#archiveteam 2013-03-16,Sat

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00:11 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 !!!
00:11 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4110196/social-question-answer-site-formspring-shut-down-march-31st
00:12 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 that's just great
00:17 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 and it's in ~16 days, so we better get something figured out, and fast
00:19 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 nm, we have a month
00:19 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 since the site will still remain alive until april 15th
00:25 ๐Ÿ”— BlueMax holy shit seriously?
00:25 ๐Ÿ”— BlueMax I thought Formspring was alive and well
00:25 ๐Ÿ”— BlueMax Goddamn
00:28 ๐Ÿ”— WiK evening
00:32 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG facks sake
00:32 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 the inactivity message that showed up at the beginning of the year was probably our early warning to trouble
00:50 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS wp494: the website will shut down March 31, users can log in and export until April 15.
00:50 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS We have until March 31
00:50 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 if they went into a limited-functionality mode, then that would most certainly hold true
01:20 ๐Ÿ”— trs80 http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/
01:20 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS Seen.
01:21 ๐Ÿ”— * trs80 nods
01:23 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS We need to: 1. scrape for the IDs, 2. scrape each site.
01:23 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS Did Formspring have an API/
01:28 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ o noes
01:28 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/
01:29 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS ffs
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ lol
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ for Yaho
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ lol
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ that sounds like drugs
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS Wanna buy some fuckin' Yaho?
01:30 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ GET SUM OF DAT YAHO @ #BURNTHEMESSENGER
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ formspring was nice
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS It was.
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ now the only option for smth like formspring
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ is uhm
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ tumblr's questions?
01:31 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 there's also ask.fm
01:32 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ 4y7a7h8 8u9 9r3i3t10e
01:35 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D Channel name for formspring?
01:35 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ #validforafunnyname
01:35 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ as a placeholder
01:35 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ ofc
01:37 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS #firespring perhaps?
01:37 ๐Ÿ”— * GLaDOS cannot into joke
01:37 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D sounds good
01:45 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D wait, how legitimate is that blog, it only has two posts
01:45 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D and there is a (no longer accessible) http://blog.formspring.me/
01:46 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D also nothing on their twitter account
01:47 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ as legitimate
01:47 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ as techcrunch
01:47 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ confirmingit
01:47 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-anonymous-qa-platform-is-shutting-down/
01:47 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D oh right, didn't see that
01:48 ๐Ÿ”— closure formsprung
01:48 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 it's legit, they've got a message on user pages
01:49 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 just says something along the lines of "important formspring news"
01:54 ๐Ÿ”— S[h]O[r]T i like formsprung
01:55 ๐Ÿ”— S[h]O[r]T anyone have an account to see how the export works?
01:57 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D I think I had one
02:00 ๐Ÿ”— S[h]O[r]T came across this message
02:00 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D I do, although I have no questions/answers so I don't know what I'll give me
02:00 ๐Ÿ”— S[h]O[r]T As of January 2013, accounts that have not been active in over 18 months may be automatically deleted. If this is your account, you may login within the next 24 hours to stop this account from being permanently deleted.
02:01 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D Yeah, when I logged in I got a notice saying that my account had been deactivated
02:02 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ oh wow, ANOTHER site that's dying
02:02 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ but they just killed all the old users' contents
02:07 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 so if we get the remainder of formspring archived, would the archiving status on its page state "partially saved" due to the loss of some data because of the january purge of inactive users?
02:07 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ it would be very partial
02:07 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ most people haven't used it for a while
02:08 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ but maybe it's still worth it
02:13 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 we may as well archive what's left
02:13 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 better a small archive than nothing
02:13 ๐Ÿ”— arrith yeah
02:17 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ LOL SUP FAGGOT, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE AUTISTIC?
02:17 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ I'm actually female, and it feels pretty good to have autism because I can tell good people from assholes like yourself :)
02:17 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ i love the magic of these anon q&a
02:18 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ http://ask.fm/HollytheKirlia
02:18 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 de_stroyed
02:18 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 good comebacks always bring a smile to me
02:18 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ that was far
02:19 ๐Ÿ”— Andres_ from being a molishing reply
02:22 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ I thought we had already taken care of stupid users like that
02:25 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ trolling and spamming irc is completely pointless. It is not like it has the staying power of comments on an unattended blog.
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ I troll with ascii art
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ รขย—ย‘ รขย—ย”
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER!
