#archiveteam 2012-03-02,Fri

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00:07 🔗 Coderjoe grar
00:07 🔗 Coderjoe my employer moved offices. today, I heard one owner tell the other "I told you not to bring all the floppies."
00:08 🔗 Coderjoe But they're here. if they don't want them, I'll take them
00:09 🔗 Coderjoe does anyone know if the me.com shutdown will include email services?
00:10 🔗 Coderjoe Last night I was at a fairly new Tim Horton's, and there was a sign sticker on the door saying if you were not 100% satisfied to email the owner/manager/whatever at a @me.com address
00:14 🔗 Coderjoe ah. yes. email will still be available
00:40 🔗 topaz what's the deal with the steps in the MobileMe code to create a directory structure in advance because wget --mirror doesn't always do it?
00:40 🔗 topaz did anyone ever figure out why wget --mirror wasn't creating dirs?
00:42 🔗 Coderjoe topaz: slide.com only gave 7 days?
00:43 🔗 topaz yeah, just wondering.
00:47 🔗 ivan`_ anyone happen to have all those opensolaris bug pages that oracle killed?
00:47 🔗 ivan`_ happened a while ago
01:06 🔗 topaz is there a best way to recommend a patch for mobileme-grab?
01:15 🔗 Coderjoe fork the github repo, push the patch to your fork, and submit a pull request?
01:16 🔗 Coderjoe or I suppose make a diff and post it?
01:16 🔗 topaz I just forked, I'm exploring that now. just didn't know if there was a preferred protocol for this sort of thing.
01:17 🔗 topaz (I'm a github newbie, see)
01:18 🔗 Coderjoe the normal protocol on github tends to be: fork, make changes, push to your fork, submit a pull request.
01:19 🔗 topaz *nod* thanks.
01:39 🔗 undersco2 Bummer, slide refuses AXFR
01:41 🔗 arrith undersco2: does git-annex track metadata? since i'd like to track some, i know etckeeper does but git-annex is all about files not necessarily always accessible which i need
01:41 🔗 undersco2 I don't know
01:41 🔗 undersco2 Ask closure :)
01:41 🔗 arrith HMM
01:43 🔗 DFJustin Coderjoe: https://mashable.com/2011/08/26/google-kills-slide/
01:43 🔗 arrith undersco2: well what about this: might already be in git-annex, where i can have a local 'copy' of stuff in the form of git-annex-type text files with the location of something in them, then move those files around in my tree, and when say i plug in a relevant external harddrive, it shuffles files around to match how i've moved their textfile copies?
01:43 🔗 DFJustin guess we only just found out about it
02:03 🔗 closure arrith: if I understand you right, yes git-annex can do that
02:04 🔗 arrith closure: the moving stuff around?
02:04 🔗 closure yes
02:06 🔗 arrith closure: well say i make a bunch of changes where i move stuff around, can i then say "please execute the moves" and have git-annex prompt me to then connect/disconnect relevant external drives necessary to do the moving?
02:10 🔗 closure ok, so you want to literally move files between drives.. so you make some directories in git, say drive1, drive2, drive23. git mv files into there. Then later you mount drive1, go into its clone of the repo, update it, go into the drive1 directory, and: "git-annex move --to ." and it'll move files from all the other drives, or complain if some of them are not mounted
02:13 🔗 arrith hm that might work. i'll dig around with git-annex
02:35 🔗 closure there may be better ways, depending on what you're trying to do. For example I was running this command today: git annex --untrust=here --untrust=home copy --auto --to archive
02:35 🔗 closure ... which automatically identifies files that need more copies, assuming the current repo and another one are not reliable, and puts them on the archive drive
02:38 🔗 arrith that's pretty fancy
02:39 🔗 closure especially nice since different directories are configured to need different numbers of files.. I like a ton of copies of my photos etc
02:40 🔗 arrith i'm trying to automagically most efficiently be told by a program which resources (external drives or otherwise) i need to connect to have the move files around with the least amount of me connecting/disconnecting a drive
02:41 🔗 closure can you connect 2 drives at the same tim?
