[00:59] SketchCow: Looks like you like the magazines i gave you [00:59] i noticed all the updated computer magazines [01:04] holy crap [01:04] i think its a good idea to update all big k magazine pdfs to the newer ones [01:04] 30mb > 3mb [01:08] also why is computers and video games only have 126 issues archived? [01:39] Is there a collection on IA for FPS or RTS maps and mods and such? [02:06] Wyatt|Wor: if you do find such a collection, tell me because I do have a decent sized pile of Starcraft I custom maps [02:14] dashcloud: Hmm, not looking promising http://archive.org/search.php?query=NOT%20mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20NOT%20mediatype%3Aaudio%20AND%20subject%3A%22RTS%22 [02:14] Or maybe I'm doing it wrong... [02:15] (Not looking promising _yet_, that is. It's pretty easy to make a collection, right?) [02:20] thanks for checking [02:20] There are a lot of videocasts and podcasts of starcraft games, though [02:20] indeed [02:25] Wyatt|Wor: I don't think there's one available, but if you come across any, we're collecting [02:32] shaqfu: Oh? So just send everything your way? [02:33] Wyatt|Wor: Not me, but collecting mods/maps has been discussed here before [02:35] Ah. I wonder if the people running ModDB would be up for exporting a dump or something. [02:43] Oh yeah, SketchCow, who was it that you called expecting to be stonewalled? The one you mentioned on Twitter? [02:45] (Steve Wiebe maybe?) [02:57] Ha ha [02:58] What a total wild-assed guest. [02:58] No, this was a guy who had a brother who stole a lot of money and then died. [02:58] Ahh, yeah, it was sort of a stab in the dark. [03:00] Hmm, interesting... that could be for any of your docs. [03:01] It's not for a doc. [03:02] Ah. [03:15] Stab in the daaaaaaark [03:16] Stab in the daaaaaark [03:16] SketchCow: I still have cdrs that work from 11 years ago [03:16] Here's your gumdrop and pink sash [04:33] there are some fps and rts level collections in the shareware cd collection but there's not a specific one yet [04:35] Was just thinking that there's probably a fair bit buried in Geocities and FortuneCity. [04:36] http://archive.org/details/cdrom-morecraft [04:37] Wyatt|Wor: Confused at what you want [04:40] it would be nice to archive user add-on levels for games in a direct way rather than whatever happened to be put on cd-roms [04:41] e.g. the doom cds basically stop in 1996 but there have been a crapload of wads since then [04:41] I have thoughts on this. [04:41] And Quake, Unreal, *craft, etc [04:41] I mean for doom you can just mirror idgames/ but other communities are less organized [04:52] So, I feel like projects like 'Let's assemble all the FPS and Mod and hoobeehoo' are great, but they're much less important to me than pure data grab at this point. [04:53] THat's all I've been working on, as well as DFJustin and a bunch of other people. [04:53] Grab, grab, grab [04:54] And after that, a layer of remix and awareness and other regarding of this data can come. [04:54] yeah there's so much low-hanging fruit at this point [04:54] Also why I wanted, so strongly, for the ISO browsing to be improved. [04:55] It's coming along, it's not 100% there, but coming along. [04:55] I've got years of work left just to absorb this amount of data [05:11] 00:40 <@DFJustin> e.g. the doom cds basically stop in 1996 but there have been a crapload of wads since then [05:11] Has anyone grabbed Doomworld? [05:18] Oh yeah, Internet Archive is hosed. [05:18] Hosssssed. [05:18] Eh? [05:19] What have we done? [05:20] TOO MANY DATAS [05:20] STOP STOP STOP [05:20] ArchiveTeam, what have you done? [05:20] http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash2/50260_288124173531_5439451_n.jpg [05:35] Still explody. Arooooo [07:19] leaky waterbeds aren't much fun [14:08] Hi [14:08] Hilarious video on Hillary Clinton ... check it out: [14:08] Hillary ditches the American people and works for companies! [14:08] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNjL1sRYy4 [17:05] what format do you guys put xvid in? [17:11] i put the xvid videos of ctrl_alt_chicken under mpeg4 [17:15] i'm uploading roz rows the pacific podcast from the twit network [17:46] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=archivist [17:46] lol [17:52] many male secretaries here, uh? [18:34] uploading some more japanese cd-roms http://archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?collection=cdbbsarchive [18:37] oh hi [19:01] got roz rows the pacific up: http://archive.org/details/roz_rows_the_pacific [19:02] :D [19:46] I found yesterday 2 German DeletionPedias. [19:46] Wikis where people preserve deleted articles in German Wikipedia. [19:48] any Rubyists around? [19:48] I have a "I can't tell if this is a good or bad idea" thing [19:49] yipdw: Wouldn't call myself an expert, but I've used it. [19:49] alard: https://gist.github.com/2339394 [19:50] I haven't run benchmarks on it, but then again I don't know what to benchmark [19:50] instantiation, maybe [19:50] but the access patterns really matter and I don't have any good benches for it [19:50] I'm mostly wondering if it smells in any way [19:52] Can't you do this with OpenStruct? [19:53] yeah, you can, but you still need to be able to recurse into the object structure [19:53] e.g. OpenStruct.new(:foo => { :bar => :baz }).foo => { :bar => :baz } [19:54] whereas I really want OpenStruct.new(that_doc).foo.bar => :baz [19:54] (well, to be accurate, I don't care. :P Action Pack/Rails wants it) [19:55] and I'm not sure how to do that without opening up OpenStruct, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I like to try to avoid opening up standard library classes [19:56] http://rubyquiz.com/quiz81.html [19:56] oh hey [19:56] (Haven't read it.) [19:56] that's a possibility, I'll check those out [19:57] at least Ruby Quiz solutions get review [19:57] thanks [19:57] oh, hahaha [19:57] one of the solutions is "use the YAML parser" [19:57] I guess that works; JSON is a subset of YAML [20:02] actually, hmm [20:02] maybe it isn't [20:02] wait no it is [20:02] How large are your documents? Maybe all the lazy initialization isn't necessary. [20:03] http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2006/11/17/hashes_to_ostruct/ [20:03] they're usually not that large; I project the largest to be around 100 kB [20:03] this structure is only going to be instantiated once per request [20:04] and unless it's really hellish, time to build the structure will be dwarfed by the network I/O [20:04] alard: that looks like a neat solution there, I'll give it a shot [20:06] thanks [20:06] and actually, yeah, the lazy instantiation is a waste of time anyway, since Action Pack's form builder will be hitting all members of the data structure anwyay [20:53] uploading this week in fun from twit now [22:02] downloading net@night [22:35] this week in fun is uploaded: http://archive.org/details/this_week_in_fun [23:27] abby's road is uploaded: http://archive.org/details/abbys_road