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ รขย•ย‘รขย–ย“รขย–ย’รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘รขย–ย‘
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ รขย•ย”รขย•ยรขย•ย—
02:26 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ รขย•ยšรขย•ยรขย•ย
02:28 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D ...
02:28 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ Has anyone grabbed the Boston Phoenix yet?
02:37 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ Yeah skipping this robots.txt file http://thephoenix.com/robots.txt
02:38 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS How rude.
02:45 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 brb
02:53 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D hey, whoever has permission to delete pages on the wiki, there are a handful of spam pages that have been blanked but should be deleted. check the top of recent changes
02:56 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS done
03:33 ๐Ÿ”— GLaDOS We've got a Formspring representative in #firespring
04:02 ๐Ÿ”— no2pencil happy Friday evening archivers
04:02 ๐Ÿ”— wp494 same to you no2pencil
04:19 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale anybody know about WebCite(http://www.webcitation.org) potentially shutting down. never knew it was a non-profit org.
04:43 ๐Ÿ”— closure sounds more like a fundraiser for now
04:45 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale oh, WebCite is already on the deathwatch
04:48 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale it looks like it's might die. They need $25K and they only raised $3.8K since January.
04:48 ๐Ÿ”— Adnicer_ hi closure
11:52 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D Hey look, another service closing https://twitter.com/synchtube/status/312752992476602368
11:52 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D http://i.imgur.com/hPITxq2.png
11:53 ๐Ÿ”— Cameron_D at least there isn't really any data to be saved
12:37 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Morning.
12:38 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Man, we need to think about how to ramp up new users.
12:38 ๐Ÿ”— Samuel_Mi well, if jacquesm writing about the projects, that'll work ;)
12:39 ๐Ÿ”— Samuel_Mi *keeps
12:57 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I have no question we can get new members and continue to.
12:57 ๐Ÿ”— ersi What we need to do, is engage and encourage people to be doers
12:58 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Nah, it's more than that.
12:58 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Hm
12:58 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Obviously, we have a lot of self-directed people and we abuse non-self-directed people until they either clutch sack or storm off. This is good.
12:59 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow But there's a moment when a person who IS self directed goes "I want to help" and they begin doing "stuff" and we have to go "wait, no, that actually is the opposite of help"
12:59 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Or, even more.....
12:59 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Hmmm.
13:00 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow You know what might be a good idea? A site for Archiveteam where people submit a request to archive it.
13:00 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Like 'xxxx going down'. So all the usual pre-formed things are in there.
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— ersi That's indeed a good/interesting idea.
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Then we have a channel here that gets those requests.
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow batsignal.archiveteam.org
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Pass that around, and then people can use the batsignal.
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Put that on front page of wiki
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Nothing too crazy.
13:01 ๐Ÿ”— * ersi nods
13:02 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ The page should also show the current projects we have so people hopefully do not submit the same thing over and over agai
13:02 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Right.
13:02 ๐Ÿ”— ersi I've been thinking about that as well. Might as well start weekend hackin' on it.
13:02 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Yeah, it doesn't need to be anything crazy. I like it when it looks nice, obviously.
13:04 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ While having more people reporting sites, keeping an eye out and running warrior there is the other lurking problem. Sites where wget just cannot cut it. Right now it feels like we have more projects that need this than people who can do it
13:05 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ like everything I am working on
13:06 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Well, it doesn't have to be entirely focused on "New things to archive". It could be "Oh, so you're telling us about Google Reader? We know that it's going down. Do you have any extra info we've missed? Our collective thoughts are on the wiki page [link]. Either contribute there, or fill out this message box and we'll take care of it"
13:07 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Maybe it's time to start up #archiveteam-batsignal. Brain storming galore
13:14 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow ----------------------------------------------
13:15 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow WE'RE BRAINSTORMING AN EARLY ALERT SYSTEM
13:15 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow #archiveteam-batsignal
13:15 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow ----------------------------------------------
13:22 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I love that my #1 slowdown in my new project is "now which machine do I put mediawiki on"
13:24 ๐Ÿ”— ersi ha
13:24 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow This just in: having the posterous clumper (makes 50gb warcs) not first move the warc.gz files between two drives means your machine doesn't choke to shit
13:25 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Yeah, saves some I/O
13:26 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Apparently a pile of it.
13:26 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow While batsignal goes on, let me go back to original problem.
13:27 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Guy shows up in archieteam, wants to help.