02:41 🔗 yipdw Tim won't like it, but yeah
02:42 🔗 arrith closure: yeah the system would have to be aware of how many drives you can connect. i personally can connect 4, assuming usb. but some drives i'd like to only connect through esata since it's way faster for me
02:42 🔗 arrith closure: btw offtopic but two things that might be neat for git-annex could be scrubbing support, where it verifies the hashes on files. and also a way to customize the command being used to copy/move. for example rsnapshot lets you add custom arguments to the rsync it runs
02:43 🔗 arrith brb in a bit
02:43 🔗 closure every command git-annex runs (I think) can have options added, on a global or even per-remote basis
02:44 🔗 closure git config remote.foo.annex-rsync-options --bwlimit 100
02:45 🔗 closure I think your thing could be built on top, since you can have git-annex --json dump where files are located, and get the info to calculate the drive swapping sequence
02:46 🔗 SketchCow Help me not waste time.
02:46 🔗 SketchCow We had a couple programs for geocities downloading.
02:48 🔗 closure hmm.. I barely remember. But I think I included the scripts in my geocities tarballs.
02:48 🔗 closure which I don't have anywhere now
02:55 🔗 SketchCow I have them.
02:55 🔗 SketchCow Also, I am making a sub-collection for Geocities stuff in the archiveteam collection
02:56 🔗 SketchCow So besides our 8 part snapshot, we can add other sets people are finding in their pockets
03:12 🔗 SketchCow Did someone have geocities lying around?
03:12 🔗 SketchCow In the meantime, I will begin running the program that searches Google for Fortunecity URLs.
03:16 🔗 dashcloud I think I found an extra DOOM levels CD- Instant Doom Levels is on cd.textfiles.com but doesn't seem to be on archive.org
03:28 🔗 SketchCow Yeah, not sure of the pedigree.
03:35 🔗 shaqfu textfiles.com down?
03:35 🔗 undersco2 Looks so from here
03:36 🔗 Zuu- same
03:36 🔗 shaqfu Damn; just as I was hitting a stride
03:36 🔗 Zuu- Oh
03:36 🔗 Zuu- I got into it shaqfu
03:38 🔗 undersco2 curl textfiles.com
03:38 🔗 undersco2 curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
03:38 🔗 Zuu- it is pretty slow
03:41 🔗 SketchCow One moment.
03:42 🔗 SketchCow Who's 124.124.65.141 and 99.85
03:42 🔗 Zuu- not me
03:42 🔗 Zuu- i'm 76.28.x.x
03:43 🔗 shaqfu I'm 68.39
03:46 🔗 undersco2 173.66.
03:46 🔗 undersco2 curl icanhazip.com
03:48 🔗 SketchCow Someone had 75 open connections.
03:48 🔗 SketchCow Going full bore.
03:48 🔗 Zuu- Well
03:48 🔗 Zuu- that ip you posted is from india
03:49 🔗 SketchCow Someone had 75 open connections from india.
03:49 🔗 SketchCow Going full bore. From india
03:49 🔗 Zuu- :/
03:49 🔗 SketchCow Is that better
03:49 🔗 SketchCow Anyway, I fixed it
03:49 🔗 Zuu- sorry
03:49 🔗 SketchCow Mister ipfw had something to say
03:49 🔗 undersco2 hahaha
03:49 🔗 closure sign them up for archiveteam
03:49 🔗 SketchCow If you open multiple connections to me past, say, 10, ban.
03:49 🔗 undersco2 SketchCow: Do you have textfiles.com exported as an rsync module?
03:49 🔗 undersco2 That would be pretty cool
03:52 🔗 SketchCow Wow, things I'm not going to tell you
03:52 🔗 SketchCow "Do you leave your porch unlocked"
03:52 🔗 SketchCow "Where do you keep the cookies"
03:52 🔗 SketchCow "What's the current mandatory sentencing for statutory?"
