#archiveteam 2012-09-08,Sat

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00:12 🔗 DrainLbry 3 months free of a small VM on Azure, I'm sure you guys can come up with something useful to do. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
00:13 🔗 DrainLbry and I've also got 350 hours per month through MSDN, so you know, if anyone's got that at work i'm sure you could also come up with something useful (besides you know, using it for your actual job)
00:22 🔗 DrainLbry what's everyone using as general process/tool/file format on Windows for archiving CD-ROMs?
00:22 🔗 DrainLbry balrog_, I swear, I may actually start getting to your discs! :)
00:23 🔗 DrainLbry Also any opinions on Storage Spaces in Windows 8 yet? Long-term worthy storage I believe it is not, given it's propietary nature, but I've found it quite useful for smashing together a bunch of mismatched hard drive sizes I have lying around to provide a temporary dumping ground for data until it's moved off somewhere more reliable
00:27 🔗 balrog_ isobuster is reasonable good I think
00:28 🔗 BlueMax is ImgBurn good for that sort of thing?
00:35 🔗 DrainLbry Yeah I was figuring just ImgBurn into an ISO on clearly not-protected discs
00:35 🔗 DrainLbry Unless anyone objects to that as blasphemy
00:36 🔗 balrog_ I usually use dd on linux in cases like that
00:36 🔗 balrog_ I suggest asking Lord_Nigh when he gets back tomorrow
01:01 🔗 DFJustin imgburn to iso or bin/cue (depending on the disc format) works well unless you're dealing with a scratched disc or you're super anal about audio offsets
01:01 🔗 balrog_ for audio use EAC or XLD
01:04 🔗 DrainLbry yeah i'd go with EAC on audio, used to do that in the past when i was more into ripping my own audio discs
01:05 🔗 DrainLbry bin/cue works at a lower level and better for mixed-mode/hybrid discs, correct?
01:06 🔗 DFJustin iso can't be used for anything except single-track mode1 stuff, imgburn will automatically pick bin/cue for you in that case and shows a message if you try to outsmart it
01:06 🔗 DrainLbry Excellent, thanks
01:07 🔗 DFJustin if you have crappy scratched up or decaying discs then you want dd-rescue which intelligently retries failing sectors without bombing the whole job out
01:08 🔗 DFJustin I guess we should have a wiki page on this
01:08 🔗 DrainLbry yeah i was going to say i looked on the wiki
01:08 🔗 DrainLbry and... we're missing even this basic stuff
01:08 🔗 DrainLbry hell, i know this stuff fairly well and couldn't figure out the best approach
01:09 🔗 DrainLbry Average joe and jane with minor interest in saving their old stuff needs better pointers
01:09 🔗 DrainLbry (i know, STFU and write the article then...)
01:25 🔗 amerrykan i'm archiving ~200 commercial CDROMs at this moment so this is of interest to me :)
01:25 🔗 amerrykan i'll look into dd-rescue, as that seems to answer my questions from earlier
01:27 🔗 godane i remember a post on underground gamer talking about why they used or prefer bin/cue vs iso
01:27 🔗 godane the reason for bin/cue was so you had all the track info
01:28 🔗 godane cause all of games and mulitable tracks
13:31 🔗 DoubleJ Hey, I know someone here has been working on scripts for vBulletin boards, do we have anything similar for phpBB?
13:32 🔗 DoubleJ An online acquiantance is worried that http://www.tuckerclub.org/bbs3/ is going to go away soon so I'd like to snag a copy if possible, but I know that web fora are pretty nasty to crawl because of all the duplication that happens.
13:40 🔗 Aragan Hrm ... that's the third thread on the City of Heroes forums asking if anyone can archive the forums, I better make that notice.
14:39 🔗 Aragan Yo guys, anyone around who's been doing board archiving for the Archive Team ... when you guys archive forums, you're only saving pages displayed by the forum software, right? Not the forum software itself? I don't know what all wget or other tools captures in a case like that.