13:27 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Either:
13:27 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow - Technically unastute, just undirectedly angry
13:27 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow - Somewhat technically astute, has windows box, directedly angry
13:27 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow - Technically astute, has linux, directedly angry
13:28 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow So in theory, warrior tends to be an excellent continuing fix for a whole class. We're in very good shape there.
13:28 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow We're in such good shape, we're able to crush a service to a bloody pulp.
13:29 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Sorry, I keep going tangential but thinking makes me think too much
13:30 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow What is the technical consideration with ...
13:30 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow OK, here's a task the warrior might be really good for.
13:31 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Straight-ass website warcing. You give it a site, or I say we assign it a site, and the warriors download it along the thread.
13:32 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Obviously, a warrior can only do so much before it runs into issues. So have it go until the warc is a certain size, then it dumps back what URLs it's done.
13:32 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow So it does a couple hundred mb or whatever the instance is granted, and then dumps it back going "I got this much"
13:32 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow This won't work for a lot of strange sites, but for others it would be fine.
13:33 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ Have we used warrior before to just get single large files
13:33 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ like a list of 500 videos
13:34 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I don't know.
13:34 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Well, not the warrior - but Yahoo Video was pretty huge.
13:35 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow But I think a not-that-big-a-deal website set, where one or two people can have it directed to them and it just goes, and we know it's good because the warrior's doing the work, that might be nice.
13:38 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow And now.... remembering how virtual hosts work on Apache 22
13:49 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow http://test.archiveteam.org
13:49 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Well, thank goodness for little tiny victories.
13:50 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ Just tried to grab thephoenix and it craps out pretty quick, even with a different UA and robots.txt ignored
13:50 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ 30 files and then it says it is done
13:51 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/internet-archive-companion/id617179709 - Internet Archive Companion
13:51 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Not perfect, but a start.
13:53 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ here is the command I used it anyone is interested in it http://pastebin.com/EUDMSXs0
14:10 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ SketchCow, what about different versions of the warrior.
14:11 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ I have been working on one that can screenshot pages from a tracker list
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Why would there need to be different versions though? Couldn't the necessariy software be installed on the current ones?
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow There shouldn't be different versions.
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ the warrior will get bigger then
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow You should bring your forked optional changes into the main warrior.
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow The warrior is trivially small
14:14 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ I need to get it all working
14:15 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Yes, that's what development is
14:15 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Working on something until it works and then joining it to the new version
14:23 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow http://metadata.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page yay
14:24 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud omf_: your wget line- --span-hosts will only go to the domains listed in --domains right?
14:24 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ yes
14:25 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ the images are hosted on cache
14:32 ๐Ÿ”— godane SketchCow: so when will i upload to my other collections?
14:33 ๐Ÿ”— godane i only ask cause its been a few days
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG guys
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG thq
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG i thought their site's had gone, they've gone bust afaik
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG http://www.saintsrow.com/community#
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG it's still up and running
16:15 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG grab grab grab
16:38 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud so, there's a bit of javascript that runs asking you to confirm your language and birthdate
17:57 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG yeah
18:23 ๐Ÿ”— urgato hello, I wanted to help out with archiving posterous, but I would prefer to not give the archiveteam-warrior my full bandwidth, is there any possibility to throttle it?
18:27 ๐Ÿ”— soultcer I don't think there is one (yet), but because posterous is quite slow, you will probably not use a lot of bandwidth. Uploading the results via rsync will probably be the biggest bandwidth peak
18:29 ๐Ÿ”— urgato okay thanks, and yes download bandwidth is no problem, but I only have 768 kbps upload bandwidth
18:30 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG urgato: you can limit warrior instances
18:31 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG except I've lost the instructions
18:39 ๐Ÿ”— urgato SmileyG: thanks, I looked it up, and http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit sounds promising, but I couldn't try it yet, because my virtualbox version from ubuntu repos is 4.1.8, I will update and try it later
18:44 ๐Ÿ”— SmileyG yeah, that stuff works
19:14 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ grawity, Did you upload that opensolaris stuff you downloaded?
19:15 ๐Ÿ”— grawity omf_: http://archive.org/details/defect.opensolaris.org
19:18 ๐Ÿ”— omf_ thanks
19:35 ๐Ÿ”— WiK afternoon
19:38 ๐Ÿ”— WiK looks good to me
19:38 ๐Ÿ”— WiK oops
19:40 ๐Ÿ”— DFJustin it's a date ;*
20:22 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive Do we have enough time to rescue formspring? The wiki says there are more than 4 billion posts and 30 million registered users. From what I undertand AT has until the 31st this month to save it. and after that until april 15th users will only be able to retrieve their own data.