03:53 🔗 undersco2 ...
03:53 🔗 undersco2 I meant like read only, so it was easily mirrorable
03:53 🔗 undersco2 Instead of hammering apache with wget --mirror, which doesn't even guarantee integrity
03:58 🔗 SketchCow Yeah, that's not the way to do it.
03:58 🔗 tsp_ SketchCow: yeah, I have 8 geocities parts that are actually one big .tar.xz that can be catted together
03:58 🔗 undersco2 I... see.
03:58 🔗 undersco2 Why wouldn't you want to do that?
03:59 🔗 arrith clearly torrents of periodic db dumps. can point the new torrent at the old torrent and it'll only download the changed pieces, assuming that's how the db works
03:59 🔗 SketchCow Well, that sounds crazy, tsp, but let's upload that.
03:59 🔗 SketchCow How big is it?
03:59 🔗 tsp_ 8.5gb
03:59 🔗 SketchCow Either you can do the upload, or I can do it.
04:00 🔗 SketchCow What's easier?
04:00 🔗 tsp_ compressed, 16gb uncompressed. You do it, I've got most of it on my dropbox
04:00 🔗 SketchCow Most.... or all?
04:00 🔗 undersco2 arrith: textfiles.com doesn't have a DB, does it?
04:00 🔗 tsp_ 7/8 parts, the last one can go in once you have one of the parts. My db ran out of space
04:01 🔗 SketchCow OK, msg me the dropboxages, I'll make it happen.
04:01 🔗 SketchCow I make EVERYTHING HAPPEN
04:02 🔗 undersco2 This is true
04:06 🔗 arrith undersco2: oh, right. maybe not
04:06 🔗 undersco2 I could be wrong, usually am. XD
04:06 🔗 undersco2 But I think it's all semi-manually curated/updated by the artistic bovine
04:10 🔗 undersco2 Is there even a point in running the mobileme downloader if you're not kennethre anymore?
04:10 🔗 undersco2 >:(
04:10 🔗 undersco2 haha
04:16 🔗 yipdw undersco2: yes
04:17 🔗 yipdw I DOWNLOADED 14 MEGABYTES RECENTLY
04:17 🔗 yipdw I AM HELPING
04:17 🔗 undersco2 hahaha
04:21 🔗 yipdw well, got on the Raspberry Pi waiting list
04:22 🔗 yipdw I guess now I just have to wait for the other 100,000 people to get one first
04:23 🔗 undersco2 awesome
04:23 🔗 undersco2 I can't wait to get mine either
04:24 🔗 yipdw I'd like to see what I can do with it re: mobile computing
04:24 🔗 yipdw I'd love to have a cheap inertial navigation system
04:24 🔗 yipdw stuff it in my pocket and go jump around the city, knowing that if it breaks it's only $25
04:25 🔗 yipdw well maybe
04:25 🔗 yipdw the accelerometer and gyroscope assemblies might cost more
04:25 🔗 undersco2 nunchuck
04:25 🔗 undersco2 three axis accelerometer, buttons, and joystick for <$30
04:26 🔗 undersco2 Plus it uses standard I2C
04:30 🔗 yipdw that'd be useful
04:31 🔗 undersco2 (you just have to clip off the plug)
04:31 🔗 undersco2 http://todbot.com/blog/2007/10/25/boarduino-wii-nunchuck-servo/
04:35 🔗 SketchCow http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/live-in-relationship-of-calif-teacher-teen-ignites-furor/1?csp=34news#.T1BOR_Egc0k
04:35 🔗 SketchCow LIVING THE DREAM
04:35 🔗 undersco2 I saw that, made me think of you
04:35 🔗 undersco2 funnily enough
04:36 🔗 arrith undersco2: dunno if you heard but bibliotik isn't totally gone. they need new hosting and have a static page up on their site now. maybe you could put them in touch with some of the people at what that you know
04:36 🔗 arrith undersco2: since it'd be awesome for them to get tons of servers so they can have a huuge userbase
04:37 🔗 undersco2 yeah, 'twould be cool
04:37 🔗 undersco2 can't say much obviously, but I've been in touch with various related parties
04:40 🔗 arrith undersco2: ah alright. makin sure you knew at least that the site was back
04:40 🔗 undersco2 yeah, thanks. preciate it a lot!