14:39 🔗 * Aragan is writing an informative post for the City of Heroes' forums so people know what's going on
18:00 🔗 chronomex iirc, enough to reconstruct the posts database
19:07 🔗 DoubleJ OK, found instructions on the wiki on how to download it (with all thr problems a few months ago I didn't even thin kto look at first). Now that I have it, how do I get it onto IA?
19:08 🔗 balrog_ Aragan: where on the forum?
22:01 🔗 Aragan chronomex: Ah, so it would be possible to rebuild the forum with it?
22:01 🔗 chronomex that's the intent
22:01 🔗 Aragan balrog_: On the General--d'oh.
22:02 🔗 Aragan chronomex: Alrighty. *revises post*
22:02 🔗 Aragan balrog_: The thread's going to be posted on the All Access - City Life subforum.
22:07 🔗 Aragan chronomex: By archiving enough to reconstruct the forums, how thorough is the process? alard had mentioned that the archiving efforts will be focusing on blocks of thread IDs.
22:09 🔗 Aragan So does that mean you're grabbing raw data from the threads that could be transplanted into another VBulletin forum for a completely functional archive? Does this extend to member accounts, or will they show up as something like guests?
22:19 🔗 chronomex I honestly don't know how vbulletin works
22:20 🔗 chronomex we endeavour to get at least one copy of every unique bit of data
22:23 🔗 Aragan Ah, alrighty.
22:27 🔗 Aragan Oh! The other question ... Does the Archive Team update archive projects? In case the forums remain all the way up to November 30, would you guys be able to archive the new content?
22:27 🔗 Aragan (For example, that Unity Rally is going on right now and a bunch of threads have gone up over the huge turnout)
22:34 🔗 * chronomex shrugs
22:34 🔗 chronomex that's a question I'm not qualified to answer
22:35 🔗 Aragan Alrighty.
22:38 🔗 DFJustin we're grabbing the html (& images and whatnot) using wget, so while you could theoretically rebuild the forum since all the info is there in practice it would probably be a huge pain in the ass
22:38 🔗 DFJustin if you want to transplant you're probably better off petitioning arena for the forum database
22:39 🔗 DFJustin there should be no reason we can't re-run the process later for updated threads but I'm not involved in actually making that happen
22:39 🔗 * Aragan nodnods
22:40 🔗 Aragan DFJustin: Okay, so you guys are basically going archiving pages as displayed in URLs by the forum's software, so the archive will be more like browsing a website ... *revises post*
22:41 🔗 chronomex what is this post you're revising?
22:42 🔗 Aragan chronomex: I'm making a thread on the City of Heroes letting people know about the Archive Team's project.
22:42 🔗 chronomex have a link?
22:42 🔗 Aragan I haven't posted it yet, but I'll link you when I do.
22:42 🔗 Aragan A number of people have made threads in the past week asking if the forums could be saved or archived. I really should have posted this earlier, eheh.
22:43 🔗 DFJustin Aragan: yeah, I haven't looked at what exactly alard has written in this case but that is generally what we do
22:44 🔗 DFJustin here's the actual code https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/cityofheroes-grab/
22:45 🔗 * Aragan looks
22:45 🔗 DFJustin seems to just pull showthread.php etc.
22:47 🔗 Aragan Does the Archive Team upload archived projects like this somewhere, or do you make it available upon request?
22:48 🔗 Aragan Titan Network would probably host the archived forums if it's the latter.
22:49 🔗 DFJustin we upload the raw files as big fat archives to archive.org
22:49 🔗 Aragan Gotcha.
22:49 🔗 DFJustin the long-term plan is to get the data integrated into the wayback machine and accessible there
22:49 🔗 DFJustin but so far that hasn't been done for any of our projects
22:51 🔗 DFJustin we may be able to do a simple page where you punch in a threadid and get the files for that thread but I'm not sure how useful that would be if the whole thing was down
22:57 🔗 Aragan chronomex: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=4387832 Here you go!

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