an extremely rare problem
03:45 🔗 tfgbd I guess that's how debian can still use 2.6
03:46 🔗 tfgbd What issue have you had with Win16 and Windows 8?
03:47 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: personally, I haven't used Windows since XP - third-party, I've heard a lot of issues starting from Vista and ongoing with 7 and 8 about not being able to run older software
03:47 🔗 joepie91 on 64 bits systems anyway
03:47 🔗 joepie91 16-bit software apparently just going "nope" altogether
03:47 🔗 joepie91 lots of 32-bits 95/98/NT/2000/ME stuff not running correctly
03:47 🔗 joepie91 I even remember this back from XP
03:47 🔗 joepie91 where similar issues existed
03:48 🔗 tfgbd Well, there is no Win16 on AMD64 so I'm talking about x86-32
03:48 🔗 joepie91 because suddenly, admin account system
03:48 🔗 joepie91 yes, I'm not
03:48 🔗 tfgbd I even had issues with some 32-bit stuff on AMD64
03:48 🔗 tfgbd Mostly just because it doesn't know where to properly put the registry entries
03:49 🔗 tfgbd I dunno. It's still pretty good even ignoring the issues.
03:49 🔗 joepie91 well there you go
03:49 🔗 joepie91 yeah, I don't actually have these problems
03:49 🔗 tfgbd Window XP and 7 can still run Windows 1.x stuff with modification.
03:49 🔗 joepie91 the biggest issue I've had is Xorg ABI compatibility
03:49 🔗 joepie91 with proprietary AMD drivers
03:49 🔗 joepie91 and that problem is soon history
03:49 🔗 joepie91 (yay unified driver)
03:49 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: "with modification"
03:49 🔗 joepie91 I can still run crap in DOSBox
03:50 🔗 tfgbd That's an emulator, though
03:50 🔗 joepie91 doesn't make the OS I'm using "backwards compatible"
03:50 🔗 tfgbd Windows 1.x apps run native.
03:50 🔗 joepie91 missing the point
03:50 🔗 joepie91 if you have to change shit, it's evidently not compatible anymore
03:50 🔗 tfgbd They just need to be modded because the loader only knows how to run windows 3.0+ win16 apps
03:50 🔗 joepie91 so, not compatible
03:50 🔗 tfgbd Okayt
03:50 🔗 tfgbd that was a bad example
03:50 🔗 tfgbd Point is, 3.0+ stuff should run
03:51 🔗 joepie91 and doesn't on recent hardware because 64-bits whoo
03:51 🔗 tfgbd Well, yeah
03:51 🔗 joepie91 and again
03:51 🔗 tfgbd you just don't use the 64-bit edition
03:51 🔗 joepie91 16-bits isn't even my issue
03:51 🔗 joepie91 I can kind of understand not supporting that if it's a CPU arch issue
03:51 🔗 joepie91 which it supposedly is
03:51 🔗 tfgbd Unfortunately, the newer server editions do not support Win16
03:51 🔗 tfgbd But Virtualization isn't that bad, I guess
03:51 🔗 joepie91 my issue is that shit from 95/98/NT/ME/2000 will ALSO not run on modern Windows
03:51 🔗 tfgbd though, that obviously doesn't count
03:51 🔗 joepie91 without modification
03:52 🔗 tfgbd Sometimes you have to disable some security like the compat checker to run stuff on NT 6.x kernels
03:52 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: there are a lot of theme park rides, for example, that still run windows 95 or 98
03:52 🔗 joepie91 simply because it doesn't run on newer Windows
03:52 🔗 joepie91 (yes, theme parks largely run Windows)
03:52 🔗 tfgbd Oh, of course you can't use older stuff sometimes
03:52 🔗 joepie91 that. was. the. point.
03:53 🔗 tfgbd You can't expect everything especially if it depends on DOS drivers or whatever.
03:53 🔗 joepie91 it doesn't depend on DOS drivers.
03:53 🔗 joepie91 it's software that was written for 95/98.