04:42 🔗 arrith yipdw: which distributor did you put your preorder with?
04:42 🔗 arrith or waiting list thing
04:42 🔗 yipdw arrith: RS
04:43 🔗 yipdw I think I may sign up with both RS and Farnell, though
04:43 🔗 yipdw also, ha, that guy's name is Hooker
04:43 🔗 undersco2 One of them does uk only
04:45 🔗 SketchCow Hello! My name is grayson, im 16 and i live in elkhart. I deeply enjoy your website, because it gives us teens a glimpse into the past. Unlike everyone else i know, i have a thing for old stuff, all i listen to is 80s-90s and i love all classical music composers, i also have a strong love for Claude Monet. Now, saying all of that, i think your website is the greatest thing ever created. All of the categories and info. (Thanks to your site i had f
04:45 🔗 SketchCow Great, now I have a fan younger than underscor
04:45 🔗 SketchCow I figured it'd be someone in the second trimester
04:46 🔗 yipdw Elkhart, Indiana?
04:46 🔗 SketchCow HOW DO 16 YEAR OLDS HAVE A BLAST FROM THE PAST
04:46 🔗 SketchCow That's like having a blast from last week
04:46 🔗 undersco2 hahaha
04:46 🔗 yipdw that is so bottom of my wall
04:47 🔗 underscor SketchCow: But I'll always be your biggest fan
04:47 🔗 yipdw I dunno, childhood obesity is getting out of control
04:48 🔗 SketchCow Yeah, that's what they told Selena
04:48 🔗 underscor haha
04:49 🔗 * SketchCow throws it into the fanmail folder
04:55 🔗 arrith wikipedia says RS is shipping to the UK only
06:16 🔗 SketchCow http://www.archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities
06:18 🔗 kennethre underscor: how old are you?
06:19 🔗 SketchCow 4
06:20 🔗 kennethre hah
06:20 🔗 SketchCow kennethre: Can you assemble those internet daemons? I just don't have the time.
06:20 🔗 kennethre SketchCow: context?
06:22 🔗 DFJustin did we ever get in touch with the reocities guys to swap dumps
06:23 🔗 DFJustin I archived a grand total of 2 geocities sites when it was going down, heh
06:24 🔗 SketchCow The Reocities guy, I got in touch with him.
06:24 🔗 SketchCow He's not going to swap dumps.
06:24 🔗 SketchCow Well, I mean, he took OUR dumps
06:25 🔗 DFJustin :(
06:25 🔗 arrith what why?
06:26 🔗 SketchCow I chatted with him at length about this.
06:26 🔗 SketchCow We downloaded Geocities.
06:26 🔗 SketchCow He downloaded Geocities.
06:26 🔗 SketchCow Our downloading geocities cost us $0 as we stole it or used it from whatever.
06:26 🔗 SketchCow His downloading geocities cost him $9000
06:26 🔗 SketchCow So he's trying to ad-hump his way back to solvency
06:27 🔗 yipdw $9,000, jeez
06:27 🔗 SketchCow Yeah
06:27 🔗 SketchCow So I'll wait for him to feel less poor, then take it from him
06:27 🔗 SketchCow We can waight
06:27 🔗 SketchCow Wait
06:28 🔗 DFJustin wasn't there another site too
06:28 🔗 SketchCow oocities
06:28 🔗 DFJustin yeah
06:28 🔗 kennethre geeze
06:28 🔗 kennethre well that was very generous of him
06:29 🔗 kennethre why is this just popping up now though?