20:23 ๐Ÿ”— ersi #firespring
20:23 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive oh
20:23 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive heh. thanks ersi :)
20:24 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive didn't cross my mind to ask there. duh.
20:28 ๐Ÿ”— ersi ;)
20:31 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive Question: This goes for everything the Team works on. Is there a way I can help besides downloading shuttering sites? I have a very slow upload speed. I'd like to help somehow. Let me know. :)
20:34 ๐Ÿ”— godane so i'm grabing pcper podcast
20:34 ๐Ÿ”— godane just know there is will be twit-pcper podcast and pcper podcast
20:34 ๐Ÿ”— ersi arkhive: That certainly helps
20:34 ๐Ÿ”— godane not to confuse the two
20:34 ๐Ÿ”— ersi arkhive: But other than that, there's information gathering and developing
20:35 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive ersi: Ya, I frequently Google keywords like shutter, shuttering, shutdown, closing, close
20:38 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive ersi: I will have faster internet in three to six month hopefully. That is what a CenturyLink rep told me when faster speeds would be coming to my home. When that comes I will get the fastest which will be 40Mb down 20Mb up
20:41 ๐Ÿ”— ersi There's also helping out with the IRC/wiki btw, but that's kinda like the information gathering I mentioned
20:44 ๐Ÿ”— arkhive At least I still have tons of digitizing to do. My Mom has old records that came from cereal boxes when she was a kid. Would be cool to digitize that.
21:01 ๐Ÿ”— DFJustin arkhive: if you have spare time but not bandwidth there are a lot of metadata jobs to help with
21:04 ๐Ÿ”— DFJustin http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Metadata_warriors https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/309401046340468736
22:09 ๐Ÿ”— WiK that sounds interesting
22:19 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Yeah, the metadata thing is moving forward.
22:19 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow http://metadata.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page
22:20 ๐Ÿ”— alard Is anyone working on Yahoo Messages?
22:25 ๐Ÿ”— * WiK is pulling email addresses outta github repos
22:26 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I think NOBODY is, alard. We need to move on it, too.
22:26 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow MAYBE ersi
22:26 ๐Ÿ”— alard There's the #BurnTheMessenger channel, but that doesn't seem very active.
22:27 ๐Ÿ”— ersi No, only one who've done something is omf_ and I think he needs backing up
22:28 ๐Ÿ”— alard omf_ is not in that channel, and there's not much on the wiki.
22:28 ๐Ÿ”— alard I don't think it should be too difficult to archive. Most important question is probably: what do we want?
22:29 ๐Ÿ”— alard There are many different ways to view that site, many urls with slightly different parameters that lead to the same data.
22:32 ๐Ÿ”— ersi And a few URLs who've stopped working/redirects to some weird place, from what noted in #BurnTheMessenger
22:33 ๐Ÿ”— ersi He's not there now, but he was earlier
22:33 ๐Ÿ”— ersi Hm, weird with the parameters
22:58 ๐Ÿ”— godane good news
22:58 ๐Ÿ”— godane on the pcper podcast
22:59 ๐Ÿ”— godane it looks like pcper was made with twit
22:59 ๐Ÿ”— godane its not some other podcast call pcper on twit
23:03 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale is any one working on formspring?
23:06 ๐Ÿ”— ersi #firespring is the project channel
23:09 ๐Ÿ”— alard I created https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoomessages-grab
23:11 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale ersi: yeah I know, nothing much is happening there at the moment though. I'm not too technical so I just got in contact with a formspring engineer, timbart, last night. He might give us a dump of the usernames to help with the scraping. Was hoping something happened since then. :)
23:14 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Everyone will be delighted to know that the posterous uploading process is now smooth as silk.
23:19 ๐Ÿ”— ersi pinwale: Neat!
23:24 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale ersi: yeah, timbart also said that he'll keep the rate limiters from interfering from any scrapping.
23:24 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale ersi: Just need someone set the job up. other than running warrior, this is as far as I can do.
23:24 ๐Ÿ”— godane i'm going to try to grab all odtv podcasts
23:25 ๐Ÿ”— godane there are some post talks from twit live that you will not find anywhere else
23:37 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud SketchCow: so, how is the cd-ripping process going?