03:53 🔗 joepie91 and/or derivativges
03:53 🔗 tfgbd But, for the most part, a lot of generic Win16 and Win32 stuff that is just a program SHOULD still run
03:53 🔗 joepie91 derivatives *
03:53 🔗 joepie91 should, yes
03:53 🔗 joepie91 will, no
03:53 🔗 joepie91 seriously
03:54 🔗 joepie91 I mean, I can continue arguing this, but I don't feel like you're going to actually listen to the arguments...
03:54 🔗 tfgbd I know some still run XP because they need something that is broken on vista
03:54 🔗 tfgbd Point is, Windows 8 will still run Wordperfect 6 for DOS and Word 6 for Win16 out of the box
03:55 🔗 tfgbd That's pretty neat to me.
03:55 🔗 * joepie91 sighs
03:55 🔗 tfgbd I'd say that is still better than Macs
03:55 🔗 tfgbd or iOS or Android
03:55 🔗 joepie91 "Windows can still run this and that 16-bit application when you're running a 32-bit Windows even though you're using 64-bit hardware, so the backwards compatibility is better than on Linux where you can arbitrarily compile nearly anything from the 25 years and have it run without issues"
03:56 🔗 joepie91 that's what this argument reads like to me by now
03:56 🔗 joepie91 :|
03:56 🔗 joepie91 and yes, it's better than OS X, iOS and Android
03:56 🔗 joepie91 I already said that
03:56 🔗 joepie91 but nowhere near Linux or *BSD
03:56 🔗 tfgbd I hear BSDs are pretty nice
03:56 🔗 tfgbd Linux is nowhere near BSD or Windows
03:57 🔗 tfgbd If you have to compile it, that ain't backwards compat
03:57 🔗 joepie91 uh, yes it is
03:57 🔗 joepie91 try compiling software for 98 on 7 and running it
03:57 🔗 joepie91 still won't run
03:57 🔗 joepie91 because in the meantime the Win32 API changed too much
03:57 🔗 joepie91 with no backwards compat wrappers
03:57 🔗 joepie91 and/or registry keys changed
03:58 🔗 joepie91 and/or suddenly, security architecture that keeps you from writing shit to the application dir
03:58 🔗 tfgbd Ehh, just have to be careful what compiler versions you are using and what APIs you use
03:58 🔗 joepie91 and so on, and so on, and so on
03:58 🔗 tfgbd Also, sometimes the compilers make breaking changes if only in an attempt to obsolete the older OS
03:58 🔗 joepie91 anyway, even if you don't compile, most stuff that isn't games will still run on a modern Linux box even if it's really really old
03:58 🔗 joepie91 only games are a notorious problem child but that's mostly for proprietary driver reasons
03:59 🔗 tfgbd So, if you manually remove imports that don't work, sometimes you can get it running on the older OS with a newer compiler
03:59 🔗 tfgbd Not everything for Linux has source
03:59 🔗 joepie91 well aware.
03:59 🔗 joepie91 see above.
04:00 🔗 SketchCow see last 20 years
04:00 🔗 tfgbd It weird me out that Windows 95 was almost 20 year ago.
04:01 🔗 joepie91 .wik windows 95
04:01 🔗 botpie91 "Windows 95 (codenamed Chicago) is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system developed by Microsoft." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95
04:01 🔗 joepie91 ...
04:01 🔗 joepie91 not helpful
04:01 🔗 joepie91 ah, 95 was *actually* released in 1995
04:01 🔗 SmileyG yah;D
04:02 🔗 joepie91 I vaguely recall something about windows server editions being released a year prior to their name
04:02 🔗 joepie91 lol
04:02 🔗 SmileyG yey work has been utterly shit. Can IAget a uk DC and hire me plz :(
04:02 🔗 tfgbd With the NTs called NT in the product, they were released around the same time.
04:02 🔗 tfgbd And NT5/2000 too, I think.
04:03 🔗 tfgbd It was only with XP that the XP server edition got released way later
04:03 🔗 tfgbd and then they did it again with Vista/Vista Server(2008)
04:03 🔗 tfgbd With Windows 7, 8 and 10 they seem to be releasing them at the same time again
04:05 🔗 tfgbd Afaik Windows 7/2008r2, 8/2012, 8.1/2012r2 and whatever 10 ends up being called were all released at the same time.