06:29 🔗 SketchCow What is just popping up?
06:29 🔗 SketchCow http://www.merit.edu/events/mmc/
06:29 🔗 DFJustin oh I just asked because some other people's geocities collections are going up
06:29 🔗 SketchCow Look, some asshole
06:30 🔗 yipdw an asshole on the Internet
06:30 🔗 yipdw rare species
06:33 🔗 kennethre i'm wathcing hoarders
06:33 🔗 kennethre reminds me of archiveteam
06:38 🔗 SketchCow Title of talk: ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELETE YOUR HERITAGE? (Y/N)
06:46 🔗 SketchCow Running alongside the miracle and power of life going online is the shadowing darkness of digital oblivion. As fast as data and personal digital history goes online, so can it be deleted, and this has been happening with greater and greater frequency as dot-bomb and long-suffering sites are thrown into the incinerator to clear out a bottom line. Jason Scott is the official Mascot of Archive Team, a loose collective of archivists, developers, and a
06:46 🔗 SketchCow I'll bet some got cut off.
06:46 🔗 kennethre "archivists, developers, and a"
06:48 🔗 SketchCow ctivists dada_
06:48 🔗 SketchCow dedicated to making sure the conversation doesn't end with a site shutdown and a pulled plug. In the last few years, they've saved dozens of sites from Dark_Star
06:48 🔗 SketchCow oblivion and in many cases brought access to the data right back again - often over the noise of the endless debate about the meaning of their actions.
06:48 🔗 SketchCow Jason will present a fast-paced, hilarious talk about digital apocalypse and discuss day-to-day operations at Archive Team, and how you can help or at least help yourself
06:48 🔗 SketchCow Copypassttaaaaa
06:54 🔗 chronomex yum, pasta.
06:55 🔗 SketchCow passtttejjrr
06:55 🔗 SketchCow Down to 10 e-mails in the inbox
06:55 🔗 SketchCow Soon I can go home
06:57 🔗 kennethre jealous
07:03 🔗 closure SketchCow: his downloading cost him $9000 because he didn't know about the googlebot trick and so spun up a bazillion servers
07:05 🔗 chronomex only cost me the goodwill of my roommates
07:12 🔗 SketchCow Yes
07:12 🔗 SketchCow Oh, no doubt
07:13 🔗 SketchCow But if someone pays for a taxi ride but didn't know to ask for a lift, they still owe the taxi
07:13 🔗 SketchCow Clock is starting to run out on e-mails
07:23 🔗 SketchCow That feeling of discovering 10 of your outbound e-mails were held in drafts
07:23 🔗 SketchCow No wonder some people hadn't gotten back
07:35 🔗 chronomex that's how you clear your inbox
07:35 🔗 chronomex reply, don't send until it's empty
08:31 🔗 ersi SketchCow, underscor: Any of you have that Google-search-crawler script laying around?
09:17 🔗 alard Here's my script (for fast crawling via an ipv6 tunnel), if that helps: https://gist.github.com/2788197d2db2779cb7b0
09:30 🔗 Schbirid weee, thanks for not serving 404:
09:30 🔗 Schbirid 3dactionplanet/forumplanet.gamespy.com/technical_issues/b48748/4585267/p1/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplan
09:30 🔗 Schbirid et.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/
09:30 🔗 Schbirid www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http/www.forumplanet.com/http
09:30 🔗 Schbirid just because one guy linked to "http//something" and the stupid board made a proper link
09:30 🔗 Schbirid http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/technical_issues/b48748/4585267/p1/
09:39 🔗 chronomex christ.
09:53 🔗 ersi alard: Thanks, I'll take a look at it
11:36 🔗 Schbirid anyone wanna wget some forumplanet forums for me? simple bash script, needs wget and 7z, takes around 100kilobytes/s and might be a couple of gigabytes of crap. in the end you would send me a <20MB 7z.