23:39 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Haven't even started
23:39 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow it's behind a bunch of other priorities
23:39 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Hopefully soon, right?
23:39 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I just started the process of getting the book scanner online and into the archive.org world
23:39 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow http://metadata.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page also very important to me right now
23:40 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale SketchCow: btw, are you interested in writing something for World Backup Day? I'm currently looking for writers to feature.
23:40 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud to speed up the process, have you considered a multi-CDROM drive computer (my university did it so they didn't need to swap discs for reference materials)
23:40 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I know you are. I doubt it'll be me.
23:40 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I know this day means a lot to you, but every day is goddamned world backup day for me and a lot of this team now.
23:41 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow But I know some of the guys in here may be jonesing to write something
23:41 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Go link to some of my speeches
23:42 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow dashcloud: Oh, it's less a part of "the process" than literally making room in this room.
23:42 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Room's kind of a mess
23:42 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow :)
23:43 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud I'm finally getting around to having an easy process to digitize my old VHS tapes- I spent so long trying to get things perfect that only a couple here and there got done
23:44 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Archive.org just got big big big into digitized VHS tapes
23:44 ๐Ÿ”— pinwale SketchCow: yeah, I understand. the offer to write is open to anyone here. the day is just to get people to think about data archiving and preservation. every minute of every day is backup day
23:45 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ what sort of workflow are they using?
23:46 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow VHS machine, digitizer, big ol' screen
23:46 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Volunteer guy
23:46 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ neat
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow 2.0T .
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow root@teamarchive-1:/1/PUNCHFORK/archive# du -sh .
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow 2 terabytes of fuckin' punchfork!
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow So far we're under budget this year, or I should say, trends are in that direction, which is good.
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ there are still 39 punchfork users that aren't done
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ well hopefully we won't have something as big as mobileme
23:47 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow I know it's shocking, but I can live with us missing 39 punchfork users.
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ but if trends continue as the past few months, that may not be the case
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud I put together a Mitsubishi S-VHS player, an AVT-210(?) time-base corrector, and a Hauppauge PVR-250 capturing the video
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Because we're getting 90% of what is punchfork
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Which is more than anyone else was getting
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ dashcloud: I have something similar, no time-base corrector though
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Yeah, no time-base corrector here either
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— SketchCow Hence I never dump originals
23:48 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ time-base corrector is something that looks useful
23:49 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud I got it mostly because I do basically zero-post processing and that takes out a step for me- crop, chop out dead space/trailers, maybe yadif deinterlace, and then it's onto a DVD
23:50 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ do you have anything for removing macrovision?
23:50 ๐Ÿ”— godane SketchCow: your going to be getting this week in fun
23:50 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud the PVR-250 seems to ignore it, and if it didn't, the time-base corrector would
23:50 ๐Ÿ”— godane this is odtv video rips
23:51 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud pretty much every computer capture card seems to ignore macrovision (either that or I've never run into a macrovision tape in my library of commercial VHS)
23:51 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ macrovision messes up automatic gain control in the VCR
23:51 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ ah no, it messes up the TV
23:52 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ so yeah, some boxes may ignore it
23:52 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ or the time-base corrector might be ignoring / blanking it out :P
23:52 ๐Ÿ”— Famicoman time-base corrector blanks it
23:53 ๐Ÿ”— godane hey Famicoman
23:53 ๐Ÿ”— godane Famicoman: i'm finding the odtv videos of twit
23:54 ๐Ÿ”— Famicoman coolio
23:54 ๐Ÿ”— godane alot of lost videos are there
23:54 ๐Ÿ”— godane like this week in fun
23:54 ๐Ÿ”— godane and twit fit
23:54 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud but if you've got a computer video capture card, it probably doesn't support/ignores Macrovision
23:55 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ alard: is there a list of problematic / not-done punchfork users?
23:56 ๐Ÿ”— Famicoman dashcloud, depends really. I've had some people tell me their sub-$100 cards don't work well with macrovision, while some of the more expensive ones have workarounds or downright ignore it. I believe there were some lawsuits a while back
23:57 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud all my cards are really old- the PVR-250 I got in 2004 or so, and the HVR-950q I bought at least 3 years ago
23:58 ๐Ÿ”— balrog_ how are you compressing the video?
23:59 ๐Ÿ”— dashcloud the PVR-250 has a hardware MPEG-2 encoder, and the HVR-950q is a framegrabber- which means you've got raw video unless you encode it as something else during capture

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