04:08 🔗 SmileyG hmmm
05:27 🔗 kyan hi, could someone save this? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GjP09-q9vCoJ:www.infoworld.com/article/2844525/techology-business/boxs-success-built-on-a-lie-reveals-coo.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Thanks :) it looks like the original page got pulled
05:37 🔗 SmileyG archivebot to the rescue
05:39 🔗 kyan ty :)
05:46 🔗 joepie91 kyan: https://archive.today/dYtnP
05:46 🔗 kyan joepie91 thanks :)
05:46 🔗 joepie91 (it was already there)
05:46 🔗 kyan oh!
05:47 🔗 kyan i guess someone else noticed
05:49 🔗 joepie91 hehe
06:27 🔗 joepie91 SketchCow:
06:27 🔗 joepie91 .tw https://twitter.com/joepie91/status/530969441962823680
06:27 🔗 botpie91 <Teridax> this week taught that "[rip'd site] 2" is a failing formula <asshurt> myspace 2 is great though, admit it <Teridax> ello? love it (@joepie91)
06:33 🔗 tfgbd How do you guys usually mirror FTPs?
06:34 🔗 garyrh http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=FTP
06:34 🔗 tfgbd NM http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=FTP
06:34 🔗 tfgbd Though, sometimes I like to hear realtime differences of opinion
06:34 🔗 tfgbd That that preserve the item and folder dates?
06:36 🔗 tfgbd does*
06:58 🔗 yipdw tfgbd: just try it
06:58 🔗 yipdw (the answer is yes, it does)
07:02 🔗 tfgbd I am. Doing other things, ATM
09:28 🔗 tfgbd Okay, just checked. wget is not preserving the folder timestamps
09:33 🔗 tfgbd Maybe it's just not possible on any OS ;/
11:13 🔗 joepie91 tfgbd: what OS are you running this on?
11:13 🔗 joepie91 because anything to do with filesystems tends to be spotty on Windows
16:27 🔗 tfgbd joepie91: I was using ubuntu but it seemed to have the same issue as on Windows NT with the command I found suggested on the wiki
16:29 🔗 tfgbd I notice most of your FTP rips on IA don't have proper folder stamps either :/
16:30 🔗 tfgbd I get the impression it may just not be possible or if it is, it's rarely implemented and will take lots of trial and error with various clients and configs
16:31 🔗 tfgbd I get the impression it may just not be possible or if it is, it's rarely implemented and will take lots of trial and error with various clients and configs
16:33 🔗 tfgbd I'm willing to spend some time to get a proper dump, though
17:01 🔗 tfgbd I can find a few things that will do the opposite (transfer local folder dates to the server) but nothing to preserve them on the local machine from an FTP server
18:04 🔗 tfgbd Ugh, this FTP is preventing me from downloading much at one time...
18:08 🔗 tfgbd It seems they already have blocked me from downloading files after just downloading one directory
18:10 🔗 yipdw tfgbd: the command given on the wiki preserves create timestamps fine
18:10 🔗 yipdw if the timestamps that you're getting back are incorrect, verify that they match what the FTP server is sending back and that you aren't running any processes that would muck with that
18:10 🔗 tfgbd for folders?
18:11 🔗 tfgbd let me check again
18:11 🔗 tfgbd I know the timestamps for files work fine
18:11 🔗 yipdw oh directories
18:12 🔗 tfgbd Yeah
18:12 🔗 tfgbd Most software gets the file stamps just fine
18:12 🔗 tfgbd at least when you enable it
18:12 🔗 tfgbd It's the directories I care about
18:12 🔗 tfgbd is there nothing to sync the folder stamps?
18:12 🔗 tfgbd Should I just give up and download whatever shit I can?
18:14 🔗 yipdw hm
18:14 🔗 yipdw -
18:14 🔗 yipdw ~/tmp/ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux$ stat -c '%w' kde-redhat
18:14 🔗 yipdw that might be my filesystem being dumb
18:14 🔗 yipdw because I don't have birth times for any files
18:19 🔗 yipdw tfgbd: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/11431
18:19 🔗 yipdw so wget doesn't do it, whether or not it is a bug is arguable

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