11:48 🔗 Nemo_bis Schbirid, me
11:55 🔗 Schbirid Nemo_bis: here is the bash script, ignore the comments on top: http://pastebin.com/R6vRV0Yu
11:56 🔗 Schbirid run it and pass planetcallofduty as argument, eg "sh thatscript.sh planetcallofduty"
11:56 🔗 Schbirid wait
11:56 🔗 Schbirid no, dont wait. that is how it works :)
11:57 🔗 Schbirid if you want to do more, planetmedalofhonor, planetunreal, planettribes
11:58 🔗 Nemo_bis ok
11:59 🔗 Schbirid thanks!
14:18 🔗 Schbirid ugh, the script totallay needs an "echo "7zipping now"
14:18 🔗 Schbirid :D
14:35 🔗 Nemo_bis Schbirid, the script died and didn't seem to produce anything but a 3 MB log
14:36 🔗 Nemo_bis uh, not true
14:36 🔗 Nemo_bis Schbirid, 531M planetcallofduty/forumplanet.gamespy.com/
14:43 🔗 Nemo_bis looks untrue: Scaricati: 270 file, 13M in 0s (25354560 GB/s)
14:45 🔗 Nemo_bis Schbirid, creating .tar.7z now (paths too long for 7z apparently and dies whining), what forum should I archive next?
15:46 🔗 Nemo_bis Schbirid, the script says only === Mirroring http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/scripting/b50250/p1 === etc., but it actually downloads also following pages, doesn't it?
16:34 🔗 Coderjoe use tar.xz rather than 7z. xz is just the LZMA2 compressor without all the extra archive (multifile) overhead
16:36 🔗 Coderjoe and yes, it is LOADS of fun when something doesn't 404 properly. the splinder wordpress install had that issue.
16:41 🔗 Nemo_bis Coderjoe, what's the overhead?
16:42 🔗 Coderjoe probably miniscule, actually, with the amount of file data stored
16:42 🔗 Nemo_bis Also, I'm lazy, I use PeaZip to use all 7z options.
16:42 🔗 Coderjoe but it is like putting a tar in a zip file
16:42 🔗 Coderjoe gnu tar has an xz option now. iirc, it is J
16:46 🔗 yipdw j is bzip2
16:46 🔗 yipdw at least it was
16:46 🔗 yipdw if the GNU guys changed that, I wonder how they plan to handle backwards compat
16:47 🔗 yipdw J
16:47 🔗 yipdw oh
16:47 🔗 yipdw not j
17:09 🔗 closure or just tar xf file, it'll decompress automatically
17:28 🔗 ersi xa
17:33 🔗 Coderjoe closure: we were talking about compressing, though
17:33 🔗 Coderjoe well, I was. yipdw brought up decompression
18:04 🔗 yipdw closure: oh, I didn't know tar x detected compression format
18:04 🔗 yipdw that's cool
18:05 🔗 nitro2k01 Depends on your version of tar I guess.
18:06 🔗 nitro2k01 Newer ones generally do.
18:06 🔗 nitro2k01 I think tars compiled to be POSIC correct don't.
18:06 🔗 nitro2k01 X
20:06 🔗 gui77 hey guys, finally back.. quite a hiatus hehe
20:07 🔗 gui77 SketchCow: could you please reactivate my rsync slot for the batcave? I have some stuff I didn't fnish uploading a couple weeks back from mobileme... still data from the old script.
20:17 🔗 kennethre https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/175676345353908224
20:19 🔗 shaqfu Wasn't it an old bank or something?
20:22 🔗 shaqfu Speaking of the IA, fuck manuscript copyright law
20:23 🔗 shaqfu I just learned that a correspondence collection I have can't be hosted anywhere (we were considering IA) due to how insane copyright is on unpublished works
20:26 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, how old is it?
20:26 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: 1910s-1940s
20:26 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, country of origin of author?
20:26 🔗 shaqfu The author had to have died before 1942 for it to be public domain
20:26 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: USA
20:27 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, author and heirs known?
20:27 🔗 shaqfu So even if it was written during WW1 I'd have to track down the obit
20:28 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Author, yes, heirs, that'd take a lot of work
20:28 🔗 shaqfu It's a couple hundred authors
20:28 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, how much work?
20:28 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Enough to not make it worth it
20:28 🔗 Nemo_bis Just claim it's an orphan work
20:28 🔗 Nemo_bis If it's not worth it, it's orphan
20:29 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, who is the publisher and editor?
20:29 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Unpublished
20:29 🔗 shaqfu It's correspondence
20:29 🔗 Nemo_bis oh, correspondence
20:29 🔗 shaqfu Yeah
20:29 🔗 Nemo_bis private correspondence? no editor?
20:29 🔗 shaqfu That's why it's a huge problem
20:29 🔗 shaqfu Yep
20:30 🔗 Nemo_bis so it's not a manuscript, it a collection of papers
20:30 🔗 shaqfu One guy writing to lots of other people, and he donated the full collection
20:30 🔗 shaqfu Right, manuscripts collection
20:30 🔗 Nemo_bis One guy? But the collection includes also the letters of the others?
20:30 🔗 shaqfu Yep
20:31 🔗 Nemo_bis You could also try to play with the definition of "published".
20:32 🔗 shaqfu There's no way we can claim it was published/registered
20:33 🔗 shaqfu So if we'd want it hosted somewhere, we'd have to do an item-level survey of dates of deaths
20:33 🔗 shaqfu Fuck that
20:34 🔗 Nemo_bis Well, archive.org doesn't care.
20:35 🔗 shaqfu Wait, really? Isn't it a liability for them?
20:35 🔗 Nemo_bis Not until nobody complains.
20:35 🔗 shaqfu Which won't happen
20:35 🔗 Nemo_bis Quite obviously
20:35 🔗 shaqfu The content is totally benign
20:36 🔗 shaqfu That's promising; I'll look more into it
20:36 🔗 Nemo_bis And I think that even a publisher would publish this, it's quite arguably a set of orphan works.
20:36 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, if you publish it, please waive any publication right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_right
20:36 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Eh, it's big enough to be a hassle to publish
20:37 🔗 shaqfu 3.5-4 ln ft
20:37 🔗 Nemo_bis Or you'll effectively make them copyrighted at least in EU, possibly
20:40 🔗 shaqfu Yeah
20:46 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, anyway, don't overlook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication etc.
20:51 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Thanks
20:52 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, how did you find/acquire the correspondence?
20:52 🔗 Nemo_bis and where was it conserved
20:52 🔗 Nemo_bis *preserved (?)
20:52 🔗 Nemo_bis kept
20:52 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Local historical society
20:52 🔗 shaqfu I'm volunteering there to get it digitized
20:53 🔗 shaqfu It's a bunch of manuscripts in a filing cabinet right now
21:30 🔗 gui77 can i run multiple concurrent seesaw scripts? in the same directory?
21:31 🔗 kennethre gui77: it's ussually not needed :)
21:32 🔗 gui77 kennethre: ok then - i just figured in case one failed, and to maximize the pipe...
21:32 🔗 kennethre gui77: that's what I mean, mobileme's so fast, the pipe is ussually maxed with just one running :)
21:36 🔗 yipdw well
21:36 🔗 yipdw kennethre: depends on where you're hitting mobileme, I guess -- I think I'm rate-limited
21:37 🔗 yipdw though if I am I'm not sure how MobileMe is doing it
21:37 🔗 kennethre maybe it's just the pipes
21:38 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, is the cabinet accessible and to how many persons?
21:38 🔗 Nemo_bis id the place where it's places has ever been somehow public, you can claim the works are published
21:39 🔗 yipdw I'll market an internet optimizer called Drano
21:39 🔗 yipdw makes shit flow faster
21:41 🔗 kennethre hahahaha
21:47 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Anyone that asks for it
21:48 🔗 shaqfu And I don't think "access to original manuscripts" counts as publication
21:48 🔗 Nemo_bis shaqfu, if you have to ask, it doesn't, but were it open access it coul
21:48 🔗 Nemo_bis d
21:49 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: Looking at the legal definition, it hinges on distribution
21:49 🔗 shaqfu "access to the one copy" doesn't qualify as distribution
21:49 🔗 Nemo_bis it does if it's open to the public
21:50 🔗 Nemo_bis at least in some countries and cases (think of a statue)
21:50 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: In US law, public performance != publication
21:50 🔗 shaqfu And since 1976 federal law trumps state
21:50 🔗 Nemo_bis Well, I don't know all the details, but one can always try.
21:51 🔗 Nemo_bis Publication is not very precisely defined, there are only some suggestions by federal agencies and so on AFAIK.
21:51 🔗 shaqfu Admittedly, it's not worth fretting over, since there's zero chance of anyone really caring
21:51 🔗 Nemo_bis Anyway, this is just playing with borderline cases and definitions, the fact is that there's no actual risk in publishing that material.
21:51 🔗 shaqfu Yeah
21:51 🔗 Nemo_bis Yep.
21:52 🔗 Nemo_bis If you ever happened to have someone complaining, you would have lots of arguments, that's the point. :p
21:52 🔗 shaqfu Oh no, someone that died in the 1950s' grandkids might get annoyed that Gramps once asked the historical society about his house
21:52 🔗 Nemo_bis The actual risk with such things is usually libel, private data and so on.
21:52 🔗 shaqfu Yeah
21:52 🔗 shaqfu I'd have to survey the collection thoroughly
21:53 🔗 shaqfu If it's 100% benign I'll contact IA
21:54 🔗 Nemo_bis They don't want to be contacted.
21:54 🔗 Nemo_bis If they don't officially know about it they're protected, as an ISP.
21:54 🔗 shaqfu Ah, file locker defense?
21:55 🔗 Nemo_bis I don't know the English terminology very well.
21:55 🔗 shaqfu Nemo_bis: The same way sites like RapidShare don't get in trouble
21:55 🔗 shaqfu They claim they don't know what's being hosted; to them it's just files
21:55 🔗 Nemo_bis Well, or shouldn't. :p
21:55 🔗 Nemo_bis Yes.
21:56 🔗 DFJustin dmca safe harbor is the terminology
21:57 🔗 shaqfu DFJustin: Thanks
22:21 🔗 emijrp anyone skilled in TKinter?
22:44 🔗 godane SketchCow: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/03/02/214243/sony-to-delete-virtual-goods?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
23:51 🔗 Coderjoe god dammit. that is exactly why I hate the locked-up downloadable content system.
23:51 🔗 Coderjoe I don't trust companies to not fuck me over
23:51 🔗 Coderjoe I still occasionally play games that are 10-15 years old
23:52 🔗 Coderjoe and yes, the game industry wants to kill replay because it somewhat hurts them, being competition for their newer titles.
23:56 🔗 Schbirid Nemo_bis: planetmedalofhonor, planetunreal, planettribes
23:56 🔗 Schbirid Nemo_bis: you can easily run them all at once
23:57 🔗 Schbirid Nemo_bis: yes, the script only mentions which subforums it downloads, it will actually download all topics in those
23:57 🔗 Nemo_bis planettribes is done, planetunreal running
23:57 🔗 Schbirid i will clean up those long paths later on
23:57 🔗 Schbirid awesome
23:57 🔗 Nemo_bis so now I'll start medalofhonor if you're not doing it
23:58 🔗 Schbirid wait
23:58 🔗 Schbirid i got that
23:59 🔗 Schbirid no wait
23:59 🔗 Nemo_bis uh, ok
23:59 🔗 Schbirid yes please
23:59 🔗 Nemo_bis ah :)
23:59 🔗 Schbirid sorry, got confused

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